Irwin Jacobs
Founding Chairman @ Cornell Tech
La Jolla, United States
Irwin Jacobs is a pre-seed investor at Cornell Tech in La Jolla focused on Health Care and Biotechnology. Irwin Jacobs is Co-Founder and Chairman at Qualcomm. Founding Chairman of Cornell Tech.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 75%
Last updated:
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Industries Irwin Jacobs invests in
Stages Irwin Jacobs invests in
Countries Irwin Jacobs invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Health Care 2 (50%)
- Biotechnology 2 (50%)
- FinTech 1 (25%)
- Medical 1 (25%)
- Payments 1 (25%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 1 (25%)
- Series B 1 (25%)
- Series C 1 (25%)
- Funding Round 1 (25%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Up 'n go - Pay at table
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Upngo enables contactless payments at over 1,000 restaurants across almost every state in the US. Since launching in 2018, the company has processed millions of contactless payments for restaurant guests. Over 3.5 million payments totaling over $250 million annually are processed by QR code or text payments. | $600K / Pre-Seed / Jun 01, 2023 | |
CycloPure
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They are a global leader in the science of targeted micropollutant removal and pioneered the first-ever use of cyclodextrin-based polymer adsorbents to safely strip away micropollutants in water treatment. | Series B / Nov 12, 2019 | |
Tour Engine
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With the mission of developing the revolutionary opposed-cylinder split-cycle internal combustion engine and proving its superior qualities, Tour Engine, Inc. was founded in 2006. Since then, step-by-step, Tour Engine, Inc. has been developing and testing its unique technology.Within less than a year the Chief of Research and Development, HugoTour, and his team, successfully designed and built an operating split-cycle TourEngine™ prototype. Together with a positive feasibility report from one of the leading provider of engineering services to the world's automotive industry, and positive results from two independent thermodynamic studies conducted by consultants out of academia and a leading US national laboratory, and verified by a third independent thermodynamic study by a team at a major OEM, Tour Engine is focusing on developing and testing the next generation of prototypes. Utilizing existing relationships with leading academic institutions and personnel and working on establishing joint development projects with several major OEMs, we will rapidly produce a fully tested prototype that demonstrates the leap in efficiency, reduction in harmful emissions, and potential applications to the current internal combustion market. Our Simple approach, to design the TourEngine™ based on standard cylinder/piston technology, will allow manufacturers a relatively easy transition into production. | Jul 03, 2018 | |
Biological Dynamics
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Biological Dynamics, Inc. is a healthcare company committed to improving global health outcomes by detecting diseases in their earliest stages. The company's proprietary platform simplifies access to native-state biomarkers and nanoparticles, enabling multiomics applications. The company is focused on detecting cancers by applying its platformtechnology along with its machine learning capabilities. For more information, please visit www.biologicaldynamics.com and follow us at @BiodynSD on Twitter.It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Diego, California. | Series C / Nov 05, 2015 |
Co-Investors
Alexandria
1 deal together
Heritage Group
1 deal together
Institutional Investor
1 deal together
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 Irwin Jacobs invest in?
Irwin Jacobs invests primarily in Health Care, Biotechnology and FinTech startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Irwin Jacobs last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Irwin Jacobs closed in Jun 2023. Shizune tracks 4 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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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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