# NYU Innovation Venture Fund

> NYU Innovation Venture Fund is a VC fund backing Software and Health Care. See 33 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 33
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 3%
- Fund size: $20M
- Last fund: Jan 2010
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/organization/15091471/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/NYUEntrepreneur
- Website: http://entrepreneur.nyu.edu/resource/innovation-venture-fund/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NYUEntrepreneur/

NYU Innovation Venture Fund is a VC fund in New York focused on Software and Health Care. NYU's seed-stage venture capital fund invests exclusively in startups founded by, and/or commercializing technologies and intellectual property developed by current NYU students, faculty, and researchers. The Fund will provide needed capital, contacts with the entrepreneurial and venture communities, and just as important, practicall management and marketing expertise to transform NYU ideas and inventions into successful, growing companies. The Fund makes approximately three to four investments per year in partnership with other angel investors and seed/venture capital funds. The Fund will recycle investment returns from the successful sale of portfolio companies back into the University to finance further research and future ventures.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 24% |
| Health Care | 6 | 18% |
| Analytics | 5 | 15% |
| Biotechnology | 5 | 15% |
| Retail | 4 | 12% |

70 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 22 | 67% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 9% |
| Series A | 3 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 6% |
| Grant | 1 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 28 | 85% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dee Dao | Investment Associate | 0 | — |
| Emily Baum | Venture Associate | 0 | — |
| Frank Rimalovski | Managing Director | 10 | — |
| Sergei Revzin | Venture Associate | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OraLiva | OraLiva is a lean startup focused to turning medical breakthroughs into real-world applications. | $2M | Seed | Oct 07, 2025 |  |
| Chiefy | Chiefy is a Hospital and Health Care company that specializes in zero waste and zero harm in surgery.Chiefy makes it easy for surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, and other stakeholders to align on the case plan earlier through asynchronous virtual huddles. It captures lessons, notes, and feedback after procedures and drives continuousimprovement. With Chiefy, quality and communication best practices are seamlessly baked into daily operations, helping teams collaborate strikingly smarter and get closer to patients.Founded by Maya Ber Lerner and Assaf Ziv in 2020 and is located in New York, New York. | $4.2M | Seed | Feb 13, 2023 |  |
| Rilla | Rillavoice is the leading virtual ridealong software for outside sales and service. Think sales people in solar, roofing, kitchens, baths, HVAC, plumbing, banking, telco, CPG, medical, and more. They talk to customers face to face. They record their conversations with the Rillavoice mobile app. And our AI automatically transcribes, analyzes andgives them feedback to help them improve their sales and service. | $3.7M | Seed | Dec 01, 2022 |  |
| Baton Media | Baton Media creates an ecosystem of tools that increase transparency throughout the collaborative process, ensuring artists are accurately credited and compensated for their work. |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 30, 2022 |  |
| Sabai Design | Sabai Design is a manufacturer and supplier that delivers furniture products and accessories as well as design services. |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 23, 2022 |  |
| GigFinesse | GigFinesse is tearing up the old booking playbook. Powered by AI and backed by white-glove service, our platform pairs venues with the perfect talent in seconds—no middlemen, no guesswork. As the hospitality industry’s fastest-growing live-entertainment engine, we’re installing a new operating system for how shows get booked. | $3.6M | Seed | Sep 23, 2022 |  |
| She Matters | She Matters is a social networking platform dedicated to black women's mental health. | $1.5M | Seed | Aug 09, 2022 |  |
| Clarifai | Clarifai is a leading, full-lifecycle deep learning AI platform for computer vision, natural language processing, and audio recognition. We help organizations transform unstructured images, video, text, and audio data into structured data at a significantly faster and more accurate rate than humans would be able to do on their own. Founded in 2013by Matt Zeiler, Ph.D. Clarifai has been a market leader in AI since winning the top five places in image classification at the 2013 ImageNet Challenge. Clarifai continues to grow with employees remotely based throughout the United States, Canada, Estonia, Argentina & India. | $60M | Series C | Oct 15, 2021 |  |
| My Wellbeing | My Wellbeing offers to connect therapy-seekers with quality therapists fit for their needs. They offer to improve the therapist-finding process by fostering trust between individuals and therapists. They assist in locating the care that paints require. |  | Seed | Aug 02, 2021 |  |
| Revelio Labs | Revelio Labs provides an in-depth view of the workforces of companies around the world. The company leverages advancements in AI technologies to turn hundreds of millions of online profiles, resumes, and job postings into clear insights. Its clients include: corporate strategists, HR, VCs, and investors. | $4M | Seed | Jul 29, 2021 |  |

10 of 33 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Everywhere Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/everywhere-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Uncork Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/softtech-vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [AJI Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aji-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Arizona Tech Investors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arizona-technology-investor-forum) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Corazon Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/corazon-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Crew Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crew-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does NYU Innovation Venture Fund invest in?

NYU Innovation Venture Fund invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 33 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 NYU Innovation Venture Fund?

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### Who are the partners at NYU Innovation Venture Fund?

The team at NYU Innovation Venture Fund includes Dee Dao (Investment Associate), Emily Baum (Venture Associate) and Frank Rimalovski (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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