🐻🚀 Big Red Startups: last month, 9 Cornellian startups raised VC funding!! also, a new…

🐻🚀 Big Red Startups: last month, 9 Cornellian startups raised VC funding!! also, a new feature: please help Cornellian startups with intros!! (see below!!) 🚀 2025-09-24, Seed: Steadiwear - Emile Maamary, MBA ’23 - Glove that stabilizes hand tremors 🚀 2025-09-23, Series B: Distyl AI - Arjun Prakash ’10 - Generative AI solutions for enterprises. 🚀 2025-09-16, Seed: F2 AI - Don Muir ’15 - AI platform for private market 🚀 2025-09-16, Series B: Tabs - Ali Hussain ’11 - Deepak Bapat ’11, MEng ’12 - B2B accounts receivable platform 🚀 2025-09-16, Series A: Invisible Technologies - Francis Pedraza ’11 - AI training and scaling 🚀 2025-09-15, Series B: MarqVision - DK Lee ’16 - Remove counterfeits of branded goods 🚀 2025-09-08, Seed: LEA - Max Klein ’08 - Automation for wealth management workflows 🚀 2025-09-04, Series A: Fiveonefour - Tim Delisle, MHA ’15, MS ’17 - Nicolas Joseph, MEng ’16 - AI for business analytics 🚀 2025-09-03, Series A: Orchard Robotics - Charles Wu ’24 Dropout - Precision agriculture with robots and AI please help Cornellian startups with intros!! Requests for Intros: 🚀 unspun - Beth Esponnette ’10 - 3D weaving technology for apparel Intros to VCs: Late-stage (Series B-C) climate tech or deep tech 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 🚀 Invasive Species Corporation - Pam Marrone ’78 - Natural products for control of invasive species Intros to VCs: Seed Stage VCs in ClimateTech, CleanTech, AgTech, DeepTech 🚀 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 🚀 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. 🚀 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) Cornellians are the best startup founders!! you should start a startup!!! -- I’m hosting Office Hours everyday this month!! I really hope to see you!!! - Sat 10/11, 4pm-6pm at Soccer Field (Men’s Soccer Game!!) - Sun 10/12, 11am-12pm at Paris Baguette Downtown - Mon 10/13, 11am-12pm at Bank Coffee Downtown - I’ll be hosting Office Hours everyday this month!!! I’ll post it to LinkedIn!! text me 202-415-5342, if you need help finding it!