🐻🚀 Big Red Startups: in January 2026, 12 Cornellian Startups raised VC funding!!

🐻🚀 Big Red Startups: in January 2026, 12 Cornellian Startups raised VC funding!! 🚀 2026-01-30, Seed: Uplift AI - Hammad Malik, MS ’14 - Voice AI for underserved languages 🚀 2026-01-30, Series B: Epikast - Vangelis Vergetis ’01 - Engage patients, physicians, and healthcare providers 🚀 2026-01-29, Series B: Sixfold AI - Alex Schmelkin ’97 - Brian Moseley ’96 - Generative AI for insurance underwriting 🚀 2026-01-29, Pre-Seed: Arkero - Daniel Shi, MBA ’12 - AI for professional sports teams 🚀 2026-01-29, Series A: Pranax - Steven Greco ’00 - Develop exosomes for longevity 🚀 2026-01-27, Pre-Seed: Soundskrit - Sahil Gupta ’15, MEng ’16 - Directional microphones 🚀 2026-01-27, Series B: Northwood Space - Shaurya Luthra ’18, MEng ’18 - Space satellite infrastructure 🚀 2026-01-27, Seed: Midship - Kieran Taylor, MEng ’20 - Extract documents into spreadsheets 🚀 2026-01-21, Series D: OpenEvidence - Zachary Ziegler ’17 - Organizing the world’s medical knowledge 🚀 2026-01-21, Seed: AheadComputing - Debbie Marr, MS ’92 - Faster computer processor 🚀 2026-01-13, Series A: Flip CX - Brian Schiff ’18 - Jacob Cooper ’16, MEng ’17 - Voice AI for customer service on the phone 🚀 2026-01-09, Series A: Cloudforce - Lee Wang ’97, MEng ’97 - Microsoft cloud solutions and 7 Cornellian Startups are in the YC W26 Batch!! 🚀 Laurence - Matthew Chen ’24 - Amazon ad management 🚀 Sila - Mith Patel ’25 - Carl Huang ’25 - AI-native workspace 🚀 IncidentFox - Jimmy Wei, MS ’23 - AI reliability engineer 🚀 Reframe - Bryan Zin ’21 - AI assistants for overseas manufacturing 🚀 General Legal - Javed Qadrud-Din ’07 - Commercial contract AI law firm 🚀 Bubble Lab - Selina Li, MEng ’25 - Zach Zhong, MEng ’25 - Automated production workflows 🚀 MouseCat - Joseph McAllister ’20 - AI toolkit to identify fraud risk Cornellians are the best Startup Founders!!! YC Applications are due February 9 at 8pm PT!! - please let me know if you’re applying, and I can connect you with Cornellian YC Founders to review your application!! #startups #cornell #yc