Emerald Development Managers
VC Fund
New York, United States
Emerald Development Managers is a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage growth equity investments. The firm deals sourced from decades-long relationships with academic institutions, operating managers, angels, and like-minded VCs. In addition to capital, they bring experience, discipline, critical thinking, financing expertise, andsignificant hands-on involvement to the companies and support, and often refer to what they do as providing mentor capital.Founded in 1994 and is based in New York, NY, USA.
- Total investments:
- 40
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
Last updated:
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Industries Emerald Development Managers invests in
Stages Emerald Development Managers invests in
Countries Emerald Development Managers invests in
Contacts
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Neil Cohen
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Charles Collins
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Ian Tolfree
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Joshua Smith
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Neil Cohen
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 9 (23%)
- Medical 7 (18%)
- Software 7 (18%)
- Biotechnology 7 (18%)
- Cyber Security 7 (18%)
Stage
- Series A 12 (30%)
- Seed 9 (23%)
- Series B 6 (15%)
- Funding Round 4 (10%)
- Series C 3 (8%)
Country
- United States 24 (60%)
- Italy 1 (3%)
- Canada 1 (3%)
- United Kingdom 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Neil Cohen
Founder and Chairman
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Founder and Chairman | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
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Charles Collins
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
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Ian Tolfree
Entrepreneur-in-Residence
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Entrepreneur-in-Residence | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Joshua Smith
Vice President, Investor Relations
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Vice President, Investor Relations | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Neil Cohen
Founder and Chairman
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Founder and Chairman | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Random Power
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Random Power develops a random bit generator for key generation. It also provides secure, cost-effective, robust, and tiny devices for the IoT, secure computing, gambling, simulation of complex processes, and training in artificial intelligence algorithms and markets with significant expected growth to let users generate and transmit randombitstreams while varying a variety of system parameters.The company's bit generator is based on a silicon device, with all of the advantages connected to the micro-electronics advances; the source of randomness is endogenous, and this is a genuine paradigm shift with respect to existing devices, providing simplification and robustness to the system. | $3M / Seed / Dec 10, 2025 | |
Una Software
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Una Software involves working together and putting decisions into practice. Una Software develops products to facilitate revenue orchestration. | $4.4M / Seed / May 08, 2025 | |
Uviquity
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Uviquity is a firm that wants to encourage safety for their clients. The company is based in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the United States. | $6.6M / Seed / May 07, 2025 | |
Proscia
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Proscia is a software company that is changing the way the world practices pathology to transform cancer research and diagnosis. With the company’s Concentriq digital pathology platform and pipeline of AI-powered applications, laboratories are leveraging new kinds of data to accelerate discoveries and improve patient outcomes. Proscia’s team oftechnologists, scientists, and pathologists is bringing a fresh approach to an outdated industry, helping the world to keep pace with the increasing demand for pathology services and fulfill the promise of precision diagnostics. | $50M / Series D / Mar 19, 2025 | |
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Uviquity
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Uviquity is a firm that wants to encourage safety for their clients. The company is based in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the United States. | $6.7M / Sep 05, 2024 | |
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Uviquity
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Uviquity is a firm that wants to encourage safety for their clients. The company is based in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the United States. | $6.7M / Seed / Sep 05, 2024 | |
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Proscia
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Proscia is a software company that is changing the way the world practices pathology to transform cancer research and diagnosis. With the company’s Concentriq digital pathology platform and pipeline of AI-powered applications, laboratories are leveraging new kinds of data to accelerate discoveries and improve patient outcomes. Proscia’s team oftechnologists, scientists, and pathologists is bringing a fresh approach to an outdated industry, helping the world to keep pace with the increasing demand for pathology services and fulfill the promise of precision diagnostics. | $9M / Series C / Mar 13, 2024 | |
ETCH
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ETCH commercializes a chemical process that generates low-cost hydrogen by splitting natural gas into hydrogen and solid carbon. The process can be powered by either natural gas, hydrogen, or electricity. Carbon generated by the process is pure and can be stored in environmentally benign facilities. | $7.5M / Seed / Jul 25, 2023 | |
Cyware
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Cyware Labs provides cyber fusion solutions to help businesses detect and stop advanced cyberattacks.Cyware offers the technology organizations need to build a virtual cyber fusion center. With separate but integrated solutions including an advanced threat intel platform (TIP), vendor-agnostic security automation (SOAR), and security casemanagement, organizations are able to increase speed and accuracy while reducing costs and analyst burnout. Cyware's virtual cyber fusion solutions make secure collaboration, information sharing, and enhanced threat visibility a reality for enterprises, sharing communities (ISAC/ISAO), MSSPs, and government agencies of all sizes and needs. | $30M / Series C / Jun 29, 2023 | |
Transcend Therapeutics
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Transcend Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing rapid-acting treatments for neuropsychiatric diseases. The company aims to address mental health conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depressive disorder (MDD), particularly for patients who do not respond to existing therapies. Thecompany’s lead program, TSND-201 (methylone), is being developed as a next-generation neuroplastogen designed to deliver fast and durable therapeutic effects. Its research emphasizes innovative psychoactive compounds that can improve outcomes while minimizing common limitations of traditional psychiatric medications. Backed by venture funding and an experienced leadership team with multiple FDA approvals, Transcend Therapeutics continues to advance clinical trials and expand its pipeline of mental health treatments. | $40M / Series A / Feb 23, 2023 | |
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FAQ
What does Emerald Development Managers invest in?
Emerald Development Managers invests primarily in Health Care, Medical and Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 40 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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The team at Emerald Development Managers includes Neil Cohen (Founder and Chairman), Charles Collins (Managing Director) and Ian Tolfree (Entrepreneur-in-Residence). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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