Future Labs

Future Labs is a group of business incubators and accelerators run by the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. It supports early-stage ventures in New York City and was set up as a partnership with the city.

Each lab covers a different field, and several run fixed-length programmes for young companies, students and military veterans.

What Future Labs offers

• Urban Future Lab — a hub for smart cities, clean energy and smart grid technology, based in Brooklyn.
• Game Design Future Lab — focuses on digital games, game infrastructure and emerging media.
• Veterans Future Lab — houses businesses led by military veterans and spouses, with a public prototyping space.
• Accelerators — programmes for carbontech and low-carbon hydrogen start-ups.
• Training courses — veteran entrepreneurship programmes and a short course on launching a company.

Who it works with

Early-stage start-ups in AI, digital media and clean energy, NYU students and faculty, and veterans, service members and their spouses.

Key facts

• Based in: New York City, USA
• Run by: NYU Tandon School of Engineering
• Partners: the City of New York, NYSERDA and others