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NYU Entrepreneurial Institute

Our mission is to empower NYU students, faculty and researchers to help transform their ideas and inventions into impactful ventures. We connect our aspiring founders with NYC’s vibrant startup ecosystem, providing community, training, mentorship, and funding to address meaningful challenges and scale successful ventures.

What We Do

The NYU Entrepreneurial Institute drives startup success and research commercialization for students, faculty, and researchers from all NYU schools and colleges. We provide community, training, mentorship & funding to NYU founders to start and scale their ventures.

Workshops, events & team building activities
Coaching & mentorship
Connect with others & work on your startup at the Leslie eLab
Grants, training & award winning accelerators
Seed capital via the NYU Innovation Venture Fund

Our Divine Principles

Our founders learn by doing – interviewing, prototyping, testing, gathering evidence, validating.

Successful startup teams, and a rich entrepreneurial ecosystem, draw on founders with diverse backgrounds, experiences, skills and perspectives from all 20 NYU schools and colleges.

Because we are integrally in and of the city, our founders have unrivaled access to veteran and rising star entrepreneurs and investors who speak, teach and mentor here.

Experiential

Our founders learn by doing – interviewing, prototyping, testing, gathering evidence, validating.

Multidisciplinary & Diverse

Successful startup teams, and a rich entrepreneurial ecosystem, draw on founders with diverse backgrounds, experiences, skills and perspectives from all 20 NYU schools and colleges.

Connected to NYC

Because we are integrally in and of the city, our founders have unrivaled access to veteran and rising star entrepreneurs and investors who speak, teach and mentor here.

Home: The Leslie eLab

The Mark and Debra Leslie Entrepreneurs Lab is a 6,800 sq-ft space where entrepreneurs from across NYU can connect, collaborate, and explore how to turn ideas and inventions into startups. The Leslie eLab offers a vast array of resources available to the NYU community, including:

Open co-working space
Meeting rooms for booking
A wall for posting startup ideas and finding team members
and more!

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Our Incredible Team is Here to Help You Excel

Since the founding of the NYU Innovation Venture Fund in 2010, we have accelerated the pace of technology commercialization and helped launch successful startups founded by our talented community of students, faculty, and researchers through our award winning programming and support.

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Sponsors & Partners

Thank you to our sponsors and partners who make our work possible! Interested in becoming a partner and supporting our founders? Reach out to Frank Rimalovski.