Founded in 2010, the NYU Innovation Venture Fund provides seed capital to scale startups based on technologies, innovations and intellectual property developed by students, faculty, and researchers while at NYU. The Fund provides needed capital, contacts with the entrepreneurial and venture communities, and just as important, practical management and marketing coaching to transform NYU ideas and inventions into successful startups.
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The Fund makes approximately three to four investments per year in partnership with other angel and venture capital investors. The Fund will recycle investment returns from the successful sale of portfolio companies back into the University to finance future ventures.
