NYU Summer Launchpad

Run by NYU Entrepreneurial Institute.

A nine-week summer accelerator from the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute, with teams required to be located in New York City for the duration. Funding is $15,000 in zero-equity, non-dilutive grant money plus $25,000 in Google Cloud credits, so founders give up no ownership. Generalist in scope, including social-impact ventures.

Investment

US$15,000 (Below North America median $100k · Below global median $61.3k)

Equity taken

0% (Like 66% of North America · Like 79% globally)

Duration

9 weeks (Shorter than North America median 13 wks · Shorter than global median 20 wks)

Format

in person

Cadence

annual

Location

New York City, United States

Sectors

• Generalist
• Social Impact

How to apply

Official website

This programme has notes explaining its undisclosed figures, available in the full dataset.

Sources

Every figure above is taken from these pages, published by the programme or its parent organisation.

• https://entrepreneur.nyu.edu/resource/summer-launchpad/ read 2026-09-05 — supports cheque amount, cheque currency, equity pct, duration weeks, batch cadence, format, application url

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Last verified 2026-09-05.