# Duke University

> Duke University is a VC fund in Durham backing Health Care and Biotechnology. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Durham, United States
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 5%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/school/duke-university/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/DukeU
- Website: http://www.duke.edu
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DukeUniv

Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Home of the Blue Devils, Duke University has about 15,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world-class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The university has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in service to society, both near its NorthCarolina campus and around the world.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 6 | 32% |
| Biotechnology | 5 | 26% |
| FinTech | 3 | 16% |
| Medical | 3 | 16% |
| Software | 3 | 16% |

44 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 6 | 32% |
| Seed | 5 | 26% |
| Series A | 2 | 11% |
| Series D | 2 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 5% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 15 | 79% |
| Mexico | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Adrian Bejan | J.A. Jones Distinguished Professor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adrian-bejan |
| Barry Bycoff | Member of the Board of Visitors, Pratt School of Engineering | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barry-bycoff |
| Dan Ariely | Senior Fellow | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dan-ariely |
| Greg Crawford | Professor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greg-crawford |
| Janet Hill | Trustee | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/janet-hill |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| NewLimit | NewLimit specializes in treating age-related diseases to extend the human health span. It works on developing epigenetic reprogramming medicines to treat diseases with large unmet needs. | $45M | Convertible Note | Oct 20, 2025 |  |
| Sidecar Health | Sidecar Health is an insurtech company that provides a personalized health insurance platform. Its platform offers customizable plans based on coverage needs and budget while being completely transparent about medical costs and payouts with comparable coverage and permits fast and easy transactions through a credit card to charge medical expensesupfront at the doctor's office and pharmacy of their choice, enabling consumers to get suitable and affordable health insurance plans.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in El Segundo, California . | $165M | Series D | Jun 26, 2024 |  |
| PranaQ | PranaQ is a digital healthcare company, developing wearable medical devices with an AI-based biomedical signal processing algorithm. Our current focus is to provide digital solutions for sleep and breathing disorders. We believe in the future of IoMT (Internet of Medical Things) and digital healthcare. Our goal is to empower people to gain moreknowledge of their health conditions, control of their medical treatments, and to improve their quality of life. | $3M | Seed | Nov 04, 2022 |  |
| Superb AI | Superb AI is a company that develops computer vision and MLOps solutions designed to support AI deployment across industries such as manufacturing, logistics, physical security, and autonomous systems. Its platform provides tools for data annotation, model training, deployment, monitoring, and dataset management to help organizations manage AIworkflows more efficiently. The company also develops industry-focused Vision AI technologies, including foundation models and video analytics systems that can be applied to industrial and operational environments. Superb AI works with enterprises in sectors including automotive, electronics, energy, and infrastructure, supporting applications such as defect detection, surveillance analysis, and autonomous driving data processing. In addition to its software platform, the company conducts research and development in areas such as data-centric AI, physical AI, and spatial recognition technologies. The company helps enterprises accelerate AI adoption through automated data labeling, model training, and continuous AI performance optimization. | $16M | Series B | Sep 21, 2022 |  |
| Ozette Technologies | Ozette is a life sciences data startup company that develops an artificial intelligence-enabled immune monitoring platform.It empowers scientists to quickly extract reliable insights from single-cell data across instruments, experiments, and disease states, with a focus on cancer patients. The data can be used by doctors to diagnose and prescribemedication with greater accuracy.In 2020, co-founders Raphael Gottardo, Greg Finak, Ali Ansary, and Evan Greene headquartered the life science company in Seattle, Washington. | $26M | Series A | Jul 28, 2022 |  |
| In-Video Impressions | In-Video Impressions targets the right people, at the correct moment, with the most relevant message to increase chances of a purchase. In-Video uses innovative techniques to understand digital content interaction patterns to deliver millions of ads a day with industry leading recency and relevancy. In-Video gives its clients access to audiences ofover 55 million people, has tracked over 5 billion digital content interactions, and has increased customers conversions rate by as much as 5.1x. In-Video primarily works in the health and wellness space though it has some assets in fitness, athletics, and consumer tech. In-Video's proprietary technology and processes leverage video pixels and a deep understanding of video ad platforms to deliver actionable audience data. While most of In-Video's clients are not publicly disclosed, it has made public that it increase content engagement for Duke Basketball by 2.4x in a specific engagement. In-Video's technology are compliant with the strictest privacy regulations in the US and EU, which has given it an advantage over competitors. In-Video Impressions was founded by a former Microsoft Manager out of Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. |  | Seed | Jun 19, 2018 |  |
| getxerpa | getxerpa is an all in one personal finance solution that empowers banks and financial institutions to build in just weeks new products and services focused on increasing customer adoption and product usage. Through widgets that work as Lego blocks, banks can create better savings and investment experiences and PFM features inside their digitalchannels. Using machine learning, we analyze en enrich millions of transactions to segment customer based on their life cycle and transactions, offering each one smart and personalized recommendations. | $100K | Seed | Jun 01, 2018 |  |
| Talented | Talented is a company that identify & invest in employee potential with the world's first automated professional development & discovery system. | $60K | Pre-Seed | Oct 18, 2017 |  |
| MoneyComb | MoneyComb is a personal finance application that helps people make smarter spending choices to increase both happiness and financial wellness. Developed in collaboration with Dan Ariely and Duke University, we combine cutting edge research, time-tested wisdom and your own money mindset to craft a custom spending allocation based on who you are andhow you want to spend. | $60K | Seed | Oct 04, 2015 |  |
| clypd | clypd is the advertising technology platform built exclusively for the television industry, empowering media owners with programmatic ad solutions. Founded in 2012, the company’s TV sales platform delivers workflow automation, data-enhanced decisioning, and provides media partners with tools to manage their sales efforts. Its innovations aroundprogrammatic television are opening doors for incremental digital budgets currently not available to the TV media owners. The clypd team is comprised of both TV and digital advertising experts, which uniquely positions the company to understand and meet the needs of the television industry while leveraging the best programmatic strategies from the digital world. | $19.4M | Series B | Apr 09, 2015 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Montreux Equity Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/montreaux-equity-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Alta Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alta-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ARCH Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arch-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Genentech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/genentech) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [HealthCare Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/healthcare-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kleiner Perkins](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Duke University invest in?

Duke University invests primarily in Health Care, Biotechnology and FinTech startups, most often at Series B and Seed stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Duke University?

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### Who are the partners at Duke University?

The team at Duke University includes Adrian Bejan (J.A. Jones Distinguished Professor), Barry Bycoff (Member of the Board of Visitors, Pratt School of Engineering) and Dan Ariely (Senior Fellow), among 22 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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