Carnegie Mellon University
VC Fund
Pittsburgh, United States
Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university that provides programs in technology and arts. The university offers undergraduate and graduate degrees across various disciplines. Carnegie Mellon Univertsity serves sectors including education, technology, and the arts.
- Total investments:
- 27
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 7%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Carnegie Mellon University invests in
Stages Carnegie Mellon University invests in
Countries Carnegie Mellon University invests in
Contacts
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Frank V. Cahouet
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Aaron Tainter
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Alon Lavie
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Amir Rahnamay-Azar
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Amy Coutu
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 8 (30%)
- Software 5 (19%)
- Robotics 4 (15%)
- Information Technology 4 (15%)
- Machine Learning 3 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 10 (37%)
- Series A 5 (19%)
- Grant 2 (7%)
- Convertible Note 2 (7%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Frank V. Cahouet
Board of Trustees – Emeritus Life Trustees
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Board of Trustees – Emeritus Life Trustees | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Aaron Tainter
Adjunct Instructor
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Adjunct Instructor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Alon Lavie
Consulting Professor (Adjunct)
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Consulting Professor (Adjunct) | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Amir Rahnamay-Azar
Vice President for Finance and Chief Financial Officer
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Vice President for Finance and Chief Financial Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Amy Coutu
Assistant Vice President, Enterprise Applications
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Assistant Vice President, Enterprise Applications | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 36 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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RoboForce
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RoboForce is an AI Robotics startup building the world's most advanced Robo-Labor system, with the world's first and only 1mm precision AI expert model. The company's AI robotic workforce provides significant labor cost savings to customers impacted by growing labor shortages, starting with utility-scale solar and space, withadditional applications in manufacturing, mining and beyond. RoboForce was founded in 2023 by Leo Ma, previously a co-founder from startup to IPO of the Nasdaq-listed company Cyngn. The RoboForce team is comprised of top tech leaders from CMU Robotics, Michigan Robotics, Amazon Robotics, Tesla Robotics, Google, Waymo, Apple and Microsoft and is backed by world-class investors including Nobel Laureate Myron Scholes, Gary Rieschel (co-founder of Softbank VC), and Carnegie Mellon University. To learn more about RoboForce, visit https://www.roboforce.ai/. | $52M / Seed / Mar 16, 2026 | |
NovoLINC
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NovoLINC is a pioneering startup that provides thermal interface solutions. It develops a distinctive system of nanostructured materials and a proprietary manufacturing process with the objective of transforming thermal management. | $10.2M / Seed / Dec 18, 2025 | |
Coheso
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Coheso, the AI-native legal front door and work management platform for in-house legal and compliance teams. | Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 30, 2025 | |
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RoboForce
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RoboForce is an AI Robotics startup building the world's most advanced Robo-Labor system, with the world's first and only 1mm precision AI expert model. The company's AI robotic workforce provides significant labor cost savings to customers impacted by growing labor shortages, starting with utility-scale solar and space, withadditional applications in manufacturing, mining and beyond. RoboForce was founded in 2023 by Leo Ma, previously a co-founder from startup to IPO of the Nasdaq-listed company Cyngn. The RoboForce team is comprised of top tech leaders from CMU Robotics, Michigan Robotics, Amazon Robotics, Tesla Robotics, Google, Waymo, Apple and Microsoft and is backed by world-class investors including Nobel Laureate Myron Scholes, Gary Rieschel (co-founder of Softbank VC), and Carnegie Mellon University. To learn more about RoboForce, visit https://www.roboforce.ai/. | $10M / Jan 06, 2025 | |
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RoboForce
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RoboForce is an AI Robotics startup building the world's most advanced Robo-Labor system, with the world's first and only 1mm precision AI expert model. The company's AI robotic workforce provides significant labor cost savings to customers impacted by growing labor shortages, starting with utility-scale solar and space, withadditional applications in manufacturing, mining and beyond. RoboForce was founded in 2023 by Leo Ma, previously a co-founder from startup to IPO of the Nasdaq-listed company Cyngn. The RoboForce team is comprised of top tech leaders from CMU Robotics, Michigan Robotics, Amazon Robotics, Tesla Robotics, Google, Waymo, Apple and Microsoft and is backed by world-class investors including Nobel Laureate Myron Scholes, Gary Rieschel (co-founder of Softbank VC), and Carnegie Mellon University. To learn more about RoboForce, visit https://www.roboforce.ai/. | $10M / Seed / Jan 06, 2025 | |
BlastPoint
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BlastPoint provides big data solutions that help companies optimize revenue growth. Its user-intuitive software platform is customizable, interactive, and stays constantly up to date. It provides services to customers in retail, the utility industry, emerging franchises, and nonprofit organizations.The company was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. | Seed / Sep 03, 2024 | |
CapSen Robotics
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From the shelves of a warehouse to your kitchen sink, the real world is full of clutter. At CapSen Robotics, their goal is to provide a universal 3D computer vision system which enables computers to understand the physical world in all of its cluttered glory.Robots and computer vision systems are slowly making their way out of the factoryand into less structured environments such as hospitals, warehouses, farms, and homes. Although recent advances are quite impressive, these systems are still limited in their ability to understand what they see and must be carefully programmed to get the bare minimum of information out of their sensory data in order to accomplish their assigned tasks.Their goal at CapSen Robotics is to change this—they have developed a suite of computer vision solutions based on new research from MIT on 3D object detection in cluttered scenes. This is a foundational technology that will have broad impact on a wide range of consumer, industrial, and defense markets, from computer gaming and augmented reality to logistics, manufacturing, and robotics. They are beta testing with system integrators like The Proud Company and robotics companies like IAM Robotics on robotic picking applications, and are partnering with a top 5 government contractor on a non-robotic warehouse application for a large Fortune 100 distributor. One of the robots using their object detection software at MIT recently took part in a robotic order fulfillment competition sponsored by Amazon and took 2nd place out of 31 teams. | Seed / Sep 03, 2024 | |
Skild AI
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Skild AI is a startup that develops software to power various robots including ones with two or four legs. | $300M / Series A / Jul 09, 2024 | |
ViralMoment
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ViralMoment uses AI, computer vision & context layering to help understand consumer insight & deal with visual conservation services. | $2.5M / Seed / Jan 25, 2024 | |
Arieca
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Arieca manufactures and distributes a thermally conductive rubber composite. Arieca's composite is a stretchable, thermally conductive rubber that combines elasticity of soft silicone with the thermal of metal to be used as circuit wiring, sensors, and passive heat exchangers, allowing manufacturers to deploy an alternative form of rubber thatimprove the performance electronics and help them to safely interact with humans. | $6.5M / Series A / May 17, 2022 | |
| See all 27 investments → | |||
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What does Carnegie Mellon University invest in?
Carnegie Mellon University invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Robotics startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at Carnegie Mellon University includes Frank V. Cahouet (Board of Trustees – Emeritus Life Trustees), Aaron Tainter (Adjunct Instructor) and Alon Lavie (Consulting Professor (Adjunct)), among 36 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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