10th Annual NYU-Yale Summer Accelerator Pitchoff
For the 10th year in a row, inspiring innovators who are building promising ventures will come together for a friendly pitch competition before a panel of experts at the NYU-Yale Pitchoff.
Join us on Thursday, July 27 to hear rising stars from six seed-stage startups pitch in front of a live audience. Three teams will represent New York University and three will represent Yale University. See which team can dazzle the audience, excite the expert panel, and take home the grand prize and, of course, bragging rights! The 300+ expected audience will choose the winner. So come, show some school pride, and cheer on the startup teams. Click here to learn more about the NYU Summer Launchpad program. Click here to learn more about the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale's Summer Fellowship.
Meet the Yale teams
Carbon Loop
Perry Bakas (SOM '24), Harrison Meyer (YSE '24), Conor Rooney (Chemistry Ph.D. '24)
Carbon Loop creates a circular economy by converting CO2 emissions into liquid fuel and other high-value products.
Sylvie Goldner (YC ’25)
Spiel LLC is the first interactive review platform for friends to share recommendations, expand interests, and deepen relationships.
Renato Carregha (SOM ’23), Jorge Villalobos Lara, Marcos Cohen
NAOS is building a solution that will enable the 100M+ existing Latin American crypto users to have simple access to investments for products for seeking alpha.
Meet the NYU teams
Josh Shapiro (Gallatin '18)
librarian is a personalized AI-powered learning assistant for high school and college students delivered through iMessage and WhatsApp.
Marcos Brisson (Shanghai '23), Michaela Vitug, Etienne Ortega (Shanghai '24), Benoit van Keer (Shanghai '23)
is a cloud based software for solo entrepreneurs who make their own products and sell on multiple sales channels to track inventory and manage everything from raw materials to sales in one place.
Peeramid
Peeramid helps university administrative offices optimize retention of students who fail to receive support for their well-being by providing a social wellness mobile app, because peers get it.
Megan Fricke (Tandon '22), Vivi Wei (CAS '22)
Meet the expert panelists
Kyra Durko (NYU Stern '19), Two Sigma Ventures
Beatriz del Rio (NYU Stern '20), Point72
Adam Chekroud, PhD, Spring Health
Mendy Yang, Vista Equity Partners
Matt Hooper, Kaplak Parnters
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