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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.
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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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At the Nov. 21 Female Founders Lunch, Anastasia Dor (Tisch ’24), co-founder of Mentivista, and Bakhtawer Baloch (SPS ’26), co-founder of Clairdoc, shared how they navigate building the right team,...
Welcome to the next installment of the NYU Founders Guide to Venture Capital series. Here we cover how to calculate your runway and manage your cash post-raise. One of the most common questi...
On November 12th, Aleksandra Medina (Abu Dhabi ’20) led an interactive workshop at the Leslie eLab as part of Startup School on how to design websites that resonate with the modern customer while re...
The NYU Startup Sprint is a two-week intensive accelerator where founders pressure-test assumptions through real customer conversations, and make decisive progress on their business model. After seven...
Stay up to date on upcoming events, deadlines, news, and more by signing up for our newsletters! For Denis Yarats (Courant), what began as a Ph.D. project at NYU became the foundation of one of toda...
By Rebecca Silver & Darren Yee PURPOSE At the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute, we've helped thousands of founders go from idea to launch to scale by embedding customer development into the DNA of th...
Stay up to date on upcoming events, deadlines, news, and more by signing up for our newsletters! The 2025 Summer Launchpad wrapped up with Demo Day, where this year's teams shared the ventures they ...
Stay up to date on upcoming events, deadlines, news, and more by signing up for our newsletters! NYU is home to some of the most ambitious and creative student entrepreneurs in the world. No...
Stay up to date on upcoming events, deadlines, news, and more by signing up for our newsletters! If you spend a million dollars on an ad campaign only to realize it doesn’t work … yikes....
Stay up to date on upcoming events, deadlines, news, and more by signing up for our newsletters! The NYU Summer Launchpad is known for equipping early-stage founders with structure, support, and acc...
Stay up to date on upcoming events, deadlines, news, and more by signing up for our newsletters! Born in Lithuania, raised in Russia, and now based in the United States, Anastasia Dor has ne...
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