It’s been a grueling past few months for the 200+ teams. They’re NYU all the way, be they undergraduate or graduate students, faculty or alumni, all challenged to validate assumptions, identify initial customers, and fine tune business models. Not everyone can be a winner, but these 17 companies from the New Venture category have just gotten that much closer.
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40 Thirty
40 Thirty is an innovative indoor sports solutions business using strategic relationships with private country clubs. 40 Thirty creates revenue streams for clubs during off seasons while efficiently managing sports programs for of over 300 students.
A Better Bachelorette
A better planning tool for bachelorette parties and yes, people do still have bachelorette parties and lots of them.
AfreSHeet
AfreSHeet is the first and only fitted sheet with seven soft, comfortable, peel away, disposable top layers. Perfect for college students! Founders are Max and Nicole Cohen, progeny of NY Angels Chairman Brian Cohen.
Blue Sky
Blue Sky offers a personalized nutritional supplements solution for drug-induced nutrient deficiency.
Boom!
Boom! aims to disintermediate the NYC real estate rental market using an app-based interface and an innovative pricing model, offering landlords increased profits while at the same time significantly reducing costs for apartment seekers.
CapitalNX
CapitalNX is a national network of state exchanges for intrastate securities offerings and resales, providing the first scalable solution to equity crowdfunding.
Cognitive ToyBox
Cognitive ToyBox partners with scientists to bring developmental research from the lab to the home in the form of fun, engaging educational iPad apps for children. Basically, it gives children a scientific edge, with toys backed by science.
GreenHopping
GreenHopping, which AlleyWatch has written about previously, helps you locate healthy food options and eateries near you.
Housing Hound
Housing Hound is a web based multisided platform driven by proprietary big data technology that will intelligently connect residential homebuyers and realtors via recommendations and analytics. For homebuyers, it will ensure that they will successfully find the right home in the right location. For realtors, it will help find engaged buyers looking for the exact house you are selling
Hubb Music
Hubb Music provides a platform for developing musicians to connect and collaborate with other nearby artists. The platform also allows artists easy access to booking local venues and collecting money for these performances. Hubb Music is basically cultivating a music community equipped with all the resources artists need to be heard and discovered.
ICD Power
ICD Power is an iPhone app that guides physicians through the increased levels of diagnostic detail and specificity required by new regulation coming in October of 2015.
iDSRIP
iDSRIP is a B2B eBroker that provides collaborative web-platform for healthcare executives and physicians to co-define workflows for performance modeling and scenario analysis of the Accountable Care Organization model.
MedTimER
MedTimER is a live and real-time platform that instantaneously updates ER wait times of participating hospitals to be made viewable by a patient on his/her cell phone.
RecoverLINK
RecoverLINK is mobile health app transforming the recovery experience for heart failure patients after a hospitalization. It’s aim: to reduce the need for readmission.
Revelmuse
Revelmuse is a one-stop shop for DIY event planning, connecting people with the party supplies, vendors, and services they need to create a beautiful, sophisticated event.
SpaceMart
SpaceMart is an online marketplace to connect users who are looking for temporary commercial space with property owners who have space available. This includes physical space for office, retail, events and advertisement uses that will be leased for a period between one day and one year.
Soundscope
Soundscope aims to disrupt the nightlife and DJ industry by providing a mobile, cost-efficient platform for DJs to promote themselves and build their brand in real time. Think of it as a LinkedIn for DJs!