Dave Newman

The Zahn Innovation Center was established in late 2012 with the goal of mobilizing the entire City College of New York community around entrepreneurship. The Center offers over $150K in funding through our competitions – supporting hardware, tech, and social entrepreneurs – as well as access to mentors from various industries, legal services, cutting-edge prototyping facilities (including 3D printing and laser cutting) and other programming dedicated to ensuring that our talented entrepreneurs find success. The resources of the center are focused on helping these startups address the unique challenges associated with prototype development and product design, as well as provide mentorship, market research, business planning and community connections for our companies to evolve from a great idea into viable ventures. The center also intends to build and grow a strong hardware, software and social enterprise community in New York, and will provide prototyping services, events and classes aimed at expanding the knowledge base around entrepreneurship, technology and engineering.

The Zahn Innovation Center was established in late 2012 with the goal of mobilizing the entire City College of New York community around entrepreneurship. The Center offers over $150K in funding through our competitions – supporting hardware, tech, and social entrepreneurs – as well as access to mentors from various industries, legal services, cutting-edge prototyping facilities (including 3D printing and laser cutting) and other programming dedicated to ensuring that our talented entrepreneurs find success. The resources of the center are focused on helping these startups address the unique challenges associated with prototype development and product design, as well as provide mentorship, market research, business planning and community connections for our companies to evolve from a great idea into viable ventures. The center also intends to build and grow a strong hardware, software and social enterprise community in New York, and will provide prototyping services, events and classes aimed at expanding the knowledge base around entrepreneurship, technology and engineering.

CRV is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage tech startups. Since 1970, the firm has invested in more than 750 startups at their most crucial stages, including Airtable, DoorDash and Vercel. Founders need more than capital to build a great company. It takes a partner who understands the entrepreneurial journey and knows what it takes to win. From founding to IPO and beyond, CRV is there every step of the way. Founders rely on CRV to be trusted, long-term, committed partners, which has helped make CRV into one of the longest-running venture capital firms in the world. Learn more about CRV and the companies shaping the future at https://www.crv.com.