WHAT WE DO.
AWARENESS
An introduction to tech entrepreneurship and social enterprise.
SKILLS
Classes and workshops on what it takes to think and act like an entrepreneur.
SUPPORT
Incubate new ventures and award prize money through our competitions. We host three new venture challenges each year, with more than $100K in awards.
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Pitch your idea to be admitted to the incubator.
Apply to a competition for a chance to win a piece of $100K.
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Meet the team
Meet the team that forms part of the Zahn Innovation Center.
Lindsay is passionate about helping build organizations that effectively and efficiently disrupt the status quo. Her experience reaches across sectors – corporate marketing, philanthropy, the arts, international development and public programming. Prior to joining the team at the Zahn Center, she most recently worked in sustainable development at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. Earlier in her career she ran an ecolodge in rural Ecuador, briefly advised digital strategy for Acumen Fund, and developed membership programming for the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy. She holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a B.S. from Northwestern University. Though always itching to travel, she is happily grounded in New York with her husband and two little boys.
Andre has been a key force in helping startups realize their ideas. Though formally trained as an industrial designer here in NY at Pratt Institute, he has worked all over the world launching products in various categories with his latest focus on connected hardware devices. Andre enjoys bridging ideas that have an exciting user experience both from the software app side, to the physical consumer held product and pushes teams to build, iterate and go from concept to a minimal viable prototype fast. His portfolio compromises work for major companies such as Siemens, Steelcase, KitchenAid, Martha Stewart, Techstars, etc.
Andy’s career has embraced government sector environmental protection work with the State of Pennsylvania, health care and financial services consulting, information systems and business process project management, and non-profit fundraising for economic development, higher education, cultural institutions, and environmental protection. Over the past dozen years, he has raised over $65 million for these causes. Andy has a BA in Political Science from Earlham College and an MS in Public Management and Policy Analysis from the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University, and is a long-time pet rabbit owner.
Steven Monzon, Office Manager
Steven Monzon is a passionate and forward minded individual with experience in operations, the arts, and community involvement. With over 10 years of operations experience, Steven knows what it means to provide fast and reliable service to an array of different clients. Steven graduated with a B.S. in psychology from the State University of New York at Oneonta. When Steven is not in the office he is working on his art and giving back to the community by mentoring Harlem high school students in visual art and spoken word.
Dina Rahman, Finance Assistant
Dina is a certified pharmacy technician with extensive pharmacy laboratory training. She has worked in undergraduate research in chemical synthesis for drug design to detect and prevent breast and prostate cancer micrometastases. She has significant finance experience and works closely with the Director of Finance at the City College Fund. Dina holds a B.S. in Chemistry from City College. She has a strong desire to help others and seeks every possibility to give back.
Meet our donors
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In support of diversity, and to enhance New York’s position as an entrepreneurial and technological hub, it has formed a partnership with the Zahn Innovation Center to create the Standard Chartered Technology Incubator for Women Entrepreneurs.
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