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Please join us in welcoming six new founders joining the NYU Female Founders Fellowship!
The NYU Female Founders Fellowship provides community support, training, mentorship, networking, and grant opportunities to entrepreneurs at NYU building scalable, differentiated ventures who are committed to advancing gender equity in entrepreneurship. Fellows get fully plugged into NYU’s ecosystem of resources, and are invited to apply for student loan alleviation grants of up to $25,000 each following their graduation from NYU. These grants help to reduce financial burdens, which can be significant barriers to starting a startup. This financial assistance is made possible through the generous support of the program’s lead donor: Entrepreneur and NYU alumnus Mark Leslie (WSC ‘66, Trustee), and his wife, Debra.
We're looking for extraordinary entrepreneurs to join our Female Founders Community! Interested in joining the Fellowship's Spring ‘25 cohort? RSVP for an info session on 10/22, 11/1, or 12/10 and submit your application by December 16 at 6pm ET.
This Fall, we're thrilled to welcome the following six new members into the Fellowship:
Nisha Maheshwari (Tandon ‘25), Co-Founder of CaroRhythm
CaroRhythm connects patients and physicians to improve the standard of stroke care today. Its medical device, CaroSense, is non-invasive, wearable, and continuously monitors blood flow to the brain. Its software platform, CaroRhythm Dynamic Monitoring Service, notifies both patients and physicians to high risk of stroke before physiological symptoms occur. CaroRhythm provides physicians with the data they need to plan treatment options, and provides patients with the autonomy to track their own vascular health in real-time.
Gaby Berne (Langone Clinician), Co-Founder of MoveMend
MoveMend is a gamified exercise platform helping hospitalized patients recover faster, while expanding the reach of rehabilitation clinicians.
Olive Liu (GSAS ‘24), Co-Founder of Insightflo
Catherine Zhao (GSAS ‘24), Co-Founder of Insightflo
Insightflo's AI-powered user insights platform targets user researchers in small software companies, aiming to revolutionize qualitative user research analysis by leveraging AI to seamlessly transfer data into presentable insights.
Kyra Williams (Steinhardt ‘22), Founder of Stories in My Backyard (SIMBY)
SIMBY provides Black youth access to culturally relevant media arts education through online and in-person experiences led by Black instructors to foster belonging, representation, and media literacy.
Oana Ciherean (Stern ‘23), Founder of Foxa.ai
Foxa.ai is an AI onboarding coach that helps new hires become productive faster.
These six Fellows will join five Female Founders Fellows returning this semester, including:
- Anja Westhues (Gallatin ‘24), Founder of Endure
- Srushti Katore (Tandon ‘23), Co-Founder of CARA Systems
- Sruti Madhusudhan (Tandon ‘23), Co-Founder of Building Diagnostic Robotics
- Julia Maksimova (Stern ‘24), Founder of Mova
- Caitlin West (Stern '24), Founder of 4Alivio
