Frank Rimalovski

Frank Rimalovski

Frank Rimalovski is an entrepreneur, investor, and educator who founded and leads the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute, providing training, mentorship, community, and funding to students, faculty, and researchers at NYU. He also established the NYU Innovation Venture Fund, a seed-stage investment fund supporting 38 NYU startups across various sectors. Co-author of the acclaimed books “Talking to Humans” and “Testing with Humans,” Frank has a rich background in early-stage investing, startups, and technology commercialization.

Before joining NYU in 2010, Frank co-founded New Venture Partners, a venture capital firm specializing in spinouts from corporate research labs. He has held roles at Lucent/Bell Labs, Sun Microsystems, Apple, and NeXT. Frank is the NYU Faculty Lead for the NSF’s NY I-Corps Hub, an instructor for the NSF’s I-Corps program, and has taught entrepreneurship at NYU. He mentors at Techstars and serves on the advisory board of the Tufts Entrepreneurship Center. Frank earned his BA from Tufts University and his MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.