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Join us in celebrating the J-Term Startup Sprint Class of 2026!
From Jan. 5-16, we had the privilege of hosting 17 promising ventures at the Leslie eLab, where they honed their customer discovery skills and tested their business models in our intensive accelerator program. This J-Term’s teams conducted a combined 700+ customer discovery interviews. The founders partook in daily startup coaching and feedback sessions, skills-building workshops, and one-on-one sessions with seasoned coaches.
Teams unlocked access to the following benefits:
- A $1,500 grant, plus an opportunity for select teams to receive up to $500 in additional funding
- Over $5,000 in perks, including Google Cloud credits
- Legal guidance from Fenwick & West
This cohort’s special guest speakers included Jonathan Sagot (Law '17) of Fenwick & West; and Hilary Dubin, Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Jones, who answered startup questions from the Sprinters during an engaging Ask Me Anything session.
Meet the Teams:
Alexandros Stress Testing Copilot is an AI-driven application designed to assist Stress Testing Specialists within banking and credit union environments. The platform streamlines the review process by identifying and flagging semantic and numerical inconsistencies across the high volume of regulatory reports generated during stress testing cycles.
Team: Dr. David Duran Chaparro (Langone Postdoc), Eric Vega Dominguez, Dr. Ing Abdiel Leon Bal
Altrovia is an AI-enabled protocol intelligence platform that helps Clinical Development teams at CROs design better trials the first time, by benchmarking against historical trials and validating design decisions against regulatory precedent to prevent costly amendments and accelerate submission approval.
Team: Christos Zoukos (Abu Dhabi '25), Georgia Lytra
Inlight is a networking app for NYU undergraduate actors, filmmakers, and producers that maps peer connections by proximity and creative interest, opportunities, and NYC industry resources, thus bridging the gap between fragmented school resources and people, which prepares students to graduate already networked, visible, and career-ready.
Team: Annie Thomas (Tisch '26), Jo Reilly (Tisch '25)
Klivea is an AI-powered analytics platform for 2+ locations eye care private practices (1-4 doctors) that drives $10K - $60K / year in revenue and efficiency gains through weekly utilization + performance insights, while also preventing $20K - $120K bad equipment purchases through ROI intelligence.
Team: Vicky Zhao (Tandon '23 & Stern '24), Jessica Tang (Tandon '25), Andy Chen (Tandon '24), and Xinyuan Yang (Tandon '26)
Melodi is a release tool for self-managed, career-committed independent artists. Melodi uses an agentic workflow that turns a finished song + assets into a week-by-week release plan so artists can stay consistent without maintaining a scattered workflow while receiving release guidance.
Team: Jonathan Gulyak (Stern '26), Julius Chu (Tisch '27)
Memora helps junior developers (1-3 years) in growing SaaS teams (20-200 engineers) avoid repeated code review loops caused by fragmented project knowledge scattered across Slack, Jira/Linear, GitHub/GitLab, and meeting transcripts by continuously extracting a team's real, day-to-day project context and delivering the right, project-specific guidance directly inside AI-powered coding tools.
Team: Akshayaa Prabakar (Tandon '26), Siriam Madhiyalagan (Tandon '26)
New Here? Meet your kind. Tell your story. Get connected. Get introduced to other students.
Team: Joseph Stern (Gallatin '27), Graham Fortgang (Gallatin '25)
ProSights is an entertainment platform for avid viewers of golf content who are underserved by current offerings. ProSights delivers a unique value proposition in the form of audio-first ‘Golf IQ’ from top professionals that enhances the viewing experience and fosters a connective community.
Team: Patrick de Visscher (Stern '27)
Restocks AI identifies invalid deductions and dispute end to end to get emerging food and beverage brands selling through UNFI and KeHe their money back.
Team: Khon Sultan (Tandon '26), Edwin Liang, Azim Khodjaev
ShiftHarmony AI automates emergency room (ER) scheduling for ER schedulers by translating doctors’ natural-language preferences into fully staffed, fair schedules, cutting schedule creation time by up to 90%.
Team: Sean Kesluk (Law '26), Dr. Joseph Friedrich
Shuttl is a software application that establishes a direct, secure connection between and two machines for fast file transfers, eliminating the need for expensive manual media sharing solutions.
Team: Micah Rembrandt (Stern '27), Octavia Pinto (Stern '26), Mohammed Hamid (Tandon '26), Arnab Bhowal (Tandon '26)
Suitely is a hotel booking platform that solves the misalignment between traditional hotel systems and modern traveler behavior by restoring real-time human reassurance, speed, and coordinated booking at the point of decision. It is built for individual and small-group travelers—especially in dense urban markets—who need to confirm what matters, book 1–2 rooms together, and move forward with confidence without the friction, uncertainty, or coordination overhead of legacy platforms.
Team: Sean Solomonoff (SPS '27), Anthony Dazzara, Victor Song, Herman Liang
VenueHopper helps NYC organizers aged 22-27 planning birthday parties for 20-35 guests, book private cash bar packages with less than $1500, minimum spend, save up to 10 hours of research and back and forth while increasing revenue, and for bars with underutilized private rooms.
Team: Sharon Melzer (SPS '27), Stonny Liu (Tandon '23)
Visibly fixes the lack of clear architecture, dependency visibility, and shared system context for 3 - 30 engineer startup teams, so engineers who let AI write all the code can plan and guide it with more confidence and control as projects scale.
Team: Yannick Bierens (Courant '25)
Workforce Visas helps managing partners at small-to-mid-sized employment immigration firms increase fixed-fee profitability by streamlining the most failure-prone moments in visa workflows - case intake, SOC code determination, and data validation - reducing rework and enabling firms to complete more cases with fewer errors.
Team: Harrison Gevinson (Law '27), Mario Oliver, Brave Mugisha
Zima is a privacy first AI infrastructure platform that hosts 100+ AI models to help AI companionship companies access any AI model through a single API instead of them needing to sign high cost BAAs (vendor contracts) or set up their own servers.
Team: Rifa Gowani (CAS '28)
