The Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital program (formerly the Venture Fund) is excited to announce our 2025 Business Pitch Competition. Any current student or recent NYU Law graduate (Classes of 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024) with an interest in entrepreneurship is invited to participate—regardless of their experience level.
We are looking for participants to submit a deck or one to two-minute video presentation explaining their business idea. Business ideas should aim to develop innovative solutions.
Click here to submit your pitch!
Your video submission should explain the problem you are solving, what your solution is and how that solution works. You do not need to be working on a startup to enter the competition. We've created a pitch deck template to help applicants think through their submission (you must be logged in to your @nyu.edu e-mail to view.)
The deadline to submit is Friday, January 31st at 11:59 p.m. EST. Participants must either be a current NYU Law student or recent NYU Law alumni. Both individual and team submissions are allowed.
Finalists will be invited to pitch at an in-person event to a panel of judges on February 12th, and the winner will be awarded a $1,500 cash prize. Register to attend.
The following criteria will be used to judge the video submissions and live pitches:
- Submission (clarity of pitch; coherent and organized)
- Concept (relevant concept; creative and unique idea)
- Scalability (practicality; growth potential)
$1,500 in cash will be awarded to the winner.
Judges this year include:
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Alan Gould '90 - Founder and Co-CEO of Mutual Markets and former Venture Partner at Greycroft Partners
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Jeremy Lechtzin '99 - General Counsel at Digital GC Consulting, former General Counsel & Executive Vice President of XO Group Inc. (TheKnot.com)
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Nnenne Okorafor '15 - Legal Fellow at Arnold Ventures
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Phantila Phataraprasit '20 - Co-Founder and CEO at Sabai Design
Previous EVC Business Pitch Competition Judges include:
- Lydia Cheuk ’97 - General Counsel of Away
- Andrea Inokon ’03 - CoFounder and COO of Cadence Cash
- Ed Stelzer ’93 - EIR at loeb.nyc and Co-Founder of SteadyDrive
- Jono Rosen '97 - Managing Partner at Moss Valley Capital
- Nick Goss '13 - Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Parallel Markets
- Monica Ramirez de Arellano '15 - Head of Strategy of Digital Assets at BNY Mellon
Questions? Contact us at law.evc@nyu.edu.