The Stern Venture Fellows (SVF) program supports NYU’s high-potential entrepreneurs in advancing their ventures over a customized summer program. Fellows will spend ten weeks, full-time, growing their startup ventures with the guidance and support of NYU faculty and staff, alumni, and the bi-coastal mentor community.
This program is an opportunity for startup founders in a specific industry to set measurable goals, leverage expert guidance, and receive non-dilutive funding, among other resources, from the NYU Stern and broader NYU network.
CanvasPad is currently a web application tool designed to help clinicians in the mental health industry to guide clients in practicing homework discussed in therapy. Utilizing features designed within CanvasPad, the client is sent the appropriate reminders based on current treatment needs. CanvasPad isn’t a substitute for therapy but a bridge to help clients continue work in between sessions.
A flexible, wearable, and hands-free ultrasound (UT) imaging modality. The portable device reproduces commercial-grade, quality imaging. This represents a fundamental advance over UT tools currently available to medical personnel.
ProViZiGen is a biotherapeutics company developing the first of its kind injectable material capable of preventing and reversing osteoarthritis after joint injury.
TrovBase is a platform for researchers to help them conduct best practice data management. We make high quality data collection and management accessible for researchers via a simple, intuitive interface that is built on top of an industry standard database. This enables researchers to spend more time on ideas, and less time on logistical annoyances.
Muse Tax uses A.I. to find missed tax deductions and create a personalized tax plan to lower your taxes. No one enjoys paying taxes and everyone hates overpaying their taxes. Muse solves this problem by ensuring every applicable deduction is applied and guides taxpayers on how to take advantage of other deductions in the future.
My Home Pathway is a fintech startup that is developing a new pathway to help traditionally risk challenged US Consumers get into the home of their dreams. We also provide our lending partners with a unique opportunity to turn a bad customer experience into better brand positioning and revenue.
Our fresh, quality-focused alternative to typical dehydrated jerky is cooked with top-shelf ingredients, premium grass-fed steaks, and a sweet and spicy marinade. Using regenerative agriculture, our farming practice reduces 100% of carbon land emissions from raising cattle, in opposition to the poor standard of factory-farmed beef. This delicious snack is our contribution to the next generation of sustainable meat snacks.
Crash Course is a driving simulator for drivers with Autism Spectrum Disorder who want to practice their driving in a safe environment to gain more confidence behind the wheel. Crash Course uses state of the art technology to create a simulator that mimics real-life driving situations. We are specifically designing the simulator to incorporate skills that a driver with ASD may find difficult. We hope to make Crash Course widely available for the PC and gaming consoles so that drivers with ASD can practice as much as they need – affordably and effectively. Crash Course will level up the existing driver’s education so that any drivers – neurodivergent and neurotypical drivers who may need more practice can do so safely before getting behind the wheel.
Research Technology Startup founded to provide tech-enabled solutions and a curated network of research vendors to power our client’s decisions. We have built a curated catalog of research solutions taken from over 325 vendors evaluated; tools and capabilities helping scope the research precisely and determine the best way to gain answers; a network of over 1,500 experts with deep expertise in research and consulting; and a suite of self-serve research tools so you can get answers you need, when you want them.
Blip is a bill pay API company creating interchange and offer conversion revenue for banks and fintechs. Blip effortlessly adds bill pay to any mobile or web application in days with automatic user enrollment, engagement, and support.
Celer is a sport technology venture that creates innovative athletic products to optimize the way the body moves during sport. We believe that better movement promotes a happier and healthier lifestyle and working out shouldn’t be a painful chore. Our product, RunCeler, is a foot resistance band that when worn while running, trains your body to run with proper form, thereby promoting decreased risk for injury and improved performance.
Boo is the app for connecting with compatible and like-minded souls. Date, chat, make friends, and meet new people by personality. Based on the Myers-Briggs 16 personality types.
Fulton is a modern brand of arch support, offering the world’s most comfortable, supportive, and sustainable shoe insoles. Whole body wellness starts with your feet, and unsupportive shoes cause misalignment that impacts the entire body. Fulton insoles correct today’s footwear by molding to the shape of your feet over time, providing optimal support in each of your shoes.
Voltaku is a radically new kind of Transmedia company that’s reimagining the entire filmmaking process in Hollywood and revolutionizing not only how content is created but how value is delivered to audiences in a decentralized platform world. In other words, we’re inventing Content-as-a-Service (CaaS) to augment free-to-play Games-as-a-Service (GaaS) platforms like Fortnite.
Roost Homes provides revolutionary carbon-neutral prefab homes and a seamless buying experience that save home-buyers time & risk, creating a healthier home and planet. Roost homes can be assembled on-site in two days, with less building waste, better quality, and predictable timelines and budgets. Simple, modern, light-filled, welcoming of the outside environment with clever design to maximize indoor temperature and air quality. Your Roost is your haven from the elements, with a front row seat to the great outdoors.
StonkLeague is a DraftKings-like fantasy gaming market for retail and crypto traders. StonkLeague offers simple, top-of-the-morning games for players to compete amongst friends, win prizes and prove legitimacy. The results of all games are dynamically tracked creating a user profile and global leaderboard.
XXX is a DeFi protocol that decentralizes fund management, providing high performance crypto funds to every investor.
Circle is a web-based online networking platform specifically designed for the MBA networking and recruiting experience. Users can see each other’s profiles, mingle by hopping around networking circles, take memos of people for a smooth follow-up. Hosts can broadcast text and live-video communications, easily create new networking circles, and receive an automatically generated list of the event’s attendees after the event.
Umar is a founding partner and director of operations at One432. One432 is a social impact brand producing shoes without a discernible left or right foot and other apparel. One432 shares 50% of its profits with its artisans and to fund education initiatives in Pakistan. Their pledge is that every dollar earned is matched with a dollar shared.
Duri is the co-founder at Anita. Anita combines knowledge base discovery and change management software for large established organizations going through organizational transformation. Anita helps employees discover, organize, and modify practices.
Rob is the CEO and founder at Heirloom Health. Heirloom Health is a telehealth platform that provides a personal holistic health coach to help people become their healthier self through nutrition, wellness, and exercise.
Alfonso is the co-founder and CEO of Liquidity. Liquidity helps crypto-asset traders find the most liquid market to trade on. Their tool simulates orders in real time across +200 exchanges and ranks markets by execution costs. Using these insights, traders can save hundreds of dollars per month and optimize portfolio returns.
Kyle Bergman is the founder of The Great Fantastic. He has showcased his passion for marketing and fashion through his experience with varying levels of merchandise planning and buying with companies such as Birchbox and Bloomingdale’s. He is now an alumnae of NYU Stern, receiving his Master’s degree this year.
The Great Fantastic’s mission is to make the world’s comfiest apparel using sustainable resources and ethical practices.
Drew Enyedi is an undergraduate business student at Stern. He has worked as an intern for Northwestern Mutual, teaching him skills in finance and made impact through self-initiated projects. Through his classwork and outside projects he has developed skills in corporate finance, financial accounting, Python, Java, HTML, design thinking, and design research.
Grounded Upcycling collects spent coffee grounds from coffee shops and upcycles them into cosmetic products.
Prior to starting Break the Love in 2018, Trisha Goyal attended NYU Stern School for her undergraduate degree. She later went on to lead digital product at ESPN and GIPHY where she managed technology and design teams of 50+. Prior to this she worked as both a product manager and strategy associate at Huffington Post where she led the business development for international market growth including a joint-venture for HuffPost Mexico.
Yiannis Giokas has more than ten years of experience working in cybersecurity and analytics. He has served as a consultant, manager and currently serves as the Vice President of Research and Development of PCCW. He is the CEO of Verge. Capita and completed his Masters program at NYU Stern School in 2016.
Break the Love is a community driven tennis app connecting players with rallies and matches powered by a marketplace of players and courts.
Maxwell Grove has previously held roles in data and analytics, in product management. He currently works in a commercial role focused on sales and go-to-market activities.
Revelio Labs provides labor market analytics to enable smarter decision making.
Colin Horsford serves as the COO and Cofounder of CurbGenie. Horsford has become exceptionally skilled in regards to coding, helping build multiple apps that have been sold in the App Store, as well as websites. He is also a certified public accountant and has worked for companies such as Ernst & Young and Goldman Sachs.
CurbGenie allows travelers to return their rental cars at the airport’s curbside.
Daniel Hyun is a current undergraduate student at NYU Stern. He has experience with coding and building data science applications as well as working in marketing and sales roles for companies such as Clinton Foundation, Blossom Academy and IBM . He is the Chief Marketing Officer of Exchange.
Exchange provides on-demand technical interview training.
Goni Light has six years of experience working with multiple brands/products at Procter & Gamble. She served as the University Commander at the School of Aviation Studies at the Israeli Air Force. Goni received her Masters from NYU Stern in 2016.
SoCo seeds a healthy change through gourmet plant-based products direct-to-customers.
Jaime Mendal oversaw manufacturing for an international pet product company that specialized the production of innovative rawhide and dog chews.
Crafted Kibble is a subscription platform that delivers customized pre portioned kibble pouches.
Ilse Paanakker is a L’Oreal marketer and healthcare innovation consultant turned habit- based wellness expert and certified personal trainer. She studied Marketing and Statistics at NYU Stern where she graduated in 2015. She has studied the health and wellness industry extensively for the last five years, strengthening her knowledge by obtaining personal training certification.
Habit House empowers people to live their best lives by holding them accountable to making behavioral changes via 1:1 text messages.
Rachel Serwetz is the CEO of Woken, founded in 2013. She previously attended Bimingaton University and NYU Stern School of Business for her bachelors and masters respectively. Her previous experience includes working for companies such as Bridgewater Associates Goldman Sachs.
Woken is a candidate-focused career platform that educates and motivates job seekers to explore and reflect on their career interests.
Andrew attended Dartmouth College, where he majored in mathematics. He previously co-founded ScholarBridge, an online platform connecting undergraduate researchers to faculty mentors that sold in 2016. He currently attends NYU, where is pursing his MD/MBA dual degree.
Arash is CEO and co-founder of emcee. Arash started his career after high school when he joined the United States Marine Corps (USMC) as an intelligence analyst. He spent five years learning two new languages, applying data science to illuminate networks of bad actors, and employing technology to find and track high value individuals in Afghanistan. Since then, he worked at two leading banks on Wall Street as a derivatives algorithmic trader and developed a background in software programming and development. He left his day job in the summer of 2016 to pursue fintech entrepreneurship full-time while he finished his MBA at NYU Stern. He is passionate about applying the finance, technology, and data science skills he accumulated over the past ten years to entrepreneurship. Arash is a graduate of Middlebury College, Columbia University, and NYU Stern.
Ryan is CTO and co-founder of emcee. Prior to emcee, he led engineering teams as a consultant in the manufacturing industry. His skills are developing algorithms, designing software, data science, and mathematical modeling. Ryan is a computer science student at NYU and received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University.
Tammy is the co-founder and CEO of Cognitive ToyBox, a company building a research-backed technology platform for kindergarten readiness. Tammy holds a BA in psychology from Stanford University and an MBA in entrepreneurship and finance from NYU Stern.
Divya is co-founder and CEO of Grocer8. Her expertise is developing and negotiating cutting-edge marketing and digital partnerships. She is in-house counsel working across the portfolio at NBCUniversal, and prior to joining NBCU, she worked at a major intellectual property law firm where she advised tech, CPG and banking clients. She is highly skilled at strategic problem-solving and has also worked on entrepreneurial projects ranging from creating a popular comedy blog to managing a nonprofit junior board, where she led the team that increased revenue 100x in just two years through a series of unique partnerships and business development opportunities. Divya hails from Phoenix, Arizona; after graduating from Cornell University with honors, she headed to New York City to study law at Fordham University. She graduated from the NYU Stern School of Business in May 2018, where she is earning her MBA with concentrations in strategy and marketing.
Alec Sergeyev has 20 years of experience in running operations and technology initiatives of varying scale up to $200MM. He has background in software development and multiple stages of startup businesses. Alec holds Master’s in Computer Science and EMBA from NYU. (He also loves wines and is a thoughtful consumer). Alec is therefore prepared to setup and run operations of the business, manage design and development of the educational platform and continuously work on business strategy.
Will attended Washington University in St. Louis where he was captain of the football team. He has five publications in orthopedic journals, and has expertise in conducting research trials. He currently attends NYU, where is pursuing his MD/MBA dual degree.
Mary has more than 20 years of experience in the wine industry including all steps of the global wine supply chain, identifying and marketing to specific target consumer groups, and establishing relationships with suppliers and distributors. She received her MBA in 2017 through the Executive MBA Program at NYU Stern. Through her startup Mary Taylor Wines, she is actively working with suppliers and identifying wines, as well as establishing and maintaining existing relationships with clients while also working in various markets as a brand manager.
Emily is co-founder and CMO of Grocer8. Her expertise is in digital marketing and audience development. She is a social media manager on the USA Network Brand Marketing team at NBCUniversal. She previously spent time on USA’s integrated, on-air and digital content teams, and is an expert in collaborating with new and emerging technology partners, identifying first-to-market opportunities, and providing best-in-class strategic recommendations for both consumers and advertisers. Prior to joining NBCU, Emily worked for Ars Nova Entertainment, a production company specializing in multiplatform programming for film, television, web and live entertainment. Emily is originally from Pennsylvania and received her BA from Barnard College of Columbia University in 2011. She is graduating from NYU’s Stern School of Business in May 2018, where she is earning her MBA with concentrations in management and entertainment, media and technology.
Lia is the co-founder of Pepper, a startup that makes bras that finally fit women with small breasts. Prior to starting Pepper, Lia was a management consultant at McKinsey and worked in growth marketing at a tech startup in NYC. She just completed her first year in NYU Stern’s Full-Time MBA Program.
