Cornell Tech
VC Fund
New York, United States
Cornell Tech is a revolutionary model for graduate education that fuses technology with business and creative thinking. Cornell Tech brings together like-minded faculty, business leaders, tech entrepreneurs and students in a catalytic environment to produce visionary ideas grounded in significant needs that will reinvent the way they live.TheJoan & Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute embodies the academic partnership between Cornell University and the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology at Cornell Tech.Cornell Tech’s temporary campus has been up and running at Google’s Chelsea building in New York City since 2012, with a growing world-class faculty, master’s and PhD students, and postdocs who work with tech-oriented organizations and companies and on their own startups.Construction is underway on Cornell Tech’s permanent, sustainable 12-acre campus on Roosevelt Island, with a first phase due to open in 2017. When fully completed, the campus will include 2 million square feet of state-of-the-art buildings, over 2 acres of open space, and will be home to more than 2,000 graduate students and nearly 280 faculty and staff.Cornell Tech focuses on creating pioneering leaders and technologies for the digital age, through research, technology commercialization, and graduate-level education at the professional masters, doctoral and postdoctoral levels.Their premise is that the rapid pace of innovation in the digital age calls for new approaches to commercializing university technology, new levels of strategic collaboration between companies and universities, and new curricula for graduate education. They are creating new academic programs that blend technical depth, business knowhow, design skills and a “builder” mindset.
- Total investments:
- 23
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 26%
Last updated:
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Industries Cornell Tech invests in
Stages Cornell Tech invests in
Countries Cornell Tech invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 14 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $425k–$4.2M
- Pre-Seed
- $100k–$500k
- Convertible Note
- $100k–$100k
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 7 (30%)
- Software 5 (22%)
- Health Care 4 (17%)
- Education 3 (13%)
- Machine Learning 3 (13%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 14 (61%)
- Convertible Note 3 (13%)
- Seed 2 (9%)
- Angel 2 (9%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Alexander Rush
Associate Professor
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Associate Professor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Irwin Jacobs
Founding Chairman
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Founding Chairman | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Roxann Stafford
Visiting Praticioner in Public Interest Tech
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Visiting Praticioner in Public Interest Tech | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Ryan Snelson
Product studio crit advisor
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Product studio crit advisor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Aaron Holiday
Managing Entrepreneurial Officer
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Managing Entrepreneurial Officer | Total investments: 14 | Find email | |
| See all 14 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| AISeptor is a technology company that builds AI-based software for automation, data analysis, and business optimization. Its solutions are designed to help organizations streamline workflows, process data, and improve decision-making through artificial intelligence tools and applications. | $100K / Pre-Seed / May 15, 2026 | ||
| Sharper Sense is a wearable patch that stimulates a nerve in the neck to enhance hearing, vision, and touch. This neuromodulation technology helps optimize sensory processing for improved perception. | $125K / Pre-Seed / Jun 12, 2024 | ||
Compose AI
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Compose AI is a marketplace that uses generative AI to scale product placement advertisements. | $100K / Pre-Seed / May 17, 2024 | |
| AI-powered platform that helps K-12 schools identify and intervene on student mental health issues early. Students get 24/7 access to personalized SEL exercises via AI chat, while educators receive real-time dashboards to track progress and prioritize support - all without hiring more staff or disrupting instruction. | $100K / Convertible Note / May 17, 2024 | ||
| SaaS platform that simplifies the ESG certification process for businesses, so they are certification-ready in weeks, not months. | $100K / Pre-Seed / May 19, 2023 | ||
| Sharper Sense is a wearable patch that stimulates a nerve in the neck to enhance hearing, vision, and touch. This neuromodulation technology helps optimize sensory processing for improved perception. | $104K / Pre-Seed / Aug 01, 2022 | ||
| Kaveat is a software platform that helps influencers, models, and creators understand and negotiate their contracts. When users upload their contracts, Kaveat's AI reduces each clause into plain English, identifies which clauses are negotiable, and highlights the implications of signing the contract. We believe people should sign contractsthat they can actually understand and reflect their worth. | Pre-Seed / May 20, 2022 | ||
| Abstractive Health uses a novel NLP approach to summarize clinical notes and improve the healthcare system. Our medical summary can be used for outpatient, inpatient, and emergency care to automate clinical notes such as SOAP notes, progress notes, transition of care, ED Provider notes, and discharge summaries. | $100K / Pre-Seed / May 20, 2022 | ||
| HairDays is an AI-powered health data company offering a first-in-kind hair intelligence platform that takes the guesswork out of hair classification, care, and product use. | Pre-Seed / Sep 01, 2021 | ||
| Perceptron Health is the only solution that expands PCPs’ diagnostic capabilities and extends Specialists’ reach so that patients can access better healthcare wherever they choose to live. Our solution combines diagnostics, eConsultations, and AI, to provide seamless specialty care to patients. | $100K / Pre-Seed / Aug 02, 2021 | ||
| See all 23 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Cornell Tech invest in?
Cornell Tech invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Health Care startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Convertible Note stage. Most of the 23 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 Cornell Tech's check size?
Cornell Tech typically joins rounds of $425k–$4.2M at Seed, $100k–$500k at Pre-Seed and $100k–$100k at Convertible Note. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Cornell Tech participates in.
How do I contact Cornell Tech?
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Who are the partners at Cornell Tech?
The team at Cornell Tech includes Alexander Rush (Associate Professor), Irwin Jacobs (Founding Chairman) and Roxann Stafford (Visiting Praticioner in Public Interest Tech), among 14 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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