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Startup Accelerator ProgramThe award-winning Startup Accelerator Program provides essential training, mentorship and funding to help NYU founders start and scale their ventures and get read for venture investment. Whether you’re a team with an idea, a prototype, or a commercially-tested product or service, the Startup Accelerator Program has something for you. The Accelerator begins with testing and validating your customer and use case in the Startup Bootcamp, and continues to testing and prototyping your entire business model in the Startup Sprint. Finally, the Summer Launchpad positions teams for growth and fundraising success.
If you’ve already met with one of our startup coaches and are ready to take your venture to the next level, read on…
NYU undergraduate or graduate student-led teams who:
RSVP for an info session (see below),
book a coaching appointment with a Founder-in-Residence or a member of our team!
Baton is a blockchain-enabled collaboration protocol designed to facilitate the future of creative digital exchange to help artists maintain control over their material and get the credit they deserve.
Founder
(Tisch '23)Resist Nutrition makes plant-based, keto protein bars filled with science-backed ingredients with functional benefits for hormone health and blood sugar support.
Founder & CEO
(Tisch '20)Offering affordable, deconstructable, and stylish furniture for modern and transient living with a focus on financial flexibility. Through a buy-back program, Sabai Design solves the headache of disposal/reselling and offers an even cheaper line of refurbished furniture.
Co-Founder & CEO
(Law '20)Dathic creates an AI-based platform for CPG that understands the US Hispanic consumers, recommends the best locations to grow and connect communities with the products they love.
Co-founder
(Wagner '20)Jones is a judgement-free journey to a vape-less life, through a personalized nicotine replacement subscription, behavioral support and digital community.
Co-Founder
(Stern '23)By creating the world’s first tattoo that fades in a year, Ephemeral gives everyone the opportunity to express their individuality without fear or regret.
Co-Founder
(Tandon '15)Frich is the first social finance app that enables Gen Z to develop mindful spending habits by setting goals together with friends and keeping each other accountable. Imagine a fitness app but for your finances.
Founder
(Abu Dhabi '21)A platform that connects artists and venues to create unforgettable shows.
Co-founder
(CAS '19)Companies and their health insurance providers use HealthBoxed to drive meaningful engagement in their employee wellness initiatives. HealthBoxes include wellness products, memberships, and informational material, and can be customized to complement each client’s wellness initiative and to fit their wellness budget.
Founder
(Steinhardt '22)Matching individuals with quality therapists to ease access to a personalized healing relationship and enable therapists to help more people.
Founder & CEO
(Silver '17)The first brand to design products specifically for women with small boobs, starting with bras.
Co-founder and COO
(Stern '19)Rilla provides conversation intelligence software for outside sales and service. Industries such as roofing, solar, interior design, banking, and telco send sales representatives to talk to potential customers face to face in their homes and businesses. Rilla uses AI to automatically transcribe, analyze and give feedback to sales managers on their representatives’ performance with customers, enabling them to remotely monitor their teams, saving two to three days a week from having to accompany field sales reps on training calls.
Founder & CEO
(CAS '18)Rooted Fare aims to financially empower immigrant chefs by providing them with resources to successfully turn recipes into commercial products.
Co-founder
(Steinhardt '20)Math & Coding tutoring for children in the US by women student tutors in India - makes tutoring accessible and affordable to every child in the US, normalizing STEM among girls, empowering students to work in India, helping young women tutors do fulfilling work from the safety of their homes.
Founder
(Stern '23)The Diversity Org (DO) hosts high school assemblies that educate low-income students on how to obtain corporate and high-income careers.
Founder
(Tisch '18)She Matters trains healthcare workers in culturally competent care for Black women and offers an online platform to support Black women who experience postpartum comorbidities (e.g., anxiety and/or depression) through community and culturally relevant resources
Co-founder
(Steinhardt '20)Trousso is a resale platform making upscale wedding wear financially accessible and environmentally sustainable for the next generation of brides. They're building a circular economy for weddings, where brides can buy and sell nearly-new wedding fashion for the 8+ celebrations surrounding the ceremony/reception.
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
(Stern '23)Visura is a curated market-network for publishers to discover and hire the world’s top freelance visual journalists.
Co-founder
(GSAS '21)UBet is a decentralized exchange for sports trading.
Founder
(GSAS '23)Companies and their health insurance providers use HealthBoxed to drive meaningful engagement in their employee wellness initiatives. HealthBoxes include wellness products, memberships, and informational material, and can be customized to complement each client’s wellness initiative and to fit their wellness budget.
Rilla provides conversation intelligence software for outside sales and service. Industries such as roofing, solar, interior design, banking, and telco send sales representatives to talk to potential customers face to face in their homes and businesses. Rilla uses AI to automatically transcribe, analyze and give feedback to sales managers on their representatives’ performance with customers, enabling them to remotely monitor their teams, saving two to three days a week from having to accompany field sales reps on training calls.
Math & Coding tutoring for children in the US by women student tutors in India - makes tutoring accessible and affordable to every child in the US, normalizing STEM among girls, empowering students to work in India, helping young women tutors do fulfilling work from the safety of their homes.
Trousso is a resale platform making upscale wedding wear financially accessible and environmentally sustainable for the next generation of brides. They're building a circular economy for weddings, where brides can buy and sell nearly-new wedding fashion for the 8+ celebrations surrounding the ceremony/reception.
Each program in the Startup Accelerator Program is custom-fit to NYU startups at different stages, offering access to greater resources and intensity as you progress from one to the next.
While faculty, PhDs and postdocs are welcome to take part in the Startup Accelerator Program, we have specific accelerators designed for faculty-, PhD-, postdoc-led teams who are interested in commercializing NYU research. If this describes you, please check out our Tech Venture Program.
RSVP for a info session (see below) to learn more,
book an appointment with one of our startup coaches to discuss if the Startup Accelerator Program may be for you.
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