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Behind the Scalpel and the Screen: A Day in the Life at Aidify

Meet Aidify, the NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge team providing a multilingual AI Care Aid that delivers personalized, always-on guidance based on each clinic’s specific protocols and instructions. The platform extends care beyond visits by helping patients get consistent answers and follow-through support at home.

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Navigating the Permitting Process with FluentGov

Millions of independent contractors and small business owners struggle to go through the hurdles of permitting. NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge venture FluentGov aims to make the process faster and easier to understand.

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When Intelligence Is Cheap, Outcomes Become the Product

Meet Serif, the NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge team providing navigation infrastructure for health experiences by helping platforms guide users through personalized next steps and pathways. The product aims to function as an interoperable layer that health services can integrate rather than building their own routing logic.

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Rethinking How Clinicians Interpret Patient Data with Systema Med

Meet Systema Med, the NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge team developing a clinical platform that interprets continuous streams of patient vital data rather than isolated measurements. The system aims to support faster and safer intervention through real-time decision support and automation.

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Rethinking Music Production Collaboration with ColDAW

Meet ColDAW, the NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge venture creating a collaborative music production environment that enables creators to work in parallel across tools while maintaining synchronized version control. The platform organizes sessions, tracks changes, and keeps project files aligned across contributors.

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Building Predictive Hormone Health Tools with SymptoLab

Meet SymptoLab, the NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge venture with a digital health platform that helps women with hormone-related conditions track and predict symptom fluctuations over time. It converts daily health inputs into actionable patterns and forecasts that can support more personalized care decisions.

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Standardizing clinical trial setup with Concordare Trials

Meet Concordare Trials, the NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge startup that’s developing a universal digital protocol that standardizes clinical trial setup across software systems. Its platform converts protocols into ready-to-run workflows, reducing manual configuration time and operational errors.

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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...

Redefining Bone Healing with NeoBoneSculpt

Meet NeoBoneSculpt, the NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge team developing 3D-printed implant scaffolds designed to support bone defect healing and targeted therapeutic delivery. The platform enables patient-specific implant designs tailored to different anatomical and treatment requirements...

A Better Way to Feed Picky Eaters Starts with WonderKid

Meet WonderKid, the NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge team creating clean-label sauces designed to help children try and adopt new foods through repeated exposure. The product uses organic ingredients and low sugar to better align with modern family nutrition preferences...

You Can’t Do This Alone: Finding Your People on the Entrepreneurial Journey

Entrepreneurs Challenge team Venaera is building modular heat pump systems designed for rapid installation, easier servicing, and improved efficiency through embedded data collection. The product uses sensors and machine learning to detect issues early and reduce operating costs and emissions...

What a Decade of ‘R’ Sound Science Taught Us About the Gap Between Research and Clinical Practice in Speech Therapy

Meet See The Sounds, the NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge team building a speech visualization technology to support speech-language pathologists and children with speech delays. The product helps clinicians address a difficult speech challenge with performance that exceeds existing tools...

Building the Future of On-Demand Rest: A Vision for Nappr

Meet Nappr, the NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge team that converts unused daytime hotel inventory into short stays that allow travelers and workers to rest during the day. The service offers on-demand bookings ranging from a few hours to half-day use...
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