Fourteen years ago, Eugene Lang '40 endowed a Fund at Columbia Business School intended to help foster student entrepreneurship at his alma mater. Today the Lang Fund is part of a robust year-long process at the business school's Lang Entrepreneurship Center that culminates in the most promising ventures receiving seed funding. Our most recent venture-backed high-flier is Recycle Bank, which is backed by RRE, Kleiner, Sigma Partners, Coca-Cola, and others: