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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 Puzzles designs unique multi-axis twisting puzzles for speed-cubing enthusiasts seeking new ways to express problem-solving skills. While traditional puzzles become repetitive after mastery, Aksis offers novel mechanisms for applying existing knowledge and passion to new, engaging challenges.
Team: Reese Lienau (Tandon ‘25), Sam Lienau
Clique is an AI platform for developer-facing startups that finds and engages in relevant developer conversations on Reddit, X, and Hacker News. It helps teams build authentic awareness and drive adoption without manual effort.
Team: Pragun Sharma, Vihaan Agarwal (Stern ‘28)
Cloud AI automates content creation for beauty brands using Gen AI. It targets marketing teams and small businesses by delivering high-quality, brand-aligned content quickly, reducing creative bottlenecks.
Team: Qishen Xu (Stern ‘27), YouMe Lin (Gallatin ‘18), Zhenyang Li (Stern ‘27), Xiaotian Lu (Stern ‘24)
Context Data helps SMBs deploy privacy-first AI servers, applications, and agents. The platform automates data infrastructure, enabling seamless AI integration and custom RAG applications at lower cost and without in-house expertise.
Team: Julia Kingsley (Stern ‘26), Jide Ogunjobi
Eunoia developed an algorithm that predicts music preferences with near-perfect precision. Personalizes playlists and music discovery for streaming platforms, boosting engagement and subscriber growth.
Team: Pascal Wallisch (CAS Faculty), Sean Cleary (CAS ‘25), Ryan Cleary
GetPupil matches underrepresented high schoolers and university mentors via an algorithm of commonalities, helping students for free while universities and other organizations are the paying clients — driven by data and relationships.
Team: Dario Anaya (Gallatin ‘26), Shenyu Zhu (CAS ‘26)
Klares automates high-stakes document workflows for institutional investors, transforming fundraising, onboarding, and compliance processes into AI-powered efficiency and reducing administrative bottlenecks.
Team: Burtujin Dashnyam (Stern ‘24), Alain Griveau, Saurabh Jalendra
Mahogany Dancewear helps adolescent and pre-professional dancers of color feel seen and supported in an industry that often lacks representation, offering high-performance pieces designed with diversity in mind.
Team: Kaeja Cox (Steinhardt ‘19 & Staff), Kiara Wade (Steinhardt ‘20)
MoveMend is a gamified exercise platform that accelerates patient recovery and maximizes rehab clinician efficiency.
Team: Gabrielle Berne (Langone Clinician), Punit Vats (Tandon ‘23)
MyoMetricsMRI (M³) is an AI-driven low-field MRI analysis tool designed to enhance early detection of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Aimed at clinicians, radiologists, hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and researchers in the US, UAE, and Europe.
Team: Terezia Jurasova (Abu Dhabi ‘26), Subhrajit Dey (Tandon ‘26), Lin Sophie (Abu Dhabi), Sirish Parupudi (Tandon ‘26)
Speaking Fingers Academy is a capacity-building hub that mentors Nigerian university students and early-career professionals in writing and public speaking to give them a professional advantage for their dream corporate careers.
Team: Toluwalase Akinluyi (GPH ‘25), Alabi Wale Timothy
StewardGuard is a clinical decision support system that leverages AI to assist clinicians in antibiotic prescribing and monitoring. It targets physicians and pharmacists in private and state hospitals, aiming to reduce prescription errors, optimize dosing, and enhance antimicrobial stewardship.
Team: Madu Nzerem (GSAS ‘26), Khanh Pham, Maryam Maqsood Ahmed
Telix provides an automated validation system for agentic AI systems, assisting AI/ML engineers, DevOps, and QA teams in validating systems faster and cutting iteration cycles from months to days.
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 an AI-powered platform that uses digital twins to simulate A/B testing and optimize ad performance. Targeting creative marketers at medium-sized B2C agencies in CPG, it provides fast, accurate feedback to enhance campaign success.
Team: Sai Dhruv (SPS ‘26), Ankit Das, Ananya Vijay, Philip Ferraro
Vitalis Regenerative Materials developed the Bioblend device, a surgical platform that combines platelet-rich plasma (PRP) with plant-based biopolymers in real time, creating regenerative gel patches. These patches adhere to tissues, enhance healing, improve orthopedic outcomes, lower costs, and streamline regenerative tech within surgical workflows.
Team: Asser El Ashwah (Tandon ‘26)
We b0nd is the world’s first Social Atlas — a digital platform that helps expats build meaningful connections through a trusted friends-of-friends network, leveraging existing relationships instead of connecting strangers.
Team: Ivan Aristy (Tandon ‘26), Elisa Ferraroni
