Novella Center for Entrepreneurship
VC Fund
Baltimore, United States
Novella Center for Entrepreneurship is a VC fund in Baltimore focused on Software and Information Technology. The Novella Center develops programs that assist entrepreneurs in reconsidering how business and society interact in order to establish meaningful businesses. The CVLab was founded by Jeff Cherry, serial entrepreneur and one of the co-founders of Concinnity Advisors, the first Investment Advisory firm focused solely on investing in"Conscious" companies.Conscious Venture Lab curriculum was developed in conjunction with some of the international thought leaders on the concept of "Conscious Capitalism" including Darden professor Ed Freeman and Babson professor and Author of Firms of Endearment and Conscious Capitalism, Raj Sisodia.
- Total investments:
- 29
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 28%
- Fund size:
- $16M
- Last fund:
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Industries Novella Center for Entrepreneurship invests in
Stages Novella Center for Entrepreneurship invests in
Countries Novella Center for Entrepreneurship invests in
Contacts
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Brian Le Gette
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Cosmina Popa
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Jeffrey Cherry
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S. Tien Wong
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Tien Wong
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (24%)
- Information Technology 5 (17%)
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (17%)
- Fashion 4 (14%)
- Internet 4 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 21 (72%)
- Pre-Seed 6 (21%)
- Angel 1 (3%)
Country
- United States 25 (86%)
- Chile 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Brian Le Gette
Entrepreneur In Residence
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Entrepreneur In Residence | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Cosmina Popa
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Jeffrey Cherry
Founder / Executive Director
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Founder / Executive Director | Total investments: 10 | Find email | |
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S. Tien Wong
Mentor
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Mentor | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
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Tien Wong
Mentor
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Mentor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Pegasi
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PEGASI makes Healthcare information accesible, clear and secure for the developing world, and aggregates non-sensitive Big Data into Healthcare Business Intelligence (BI) as a tool for accelerating regional development. Our main objective: to improve Healthcare services quality for every patient. We created PEGASI MED, a Latin HIPAA-Compliant HISplatform with teleconsultation capabilities for 30+ medical specialties, and PEGASI BI, a Business Intelligence dashboard that analyzes aggregated and anonymized Healthcare information. | $505K / Seed / Mar 01, 2024 | |
EcoMap Technologies
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About EcoMap Technologies EcoMap delivers transformative ecosystem intelligence that helps economic development organizations, state agencies, innovation hubs, and ecosystem builders foster stronger, more dynamic local economies. Unlike traditional approaches, EcoMap offers integrated solutions uniquely designed for the complex demands of regionalecosystems, including EcoMap Discover ecosystem mapping, the Ecosystem Relationship Manager (ERM), Ecosystem Chatbot, and the advanced Ecosystem Intelligence™ suite with the Nonprofit Intelligence Dashboard and the Ecosystem Scorecard. These tools empower comprehensive development efforts across entrepreneurship, small business, advanced industries, and workforce and community development. Known for its forward-thinking approach, EcoMap's solutions are easier to use, faster to implement, and built for the nuanced, evolving needs of today's economic development landscape. Learn more at www.ecomap.tech. | $3.5M / Seed / Aug 14, 2023 | |
Breakthru
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Breakthru enables organizations to build trust with young people online. Through Breakthru’s technology, youth are educated and incentivized to engage in the issues that matter most. The platform empowers groups to mobilize young people and enhance their data collection capabilities for event activation. | $1.5M / Seed / Mar 01, 2023 | |
CarpeDM
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CarpeDM app is an exclusive member-only dating community created for singles seeking meaningful relationships with professional Black women. | $1.1M / Pre-Seed / Sep 28, 2022 | |
PONS
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PONS bridges the upstream–downstream imaging gap with patented image enhancement that exposes subtle early-stage tissue shapes and malignant-risk patterns previously invisible to clinicians, and with an AI system for tissue characterization that amplifies ultrasound data size by 50× and optimizes AI systems for diagnostic accuracy. By transforminga single scan into high-resolution, AI-ready insight, PONS enables mass-market, precision ultrasound and accelerates the shift toward decentralized, proactive healthcare. Making ultrasound accessible to the mass market by addressing the limitations of high-resolution images in the early stages of disease. | $125K / Pre-Seed / Jul 08, 2022 | |
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EcoMap Technologies
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About EcoMap Technologies EcoMap delivers transformative ecosystem intelligence that helps economic development organizations, state agencies, innovation hubs, and ecosystem builders foster stronger, more dynamic local economies. Unlike traditional approaches, EcoMap offers integrated solutions uniquely designed for the complex demands of regionalecosystems, including EcoMap Discover ecosystem mapping, the Ecosystem Relationship Manager (ERM), Ecosystem Chatbot, and the advanced Ecosystem Intelligence™ suite with the Nonprofit Intelligence Dashboard and the Ecosystem Scorecard. These tools empower comprehensive development efforts across entrepreneurship, small business, advanced industries, and workforce and community development. Known for its forward-thinking approach, EcoMap's solutions are easier to use, faster to implement, and built for the nuanced, evolving needs of today's economic development landscape. Learn more at www.ecomap.tech. | $3.5M / Seed / Jun 07, 2022 | |
Givhero
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Givhero develops an innovative social wellness platform designed to leverage causes that employees care about and increase their engagement in activities. The platform allows employers to deliver meaningful motivation, by sponsoring employees' health goals and rewarding their achievements by supporting their favorite causes, thereby, enablingemployees to increase their healthy activities, productivity, and reduce long-term insurance costs. | Seed / Mar 07, 2022 | |
Sage SEO
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Sage is a new SEO SaaS platform built to help startups achieve front page rankings by boiling down SEO to a set of simple, straight forward tasks.We optimize the content creation process by providing the keyword recommendations, data insights, and actionable tips that provide startups with a roadmap to improved SEO performance. This helpsfast-forward them to higher organic traffic rankings. By combining API access to a number of different tools like Google Analytics, Search Console, SEMRush, AHRefs, DataforSEO, and a few others, we can gather data from disparate sites and create a single, actionable intelligence hub. | $320K / Pre-Seed / Mar 05, 2022 | |
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Sage SEO
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Sage is a new SEO SaaS platform built to help startups achieve front page rankings by boiling down SEO to a set of simple, straight forward tasks.We optimize the content creation process by providing the keyword recommendations, data insights, and actionable tips that provide startups with a roadmap to improved SEO performance. This helpsfast-forward them to higher organic traffic rankings. By combining API access to a number of different tools like Google Analytics, Search Console, SEMRush, AHRefs, DataforSEO, and a few others, we can gather data from disparate sites and create a single, actionable intelligence hub. | $320K / Angel / Jan 01, 2022 | |
Sheeva.AI
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Sheeva.AI has developed an in-car payments and commerce solution that introduces vehicle location-based services to monetize the driver experience. Sheeva’s patented precise geolocation technology allows drivers to seamlessly pay for and receive services such as fueling, electric vehicle charging, parking, curbside pickup and drive-through withoutleaving the comfort of their vehicle. The Sheeva technology automatically detects the vehicle at the specific gas pump, parking spot, electric vehicle charging space, or drive-through lane and enables payments right on the in-vehicle infotainment screen or in the OEM mobile app. The Sheeva Open API allows OEMs and service providers to integrate payments directly via the cloud and SDK through a secure digital wallet, requiring no additional hardware and no new apps. | $1M / Seed / Nov 16, 2021 | |
| See all 29 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Novella Center for Entrepreneurship invest in?
Novella Center for Entrepreneurship invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 29 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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Who are the partners at Novella Center for Entrepreneurship?
The team at Novella Center for Entrepreneurship includes Brian Le Gette (Entrepreneur In Residence), Cosmina Popa (Managing Director) and Jeffrey Cherry (Founder / Executive Director), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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