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The Stern Venture Fellows Summer Accelerator continued with a high-impact lineup of workshops designed to strengthen marketing, sales, and go-to-market skills. The cohort spent the day immersed in practical frameworks and exercises with expert operators across industries. Each session was designed to help founders clarify and refine their approach to growth.
Stern Venture Fellow Sam Cialek (CAS, BA ’11), and Founder of Serif, talks about navigating the digital health and wellness landscape. Serif integrates lifestyle data from wearables and apps into one intelligent dashboard, turning biometrics and routines into personalized, actionable health insights.
In the second week of the 2025 Stern Venture Fellows Summer Accelerators, the cohort beat the heat with a branding workshop from TikTok Brand Strategist Connor Brownell, and learned leadership skills with the Berkley Center’s Steph Shyu. The cohort celebrated their progress with cohorts from NYU’s other Summer Accelerators.
In the inaugural post for the 2025 Stern Venture Fellows blog, Co-Founder of psyflo Deanna Oliver reflects on the path that let her to entrepreneurship, and founding a platform helps schools prevent, identify, and intervene with student mental health issues before they escalate.
The 2025 Stern Venture Fellows kicked off their summer with a high-impact orientation focused on setting clear goals, defining meaningful metrics, and building a community of accountability and support.
We’re excited to announce the 2025 cohort of the Stern Venture Fellows (SVF) and Associate Fellows, a group of NYU founders leading ventures at the forefront of health and wellness. This year’s cohort reflects NYU’s deep, cross-school strength in solving challenges around physical and mental wellbeing, functional nutrition, and more.
NYU founders from past Stern Venture Fellows cohorts reunited with Calm CEO David Ko (Stern BS ’93) to share progress, challenges, and what’s next as we gear up for this summer’s program.
NYU’s top startups took the stage at the 2025 Entrepreneurs Challenge Final Pitch-Off, the University’s largest celebration of entrepreneurship. With over 300 guests in attendance, ventures competed for $300K+ in prizes. See the winners across New Venture, Digital Tech, and Healthcare tracks—including this year’s $100K YOPE Award recipient.
After months of hard work growing their ventures and honing their pitches, the teams of the 25 teams of this year’s NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge faced the judges for the first time at this year’s Semi-Finals! The anticipation in the air was palpable as the teams waited to hear the results of judges’ intense deliberation. Silence fell across the room as the Berkley Center team took to the podium to announce the Finalists.
