🐻🚀 Big Red Startups: in April, 5 Cornellian startups raised VC funding, and 2 Cornellian…

🐻🚀 Big Red Startups: in April, 5 Cornellian startups raised VC funding, and 2 Cornellian startups were acquired!! 🚀 2026-04-15, Acquired: Tomato.ai (Sold to Sanas) - Ofer Ronen, MBA ’06 - Change accents in real-time using AI 🚀 2026-04-14, Series B: Mintlify - Hahnbee Lee ’22, Han Wang ’21 - Software code documentation 🚀 2026-04-13, Series A: Real Sports - Louis Antonelli ’14 - Social sports data 🚀 2026-04-09, Acquired: Exostellar - Zhiming Shen, PhD ’17, Hakim Weatherspoon, Professor - Reduce cloud costs by CPU and GPU optimization 🚀 2026-04-07, Pre-Seed: Patientory, Inc. - Chrissa McFarlane ’11 - Web3 for health data 🚀 2026-04-07, Series C: Hermeus - Michael Smayda ’08 - High-speed aircraft 🚀 2026-04-07, Series A: SimpliFed - Andrea Ippolito ’06, MEng ’07 - Baby breastfeeding virtual care Startups that last raised 12-18 months ago 🚀 Liquid AI (Series A, 2024-12-13) - Daniela Rus, PhD ’93 - Foundation models from first principles 🚀 ElectricFish (Seed, 2025-04-29) - Vince Wong, MBA ’17 - Distributed energy charging station 🚀 OneRail (Series C, 2024-11-21) - Bill Catania ’00 - Last-mile logistics 🚀 Arize AI (Series C, 2025-02-20) - Aparna Dhinakaran, PhD Dropout - LLM evaluation platform 🚀 Camber (Series B, 2025-02-26) - Christophe Rimann, MEng ’19 - Behavioral health clinician software 🚀 Coram AI (Series A, 2025-01-16) - Ashesh Jain, PhD ’16 - AI software for security cameras 🚀 Fintary (Series A, 2025-02-01) - Yu Chen, MS ’01 - AI powered financial operations built for insurance 🚀 Arena (Series B, 2025-04-08) - Hrair Simonian, JD ’11 - AI for hardware testing and optimization 🚀 Authorium (Series A, 2025-04-10) - Jay Nath ’97 - Government procurement processes 🚀 Revv (Series A, 2024-11-19) - Rashmi Sinha, MS ’22 - SaaS solutions for the automotive industry 🚀 Jolly (Series A, 2025-02-10) - Dean Zimberg, MEng ’21 - Reward incentives for employees 🚀 Krea (Series B, 2025-04-07) - Diego Rodriguez, MS ’23 Dropout, Víctor Perez, MS ’24 Dropout - AI visual design tool 🚀 Lynk Global (Series B, 2025-02-11) - Tyghe Speidel ’11 - Global mobile connectivity through satellites 🚀 Oumi (Seed, 2025-01-29) - Matthew Persons ’16 - Open source AI platform 🚀 Cleerly (Series C, 2024-12-03) - James Min, Professor - Precision medicine for heart health 🚀 Junction (Series A, 2025-03-11) - Bill Gottlieb, JD ’95 - 🚀 Roon (Series A, 2024-11-25) - Rohan Ramakrishna, Professor - Medical content Q&A 🚀 Caddi (Seed, 2025-03-05) - Alejandro Castellano, MEng ’23 - Automate repetitive tasks 🚀 Be Biopharma (Series C, 2025-01-15) - Krishnan Viswanadhan, MBA ’10 - Engineered B cells as medicines 🚀 Dinari (Series A, 2025-05-01) - Gabriel Otte ’11 - Securities backed tokens on the blockchain 🚀 Impilo (Series A, 2024-11-14) - Josh Stein, MBA ’21 - Virtual healthcare in the home with connected devices 🚀 Abstractive Health (Seed, 2024-12-01) - Vince Hartman ’08, MS ’22, Ritika Poddar, MS ’22 - Medical clinical notes AI assistant #startups