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Mentor/Influence Reflect: My Home Pathway

Inspiration can come in many forms and from many individuals, ideas, and life experiences. Along with many others, I have spent the last few years of my professional career as a startup founder trying to solve the systemic issue of the wealth gap and make financial services work for everyone. To begin and sustain daunting this task, I have drawn inspiration from others in my own life. Two of these individuals are NYU Professor Glenn Okun and Former Senior Bank Executive at JPMorgan Chase & Co, Tracy Williams.

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From Burned Out to Living Wholely™: Wholely

By:Heran Getachew (MBA ‘17) Wholely™ is a digital wellness platform that offers whole-person care for preventative health issues, starting with burnout. The platform helps professionals recover from burnout and build

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Kicking Off SVF: Steer

By:Cortlandt Meyerson (BS ’24) and Jackson Baris (BS ’24)   There’s something wrong with the meat industry. It’s not the cows, it’s not the consumption of meat, but it’s how

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Impact: SAFE Driving Sim

By: Jihye Lee, Jonathon Lentine (MBA ‘23) Learning to drive and getting your driver’s license has been an important rite of passage for adolescents across America and much of the

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Getting Back to Basics: Muse Tax

By:Colin Horsford (MBA ‘15) Starting a company is unlike most things in the world. In just about everything else, you have an idea of what to do when something happens

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Challenge Alumni CaroRhythm Selected for VentureWell E-Team Program

Former Healthcare Venture Competition winners continue their momentum with acceptance into a nationally recognized venture development program...

Inside NYU’s Conversation on Deploying AI at Scale

From founder pitch coaching to a discussion on enterprise AI deployment, the NYU Stern Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and NYU's AI Innovation Accelerator convened founders, investors, and industry leaders for a day of learning and innovation...

Remembering Bill Berkley

The NYU Stern Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship joins the Stern and NYU communities in mourning the passing of William R. Berkley (BS ’66, NYU Board of Trustees Chairman Emeritus), whose vision, generosity, and deep personal commitment to students helped shape the Center that bears his name...

Introducing the Winners of the 2026 NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge

NYU’s top startups took the stage at the 2026 Entrepreneurs Challenge Final Pitch-Off, the University’s largest celebration of entrepreneurship. With hundreds of guests in attendance, ventures competed for $225K+ in prizes. See the winners across New Venture, Digital Tech, and Healthcare tracks!...

ANNOUNCEMENT: Meet the Finalists of the 2026 NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge

After months of hard work growing their ventures and honing their pitches, the 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...

Inside NYU’s 2026 Healthcare Access Hackathon

Students from across NYU came together for the 2026 Healthcare Access Hackathon Social Entrepreneurship Challenge, tackling urgent issues from rural care gaps to aging in place and digital mental health. Through hands-on workshops and a fast-paced pitch showcase, teams turned human-centered ideas into actionable solutions with real potential for impact...

Crafting the Perfect Pitch: Turning Family Need Into a Scalable Business

Meet Pupil, the NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge venture with a college guidance platform that combines AI with near-peer mentorship to support families navigating education decisions. It matches students with relatable mentors and provides personalized exploration of schools and career paths...

Engineering the Future of Regenerative Medicine with ScriptBio AI

ScriptBio AI develops AI-guided stem cell therapies that enable adults with age-related diseases to restore tissue health by using causal AI to discover disease-driving genes and programming cells to correct them, starting with knee osteoarthritis...
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