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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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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Explore competitions and funding resources available at NYU to help turn bold insights and inventions into viable business ventures.
Browse various resource libraries for current, relevant resources that are helpful for entrepreneurs at all stages of startup readiness.
Each semester, the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute invites a select group of startup teams to pitch in front of real venture capital investors to get unfiltered feedback on their pitch, and candid advic...
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The NYU Entrepreneurial Institute and the Design Lab @ NYU Tandon MakerSpace are pleased to announce the Fall 2018 Prototyping Fund cohort! Since 2013, the NYU Prototyping Fund has awarded teams of st...
The next Startup Sprint is coming up in January ‘19. This two week long startup accelerator program offers NYU startups funding, mentorship and training, but the experience from past participants go...
A journey of innovation, friendship, and immense growth The five of us were total strangers when we met during the events leading up to the 3rd Annual NYU Healthcare Makerthon. We came from diverse ba...
This post was originally published on the Tandon MakerSpace blog. Read about Fortify Lab, one of the projects from the Spring 2018 Prototyping Fund’s (a collaboration between the Design Lab @NYU M...
Please join us in congratulating the 13 NYU startup teams that will participate in the inaugural 2018 Summer Faculty Sprint! During the week of August 27th, faculty entrepreneurs and their Ph.D./postd...
Looking for funding for your startup? Do you have a science or technology invention that could scale to address a social or environmental need? The VentureWell E-Team grant could be for you. This thre...
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Summer is in full swing at the Leslie eLab! The 6th cohort of the NYU Summer Launchpad (SLP) accelerator is underway and teams are currently defining their customer validation and growth milestones fo...
Announcing our first-ever Faculty Startup Sprint! The Faculty Startup Sprint is a new 5-day intensive program where faculty entrepreneurs and their PhD/postdoc teams test the commercial potential of t...
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