NYU faculty and entrepreneurs are making news as thought-leaders and market disruptors.
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 season.
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 Disruptive MBA startups.
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.
Esusu, a fintech platform that lets low-income consumer report rent payments to credit bureaus to boost their credit scores has just been named one of 2021’s top 50 fintech companies
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 has developed a low-cost, patented
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.
