Northwestern University
VC Fund
Evanston, United States
Northwestern University is a VC fund in Evanston focused on Software and Analytics. For a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctorate degree from a school with history and prestige, look no further than Northwestern University, a Big Ten school located in Evanston, Illinois.Northwestern is a large school and features many different areas of study. Though the school is known for its strong arts programs, many students also enroll inscience, engineering, and medical fields.Programs include Biological Sciences, Computer Engineering, Drama, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Film and Media Studies, Integrated Marketing Communication, Journalism, Performance Studies, Sociology, and Theatre, as well as many others.Don’t allow the idea of tuition keep you from attending school. In the financial aid options, counselors can point you toward loans, grants, and work-study programs. There are also many scholarships to choose from including the Northwestern University Scholarship.The annual job fairs aren’t the only resource for students looking to find employment. There are also internship and job listings, as well as programs to explore majors and career options.If Evanston isn’t convenient to you, Northwestern also has a campus in Chicago and even a new satellite campus in Qatar for those studying overseas.As far as student life goes, NU is the place to be. Northwestern University has over 200 extracurricular groups for students be involved in their interests and socialize with others. There is also a museum, concert hall, cinema, and theater for daily entertainment, and a strong athletic program.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 10%
Last updated:
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Industries Northwestern University invests in
Stages Northwestern University invests in
Countries Northwestern University invests in
Contacts
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Francesca Cornelli
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Jian Cao
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Paul Sagan
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William Osborn
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (30%)
- Analytics 3 (30%)
- FinTech 2 (20%)
- Big Data 2 (20%)
- Health Care 2 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (20%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (20%)
- Series A 2 (20%)
- Funding Round 2 (20%)
- Series B 1 (10%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Aviv Nevo
Professor of Economics and Marketing
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Professor of Economics and Marketing | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
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Francesca Cornelli
Dean
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Dean | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Jian Cao
Professor
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Professor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Paul Sagan
Life Trustee
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Life Trustee | Total investments: 21 | Find email | |
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William Osborn
Chairman of the Board of Trustees
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Chairman of the Board of Trustees | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 24 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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ASENSEI
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ASENSEI provides everything a technology company needs to add motion capture (3D Computer Vision and Connected Apparel) and activity-specific understanding and coaching to their product or service.(APP)AREL AND (APP)ERTUREWe provide sensors harnesses and firmware to apparel companies, and 3D computer vision to apps and fitness products, thatare interoperable.ASENSEI.AI SDKWe provide a cross-platform software development kit to third party developers so that they can easily add motion capture powered experiences to their products and apps.TECHNIQUE LIBRARYAn ever-growing library of exercises and associated coaching cues, progressions and regressions that further reduce a partner’s time to market.COACHING BLUEPRINTSDeliver high-value use-cases out of the box, with prefabricated solution accelerators.(APP)AREL Bring real-time motion capture to your platform via ASENSEI connected apparel.(APP)ERTURE Bring real-time motion capture to your platform via ASENSEI 3D computer vision using an ordinary RGB camera.REAL-TIME COACHING Never miss a movement. Count reps and motivate practice. Identify common movement flaws and cue your customers with real-time corrections.INSTRUCTIONAL LEARNING Onboard new customers through instructional teaching of your platform's common movements.MOVEMENT SCREEN The smarter way to warm up. Identify imbalance, tightness, asymmetry. Warm up intelligently, adjust programming or recommend cross-modality training.TRAINING JOURNAL Provide post-workout feedback, coaching notes, skill practice suggestions and progress tracking.DOJO Train asensei to recognize and understand posture and movement. | $2.2M / Seed / Jun 16, 2021 | |
Ocient
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Ocient is a startup building a near-real-time database and data analytics platform for petabyte- to exabyte-scale data sets. Ocient was founded by the talent behind the largest software startup exit in Chicago’s history. Ocient is a well-funded company, with an engineering team comprised of brilliant computer scientists hailing from the world’s topuniversities and organizations. | $40M / Series B / Jan 25, 2021 | |
Gearflow
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Construction's First Parts MarketplaceIn an industry where costs have doubled and margins are tight, there can be no lapse in productivity. With equipment downtime being a contractors largest cost, there is an enormous amount of productivity wasted due to the pains that come with parts procurement.At Gearflow, we are on a mission toaddress construction's productivity problem, one that we have experienced first hand, by digitizing equipment parts procurement and eliminating the pains that come with it.We set out to empower all of the small and mid-sized businesses that make up the construction industry by building a marketplace that works for them.A marketplace where vetted part suppliers can easily become an e-commerce enabled business and build their business's brand online. A marketplace where equipment owners can find the parts they need from suppliers they can trust so they can get back to work.Who are we?We are an eclectic, diverse group of thinkers that are all energized by this massive problem we are tackling for construction's underserved majority.On the surface, we are all very different. And that is what makes our days so fun.We are a group of low ego, high impact individuals where thought leadership is not defined by a hierarchy. | $162K / Pre-Seed / May 20, 2020 | |
Stemloop, Inc.
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Stemloop is a cell-free biosensors platform designed to create sensors that operate outside of cells. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Evanston, Illinois. | Pre-Seed / May 15, 2020 | |
Lakeside Discovery
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Accelerating the translation of transformative biomedical technologies | $65M / Jun 04, 2018 | |
Trim
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Trim is a financial health company that empowers customers across the United States to improve their financial lives. Trim's mission is to make Americans financially healthy at scale. Our customers benefit from automated savings, decreased bills and bank fees negotiated by Trim, canceled subscriptions, and spending analysis andrecommendations. We've saved our users more than $60M and we’re continuing to grow and add features to improve financial health.Our team has previous experience at organizations like Cisco, Eventbrite, Goldman Sachs, Google, LearnVest, Patreon, Rackspace, and Stripe. Trim is backed by venture investors including Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), OCA Ventures, Eniac Ventures, Version One Ventures, and Core Innovation Capital.Come work with us to create the future of personal finance. | Series A / Apr 01, 2018 | |
Solovis
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Solovis is leading fintech innovation for institutional investors with a powerful Cloud platform for multi-asset class portfolio management, reporting and analytics – uniquely designed for the limited partner community. Endowments, foundations, pensions, OCIOs and family offices leverage Solovis to transform how they collect and aggregateinvestment data, analyze portfolio performance, model and predict future outcomes and share meaningful portfolio insights with key stakeholders. The Solovis institutional investment management technology platform enables detailed analysis and dynamic data modeling across multiple portfolios and pools of capital for actionable, transparent insights that empower investors from the front to back office. | $3.3M / Jan 19, 2016 | |
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Solovis
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Solovis is leading fintech innovation for institutional investors with a powerful Cloud platform for multi-asset class portfolio management, reporting and analytics – uniquely designed for the limited partner community. Endowments, foundations, pensions, OCIOs and family offices leverage Solovis to transform how they collect and aggregateinvestment data, analyze portfolio performance, model and predict future outcomes and share meaningful portfolio insights with key stakeholders. The Solovis institutional investment management technology platform enables detailed analysis and dynamic data modeling across multiple portfolios and pools of capital for actionable, transparent insights that empower investors from the front to back office. | $3.3M / Seed / Jan 19, 2016 | |
Tanvas
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Tanvas is redefining touch by enabling you to feel what you see on any touchscreen. Despite advances in graphics, sound and vibration, today’s touchscreen is a still just a static window to the digital world. Tanvas uses surface haptics to add a new dimension of interaction that goes beyond the buzz of vibration and brings unlimited textures andfeelings to flat, physical surfaces. TanvasTouch can be built into any touch-enabled product across a wide range of applications including automotive, retail, consumer electronics, visually impaired and custom displays. Founded in 2011 by haptics pioneers, Ed Colgate and Michael Peshkin, Tanvas is headquartered in Chicago and received a Chicago Innovation Award in 2015.Visit www.tanvas.co to learn more about the future of touch | $5M / Series A / Jun 23, 2015 | |
Narrative Science
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Narrative Science creates software that writes stories from data to drive understanding and results. Powered by artificial intelligence, its technology automatically turns data into easy-to-understand reports, transforms statistics into stories, and converts numbers into knowledge. The company has two data storytelling products, Quill and Lexiowhich aim to help businesses understand their data and the story behind it. The Lexio integrates with many data sources companies use daily, including Salesforce, Google Analytics, Marketo, and many others, to provide actionable insights for those with limited data analytics abilities. The Quill is an intelligent automation platform that allows enterprise organizations to change how they do internal and external reporting by using natural language generation.Narrative Science was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States. | $11.5M / Series C / Sep 10, 2013 |
Co-Investors
OCA Ventures
4 deals together
Edison Partners
2 deals together
MissionOG
2 deals together
Timberline Venture Partners
2 deals together
AAF Management Ltd.
1 deal together
AAF Management Ltd.
1 deal together
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The team at Northwestern University includes Aviv Nevo (Professor of Economics and Marketing), Francesca Cornelli (Dean) and Jian Cao (Professor), among 24 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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