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ANNOUNCEMENT: Meet the Finalists of the 2025 NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge

After months of hard work growing their ventures and honing their pitches, the teams of the 25 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.

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Taking Control of Your Digital Footprint with Haven

Meet the team behind Haven, the venture building a personal data management platform that provides tailored insights and recommendations, empowering users to take control of their digital footprint and enhance online security.

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Living Brands AI | Lessons Learned as a Founder

Meet Living Brands AI, the startup aiming to help the 83.3% of marketing professionals that have experienced burnout in their careers through trustworthy, sophisticated AI tools that make national brand marketers’ lives easier.

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Barrow Green, LLC | Founding a Deep Tech Startup

Meet Barrow Green, the startup pioneering a compact, lightweight, and energy-efficient cooling and heating technology that eliminates hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). Designed for both large and small-scale applications, its first product—a cooling vest—aims to protect workers from extreme heat while minimizing environmental impact.

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Improving Surgical Outcomes with Ready Set Recover

Meet the team behind Ready Set Recover, who is building a digital wellness platform for improving surgical outcomes with science-backed tools that enhance patient engagement, reduce stress, and increase compliance—benefiting patients, providers and payers.

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Definitive Diagnostics | Advanced Cancer Detection, Eliminates Doubt & Wasteful Testing

Meet Definitive Diagnostics, the startup. building an affordable, highly accurate, and reliable blood tests that can detect newly discovered cancer-specific biomarker patterns in multiple cancers, initially focused on the millions of breast cancer patients each year, who, following a (false) positive mammogram, undergo additional, costly, painful, potentially wasteful testing, and delays in treatment.

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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...

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...
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