# Cayuga Venture Fund

> Cayuga Venture Fund is a VC fund in Ithaca backing Manufacturing and Software. See 32 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ithaca, United States
- Total investments: 32
- Last investment: Sep 2020
- Lead investor: 31%
- Last fund: Oct 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cayuga-venture-fund/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/cayugaventures
- Website: http://cayugaventures.com

Cayuga Venture Fund is a VC fund in Ithaca focused on Manufacturing and Software. Cayuga Venture Fund funds advanced technology and high growth companies in New York State.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $700k–$2M |
| Series A | $745k–$7.4M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 5 | 16% |
| Software | 3 | 9% |
| Telecommunications | 3 | 9% |
| Music | 2 | 6% |
| Mobile | 2 | 6% |

58 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 8 | 25% |
| Seed | 6 | 19% |
| Funding Round | 6 | 19% |
| Series B | 2 | 6% |
| Series C | 2 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 18 | 56% |
| Germany | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| A.J. Edwards | Managing Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/a-j-edwards |
| Kim Stedman | Fund Administration Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kim-stedman |
| Philip Proujansky | Managing Partner, Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/phil-proujansky |
| Ryoko Nozawa | Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryoko-nozawa |
| Zachary Shulman | Managing Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zachary-shulman |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| POM - The Peace of Mind Company | POM Partners provides life and workforce safety solutions through its security platform that pioneers leading-edge personal and enterprise-level security innovation to mitigate security risk | $3M | Series A | Sep 22, 2020 |  |
| EkoStinger | Ekostinger provides the most advanced trailer aerodynamics solution for the trucking industry. |  | Seed | Aug 01, 2018 |  |
| Ioxus | Ioxus is the only company that develops, manufactures and commercializes innovative ultracapacitor technologies entirely in the United States. The company provides cost-effective, green energy solutions for the military, transportation and alternative energy markets. The Ioxus family of ultracapacitors is uniquely optimized for high performancewith low resistance, ideal for delivering high power bursts for acceleration, energy recapture, peak load shaving and high power applications. Ioxus was established by its affiliate company, Custom Electronics, Inc., which has supplied commercial and military clients with high reliability capacitors and integrated electronic assemblies since 1964. Ioxus is headquartered in Oneonta, N.Y. | $8.6M | Series D | Jul 05, 2018 |  |
| POM - The Peace of Mind Company | POM Partners provides life and workforce safety solutions through its security platform that pioneers leading-edge personal and enterprise-level security innovation to mitigate security risk | $700K | Seed | Apr 10, 2017 |  |
| VenueBook | VenueBook is a marketplace to create a seamless, transactional digital event planning experience. It allows event planners and venue managers to work together in a digitized, collaborative environment. The company also assists with streamlining every step of your event planning process, from inquiry to the actual event, by allowing alltransactions to occur within one comprehensive online space making the communication process simple and the event management process easy.VenueBook is dedicated to making the event process simple, quick, and most importantly painless. The company provides comprehensive cloud-based SaaS support for venues looking to optimize their events business and support people looking to book events by creating a one-stop-shop where they can research, communicate, book, and pay for their events, all online.VeneuBook was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY, USA. | $6.6M | Series A | Feb 28, 2016 |  |
| POM - The Peace of Mind Company | POM Partners provides life and workforce safety solutions through its security platform that pioneers leading-edge personal and enterprise-level security innovation to mitigate security risk | $1.5M | Seed | Jan 20, 2016 |  |
| SocialFlow | SocialFlow is a social distribution and monetization platform that is purpose-built for media companies. Their technology enables the world’s most successful publishers to easily distribute engaging social content while providing them monetization opportunities across multiple social networks. Their publishing software is used by tens ofthousands of journalists across the world and extends the reach and engagement of editorial content and stories to the social sphere. SocialFlow’s advertising products help publishers create new revenue streams from their social efforts. With native solutions and AttentionStream sponsored post ads, SocialFlow helps media companies leverage the unmatched scale and distribution of social channels. Founded in 2009 and based in New York, SocialFlow’s client roster includes half of the top 150 media companies including Condé Nast, Meredith, The Associated Press, CNN, and the BBC. | $7.5M | Series C | Dec 07, 2015 |  |
| Rheonix | Rheonix, Inc. operates as a biomedical device company. Its products include CARD (Chemistry And Reagent Device) system to miniaturize and automate new and existing assays in multiple fields. Its products and technology are used in human/veterinary in vitro diagnostics, food/water testing, SNP analysis for personalized medicineapplications, homeland security/defense applications, process control and final product QC, and tissue culture analysis in a research or production setting. Rheonix, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Ithaca, New York. | $28.6M |  | Oct 20, 2015 |  |
| Calient Technologies | Calient provides high-density 3D MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) optical circuit switching for software-defined networks and data centers. Its optical circuit switching technology is used by service providers, cloud computing, content delivery, and government networks. This offers businesses with adaptive photonic switching systems thatenable dynamic optical layer optimization in software-defined networks and data centers. The company’s 3D-MEMS switches enable dynamic optical-layer sharing, optimization, and automation of high-performance test, compute, and network resources in data centers, optical transport networks, and DevOps test automation facilities.Calient Technologies was established in 1999 and is headquartered in Goleta, California. | $14.7M |  | Mar 26, 2015 |  |
| GiveGab | GiveGab provides services for fundraising professionals to raise money online. Designed for cause-based organizations, community foundations, and education institutions, GiveGab offers a complete suite of products and services. The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Ithaca, New York. | $1.2M | Seed | Jan 21, 2015 |  |

10 of 32 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Rand Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rand-capital) — VC Fund, 9 deals together
- [Excell Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/excell-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Gefinor Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gefinor-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Advantage Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/advantage-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Great Oaks Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/great-oaks-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Onondaga Venture Capital Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/onondaga-venture-capital-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Cayuga Venture Fund invest in?

Cayuga Venture Fund invests primarily in Manufacturing, Software and Telecommunications startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 32 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Cayuga Venture Fund's check size?

Cayuga Venture Fund typically joins rounds of $700k–$2M at Seed and $745k–$7.4M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Cayuga Venture Fund participates in.

### How do I contact Cayuga Venture Fund?

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### Who are the partners at Cayuga Venture Fund?

The team at Cayuga Venture Fund includes A.J. Edwards (Managing Partner), Kim Stedman (Fund Administration Manager) and Philip Proujansky (Managing Partner, Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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