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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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Sprinklr, Founded by Ragy Thomas (MBA ’03) Plans Center in Hyderabad

Sprinklr founded by Ragy Thomas (MBA ’03) has just announced its plans to set up a development center in Hyderbad with approximately 200 IT professionals and are expected to ramp up the head count to 1,000 in the next three to five years. Sprinklr is a platform that develops SaaS customer experience management (CXM). 

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SteelSky Ventures, Founded by Maria Velissaris (MBA ’09) Raises $72M for Inaugural Fund 

Congratulations to SteelSky Ventures on its latest $72M fundraising round! SteelSky Ventures, founded by Maria Velissaris (MBA ’09) invests across the spectrum of women’s health indicators and care modalities. With this latest round, SteelSky is now the world’s largest venture capital fund focused exclusively on improving access, care, and outcomes in women’s health.

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NYU Startup, Esusu, Named One of 2021’s Top 50 Fintech Companies by Forbes

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...

NYU Startup, Addinex, Raises $550,000 in Seed Funding

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...

Berkley Center Volunteer Allen Adamson Featured on “The Beancast” Podcast

Berkley Center volunteer and branding guru, Allen Adamson, co-founder, Metaforce was featured on "The Beancast" marketing podcast with Bob Knorpp...

Better.com Raises $500 Million

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...

NYU Startup, Cresilion, Raises $38.5 Million

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 (MBA ‘01) Receives GLAAD Award

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...

Chris Burggraeve Selected to Serve as Independent Director for VGAC II

Berkley Center Volunteer, Chris Burggraeve has been selected to serve as an Independent Director to Virgin Group Acquisition Corp. II, the second special purpose acquisition company (‘SPAC’) sponsored by the...

Entrepreneurs Challenge Alum Wins Award

Congratulations to Ioanna Stanegloudi, co-founder of Finclude, winners of the 2019 New Venture Competition and a Stern Venture Fellows team. Ioanna won the prestigious Greek International Women Award for Business...
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