# Roxann Stafford

> Roxann Stafford is a pre-seed investor at Cornell Tech (New York) backing Software and FinTech. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Cornell Tech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cornelltech)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roxannstafford/
- Website: https://x.com/jroxann

Roxann Stafford is a pre-seed investor at Cornell Tech in New York focused on Software and FinTech. Roxann Stafford is the Visiting Praticioner in Public Interest Tech at Cornell Tech. She attended Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 100% |
| FinTech | 1 | 50% |
| Mobile Apps | 1 | 50% |
| Human Resources | 1 | 50% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reload | Reload is a workforce management platform for AI agents. We are the first Agent Resource Information System (ARIS), enabling businesses to discover, onboard, manage, and pay AI agents with the same ease as human teams. Reload can be white-labeled or embedded by business software platforms, financial institutions, and PEO's. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Feb 19, 2026 |  |
| why?! | why?! is a discussion app that helps you get and remain connected. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Aug 07, 2024 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Zeal Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zeal-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Anthemis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthemis-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Axiom BTC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/axiom-btc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cohen Circle](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fintech-masala) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Plug and Play](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/plug-and-play-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Cornell Tech

VC Fund · New York, United States

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.

5 contacts available at Cornell Tech.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alexander Rush | Associate Professor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-rush |
| Irwin Jacobs | Founding Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/irwin-jacobs |
| Roxann Stafford | Visiting Praticioner in Public Interest Tech | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/roxann-stafford |
| Ryan Snelson | Product studio crit advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryan-snelson |
| Aaron Holiday | Managing Entrepreneurial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aaron-holiday |

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## FAQ

### What does Roxann Stafford invest in?

Roxann Stafford invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Mobile Apps startups, most often at Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 2 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 Roxann Stafford last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Roxann Stafford closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 2 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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