Opportunity

EII helps position students for opportunistic success. Our BR Startup Suite provides students wonderful real-world, hands-on opportunities to become founders, advisors, or investors. Innovation Interface provides the opportunity for consulting on technological innovation with well-established company clients and the EII Startup Mentors Program provides Johnson students the opportunity to mentor undergraduate startups.

Startup Suite

Our Startup Suite of Student-Run Entrepreneurship Services 

Unique among business schools, Johnson provides a complete suite of entrepreneurship services: capital, consulting and counsel. Our students not only deliver these services, but they also have responsibility for managing these entities under the guidance of faculty advisors. 

Br Ventures

  • BR Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital fund focused on providing funding to early-stage, high-growth businesses.

BR Consulting

  • BR Consulting offers commercial and strategic consulting to startup companies, helping them bridge the gap between business idea and company growth.

BR MicroCapital

  • BR MicroCapital offers business advising and lending services to needs-based local entrepreneurs. BR MicroCapital is based at Johnson's Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise in partnership with a local credit union.

BR Advisory

  • BR Advisory assists on getting young companies off on the right legal track.  For more information in BR Advisory, please contact Zach Shulman at zjs2@cornell.edu.

Startup Mentors Program

The EII Startup Mentors Program is an initiative geared toward creating opportunities for collaboration among students at Johnson and other schools throughout Cornell. Many courses often require undergraduate students to build companies around technologies developed within the college. Real feedback from students in these classes has indicated that they desire a deeper understanding of the business side of starting a company or commercializing technology, and would like help fleshing out the financial, marketing, and strategy aspects to complement their technologies.

To help these students develop their companies or tech initiatives, and give Johnson students direct hands-on exposure to exciting technologies, EII is partnering with many of these courses. An EII Startup Mentor works with a startup team to help the students focus on the most critical business issues, and to guide them as they work through those issues during a semester. It is designed to give business school students a new opportunity to apply their knowledge in real time, gain exposure to the mix of technology and business issues in commercialization, and connect with other schools at Cornell. EII recruits a new class of EII Startup Mentors each year early during the fall semester.

BRV Investor

The News Letter of the BR Venture Fund
BRV Investor