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The winners of NYC Next Idea 2013-2014 have been selected!

On April 9, 2014, six finalist teams presented their venture plans for the final round of judging. The teams were selected from a highly competitive and diverse pool of more than 240 applicants from 156 schools across 51 countries, each hitting an all-timei high. The final round of judging was followed by a keynote from Jon Steinberg, President and COO of BuzzFeed.

We are proud to announce Senvol as the winner of our fifth annual NYC Next Idea competition!

The final round of the fifth annual NYC Next Idea New Venture Competition is upon us! Join us on Wednesday April 9th at 6pm sharp (keynote at 7:30pm) at AppNexus (28 West 23rd St, New York) to see the teams in action, plus hear from keynote speaker Jon Steinberg, President and COO of Buzzfeed.

We are excited to announce the five judges who will be joining us for the final event on April 9, 2014!

Judges Include:

Mike Brown, General Partner at Bowery Capital
Mike is the General Partner at Bowery Capital based in New York. Prior to Bowery Capital, Brown co-founded AOL Ventures and led investments in over 30 companies primarily focused around the next generation of CMO and CTO spend.

Meet the 2014 NYC Next Idea Finalists
We are proud to announce the finalists for the NYC Next Idea competition. The six chosen teams come from a competitive pool of over 240 new ideas submitted from 51 countries across the globe. After two rounds of rigorous judging, NYCEDC and Columbia University are excited to welcome the finalists to NYC!

SourceRE helps developers find undervalued real estate at the right time. SourceRE automates the best practices of expert development teams to identify undervalued opportunities most likely to match emerging market preferences and priorities. SourceRE aggregates and analyzes recently accessible property-specific, neighborhood, zoning ordinance, and tax incentive data to quickly build adjacent property investment options city-wide. Three New York City-based real estate firms have already agreed to pilot a closed beta launch of SourceRE software.

New York City is fed by three central water pipes. These three pipes branch into a network of over 7000 miles of pipe, delivering water and removing sewage for NYC’s nearly 8 million people. Some pipes have suffered nearly 100 years of corrosion. Although they are at high risk for rupture, these three main pipes cannot be manually inspected because engineers fear that closing any of the pipes might result in the inability to reopen them again. Consequently, pipe maintenance is primarily a reactive rather than proactive business.

The Solution?

Do you love spending your time waiting in line? Neither does the team at SmartLine! That’s why we’ve created a wait list management and CRM solution for the restaurant industry. SmartLine has revolutionized the process of waiting in line for diners while at the same time streamlining front of house operations for restaurants.

Skateboarding is an activity that reflects some of the core values of New York City’s agenda aimed at getting people to do more physical activity and to encourage them to find different ways to move throughout the city
But the fact is that learning how to skate is difficult, and every new skater has to face a learning curve that can be very daunting. Most skaters are self-taught and have just their mistakes—not to mention cuts and bruises—to learn from.

The way businesses store their goods is changing. From entire pallets/ crates to the individual good instead. Magazino developed technologies to make this possible: measuring objects, deciding how to grip / handle them and storing them extremely compact. Magazino starts selling entire automated storage solutions, can license its detection and storage algorithms. In the long run we will be the world database of how to handle goods with robots.

Interested in learning more about the entrepreneur scene in New York City? The Made in NY Digital Map is an interactive way to explore where to find the City’s startups, coworking spaces, investors, and locate who is hiring.

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