🐻🚀 Big Red Startups: in December 2025, 4 Cornellian startups raised VC funding!! (and in…

🐻🚀 Big Red Startups: in December 2025, 4 Cornellian startups raised VC funding!! (and in the November 2025 update, I forgot to include 2 Cornellian startups that were acquired!!) 🚀 2025-12-09, Series A: Aradigm Health - William Shrank, MD ’98 - Access to cell gene therapies 🚀 2025-12-09, Series B: D3 Bio - John Jin, PhD ’97 - Innovative medicines in oncology and immunology 🚀 2025-12-06, Seed: Addis Energy - Michael Alexander ’14 - Ammonia production pathway 🚀 2025-12-04, Series G: Creditas - Sergio Furio, MBA ’00 - Consumer loans backed by assets 🚀 2025-11-20, Series C: Point One Navigation - Aaron Nathan ’06, MEng ’09 - Precise navigation positioning 🚀 2025-11-20, Acquired: Symba - Nikita Gupta ’17 - Software platform for new hires 🚀 2025-11-18, Series A: Airhart Aeronautics - Nikita Ermoshkin ’18 - Brendan Quinn ’17 - Airplanes that anyone can fly 🚀 2025-11-18, Acquired: Spiral - Elena Zhizhimontova, MEng ’18 - AI to identify customer issues 🚀 2025-11-17, Seed: BluePill - Ankit Dhawan, MBA ’16 - AI consumers for marketing research 🚀 2025-11-17, Seed: Bone - DK Lee ’16 - Robot intelligence 🚀 2025-11-13, Series C: Harbinger - John Henry Harris ’11 - Commercial electric vehicles 🚀 2025-11-12, Series A: Joy - Alan Charming ’06 - Resources on how to be a parent 🚀 2025-11-06, Seed: Avallon Labs - Cornelius Schramm, MEng ’25 Dropout - Bryan Guin, MEng ’25 Dropout - Jet Semrick, MEng ’25 Dropout - AI for insurance claims operations -- please help Cornellian startups with intros!! Requests for Intros: 🚀 Sixtyfour - Christopher Price ’25 - AI agents for sales research Intros to Customers: Heads of Talent, Recruitment at Fortune 500 companies - anybody hiring for high value, niche labor. 🚀 Kovari Industries - Aedin Yu ’26 Dropout - Daniel George ’26 Dropout - Robots that clean rooms Intros to Customers: Select-service hotel owners, Hospitality-focused PE firms, Institutional asset managers, Family offices investing in hospitality Intros for Hiring: Founding Engineers excited about robotics. Operations talent w/ experience in Hospitality 🚀 Sail GTX - Chansam Kim, MBA ’25 - William Reid, MS ’25 - Trade compliance software Intros to VCs: Seed-stage VCs in AI, B2B SaaS, and supply chain. Intros to Customers: Importers or manufacturers (automotive, electronics, chemicals) with trade compliance or supply-chain teams. Intros for Hiring: N/A 🚀 JARS AI - Chris Kruger ’14, MEng ’19 - Interactive shows by generative AI Intros to VCs: Seed stage VCs in consumer, entertainment 🚀 Palatial - Steven Ren ’19 - 3d simulations for robot training Intros to VCs: Seed stage VCs focused on deep tech, robotics, or AI infrastructure Intros to Customers: Robotics and industrial automation firms, world model labs Intros for Hiring: Simulation Engineer with experience in Issac Sim 🚀 Kanvas Biosciences - Hao Shi, PhD ’20 - Iwijn De Vlaminck, Professor - Gut microbiome for therapeutics Intros to VCs: We completed a first close for our Series A led by DCVC and are looking for additional Series A biotech investors or Techbio VCs. 🚀 Avina - Mike Wang, MEng ’16 - Vivek Sudarsan, MEng ’16 - Ron Fisher, MBA ’16 - Signals for B2B sales teams prioritization Intros to Customers: Head of RevOps, Head of Growth at Series A+ companies 🚀 Scritch - Rachel Lee ’21 - Veterinary care AI agents Intros to Customers: Veterinarians Intros for Hiring: Founding engineerings with at least 1 year of experience 🚀 Reprosent - Aimee DeGolyer ’98 - Cancer patient data for better outcomes Intros to VCs: Seed Stage VCs in Oncology, Digital Health, Precision Medicine Intros to Customers: Oncology Biotech 🚀 unspun - Beth Esponnette ’10 - 3D weaving technology for apparel Intros to VCs: Late-stage (Series B-C) climate tech or deep tech VCs