# RIT Venture Fund I, LLC

> RIT Venture Fund I, LLC is a VC fund in Rochester backing Information Technology and Software. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Rochester, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/RITVentureFund
- Website: https://www.rit.edu/venturefund/

RIT Venture Fund I, LLC is a VC fund in Rochester focused on Information Technology and Software. RIT Venture Fund provides investment capital to entrepreneurial ventures with a strong connection to the RIT community.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 5 | 42% |
| Software | 3 | 25% |
| Consumer Goods | 2 | 17% |
| Beauty | 1 | 8% |
| Sports | 1 | 8% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 7 | 58% |
| Seed | 3 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CisLunar Industries | Space debris is a resource. CisLunar Industries is developing the technology to recycle and reuse it in space. Transforming the economics of space debris clean-up. Accelerating the adoption of in-space manufacturing. Building the foundations of an industrial cislunar economy. | $2.6M | Seed | Mar 23, 2026 |  |
| CytoTronics | CytoTronics is designing and developing cell culture plates with embedded high-density electronic systems. | $13.5M | Seed | Sep 05, 2024 |  |
| Million Studio | We empower athletes to manage, market, and monetize their content and data, through marketing automation technology. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 01, 2021 |  |
| Casana | Casana is unlocking a new category in healthcare technologies that enable effortless, integrated and consistent in-home heart health monitoring. Casana’s first product, The Heart Seat™ is an IoT heart health toilet seat that captures clinically relevant measurements, including heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygenation, and cardiac output.Casana’s mission is to assist medical teams in their care management of patients with chronic conditions beyond the four walls of the hospital, starting with the 6M+ people in the US living with Heart Failure. | $2.2M | Seed | Apr 01, 2020 |  |
| BDEX | BDEX (Big Data Exchange) is the first and only real-time data exchange platform and a revolutionary shift in human connectivity. The BDEX proprietary Data Exchange Platform infrastructure enables B2C companies to connect with consumers like never before and enabling them to reach the right people at the right time. |  |  | Jan 20, 2020 |  |
| Merkuri Digital Development Group, LLC | Merkuri is a team of former military and security professionals that provides innovative security technologies. |  |  | Jan 01, 2020 |  |
| CalvIO | calvIO Inc. is focused on simplifying the cybernetic interaction between man and machine in the industrial setting. We help robot users unlock return on investment in automation by improving the quality of tested designs and reducing the complexity of implementation and ongoing support and maintenance. |  |  | Jan 01, 2020 |  |
| Susteau | OWA Haircare is a cosmetic company that delivers clean and concentrated hair products without water. The company offers powdered shampoo that is free of water and all that other fluff, like sulfates, parabens, silicones, synthetic color, and artificial fragrance, and is made with naturally derived vegan and cruelty-free ingredients. They innovateusing clean ingredients and deliver a product to the user in a solid format.OWA Haircare was founded in 2017 and rebranded in 2021 as Susteau. The company is headquartered in New York, NY, United States. | $475K | Pre-Seed | May 22, 2018 |  |
| Token | Token has developed a biometric-based wearable authentication ring that mitigates the primary cause of data breaches and ransomware losses | $1.5M |  | Jun 27, 2017 |  |
| Viggi Kids | Viggi Kids creates items for universal learning to meet a variety of educational demands. |  |  | Jan 01, 2017 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Excell Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/excell-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Launch NY](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/launch-ny) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Anzu Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anzu-partner) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bemis Manufacturing](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bemis-manufacturing) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BoxOne Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boxone-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CXT Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cxt-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does RIT Venture Fund I, LLC invest in?

RIT Venture Fund I, LLC invests primarily in Information Technology, Software and Consumer Goods startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 12 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 RIT Venture Fund I, LLC last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for RIT Venture Fund I, LLC closed in Mar 2026. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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