We are thrilled to introduce the Spring 2026 cohort of the NYU Tech Venture Workshop (TVW)! This cohort brings together 9 innovative teams developing solutions across healthtech, biotech, fintech, mental health, advanced materials, and more. Each team will receive up to $2,000 in reimbursable grant funding to support customer discovery, prototyping, conferences, and travel.
About the Program
The Tech Venture Workshop is the first phase of the three-part NYU Tech Venture Program, sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF-IIP-2048498). This three half-day intensive workshop helps NYU faculty and PhD/postdoc teams explore the commercial potential of their research through direct engagement with customers and partners.
Completing TVW is the first step toward applying to the NSF I-Corps and Tech Venture Accelerator programs, which offer over $102,000 in grant funding for research commercialization.
Meet the Teams:
Advanced Air Mobility – Platform for advanced air mobility passenger and cargo transportation services.
Team: Zhenglei Ji (PhD Candidate, Tandon), Joseph Chow (Faculty, Tandon)
Industry: Transportation / Logistics
BioBots – Simple robotic platform automating routine tissue culture tasks, saving labs tens of thousands of dollars per year in labor costs.
Team: Brent Carroll (PhD Candidate, GSAS), Gregory Weiss (Faculty, FAS)
Industry: Biotech / Robotics
BioPress – Devices that mechanically profile cancer cells in simulated microenvironments, providing rapid, quantitative insights to accelerate drug discovery.
Team: Shivanjali Saxena (Postdoc, Langone/Grossman), David Duran & Eric Vega (Postdoc, Langone/Grossman), Liam Holt (Faculty, Langone/Grossman)
Industry: Biotech / Med Devices
CAPTURE Therapeutics – Prototype vector platform expressing diverse therapeutic payloads with functional transient transgene and CRISPR-Cas9-based gene editing for improved mucosal delivery of respiratory biologics.
Team: Lucia Carrau (Faculty, Langone/Grossman), Benjamin tenOever (Faculty, Langone/Grossman), Sydney Pimentel (PhD Candidate, Langone/Grossman), Jonathan Dever (Postdoc, Langone/Grossman)
Industry: Biotech / Biopharma
Corealis – Noninvasive capsule for upper gastrointestinal microbiome sampling, generating spatially precise microbial data for predictive and precision health insights.
Team: Hanan Mohammed (Researcher, Abu Dhabi), Khalil Ramadi (Faculty, Tandon)
Industry: Biotech / Healthtech
FloGo – Digital mental health platform shifting care from reactive treatment to proactive empowerment for school districts, healthcare networks, and community organizations.
Team: Keng-Yen Huang (Faculty, Langone/Grossman), Besa Bauta (Faculty, Silver), Hyungrok Do (Faculty, Langone/Grossman), NaiYi Huang
Industry: Healthtech / Mental Health
MBD – Innovative, user-friendly medical devices for easy, precise, and stress-free application of eye treatments.
Team: Sabrina C. Desbordes (Faculty, Abu Dhabi), Nurbergen Aitmukhanbetov (Postdoc, Abu Dhabi), Rafael Song (Postdoc, Abu Dhabi)
Industry: Med Devices & Diagnostics
SecuCore – AI-powered platform that proactively stress-tests models to surface novel money-laundering and fraud tactics, delivering runnable test playbooks and detection signals for financial institutions.
Team: Mohamad Ali-Dib (Postdoc, Abu Dhabi), Mohamed Hendy
Industry: Fintech / Cybersecurity
TipNova – Next-generation 3D-fabricated polymeric AFM probes with superior spatial and temporal resolutions and application-specific customization.
Team: Ayoub Glia (Alumni, Abu Dhabi/Tandon), Mohammad Ameen Qasaimeh (Faculty, Abu Dhabi)
Industry: Advanced Materials / Nanotechnology
Join Us
To learn more about the program and application process here, and come chat with us!
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