Fondu is a fun, easy way to share bite-size restaurant reviews with your friends for the iPhone. It's free and perfect whether you're telling your friends what your favorite spots are, recommending what dishes to order, or seeing what a friend thought of a place. Fondu is co-founded by Gauri Manglik (NYU '10), Orion Burt (NYU '12) and Mike Lewis (RIT '08) and first started out of Lawrence Lenihan's "Ready, Fire!, Aim" class at NYU. Fondu's investors include ENIAC Ventures, Jim Pallotta, Zach Arons, Harbor Road Ventures, the NYU Innovation Venture Fund, among others. (Acquired by AirBnB.)
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NYU Entrepreneurs
- Gauri Manglik (CAS '10)
CEO & Co-Founder
- Orion Burt (CAS '12)
Co-Founder
numberFire is the next generation of sports analytics, combining proprietary metrics to better assess historical player and team performance with groundbreaking algorithmics to project future efficacy. Co-founders Nik Bonaddio met Sean Weinstock, an NYU Law student, met when Nik brought an early iteration of numberFire to InSITE, a group that combines NYU and Columbia JD and MBA students to advise entrepreneurs on their venture pitches. Together, the two made the project into a company, participating in the ER Accelerator program. numberFire's investors include RRE, David Tisch's Box Group, Penny Black, and the NYU Innovation Venture Fund, among others.
Tagasauris provides a game-changing approach to metadata creation. The Tagasauris platform combines human and machine intelligence to boost ROI, quality, and speed, leading to new opportunities for engagement. Tagasauris is the result of a collaboration between NYU Stern Professor Panos Ipeirotis (Chief Scientist) and vetern entrepreneur Todd Carter (CEO). Tagasauris' investors included Mike Priest and the NYU Innovation Venture Fund, among others.
TaxiTreats started with a crazy idea: what if you could grab the products you need on the way to our destination? TaxiTreats put together a team of aerospace engineers to start from scratch and began to re-imagine the vending machine. The TaxiTreats vending machine is touchscreen, credit-card only and managed remotely, bringing digital media analytics offline. Investors include David Tisch, Brad Feld, The Richport Group, Joanne Wilson, Gary Vaynerchuk, Mark Wachen, RSL Ventures (Ronald Lauder) and the NYU Innovation Venture Fund, among others.
NYU Entrepreneurs
- Brian Shimmerlik
(Stern '13)
Co-founder & CEO - Abuhena Azad
(NYU-Poly '13)
Co-founder & CTO
