Big Red Ventures

BR Ventures (BRV) is Cornell's student-run venture capital fund, providing a vital connection between intellectual properties and needed financial resources by infusing venture capital and business expertise into promising Cornell and local startups. The Fund provides seed capital, typically ranging between $50,000 and $200,000, to selected businesses. Over its lifetime, BRV will invest up to $10,000,000 in business entities, most of which will be sourced through the extended Cornell community. BRV is funded by donations to the University and returns are used to create a growing pool of investment capital and build the endowment. The Fund has undertaken several initiatives to facilitate the commercialization of Cornell technology and to expand the scope of entrepreneurship throughout the extended Cornell community. These initiatives include the $25,000 Cornell Venture Challenge, partnering with Cornell's technology transfer office-CCTEC, participation in the Cornell Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Club's annual symposium, working to build a strong relationship with Entrepreneurship@Cornell, and developing an extensive network among alumni. BRV has also developed informal relationships with a number of unaffiliated later stage venture capital firms and incubators.

Wu, Margaret

Fund Manager

21 past transactions

GrapevineAI

Seed Round in 2020
GrapevineAI specializes in providing whitelisted social campaigns. It matches brands of all sizes with the right creators and turns articles, photos, and videos into ads that are ready to launch on paid social channels.

Flip CX, Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Flip CX is a software company that replaces old customer service robots with a modern Alexa-like voice AI experience, specifically for retail eCommerce & transportation businesses. Flip automates your phone support to provide quick and easy resolutions as well as personalized recommendations to more deeply engage the brand. Brands accelerate their customer experience, agent experience, efficiency, and ultimately growth through value-add conversations with customers at scale. Solving customer service and building relationships that drive lifetime value. Dorm room founding. Backed by the people behind Attentive, Ada, and Amazon Alexa.

HUE.AI

Seed Round in 2018
HUE.AI is the first Artificial Intelligence product designer for the optical and medical industry. HUE.AI, through it's parent Cyborg Industries, has developed proprietary technology that combines machine learning with the scientific insights of chemistry, optics and materials to understand and optimize human visual acuity and color perception. Our proprietary software, MAIDAS, is the world's first AI system for optical performance and cosmetic appeal - pushing the boundaries of ophthalmic lenses, coatings, intraocular lenses, contacts and more. To find out what AI can do for you, request a meeting - https://www.hueai.com/contact With three products ready to be licensed, HUE.AI, is the next generation of optics. Take a look at our.... Color Vision Deficiency Correction Lens (Color Blindness) - https://www.hueai.com/cvd Blue-Light Blocking Lens - https://www.hueai.com/blue-block Progressive Lens - https://www.hueai.com/progressive At Cyborg Industries, our mission is to improve lives through developing re-imagined vision and color products. We are taking the same Artificial Intelligence that is transforming industries like space exploration, robotics, and medical science into the optical industry.

Repairogen

Seed Round in 2017
Repairogen is developing premium anti-aging skincare ingredients and products based on a platform technology invented at an ivy-league medical research institution. Products incorporating its proprietary and scientifically proven technology will provide customers with healthier and younger-looking skin. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Datalogue

Seed Round in 2017
Datalogue is a group of computer scientists, business leaders and designers with a passion for data but frustrated with the amount of work that it takes to prepare data experiments. They build data products that make our own lives as data scientists easier. They promise to always provide you with an unparalleled experience as you embark on your next data project.

Concertio

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Concertio is a premier provider of AI-powered performance optimization tools for the hardware and software markets. It also provides AI-powered performance optimization tools that boost the performance of computing systems by tailoring the many system settings in processors, firmware, OS and applications to the running workloads. The company tools are used by the likes of Intel, Marvell, and Mellanox to boost the performance of a multitude of devices and applications, turning general-purpose systems into high-performant special-purpose systems. The optimizer studio integrates performance optimization software suite that monitors (and learns from) the interactions between applications and systems, to deliver optimal configuration settings for peak performance. Concertio was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, NY, USA.

TeraPore Technologies

Seed Round in 2016
TeraPore's cutting edge technology facilitates rapid and efficient purification of biological fluids. Combining uniform pores with large pore densities enables purification of high-value products with fast processing times. Please contact us for more information.

TetraScience

Venture Round in 2016
TetraScience is an R&D cloud data management company that empowers transformation in life sciences and drug discovery, aiming to disrupt life sciences research and development, accelerate discovery, and improve and extend human life. The Tetra R&D Data Cloud provides life sciences companies with the flexibility, scalability, and data-centric capabilities to enable easy access to centralized, standardized, and actionable scientific data and is actively deployed across enterprise pharma and biotech organizations. As an open platform, TetraScience has built the largest integrated network of lab instruments, informatics applications, CRO/CDMOs, analytics, and data science partners, creating seamless interoperability and an innovation feedback loop that will drive the future of life sciences R&D. In 2014, Alok Tayi, Salvatore Savo, and Siping Wang co-founded TetraScience in Boston, Massachusetts.

ProofPilot

Seed Round in 2016
ProofPilot is a research company that specializes in the fields of public health, research, behavioral health, and market research. The company making it as easy to design and run a complex research study as it is to manage a blog post. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Caper

Seed Round in 2016
Caper (caper.ai) focuses on compacting Amazon-Go's technology (image recognition, sensor fusion and artificial intelligence) into a smart shopping cart, allowing each shopper to throw her groceries into the cart and self-checkout without cashiers. The technology is looking to fundamentally transform physical retail and rapidly scale into existing grocery stores.

itellio

Series A in 2014
iTellio is software first - digital ad network that powers over 8,000 screens nationwide. By utilizing facial and mobile detection, itellio is able to target audience segments in real-time delivering unparalleled targeting capability to advertisers and brands alike. itellio partners with digital signage operators and connect their ad inventory to multiple revenue streams. Our network reaches six million people daily and we are always able to reach "The Right Eyes. Every Time.®"

Venga

Series A in 2014
Venga uses data and analytics to help businesses better understand and engage with their customers. They offer a complete customer management system that uses visit, purchase, preference, and social data to automatically build detailed customer profiles that power targeted marketing automation, actionable feedback, personalized service and business intelligence. The result is higher customer satisfaction, retention, and visit frequency. Venga currently offers its product to restaurants and fitness studios and has preferred partnerships with OpenTable and Mindbody. To date, Venga has collected detailed data on more than 100 million customers and $6 billion in consumer purchases. Venga is headquartered in the Union Market district of Washington, DC and is backed by Cornell University, Militello Capital, restaurant industry executives, and technology entrepreneurs.

FunnelFire

Seed Round in 2013
FunnelFire, Inc. operates an online sales intelligence platform designed for marketers, enabling users to filter and access relevant online data about prospects. Incorporated in 2012 and based in East Hanover, New Jersey, FunnelFire's software automates research processes typically performed by sales professionals. By gathering comprehensive data on potential clients and companies, the platform provides insights that help users understand customer needs and company strategies. This functionality allows for more effective communication and tailored pitches, ultimately facilitating quicker deal closures. In addition to enhancing sales effectiveness, FunnelFire significantly reduces the time spent on research, empowering users to focus on building relationships and closing business.

Appinions

Series A in 2012
Appinions is the only opinion-powered influence marketing platform designed to give companies the unmatched ability to identify, analyze, engage, monitor and measure influencers. Built on more than a decade of research conducted at Cornell University, Appinions extracts and aggregates the opinions that generate the most reaction from more than six million sources including blogs, social networks, forums, newspapers and magazine articles, thus providing a more complete picture of influence. Appinions helps today’s businesses insert trust into the purchase journey by converting faceless touchpoints into influential trust points™ to optimize marketing efforts. For more information on the science of influence marketing, visit http://www.appinions.com/.

Aitia

Venture Round in 2012
Aitia is the leader in the application of Causal AI and Digital Twins to discover the next generation of breakthrough drugs. By leveraging the convergence of multi-omic patient data, high-performance computing, and causal learning and AI, Aitia is revealing the hidden biological mechanisms of disease to create Digital Twins of disease in oncology, neurodegenerative disorders, and immunology. Gemini Digital Twins are being used today to discover novel therapies and accelerate R&D in multiple myeloma, prostate cancer, Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, and Huntington’s Disease, with several more in development. Aitia’s partners include seven of the top ten pharmaceutical companies, leading academic research and medical centers, medical societies, leading multi-omic data companies, and patient advocacy groups globally.

ScribbleLive

Series A in 2011
ScribbleLive is a content cloud provider that helps companies manage the lifecycle of their content. It provides global brands with the services and solutions they need to create premium content at scale. The company's managed services provide clients with program and campaign coverage including dashboards and program reporting. Its services offered includes content strategy, creative services, implementation, integration, and IT support. ScribbleLive was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.

ScriptPad

Seed Round in 2010
ScriptPad transforms the iPad and iPhone into a digital prescription pad allowing doctors to write prescriptions faster and safer than their current paper process. ScriptPad eliminates deadly prescription writing mistakes that contribute to over 7000 deaths each year and sends the prescription directly to the pharmacy where it will be waiting for the patient to pick up.

Jodange

Seed Round in 2009
[Jodange](http://www.jodanage.com) provides business tools for predicting outcomes and planning strategy by publishing the opinions of holders' sentiments over time.

Semprae Laboratories

Venture Round in 2009
Semprae Laboratories, Inc. is a company founded by women and focused on women's sexuality

PacBio

Series B in 2004
PacBio designs, develops, and manufactures sequencing systems to resolve genetically complex problems. Its single molecule real-time (SMRT) sequencing technology enables single molecule real-time detection of biological processes.

SightSpeed

Venture Round in 2003
SightSpeed is a peer-to-peer Internet video and voice calling service that offers free SightSpeed-to-SightSpeed calls. The service also provides users to the ability to call and receive calls from mobile and landline phones. SightSpeed is the first consumer VoIP software provider to allow as many as 9 simultaneous participants in a video conference. Dell Video Chat powered by SightSpeed is a bundled video chat service provided free to Dell consumers users and their friends.
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