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.
Browse various resource libraries for current, relevant resources that are helpful for entrepreneurs at all stages of startup readiness.
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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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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Join us in welcoming the newest member of our team—Sergei Revzin! Sergei comes to the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute with 8 years of entrepreneurship experience, from starting his own companies, runn...
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