NYU faculty and entrepreneurs are making news as thought-leaders and market disruptors.
Congratulations to 2019-20 Entrepreneurs Challenge finalist, Portable Diagnostic Systems, on winning the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s (NIDA) “$100,0000 for Start a SUD Startup” Challenge.
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
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
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.
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, 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.
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
Jasmine Marie (Stern BS ’13), CEO & founder of black girls breathing, an entity focused on the mental and emotional health of Black women, has been named one of the
Austin Clements, co-founder & partner, Slauson & Co gave insight into the Black VC experience, what aspiring entrepreneurs need to know and how an investment from PayPal is helping to
