🎃 InnoVention News - October 🎃

New Money launched their first pilot at Margalit Startup City and the JVP International New York Cyber Center in SoHo, Manhattan. New Money is a carbon emission validating and monetizing platform that provides real-time data and prediction models to building owners to reduce their carbon output and comply with Local Law 97. The team also opened their first office in SoHo and welcomed two new teammates and four interns.

Automanus is seeking beta testers for their notetaking web app. Automanus helps students and professionals take better notes with less effort during classes and meetings by linking notes to a live transcript of the session. Automanus promotes active listening and eliminates the need to type out every sentence. Automanus now supports live translation to any language, transcript highlighting, and note sharing. Sign up for their free beta here.

NYU Tandon and Rusk Rehabilitation are partnering to catalyze the creation of joint research areas, developing solutions to joint problem areas that are defined by the Transformer Challenge team, and helping to create new ventures from ongoing research. Faculty members will be given the opportunity to submit their current research into a matching portal and recommendations for faculty partnership areas will be made by the Challenge team. Additionally, ample presentation opportunities will be organized along with virtual networking events to engage with counterpart faculty members. To learn more, register for tomorrow’s Tandon/Rusk Transformer Challenge Launch Event here.

Register for the 9th Annual NYU Entrepreneurs Festival this Friday to connect with over 1,000 members of the NYU startup community and a host of InnoVention alums:

11:30am-12:20pm: Starting a Startup While in School w/ Myriam Sbeiti, Co-Founder of Sunthetics (‘18).

11:30am - 1:00pm: AI For Good Startup Roundtable w/ Steve Kuyan, Founder of InnoVention, Director of Entrepreneurship at NYU Tandon, and Managing Director of the NYU Tandon Future Labs.

11:30am - 1:00pm: How to Get Involved in Entrepreneurship w/ Shreya Srikanth ('22), Co-Director of First-Year Entrepreneurship Recruiting Program (FYER) and the NYU Entrepreneurs Network (NYUEN).

11:30am - 1:00pm: Tips and Tricks for Rapid Prototyping w/ Victoria Bill of the NYU Tandon MakerSpace.

We are excited to announce Ann Huang ‘22 as the new President of InnoVention! Ann is junior in CAS studying Data Science, Economics and Business and has been a member of the InnoVention team for the past 2+ years. Ann lived in Canada for 2 years and is obsessed with chocolate.

If you are interested in applying to InnoVention this year, please reach out to Ann at ann.huang@nyu.edu.

The First Year Entrepreneurship Recruiting Program (FYER 🔥) is open to all first-year and transfer students across all schools at NYU (undergraduate and graduate). FYER is an introduction to the NYU and NYC startup ecosystem and provides a year’s worth of technical workshops, networking events, challenges, and founder AMAs. If you are a first-year NYU student seeking to enter the world of entrepreneurship – apply here.