Nearly 300 students flocked to eHub in Collegetown Sept. 9 for a kickoff event hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, where two student teams were declared winners of the eLab pitch contest.
Agcess, a company aiming to help small farmers access precision agricultural insights, and The Poool, which seeks to create coworking spaces for fashion designers, won the night’s pitch contests. Each team won $1,000 and automatic admission into the eLab business accelerator, a yearlong program offering coursework, mentoring, coworking space, access to resources and legal services and a $5,000 investment in the business for student teams interested in developing and growing their own startups.
“I’m excited to use this opportunity to be with other student collaborators and learn from them,” said Somil Aggarwal ’22, one of the co-founders of Agcess, along with Fernando Galvan…
