Join us at our 15th Annual NYU Entrepreneurs Festival, where over 500 members of the NYU startup community will come together to connect, collaborate, and celebrate entrepreneurs across the University. Grow your startup knowledge and make lasting connections! The Festival is co-hosted by the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and the NYU Leslie Entrepreneurial Institute.

The NYU Entrepreneurs Festival will be held at the Kimmel Center in the Rosenthal Pavilion on the 10th floor on Friday, Oct 9th.

AGENDA:

1 - 1:30 PM: Doors Open & Registration

1:30 - 1:45 PM: Welcome & Opening Remarks w/ Rebecca Silver, Director of the NYU Leslie Entrepreneurial Institute & Shay Gaskins (SPS '19 & Stern '27), Associate Director of the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship

1:45 - 2:35: Keynote w/ TBD. Will be revealed soon!

2:40 - 3:20 PM: Starting a Startup while in School Panel:

• Panelists are Bakhtawer Baloch, (SPS '26), Founder of Clairdoc, Corinne Camay (Stern '27), Founder of Diagrm, Christian Herren (Courant/Stern '26), Founder of Agora, Lara Pinar (Tandon '27), Founder of Jointly Medical
• Moderated by: Nyamitse-Calvin Mahinda (Tandon '23), Founder of Vital Audio

3:20 - 3:50 PM: Networking Break

3:50 - 5:35 PM: Demo Day with the following teams:

• Agora**:** Agentic tool for professional clothing resellers, automate 60% of listing workflows, so they can move inventory to market in seconds instead of sitting unlisted, enabling them to scale their businesses.
  • Team: Christian Herren (Courant/Stern ‘26) & Tomer Ben Yaakov (Courant/Stern ‘26)
• Altrovia: Study design intelligence platform with regulatory precedent, amendment prediction, and benchmarking for clinical development leads at small/mid-sized pharma companies. It minimizes costly amendments (30% of budget) at a fraction of CRO costs.
  • Team: Christos Zoukos (Stern '25), Nicholas Patas (Abu Dhabi, '21) & Georgia Lytra
• Binder: Commercial insurance brokers reach out to 100 prospects per week, but don't have time to do the research, so every call is shot in the dark. Binder automates the research, so brokers land more clients and earn more commissions.
  • Team: Yannick Bierens (Courant/Stern ‘25)
• Cargon AI: Small and mid-size privately owned trucking fleet owners (20 to 200 trucks) lose revenue and spend up to 21 days per hire on DOT-mandated pre-hire screening. Cargon AI automates the full DOT pre-hire process with voice agents screening candidates, capturing consent, verifying past employment in 1 to 2 days, cutting cost-per-hire and time-to-seat.
  • Team: Khon Sultan (Tandon ‘26), Azimkhon Sultankhodjaev & Yongnuo Liang
• Clairdoc: AI revenue layer integrated into EHR workflows. Clairdoc validates claims, documentation, and payer rules in real time, reducing denials and driving measurable revenue growth without altering the EHR.
  • Team: Bakhtawer Baloch (SPS '26), Suleman Baloch & Momal Baloch
• Cortile**:** AI verification layer for vendor security reviewers at regional  health systems — it runs the repetitive checks and flags gaps, so reviewers focus on the judgment calls only they can make.
  • Team: Nik King Fredel (SPS ‘26) & Owen Rice
• MilkShaker: Hands-free wearable massager for breastfeeding mothers to treat mastitis, clogged ducts, and low milk supply. These painful and often recurring challenges affect 90% of moms, disproportionately harming working mothers and those without access to specialized postpartum care.
  • Team: Xiyan Zhu (Stern ‘27), Valentina Marini Fichera & Elise Yang

5:35 - 5:50 PM: Mentor of the Year Award

• Presented to Dan Kantor (Tisch ITP '05)

5:50 - 6:00 PM: Closing Remarks

The NYU Leslie Entrepreneurial Institute provides reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities. Requests for accommodations for events and services should be submitted at least two weeks before the date of the accommodation need. Please email [email protected] for assistance.