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It was a beautiful summer Friday in New York City as startups from the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute’s Summer Launchpad and Yale Tsai CITY’s Summer Fellowship gathered on July 26 to face-off at the NYU-Yale Summer Accelerator Pitchoff.
The beloved tradition featured six promising, seed-stage startups — three representing NYU, and three representing Yale — pitching their ventures before a live audience and panel of judges at Rosenthal Pavilion. The 11th Annual Pitchoff drew more than 300 attendees from NYU and Yale’s collegiate communities, and New York City and New Haven, Connecticut’s robust startup ecosystems.
This year's event kicked off with a new addition — a poster session where founders from each of the represented startups got the opportunity to showcase their technologies, products, and services to arriving audience members.
Below, meet the startups that competed for the top title, and check out photos from the event!
NYU’s pitching teams:
Niura develops focus-sensing earbuds that turn productivity into a game for young professionals and students in higher education. Niura harnesses the power of EEG to track focus and stress to optimize productivity and work-rest cycles.
Shahriar Huda (Tandon ‘26), Pari Patel, Ryan Ahmed, Authoy Das
Hedge is the robo-advisor for sports gambling.
Henry Armistead (SPS ‘24), Nico Colosso (Tandon '23)
MetroMesh Media addresses the shortage of outdoor advertising space for CPG advertisers by leveraging food delivery networks as a new advertising medium.
Winn Hsu (Tandon ‘24), Tom Hsu (Stern ‘23), Jessica Hsu
Meet the full 2024 Summer Launchpad Cohort.
Yale’s pitching teams:
LeanCon builds the first construction engineer created by AI. Our product uses AI to automate project planning and management. We’re turning the months-long, people-heavy process of construction planning into a swift, seven-minute, human-free operation, cutting construction time by 20%.
Ziv Levi (MBA '24), Sapir Tubul
PartsMatch is an innovative software solution consisting of a B2B marketplace and an AI-powered co-pilot helping automotive, motorcycle, and marine dealers turn their obsolete inventory into working capital.
Skyler Wilson (YC '23), Griffin Wilson (YC '25), Marisa Shorrock (YC '24)
Matcha Scrubs is an innovative and inclusive scrub cap line. We are the first and only scrub cap line on the market to feature an eye shield holder, signature green satin lining, a moisture wicking sweatband, and mask holders.
MiChaela Barker (MBA '24, MPH '24)
Meet the full 2024 Yale Tsai CITY Summer Fellowship Cohort.
This year’s panel of esteemed expert judges featured:
Rani Kubersky (Stern '23), Investor, Point72 Ventures
Chika Ogele (Stern '17), Associate, Newark Venture Partners
Justin Silver (Yale), Founder, AAVRANI
Lindsay Daugherty (Yale '22), Associate, Ludlow Ventures
After each team presented their venture on stage, the judges deliberated to select their pick for Best Pitch, while the audience members voted for their favorite pitching team via a mobile poll. This year's winning startup was announced as ...
Yale startup PartsMatch, presented by co-founder & CEO Ziv Levi (MBA '24)!
And claiming the spot of runner up in the Best Pitch category was our amazing hometown NYU team Niura, presented by co-founders Ryan Ahmed and Pari Patel!
Congratulations to Yale on their thrilling win! Thank you to everyone who came out to this year's event, and much love to the whole Yale Tsai CITY team for partnering with us once again. We're already looking forward to next year's Pitchoff 🏆
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