# Cornell Tech

> Cornell Tech is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 26%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cornell-tech
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/cornell_tech
- Website: http://tech.cornell.edu/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CornellTech

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.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Cornell Tech. Shizune tracks 14 team members at Cornell Tech. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/cornelltech?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $425k–$4.2M |
| Pre-Seed | $100k–$500k |
| Convertible Note | $100k–$100k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 30% |
| Software | 5 | 22% |
| Health Care | 4 | 17% |
| Education | 3 | 13% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 13% |

58 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 14 | 61% |
| Convertible Note | 3 | 13% |
| Seed | 2 | 9% |
| Angel | 2 | 9% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alexander Rush | Associate Professor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-rush |
| Irwin Jacobs | Founding Chairman | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/irwin-jacobs |
| Roxann Stafford | Visiting Praticioner in Public Interest Tech | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roxann-stafford |
| Ryan Snelson | Product studio crit advisor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryan-snelson |
| Aaron Holiday | Managing Entrepreneurial Officer | 14 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aaron-holiday |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aiseptor | 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 | 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 | Compose AI is a marketplace that uses generative AI to scale product placement advertisements. | $100K | Pre-Seed | May 17, 2024 |  |
| Psyflo | 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 |  |
| Elm AI | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Joyance Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joyance-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Plug and Play](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/plug-and-play-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Social Starts](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/social-starts) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Big Red Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/br-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cornell Tech Syndicate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cornell-tech-syndicate) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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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?

Public channels for Cornell Tech include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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