The New Venture Competition provides a forum for startups tackling significant and growing market opportunities through creative models and approaches. The NVC is industry agnostic and encompasses both commercial and for-profit social impact ventures.
The Tech Venture Competition welcomes teams working on concepts with a unique technology at its core. These tech-centric ventures are not simply delivering value by deploying existing technology but are creating new technologies to address emerging needs.
The Healthcare and Biomedical Venture Competition seeks to provide a path to commercialization for scientists and researchers developing solutions to critical health-related challenges.
Meet the cohort of the 2025 NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge! These promising teams hail from across NYU’s global campuses and their concepts reflect that diversity, get to know each of them by navigating our Digital Showcase directory below!
MetroMesh Media
Advertising/Marketing
Hardware/Electronic Devices
B2B
MetroMesh Media turns delivery riders into moving digital billboards, using AI and real-time data to deliver targeted ads. We make outdoor advertising efficient, measurable, and hyper-local, connecting CPG brands with their audience on city streets.
DEFI Snacks LLC
Food/Beverage
Consumer Goods
B2C/DTC
DEFI is a real chocolate brand that also provides functional benefits (via proteins and buckwheat). With >25G of protein, it’s a delicious less guilty dessert.
DEFI also donates a % of its profits from every bag to other female-owned businesses.
Honua Resources LLC
Energy/Utilities
Cleantech/Renewables/Sustainability
B2B
Honua Resources strives to lead global geothermal exploration and production, operating across all continents and leveraging proprietary data products to unlock and optimize the world’s best geothermal opportunities.
Xebec Systems
Aerospace
Hardware/Electronic Devices
B2B
A “Swiss Army knife in the sky,” offering a persistent airborne platform for defense, surveillance, and communication – with constant power up and data transfer down – it is a versatile, scalable solution for operational needs.
Sweep
IT/Software
Internet/Web/Mobile
B2C/DTC
Sweep is a cross-domain data management platform for individual users that empowers users with personalized insights and recommendations to help them achieve their goals to improve digital experience and security. Sweep provides users with transparency and control over their digital footprint by revealing how they spend their time online, who collects and tracks their data, and how that data influences online experiences.
LOOPiNi
Food/Beverage
B2C/DTC
Loopini is reinventing pizza with a healthy frozen pizza line, made in Italy with the ancient superfood lupini beans. We enhance taste, improve ingredient quality, and revolutionize the nutrition profile making it better for you, so you can enjoy it every day and feel good about it.
Barrow Green, LLC
Cleantech/Renewables/Sustainability
Hardware/Electronic Devices
B2B
Barrow Green is developing a compact, lightweight, energy-efficient and hydrofluorocarbon-free wearable cooling vest to protect workers and consumers against extreme heat. After doing this, we will scale up the cooling power and save the planet.
im Financial
Financial Services/Insurance
Advertising/Marketing
B2B2C
im Financial is a technology-driven financial services marketplace that empowers Hispanic Millennials and Gen Z by providing accessible wealth-building tools through a one-stop digital platform offering debit, credit, insurance, mortgages, and remittances.
Happenings
IT/Software
Hospitality/Leisure
B2B
Happenings is a text-to-event curation platform – combines venue/vendor sourcing, centralizing communications, simplifying partnerships/sponsors, and ROI metrics.
Eden
IT/Software
Internet/Web/Mobile
B2B
Eden is an AI automation platform that enables sales professionals, investors, and everyday workers to effortlessly automate their repetitive processes by converting simple text instructions into AI-powered workflows for email and lead management on the web.
TwoCents
Internet/Web/Mobile
Media/Broadcasting/Publishing
B2B2C
TwoCents is a canvas-based chatting application that allows friends who are distant from one another to have virtual conversations that replicate the shared experiences of real-life banter by combining party games and multimedia widgets.
Sustainab.ly
IT/Software
Cleantech/Renewables/Sustainability
B2B
Sustainab.ly is a SaaS tool that allows organizations to track, report, and visualize their sustainability data. Our goal is to create a platform for sustainability data management, targeting organizations with limited in-house technical knowledge.
Athlitix
Sports & Fitness
IT/Software
B2B2C
Athlitix augments athlete video footage with advanced performance analytics, empowering coaches to make confident, data-driven decisions while discovering hidden talent and ensuring equal recruitment opportunities for athletes globally.
Amrap
Sports & Fitness
Healthcare/Wellness
B2C/DTC
Amrap is a real-time conversational AI personal trainer for beginners. Imagine hitting the weight room and connecting with your trainer via chat. They walk you through your workout using their voice and short videos, and answer any questions you have.
Ulama
Building/Construction/Real Estate
Cleantech/Renewables/Sustainability
B2B
Ulama automates construction permitting with the Grammarly of building code compliance: AI-derived building codes rules for analyzing building designs.
IndieApp.ai (fka Aictopus)
IT/Software
Internet/Web/Mobile
B2B
IndieApp is a canvas-based AI no-code platform designed for non-technical founders and creatives who want to build their first app visua ly using AI coding tools. Its infinite canvas and interactive, node-based PRD provide a holistic project view, highlight upcoming steps, and facilitate prompt refinement—ensuring you stay in control, just like a professional developer.
Toli
Lifestyle
IT/Software
B2B2C
Toli is a Generative AI software company, and has engineered the 1st autonomous measurement system allowing for the measurement of both humans, and an industry 1st of clothing. In the arms race of Gen AI, we have created our own licensable chipsets.
Subconscious.ai
IT/Software
Advertising/Marketing
B2B
Subconscious.ai transforms market research using AI-powered synthetic humans, delivering rapid, cost-effective insights for enterprises.
Ready Set Recover
Healthcare/Wellness
Internet/Web/Mobile
B2B2C
Ready Set Recover is a digital wellness platform improving surgical outcomes with science-backed tools that enhance patient engagement, reduce stress, and increase compliance—benefiting patients, providers and payers.
When we make better patients, we make patients better.
Birthvue
Healthcare/Wellness
B2B2C
Birthvue offers a prenatal mobile app with doctor-approved care plans with gamified content, and at-home contraction monitoring to track labor progress and help moms identify the right time to go to the hospital, reducing false labor admissions.
VITROMNI
Biotechnology/Life Sciences
Pharmaceuticals
B2B
VITROMNI’s CAR-T chip technology revolutionizes B-ALL therapy by replicating patient-specific bone marrow environments for high-throughput screening, enabling personalized, cost-effective treatments and real-time insights into CAR-T efficacy.
CavaGene
Healthcare/Wellness
Biotechnology/Life Sciences
B2C/DTC
CavaGene leverages genomic and AI technology to deliver personalized healthcare solutions, with a focus on underserved communities and cancer patients. Our platform accelerates early diagnosis and treatments, bridging AI innovation with real-world.
Vitalis Regenerative Materials
Biotechnology/Life Sciences
Healthcare/Wellness
B2B
Vitalis develops Bioblend, a platform for creating personalized bio-integrated surgical tools that enhance healing, reduce complications, and improve outcomes in sports medical surgeries, tackling high failure rates in tendon and tissue repairs.
Definitive Diagnostics
Biotechnology/Life Sciences
B2B2C
Definitive Diagnostics seeks to improve patient outcomes in cancer testing by democratizing access to affordable, accurate diagnostic tests to accelerate treatment for those with disease & eliminate unnecessary additional tests & procedures for those without.
éo-vision AI
IT/Software
Biotechnology/Life Sciences
B2B
AI-powered image analysis platform for medical researchers and healthcare professionals. It enables 15x faster visual data interpretation while maintaining expert control. Unlike traditional tools, it seamlessly integrates while ensuring compliance.
