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This J-Term, the Startup Sprint will offer 16 teams, representing 13 different NYU schools, the opportunity to get funding and test the value of their solutions. The Sprint is a 2-week customer discovery and mentorship intensive. This year's cohort was by far the most competitive cohort to date with 122 applications submitted!
The Startup Sprint is designed to support those who have an idea, perhaps formed a team, or have a project they’ve been working on. Through this intensive, NYU entrepreneurs can begin to really build out their startups.
Perks of the program include:
- A $1,000 grant, plus an opportunity for select teams to receive up to $1,500 in additional funding
- $5,000 credit from Amazon Web Services
- Legal guidance from Fenwick & West
- 1:1 coaching from expert mentors
- Lots of startup skills workshop
- And much more!
- Read here to learn more about the Startup Sprint program
The 2021 J-Term Startup Sprint teams are solving diverse problems in food access, peer-based mental health, video content search, immigration support, eliminating spread of airborne diseases, affordable tutoring, and more!
We are thrilled to welcome and work with the following teams:
Aeragen, Inc.: Engineered solutions to prevent the spread of airborne infectious diseases in healthcare settings and beyond.
Team: Miles Kilcourse (Tandon ‘23), Ryan Gonzalez (Tandon ‘21), Thomas Sowers (Tandon ‘21)
Arithfunic: 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.
Team: Ann Andrews (Stern ‘22), Haseena Hassan, Hazel Mary
Automanus: simplifies note taking during meetings for students and professionals so they can generate key points by clicking.
Team: Jianing Qi (Courant ‘20), Spencer Viviano
Avant Legal: Streamlining immigration form filing process for F-1 student self filers. Service is available for free and a flat rate low-cost fee for additional services so they can file with more confidence and receive guidance and representation.
Team: Pari Sitaula (Law ‘21), Abhishek Sapkota
CoffeeCard: a mobile application service that allows users to pre-pay a monthly subscription fee to a number of local coffee shops in NYC. By prepaying for their monthly coffee, users are offered a discounted price on all of their coffee purchases through the app, as well as exclusive offers and specials.
Team: Courtney Finnegan (Tisch ‘20), Laura Bokser (Stern ‘21)
Ends Meet Market: a marketplace which brings together quality produce from regional farms to underserved communities with high SNAP participation. Our early goal is to advocate for SNAP users to be served high quality produce and cooked meals which is currently missing in the low-income neighborhoods we want to serve.
Team: Kedene McDowell (Steinhardt ‘21), Javonne Alonzo (Steinhardt ‘22)
Fiction Stop: a subscription for serialized novels that gives avid ebook readers unlimited access to new, diverse authors on our community-oriented platform.
Team: Leigh Fisher (Tandon ‘22), Mehrina Asif, Lauren Busser (Tandon ‘22), Jon Phan (Tandon ‘22)
Fishel Aquaponics: creating an indoor aquaponics kit for people who want to grow fresh vegetables by harnessing the natural power of a miniature ecosystem in their very own homes.
Team: EW (GSAS '21), EJ (GSAS ‘18)
Jengu: a line of fitness equipment essentials. Our aim is to motivate young moms living in urban cities to live healthy lifestyles with fitness equipment they love to not only look at, but use.
Team: Isabel Sheinman (Stern ‘21), Hillary Bush (Stern ‘22), Alexia Sheinman
Higher Ventures: an online career development platform that helps graduate students meaningfully engage with the budding cannabis industry. We provide a more valuable and impact-driven hiring pipeline through our enhanced job board and experiential learning opportunities, while incentivizing our partners to develop an equitable and profitable recruiting infrastructure rooted in cannabis justice.
Team: Katrina Zheleznyak (Stern '20), Rukshan Mehra (Stern '21), Tosin Ajayi (Wagner '20), Nick Pate (Stern '20)
Rabble Rooms: a virtual escape room platform that helps school organizers build engagement among virtual students through puzzles and activities. Our rooms are specifically designed for a virtual format and are customizable for individual communities and events.
Team: Thomas Mowen (CAS ‘23), Alex DelFranco, Orion Bloomfield, Ian Rider, Nosa Lawani
RadiTube: a search engine that makes 'hidden' radical content on YouTube searchable for fact-checkers and disinformation researchers
Team: Erik van Zummeren (Tisch ITP ‘21), Cameron Ballard (Tandon ‘24)
Rooted Fare: to financially empower immigrant chefs by providing them with resources to successfully turn recipes into commercial products and splitting profits. We offer diverse sauces to young, working adventurous eaters in single jars, subscriptions, and e-cooking classes.
Team: Ashley Xie (Steinhardt ‘20), Hedy Yu, Jasmine Shen (Stern ‘22)
Theatre Advocacy Project (T.A.P.): solves the problem of unsafe and inequitable working conditions for theatre professionals. It does this by acting as an external HR Department for theatre owners and managers, creating a system of accountability.
Team: Caylin Waller (Steinhardt ‘22), Jillian Weimer
VisionVoice, Inc.: helps companies & startups, who are seeking to diversify their engineering teams, hire and retain female Black, Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) software engineers, who are seeking access to sustainable careers in tech. Diversity matters because more diverse teams produce better outcomes!
Team: Dessa Shepherd (Steinhardt ‘19), Briahana Mauge, Suzette Islam, Douglas Mackrell, Denueve Shepherd (Rory Meyers '21)
Wazo: a digital mental health platform designed to shrink the treatment gap through a peer mentoring model in colleges.
Team: Vanessa Sepul-Azcarraga (Steinhardt ‘20), Noam Grebler, Nour Azhari.
