🐻🚀 Big Red Startups: last month, 11 Cornellian startups raised VC funding

🐻🚀 Big Red Startups: last month, 11 Cornellian startups raised VC funding 🚀 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 🚀 2025-10-28, Series B: ConductorOne - Alex Bovee ’02 - Identity governance platform 🚀 2025-10-28, Series F: Whatnot - Grant LaFontaine ’11 - Livestream shopping platform 🚀 2025-10-22, Seed: California Cultured - Harrison Yoon, PostDoc ’99 - Plant cell culturing for chocolate 🚀 2025-10-20, Series C: OpenEvidence - Zachary Ziegler ’17 - Organizing the world’s medical knowledge 🚀 2025-10-15, Series A: Chari - Ismael Belkhayat, MS ’09 - B2B ecommerce and fintech apps 🚀 2025-10-15, Seed: Liberate Bio - Michael Mitchell, PhD ’14 - AI for genetic medicine 🚀 2025-10-09, Series A: Odys Aviation - James Dorris ’01 - Hybrid vertical takeoff and landing aircraft 🚀 2025-10-08, Series D: Stoke Space - Andy Lapsa ’04 - Reusable space rockets please help Cornellian startups with intros!! Requests for Intros: 🚀 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 🚀 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 🚀 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. 🚀 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 🚀 Morphik - Adityavardhan Agrawal ’22 - Arnav Agrawal ’25 - RAG AI models Intros to Customers: VPs and Executives at Healthcare companies 🚀 Operand - Akhil Iyengar ’25 - AI consultant for consumer brands Intros to Customers: Looking for Principals or higher on deal teams in Private Equity, as well as members of Operations / Value Creation teams within PE firms. Intros for Hiring: Fractional GTM support, professionals with 5+ years of experience working in Private Equity. 🚀 Invasive Species Corporation - Pam Marrone ’78 - Natural products for control of invasive species Intros to VCs: Seed Stage VCs in ClimateTech, CleanTech, AgTech, DeepTech 🚀 Partcl - William Salcedo ’23 - Faster semiconductor chip design Intros to Customers: VP/Director at semiconductor companies responsible for RTL design or physical design. RTL designers/verification engineers Intros for Hiring: Founding Engineer (Systems + ML) 🚀 ElectricFish - Vince Wong, MBA ’17 - Distributed energy charging station Intros to Customers: Gas station / convenience store owners & franchisees, fast food restaurant owners/franchisees, managers at logistics or trucking fleets