The booming startup scene in New York is no secret. 2015 looks set to be a record high for both the amount of VC funding and number of unicorns in the city. One of the reasons New York has emerged as such an attractive location for startups is the talent available thanks to the number of top universities. Columbia, NYU & CUNY all now have their own incubator programs for their students encouraging entrepreneurship as compare by Observer Magazine. There have already been some promising results. For example, NYU’s Varick Street Engineering Incubator program has had 9 exists so far worth a combined $721M