🐻🚀 Big Red Startups: last month, 5 Cornellian startups raised VC funding!!
🐻🚀 Big Red Startups: last month, 5 Cornellian startups raised VC funding!!
🚀 2025-11-20, Series C: Point One Navigation - Aaron Nathan ’06, MEng ’09 - Precise navigation positioning
🚀 2025-11-17, Seed: Bone AI - 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
🚀 2025-10-29, Acquired: Recura AI - Harrison Cuker ’23 - Doctor clinic growth AI
🚀 2025-10-28, Series B: ConductorOne - Alex Bovee ’02 - Identity governance platform
🚀 2025-10-28, Series F: Whatnot - Grant LaFontaine ’11 - Livestream shopping platform
🚀 2025-10-24, Acquired: Adro - Amarildo Gjondrekaj, MBA ’19 - Sara Schmitt, MBA ’19 - US bank accounts for internationals
🚀 2025-10-22, Seed: California Cultured - Harrison Yoon, PostDoc ’99 - Plant cell culturing for chocolate
🚀 2025-10-22, Seed: Crustdata - Chris Pisarski ’11 - Realtime company data
🚀 2025-10-21, Series B: Hyro - Israel Krush, MBA ’18 - Rom Cohen, MEng ’18 - Automate conversations on any channel
🚀 2025-10-20, Series C: OpenEvidence - Zachary Ziegler ’17 - Organizing the world’s medical knowledge
🚀 2025-10-15, Seed: Liberate Bio - Michael Mitchell, PhD ’14 - AI for genetic medicine
🚀 2025-10-15, Series A: Chari - Ismael Belkhayat, MS ’09 - B2B ecommerce and fintech apps
🚀 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
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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