Launching Technology Ventures from your PhD
Are you a recent PhD graduate (within the last 5 years) with a passion for entrepreneurship and an innovative startup idea?
Join us for an evening of networking and learning about the Runway Startup Postdoc Program at Cornell Tech (food and drinks included). Applications for next year's cohort are now open!
The event will include a panel of Runway Startup Postdocs and Alumni and will be moderated by Vikas Malik and Nicholas Bartelo.
Panelists:
Kendra Batchelder - Dr. Kendra Batchelder has a deep passion for advancing women's health, and she leads medara in its mission to empower clinicians with tools that enable earlier, more accurate diagnoses, starting with breast cancer. She earned her PhD in Computational Biomedicine and brings a background in computational methods, data science, and medical imaging. Kendra is currently a Runway Startup Postdoc at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute. Her work bridges research and entrepreneurship to deliver clinically validated solutions that improve screening precision and patient outcomes.
Payman Samadi - Payman Samadi is the CEO and Co-founder of eino.ai and brings 15 years of industrial and academic experience in telecommunications. Prior to eino.ai, he was a scientist at Columbia University, working on optical interconnects and collaborating with companies like NVIDIA and Microsoft. Payman also served as a product manager at Optiwave, where he contributed to the development of various optical network planning tools. He holds a PhD in Telecommunications from McGill University and has published 50+ peer-reviewed articles.
Thomas Conroy - Thomas Conroy is CEO and Co-founder of SensVita, a health technology startup developing touchless sensors for continuous, non-invasive health monitoring. He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, where he developed novel RF sensing methods for heart and lung function. Since founding SensVita in 2023, he has been awarded an NSF Phase I STTR, named a Commercialization Competition Finalist at the NYS Innovation Summit, and is a member of the Runway Startup Postdoc accelerator at Cornell Tech.
Can't make it in person but want to learn more? Sign up for one of our next Runway info sessions!
The event is in partnership with Nucleate NY, Columbia University Postdoc Society (CUPS), and Tri-I Startup Venture Group.
CUPS is an organization run by postdocs for postdocs to build community at Columbia University.
The Tri-Institutional Startup Venture Group (SVG) is a student organization, encompassing Memorial Sloan Kettering, Rockefeller University, and Weill Cornell Medicine; with a mission to connect students and postdocs with the entrepreneurial and venture capital ecosystems in NYC.
Nucleate New York is a chapter of Nucleate - a free, trainee-led 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to empowering the next generation of biotech leaders.
Please note that this event has limited spots and is focused on recently graduated PhDs and PhD students near the end of their degree. As such, we will prioritize people who fit this description.
Thank you Brown Rudnick for hosting us!