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Join us in celebrating the Summer Startup Sprint Class of 2025!
From May 19–30, we welcomed 17 promising startup teams to our two-week immersive program designed to help NYU entrepreneurs test and refine their venture ideas. Hailing from across NYU’s schools and disciplines, these teams partook in daily startup coaching sessions and skills-building workshops to tackle pressing challenges in fields such as education, real estate, advertising, biotechnology, inclusive dancewear, and more.
Teams unlocked access to the following benefits:
- A $500 grant, plus an opportunity for select teams to receive up to $500 in additional funding
- Over $5,000 in perks, including Google Cloud and GitHub credits
- Legal guidance from Fenwick & West
Throughout the Sprint, the teams collectively conducted over 380 customer discovery interviews, gaining invaluable insights directly from their target audiences. These conversations helped shape and validate their solutions, driving each venture closer to product-market fit.
This cohort’s special guest speakers included David Rand (Law '17) and Corinne Nhaissi of Fenwick & West, who led a workshop on startup legal essentials and conducted 1:1 office hours.
Another program highlight was an Ask-Me-Anything session with Jeffrey Dachis, founder of One Health Biosensing and co-founder of the pioneering digital agency Razorfish. Dachis shared his journey bootstrapping Razorfish from the ground up to $250 million in annual revenue — without taking a dime of external funding. He also offered candid guidance on how to differentiate your brand in a crowded market, manage rejection with resilience, and build a financially sustainable company from the start.
Meet the Teams:
Aksis is a curated twisty puzzle platform that manufactures and sells limited-edition puzzles in small batch releases — helping collectors stay excited and challenged with quality puzzles, and providing independent puzzle designers a means to share and sell their designs through design submission challenges.
Team: Reese Lienau (Tandon ‘25), Sam Lienau
Clique AI automates the labor-intensive and time-consuming process of Reddit engagement to help seed-stage developer tool founders acquire customers.
Team: Pragun Sharma, Vihaan Agarwal (Stern ‘28)
Cloud AI is an AI-agent photoshoot coordination platform that helps Creative Directors at beauty brands save up to 95% of their time compared to traditional methods by automating vendor sourcing and schedule syncing ensuring each shoot is executed by the right team to bring the creative vision to life.
Team: Qishen Xu (Stern ‘27), YouMe Lin (Gallatin ‘18), Zhenyang Li (Stern ‘27), Xiaotian Lu (Stern ‘24)
Context Data helps Property & Casualty insurance claims processors and adjusters tackle overwhelming backlogs by cutting document review and research time in half. Its platform extracts key information from various documents and data sources, enabling teams to process more claims, faster and in greater depth, without adding headcount.
Team: Julia Kingsley (Stern ‘26), Jide Ogunjobi
Eunoia gives personalization product managers at music streaming services a music taste test and recommendation API that instantly collects music preference data and delivers 97% accurate song recommendations. It eliminates the first-week blind spot where algorithms guess what songs to play because they lack music preference data, increasing first-week retention.
Team: Pascal Wallisch (CAS Faculty), Sean Cleary (CAS ‘25), Ryan Cleary
Pupil is a web and mobile app that helps high-income parents support their high school students’ college and career exploration by matching them with relatable, personalized college mentors — filling the gap left by limited personal networks, understaffed school counselors, and overwhelming, generic advice.
Team: Dario Anaya (Gallatin ‘26), Shenyu Zhu (CAS ‘26)
Klares is an AI-powered documentation portal that automates critical document workflows for junior staff at investment management firms. This empowers COOs to save costs while growing the business with a leaner, more agile team.
Team: Burtujin Dashnyam (Stern ‘24), Alain Griveau, Saurabh Jalendra
Mahogany Dancewear provides skin-tone-inclusive, ready-to-wear dancewear for melanated dancers who train and perform 3 to 4 times a week and are tired of settling for products that don’t match their identity. It replaces the frustration of dyeing and delays with accessible options not only designed for them, but with their voices, needs, and stories integrated into every design.
Team: Kaeja Cox (Steinhardt ‘19 & Staff), Kiara Wade (Steinhardt ‘20)
MoveMend is a software that helps OTs/PTs at outpatient rehab clinics address low patient adherence and high dropout rates by turning therapist-prescribed exercises into motion-tracked games, saving clinicians time and keeping patients engaged between visits.
Team: Gabrielle Berne (Langone Clinician), Punit Vats (Tandon ‘23)
MyoMetricsMRI (M³) is an AI-powered MRI analysis software pipeline to help pediatric neurologists, radiologists, and clinical researchers detect and monitor Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy early. Beyond early diagnosis, the tool supports continuous monitoring to assess treatment efficacy — helping reduce the costs and side effects associated with ineffective gene therapies.
Team: Terezia Jurasova (Abu Dhabi ‘26), Subhrajit Dey (Tandon ‘26), Lin Sophie (Abu Dhabi), Sirish Parupudi (Tandon ‘26)
Speaking Fingers Academy is AI-powered tool that offers business and law graduate students personalized practice environments, training both verbal skills (clarity, pacing, pronunciation, and vocabulary) and non-verbal skills (gestures, posture, and tone) by delivering real-time, actionable feedback on demo interviews, presentations, and pitches, reducing missed job opportunities and poor academic performance.
Team: Toluwalase Akinluyi (GPH ‘25), Alabi Wale Timothy
StewardGuard is an EHR-integrated clinical decision support software that automates the manual process of antibiotic prescribing and monitoring for physicians and pharmacists at large academic centers to increase workflow efficiency and reduce antibiotic-related errors.
Team: Madu Nzerem (GSAS ‘26), Khanh Pham, Maryam Maqsood Ahmed
Telix helps AI teams in customer support/CX departments — across Retail, Travel, and Supply Chain — align and validate their systems against business requirements without needing to productionize them. By identifying requirement gaps, recommending KPI targets, and generating test cases, Telix ensures measurable reliability and builds a shared understanding of performance with non-technical stakeholders from day one.
Team: Pranav Bhatt (Tandon ‘26), Bhavana TN
TitleChain is an AI-powered decision-support tool for real estate title insurance. It is designed for insurance underwriters and claims teams to validate risk, surface red flags, and defend against future claims more efficiently and accurately.
Team: Suhail Y. Tayeb (SPS Faculty), Johana Molano (SPS ‘26)
Twinning AI is a campaign intelligence platform that helps creative marketers at mid-to-large B2C brands cut A/B testing costs by up to 50% by using campaign simulations and providing instant, feedback from AI focus groups.
Team: Sai Dhruv (SPS ‘26), Ankit Das, Ananya Vijay, Philip Ferraro
Vitalis Regenerative Materials combines platelet-rich plasma (PRP) with plant-based biopolymers using the BioBlend device to create a material that can reduce tendon-to-bone re-tears and revisions in rotator cuff surgeries.
Team: Asser El Ashwah (Tandon ‘26)
We b0nd is a mobile app that allows users to meet and discover trusted friends of friends — it’s the safest way to feel at home, faster.
Team: Ivan Aristy (Tandon ‘26), Elisa Ferraroni
