Co-founder of Heliotrope, Casey Bloomquist, won EnergyTech NYC Regional Prize for their business plan, moving on to the next round in the competition. Bloomquist is a 2023 Entrepreneurs Challenge Semi-Finalist.

Jay Schiff, Co-founder & CEO of Addinex Technologies, Inc. has received a $260K grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to improve upon existing addiction medication dispensing for people with opioid use disorder. He was a 2018 Entrepreneurs Challenge finalist and avid Berkley Center Volunteer.

2019 NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge NVC Winner Gig Finesse was recently featured in Crain’s NY Business for modernizing music venue bookings. Learn more from co-founder Mir Hwang (NYU CAS ’19).

Congratulations to Glennon Simmons, Founder & CEO of Portable Diagnostic Systems (2020 NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge TVC Semi-Finalist) for receiving $75,000 grant from the NJ Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology to accelerate the development of technologies, products, and services that support maternal and child wellbeing.

The 2019-20 NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge Finalist closed a seed funding round of $3.6m from investors including Bessemer Venture Partners and Cosmic Venture Partners.

NYU alum Muse Tax is unlocking smart money decisions with tax data. Congratulations to the team as they join Techstars NY’s 2022 Fall Class.

NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge 2021 finalist Upfront announced a family search portal and real-time child care map in partnership with the state of Maryland.

Sprinklr founded by Ragy Thomas (MBA ’03) has just announced its plans to set up a development center in Hyderbad with approximately 200 IT professionals and are expected to ramp up the head count to 1,000 in the next three to five years. Sprinklr is a platform that develops SaaS customer experience management (CXM). 

Congratulations to SteelSky Ventures on its latest $72M fundraising round! SteelSky Ventures, founded by Maria Velissaris (MBA ’09) invests across the spectrum of women’s health indicators and care modalities. With this latest round, SteelSky is now the world’s largest venture capital fund focused exclusively on improving access, care, and outcomes in women’s health.

Beyond Good (formerly known as Madecasse) has just been named to Fast Company’s 10 Most Innovative Companies of 2022! Beyond Good, founded by Tim McCoullum

Esusu, co-founded by Abbey Wemimo (MPA ’16) and Samir Goel (BS ’16) on becoming a Harvard Business School Case Study. They recently raised a $130M

Toast, producers of the highest quality range of full spectrum hemp CBD products, recently marked their 5th anniversary. The company also announced a partnership with Erewhon, the

The relaxation app, Calm has just acquired Ripple Health Group, a health care technology company that connects users with proper health care options. Ripple co-founder and CEO, David

Esusu, a fintech platform founded by NYU alumni Abbey Wemimo (MPA ’16) and Samir Goel (BS ’16), is officially a unicorn. The company raised a $130M Series B round, giving them a $1B valuation and making them one of the very few black-owned unicorns in the U.S. and globally. Abbey was a 2016 Entrepreneurs Challenge finalist when he competed with a prior idea. 

Entrepreneurs Challenge alum, eat2explore, the award-winning family culinary adventure, was featured on the Today Show as one of the best food gifts for the holiday

Kidae Hong (MBA ’21) and Claire Park (MBA ’21), co-founders, Circle and 2021 Stern Venture Fellows participants were featured in Poets & Quants’ 2021 Most

Congratulations to 2019-20 Entrepreneurs Challenge finalist, Portable Diagnostic Systems, on winning the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s (NIDA) “$100,0000 for Start a SUD Startup” Challenge.