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Learn About Competitions
& Fund Your Venture

Building your first prototype or scaling up customer acquisition, NYU student and faculty
entrepreneurs can take advantage of the numerous competitions and funding resources
available at NYU to help turn bold insights and inventions into viable business ventures.

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Biomed Venture Challenge

Faculty, PhD/Postdoc
Selected technologies and their inventors/project leads will enter a two-month bootcamp of commercial assessment and business model design, at the end of which projects will compete for a $30K commercialization prize.

Blackstone LaunchPad Ideas Competition

Grad Students, Undergrads
The Blackstone LaunchPad Ideas Competition is designed to provide students with early-stage ideas to compete for cash prizes!

Entrepreneurs Challenge

Faculty, Grad Students, Undergrads, PhD/Postdoc
Participate in an 8-month challenge to develop your startup idea and compete for hundreds of thousands of dollars in prizes.

Green Grants

Faculty, Grad Students, Undergrads, PhD/Postdoc
Earn up to $20,000 in funding through this grant program that supports NYU campus sustainability initiatives or social-entrepreneurial ventures.

Innovation Venture Fund

Faculty, Grad Students, Undergrads, PhD/Postdoc
Receive funding from this seed-stage fund that invests exclusively in startups founded by current NYU students, faculty, and researchers.

InnoVention

Grad Students, Undergrads, PhD/Postdoc
InnoVention Competition is a tech startup challenge where NYU student entrepreneurs from across the globe build a team, prototype products, and pitch commercially viable ventures to solve real-world problems.

Max Stenbeck Venture Equity Program

Faculty, Grad Students, Undergrads, PhD/Postdoc
The Max Stenbeck Venture Equity Program helps NYU founders committed to diversity, equity and inclusion learn the fundamentals of fundraising.

MedTech Venture Prototyping Fund

Faculty, Grad Students, PhD/Postdoc
Intramural opportunity designed to encourage and support the advancement of medical device and digital health tech owned by NYU that have the near-term potential for licensing and commercialization.

NSF I-Corps (aka Innovation Corps)

Faculty, PhD/Postdoc
Faculty and researchers: Gain the skills and funding you need to commercialize your research through this 7-week program.

NYU Entrepreneurial Institute

Faculty, Grad Students, Undergrads, PhD/Postdoc, Alumni
Your one-stop shop for entrepreneurship at NYU.

NYU Female Founders Fellowship

Provides community as well as extensive training, mentorship, and networking opportunities to student entrepreneurs at NYU who are committed to advancing gender equity in entrepreneurship.

NYU Impact Investment Fund (NIIF)

Grad Students, Undergrads
NIIF leverages the diverse expertise of business, public service, and law faculty to support student investors targeting social enterprises in the sectors of financial inclusion, environment, healthcare, aging, education, and food systems.

NYU Law Venture Fund

Grad Students, Alumni
Empowering innovators in law and business.

NYU Prototyping Fund

Grad Students, Undergrads
Awards teams of students up to $500 in the first round of funding and up to $2,000 in the second to be used to build hardware or software prototypes.

Production Lab Slate Filmmakers

Grad Students, Undergrads, Alumni
Each year, the Production Lab selects and invests up to $50,000 in top-quality content from emerging artists in the NYU community, in addition to offering tailored development, marketing, and distribution support.

SBIR / STTR Grants

Faculty, PhD/Postdoc
Each year, eleven federal agencies set aside more than $2 billion to fund research and development at small businesses, through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Programs.

StartEd

Faculty, Grad Students, Undergrads, PhD/Postdoc
StartEd helps founders solve the biggest problems in education and workforce learning, at any point in the journey of building an organization that makes an impact.

Technology Acceleration & Commercialization (TAC) Awards

Faculty, PhD/Postdoc
To promote the development of research projects and technologies that have potential for commercialization through start-up creation or licensing.

VC Pitchfest

Faculty, Grad Students, Undergrads, PhD/Postdoc
VC Pitchfest offers student and faculty entrepreneurs the opportunity to share their insights and innovations early to external VCs and angel investors and gain valuable feedback.

VentureWell E-Team Grants

Grad Students, Undergrads, PhD/Postdoc
Get funds and learn how to turn your social impact ideas into startup ventures with a grant from VentureWell.


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Tracing its roots to the launch of the NYU Innovation Venture Fund in 2010, the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute creates a diverse, inclusive culture that facilitates & celebrates entrepreneurship campus-wide, supporting students, faculty & researchers creating scalable solutions to meaningful problems.


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