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ChopChop Eats Brings Homemade Meals to Your Doorstep

Meet ChopChop Eats, the NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge team creating a marketplace that enables home cooks to list homemade dishes and sell directly to nearby customers. The platform simplifies discovery, ordering, and fulfillment for locally prepared meals.

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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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Emma Grede Goes Behind the Brands at NYU Stern

The Good American co-founder joined more than 350 guests for a candid conversation on building brands, embracing challenges, and defining success on your own terms...

NYU Founders Take the Stage & Build Teams at Pitch Power Hour

A full house of NYU entrepreneurs came together for Pitch Power Hour & Founder Matchup, sharing startup ideas, exchanging feedback, and making valuable connections. Discover how founders can keep the momentum going through the NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge and Startup Advising...

Exploring Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition and the Path to Business Ownership

Explore highlights from ETA@NYU's two-day Executive Intensive on entrepreneurship through acquisition, business ownership, financing, and growth...

2026 NYU Entrepreneurs Festival Celebrates 15 Years of Innovation and Community

The 15th Annual NYU Entrepreneurs Festival brought together founders, students, and alumni for inspiring conversations, startup pitches, and a celebration of NYU's entrepreneurial community...

NYU Ranks Among Top Universities for Entrepreneurs in 2026 PitchBook Rankings

NYU earned top marks in PitchBook’s 2026 University Rankings, ranking #19 for Undergraduate, #10 for Graduate, and #11 for MBA founders, along with top 10 rankings for female founders...

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...
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