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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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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.
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