David Tisch
HEAD OF STARTUP STUDIO @ Cornell Tech
New York, United States
David Tisch is a seed investor at Cornell Tech in New York focused on Software and Internet. David Tisch is the Managing Partner of BoxGroup, a New York City-based early stage investment fund. BoxGroup is an investor in over 200 seed-stage companies, including Vine, Blue Apron, Sunrise, Warby Parker, Harry’s, Oscar, Behance, Handy and more. David is also the co-founder and Chairman of Spring, a mobile marketplace where customers shopdirectly within the app from a curated community of brands. Spring was named by Apple as one of the Best Apps of 2014.In 2014, David was named Head of Startup Studio at Cornell Tech, the University’s New York City-based graduate campus focused on digital technologies and the information economy. He is also Entrepreneur in Residence for Wharton’s Entrepreneurship Program.David is the co-founder of TechStars NYC and has served on numerous boards, including Mayor Bloomberg’s Advisory Council on Technology, the Investor Board of Venture for America, and the Entrepreneurship board at NYU. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and New York University School of Law, and currently lives in New York City
- Total investments:
- 253
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 4%
Last updated:
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Industries David Tisch invests in
Stages David Tisch invests in
Countries David Tisch invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $850k–$4M
- Series A
- $1.1M–$15M
- Series B
- $7M–$70M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 39 (15%)
- Internet 31 (12%)
- E-Commerce 29 (11%)
- Mobile 24 (9%)
- Apps 19 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 115 (45%)
- Series A 60 (24%)
- Series B 19 (8%)
- Convertible Note 10 (4%)
- Pre-Seed 5 (2%)
Country
- United States 170 (67%)
- France 1 (0%)
- Israel 1 (0%)
- Germany 1 (0%)
- Hong Kong 1 (0%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Aslan Protects
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Aslan Protects is an AI agents that avert the next mass shooting before it happens. | $20.8M / Seed / Sep 01, 2026 | |
Arkero
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Arkero is an AI-native operations platform tailored for professional sports businesses, such as teams in MLS, NWSL, and the English Football League. It integrates seamlessly with existing tools like ticketing systems, CRM, data warehouses, Slack, and email to automate workflows, provide real-time insights, and drive decisions. | $6M / Pre-Seed / Jan 29, 2026 | |
Keychain
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Keychain is a CPG production platform that collaborates with retailers and brands to streamline and simplify the process of developing items that consumers adore. | $40M / Series B / Aug 19, 2025 | |
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Aslan Protects
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Aslan Protects is an AI agents that avert the next mass shooting before it happens. | $2.5M / Pre-Seed / Apr 29, 2025 | |
Nourish
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Nourish is a healthcare technology company that connects patients with registered dietitians through virtual nutrition counseling services covered by insurance plans. The platform allows users to find dietitians based on their health goals and attend appointments through telehealth, while also offering tools for meal tracking, goal monitoring, andnutrition guidance through its mobile application. Nourish works with registered dietitian nutritionists who provide support for conditions such as diabetes, weight management, cardiovascular health, eating disorders, and pediatric nutrition care. The company states that it partners with major insurance providers to reduce out-of-pocket costs for patients and offers ongoing nutritional care through recurring consultations. In addition to patient services, Nourish publishes educational resources and uses data-driven approaches to support personalized nutrition planning and long-term health management. | $70M / Series B / Apr 23, 2025 | |
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Keychain
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Keychain is a CPG production platform that collaborates with retailers and brands to streamline and simplify the process of developing items that consumers adore. | $15M / Series A / Nov 19, 2024 | |
FullyRamped
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Fully Ramped is for sales teams that prioritize phone calls. With the help of the voice AI platform Fully Ramped, your representatives may rehearse their phone sales techniques with simulated prospects who sound exactly like your clients. With many at-bats and various settings, practice pitching, resolving objections, product | $2.3M / Pre-Seed / Oct 16, 2024 | |
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Nourish
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Nourish is a healthcare technology company that connects patients with registered dietitians through virtual nutrition counseling services covered by insurance plans. The platform allows users to find dietitians based on their health goals and attend appointments through telehealth, while also offering tools for meal tracking, goal monitoring, andnutrition guidance through its mobile application. Nourish works with registered dietitian nutritionists who provide support for conditions such as diabetes, weight management, cardiovascular health, eating disorders, and pediatric nutrition care. The company states that it partners with major insurance providers to reduce out-of-pocket costs for patients and offers ongoing nutritional care through recurring consultations. In addition to patient services, Nourish publishes educational resources and uses data-driven approaches to support personalized nutrition planning and long-term health management. | $35M / Series A / Mar 27, 2024 | |
Keychain
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Keychain is a rapidly growing platform dedicated to connecting brands and retailers with the best manufacturing partners worldwide. At Keychain, we utilize AI to streamline the process of finding and vetting manufacturers, making the supply chain more transparent and efficient. | $18M / Seed / Feb 13, 2024 | |
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Nourish
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Nourish is a healthcare technology company that connects patients with registered dietitians through virtual nutrition counseling services covered by insurance plans. The platform allows users to find dietitians based on their health goals and attend appointments through telehealth, while also offering tools for meal tracking, goal monitoring, andnutrition guidance through its mobile application. Nourish works with registered dietitian nutritionists who provide support for conditions such as diabetes, weight management, cardiovascular health, eating disorders, and pediatric nutrition care. The company states that it partners with major insurance providers to reduce out-of-pocket costs for patients and offers ongoing nutritional care through recurring consultations. In addition to patient services, Nourish publishes educational resources and uses data-driven approaches to support personalized nutrition planning and long-term health management. | $8M / Seed / Feb 01, 2023 | |
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Co-Investors
About Cornell Tech
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.
Cornell Tech Contacts
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Alexander Rush
Associate Professor
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Irwin Jacobs
Founding Chairman
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Roxann Stafford
Visiting Praticioner in Public Interest Tech
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Ryan Snelson
Product studio crit advisor
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Aaron Holiday
Managing Entrepreneurial Officer
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FAQ
What does David Tisch invest in?
David Tisch invests primarily in Software, Internet and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 253 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 David Tisch's check size?
David Tisch typically joins rounds of $850k–$4M at Seed, $1.1M–$15M at Series A and $7M–$70M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds David Tisch participates in.
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When did David Tisch last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for David Tisch closed in Sep 2026. Shizune tracks 253 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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