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Entrepreneurship at NYU

Entrepreneurship at NYU

NYU empowers students, faculty, and researchers to transform their ideas into impactful ventures. We connect our aspiring founders with NYC’s vibrant startup ecosystem, offering community, training, mentorship, and funding to address meaningful challenges and scale successful ventures.
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Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship Tandon CIE Institute Tandon Future Labs The Institute for Invention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Tandon Makerspace The Program on Creativity + Innovation at NYU Shanghai Langone Technology Opportunities & Ventures Production Lab I-Hub Incubator
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Events Calendar

Events Calendar

Check out our robust lineup of workshops, team hunts, networking events, info sessions, and more.
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Main Events

Blackstone LaunchPad Startup School NYU Entrepreneurs Festival Female Founders Forum & Lunches Inclusive Founders Forum & Workshops Startup Team Hunt
Spaces & Community
Spaces & Community

Leslie eLab

Connect, collaborate, and tap into a vast array of resources to develop your ideas and inventions into startup companies.
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Community Resources & Events
NYU Startup Catalog Female Founders Community NYU Entrepreneurs Network

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Affiliated Links & Spaces

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For
Students

For Students

Startup Accelerator Program

Our award-winning accelerators provide essential training, mentorship and funding to help NYU student founders start and scale their ventures and get ready for venture investment.
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Startup Accelerator ProgramStart Here In Our Series

Our award-winning accelerators provide essential training, mentorship and funding to help NYU student founders start and scale their ventures and get ready for venture investment.
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Startup Bootcamp

Test the value of your ideas directly with customers
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Startup Sprint

Develop a scalable business model for your startup
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3

Summer Launchpad

$15,000 in funding & mentorship to launch your scalable startup
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Other Programs & Resources

Startup Coaching & Mentorship Blackstone LaunchPad Startup School Female Founders Fellowship

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For Faculty & Researchers

For Faculty & Researchers

Tech Venture Program

This three-part venture development program for teams of faculty, postdocs, PhD candidates, and/or researchers offers training, mentorship, and up to $102,000 in grant funding to assist teams commercializing NYU research.
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Tech Venture ProgramStart Here In Our Series

This three-part venture development program for teams of faculty, postdocs, PhD candidates, and/or researchers offers training, mentorship, and up to $102,000 in grant funding to assist teams commercializing NYU research.
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Tech Venture Workshop

Test the commercial potential of your research directly with customers
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2

NSF I-Corps

Get $50,000 to develop a business model for your research
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3

Tech Venture Accelerator

Get $50,000 to launch a scalable startup based on your research
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Other Programs & Resources

NYU Startup Guide Deep & Bio Tech @ NYU Newsletter Technology Venture Summit Startup Coaching & Mentorship Female Founders Fellowship Request a Class Visit from Us!

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Funding & Competitions

Funding & Competitions

Funding & Competitions

Explore competitions and funding resources available at NYU to help turn bold insights and inventions into viable business ventures.
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Funding & Competition Opportunities

Innovation Venture Fund Max Stenbeck Venture Equity Program

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Affiliated Resources

Entrepreneurs Challenge Law Entrepreneurship & VC Program Green Grants Impact Investment Fund SBIR/STTR MedTech Venture Prototyping Fundhttps Therapeutics Alliances Technology Acceleration & Commercialization (TAC) Awards NYU Langone Health Venture Fund

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Resources & Classes

Resources & Classes

Resources & Classes

Browse various resource libraries for current, relevant resources that are helpful for entrepreneurs at all stages of startup readiness.
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Resource Libraries

Alumni Resources @ NYU Books, Blogs, Podcasts, and Articles Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses & Degree Programs Incubators, Co-Working, & Accelerators Legal NYC Startup Community Pitching and Fundraising

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Tracing its roots to the launch of the NYU Innovation Venture Fund in 2010, the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute empowers NYU students, faculty and researchers to help transform their ideas and inventions into impactful ventures. We connect aspiring founders with NYC’s vibrant startup ecosystem, providing community, training, mentorship, and funding to address meaningful challenges and scale successful ventures.

Learn more about the Institute

Visit us at the Leslie eLab

Address:

16 Washington Place
(at Greene St.)
New York City 10003 | map

Hours of Operation:

Monday – Thursday: 10AM – 8PM Friday: 10AM – 6PM
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