🐻🚀 Big Red Startup News: 6 Cornellian Startups raised VC funding last month!!

🐻🚀 Big Red Startup News: 6 Cornellian Startups raised VC funding last month!! 🚀 2026-05-28, Pre-seed: Gigit ai - Saran Krishnasamy, MEng ’18 - Personalized ecommerce on shopify 🚀 2026-05-14, Series A: GovWell - Troy LeCaire ’17 - Modern software for local government 🚀 2026-05-14, Seed: Laurence - Matthew Chen ’24 - Amazon ad management 🚀 2026-05-13, Series H: Anduril Industries - Brian Schimpf ’07, Matt Grimm ’06, MEng ’07 - US military defense R&D 🚀 2026-05-06, Series A: Kanvas Biosciences - Hao Shi, PhD ’20, Iwijn De Vlaminck, Professor - Gut microbiome for therapeutics 🚀 2026-05-06, Series B: Vori - Robert Pinkerton, MEng ’14 - Grocery point-of-sale system NY Tech Week is this week!! I made a list of Cornellians speaking or organizing events: - NYC B2B: AI Founders & Investors Mixer, organized by Manan Modi ’21 - Digital Identity: Fighting Consumer Fraud in Financial Services, organized by Idan Bar Dov, MBA ’20, and speaker Megan Shkolyar ’20, MBA ’25 - Longevity: Science, Tech, & Capital, speaker Cody Levine ’13 - Coffee, Claude & Coworking, organized by Ali Hussain ’11, Deepak Bapat ’11 - Building at the Top: Leadership Lessons from Female Leaders in Tech, organized by Nick Ornitz ’15 please let me know if I’m missing any, I hope to attend, I’m putting together a post about all the Cornellians at NY Tech Week!!