NYU faculty and entrepreneurs are making news as thought-leaders and market disruptors.
Congratulations to Entrepreneurs Challenge program alum, Addinex, co-founded by Jay Schiff (MBA ’20) and Stan Roslyakov, on raising $550,000 in their latest fundraising round. Addinex
Berkley Center volunteer and branding guru, Allen Adamson, co-founder, Metaforce was featured on “The Beancast” marketing podcast with Bob Knorpp.
Better.com, an online mortgage startup, founded by Vishal Garg (BS ’98) has just raised $500 million in their latest fundraising round with an investment from Softbank. The company is now valued at $6 billion.
Joe Landolina (Tandon MS ’14) and Isaac Miller (Stern BS ’12) co-founded Cresilon, creators of a plant-based gel that promotes hemostatis, just raised $38.5 million in a Series A-3 financings. The team won the 2011 Entrepreneurs Challenge Tech Venture Competition.
Shabnam Rezaei, co-founder and president, Big Bad Boo Studios and past winner of the NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge was just awarded the GLAAD award for The Bravest Knight, a Hulu Original.
Berkley Center Volunteer, Chris Burggraeve has been selected to serve as an Independent Director to Virgin Group Acquisition Corp. II, the second special purpose acquisition
Congratulations to Ioanna Stanegloudi, co-founder of Finclude, winners of the 2019 New Venture Competition and a Stern Venture Fellows team. Ioanna won the prestigious Greek
Jasmine Marie (Stern BS ’13), CEO & founder of black girls breathing, an entity focused on the mental and emotional health of Black women, has
Austin Clements, co-founder & partner, Slauson & Co gave insight into the Black VC experience, what aspiring entrepreneurs need to know and how an investment
Daniela Blanco (Tandon PhD ’20, MS ’18) co-founder of Sunthetics and 2018 NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge Tech Venture Competition winner was featured in Disney+’s documentary, “Own
Our very own Berkley Center director and NYU Stern adjunct professor Cynthia Franklin was featured in Business of Fashion for an interview on “Why So
Overview: In “Information Frictions and Entrepreneurship,” NYU Stern Professor Deepak Hegde and co-author Justin Tumlinson (Loughborough University) research the link between success in entrepreneurship and early-career judgement
Research from Professor Jonathan Haidt is cited in an article by YourStory: “Why the ‘Always Hustle’ Culture can Hurt Your Startup’s Productivity.”
Prof. Cynthia Franklin, director of the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship shared tips for small business owners taking their sales online during the pandemic on MSNBC’s Velshi.
Profs. Ashish Batia and Natalia Levina’s research paper, “Diverse Rationalities of Entrepreneurship Education: An Epistemic Stance Perspective” was published by the Academy of Management Learning & Education and takes a look at the intersection between education and entrepreneurship.
Professor Arun Sundararajan was featured in a radio interview on Wisconsin Public Radio, discussing the future of the gig economy.
Interested in participating in this year’s Challenge? Watch the recording of the NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge Kick-Off!
Professor Hila Lifshitz-Assaf co-authored op-ed: “Embrace a Little Chaos When Innovating Under Pressure.”
Professor Hila Lifshitz-Assaf interview: “Innovation Due to Covid: Yes, but How?”
Professor Joost van Dreunen offers his perspective on the future of virtual reality startup company Sensorium Corp.