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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 HI Hub Incubator
  • Events
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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 Inclusive Founders Community NYU Entrepreneurs Network
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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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    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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    NSF I-Corps

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

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    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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& 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.

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, Alumni

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, Alumni

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.

NYU Entrepreneurial Institute

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

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

PhD/Postdoc, Faculty, Grad Students, Undergrads
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

PhD/Postdoc, Faculty, Grad Students, Undergrads
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.

VC Pitchfests

PhD/Postdoc, Faculty, Grad Students, Undergrads

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.

VentureWell E-Team Grants

Grad Students, Undergrads


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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.


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