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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$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.
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