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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Connect, collaborate, and tap into a vast array of resources to develop your ideas and inventions into startup companies.
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.
Test the value of your ideas directly with customers
Develop a scalable business model for your startup
$15,000 in funding & mentorship to launch your scalable startup
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 deep tech research.
Test the commercial potential of your deep tech research directly with customers
Get $50,000 to develop a business model for your deep tech research
Get $50,000 to launch a scalable startup based on your deep tech research
Explore competitions and funding resources available at NYU to help turn bold insights and inventions into viable business ventures.
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Every founder eventually faces the same terrifying five minutes: the pitch. This week's Summer Launchpad workshop tackled it head-on with David Isaacs (Gallatin ‘99), who spent 18 years at R/GA befo...
Summer Launchpad 2026 · Founder Spotlight Yannick Bierens (Courant '25) grew up in the Netherlands and moved to New York two years ago to keep building companies. At 27, he's already a three-time fou...
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The Leslie Founders Roundtable series brings in investors and operators to speak candidly with NYU founders, not to pitch, but to think out loud. This session featured Melody Koh, a partner at NextV...
Week 2 of Summer Launchpad gave the founders a sharper lens on one of the hardest parts of building: figuring out what's actually worth building, and for whom. Workshop: The Discovery Ladder Level 1 T...
The hardest part of building a startup isn't the code anymore; it's knowing what to build in the first place. That was the thesis Dan Maccarone brought to the NYU Summer Launchpad accelerator, and i...
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