NYU college

New York University (NYU) is a prominent institution of higher education located in Greenwich Village, New York City, with additional campuses in Westchester, Washington D.C., and Shanghai. Originally established as the School of Commerce, Finance and Accounting, NYU has evolved into a leading management education and research center, offering a wide range of academic programs at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. The university emphasizes global engagement, benefiting from partnerships within its extensive global network. NYU provides various resources, including financial aid services and career centers designed to support working professionals in managing their careers and exploring employment opportunities. Through its commitment to innovation, NYU fosters an entrepreneurial ecosystem that encourages the commercialization of technologies and intellectual property developed by its students, faculty, and researchers.

Dee Dao

Investment Associate

Sergei Revzin

Venture Associate

Frank Rimalovski

Managing Director

25 past transactions

Chiefy

Seed Round in 2023
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 continuous improvement. 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, it is located in New York, New York.

GigFinesse

Seed Round in 2022
GigFinesse reinvents the way artists and venues connect with each other. GigFinesse helps venues and artists to streamline booking and helps both parties maximize their exposure and revenue via data.

Clarifai

Series C in 2021
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 2013 by 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.

Revelio Labs

Seed Round in 2021
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.

Dathic

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Dathic stands for Data and Tech for Communities. At Dathic, we help brands serve authentically the US fastest growing market, Multicultural consumers! Dathic's deep insights and AI-powered analytics solutions enable research, marketing, and sales teams to understand diverse communities at any location in the US and create tailored sales and marketing strategies to reach their multicultural consumers authentically with the products and services they love.

Wrapbook

Seed Round in 2020
Wrapbook is a smart production payroll and cost-tracking platform that connects your entire team—accounting, production, cast, and crew—in a single, easy-to-use interface. With Wrapbook companies can pay workers with a click, track expenses in real time, and generate payroll reports on demand, while workers can submit timecards and track pay from any device. With smart onboarding, automated timecards, and built-in union compliance, Wrapbook makes payroll easier, faster, and more secure.

Envirobe

Grant in 2020
Envirobe offers waste management solutions as well as develops technologies to aid processors of PET waste. They produce plastic-eating microbes to prevent waste products and pollutants in the environment.

Pepper

Seed Round in 2020
Pepper is the direct-to-consumer bra brand that focuses on creating bras that are designed specifically for women that are size AA, A, and B.

Kinvolved

Venture Round in 2020
Kinvolved is a developer of a social enterprise platform designed to improve student attendance and reduce chronic absenteeism. The company's platform combines web, mobile and tablet technology tools with expert consulting and community engagement events, enabling schools to increase funding, create more economically viable communities and improve graduation rates.

KitSplit

Seed Round in 2018
KitSplit is a venture-backed startup re-imagining the Hollywood production studio as a local marketplace. We enable all visual storytellers, regardless of background and budget, to become their own studio with access to world-class gear and services. Today we are the largest rental marketplace and community for gear rentals. Forbes and Fast Company have called us "the AirBNB of cameras." But that's just the tip of the iceberg. Ultimately we're building a one-stop shop for visual content creators to get everything they need including gear, locations, and services. We are looking for high-caliber, visionary, creative, and genuine people to build their careers with us.

PainQx

Venture Round in 2017
PainQx is a diagnostic/software company that has developed a next generation approach to objectively measure pain in humans. The PainQx platform achieves this by assessing neural activity from a patient’s brain and processing and decoding the data through proprietary algorithms. The output is a scaled pain and neurological side effects biomarker that is directly correlated to a patient’s pain state. The PainQx system is currently being used as a clinical assessment tool by companies using pain as a primary or secondary clinical end point to measure their drug’s and/or device’s efficacy.

Vidcode

Seed Round in 2016
Vidcode is an award-winning software that teaches students computer programming through their favorite hobby: video-making. Project-oriented lessons allow students to create memes, video filters, interactive games, virtual reality and beyond with real programming languages. Vidcode offers full semester coding courses that prepare students for AP CS. Voted Best Learning Site 2015 by Common Sense Media

Opentrons

Seed Round in 2016
Opentrons is a developer of pipetting robot technology designed to automate experiments. Their technology is automated laboratory equipment that automates experiments by using the Python language, enabling scientific researchers to make the process faster and less tiresome.

Kinvolved

Seed Round in 2015
Kinvolved is a developer of a social enterprise platform designed to improve student attendance and reduce chronic absenteeism. The company's platform combines web, mobile and tablet technology tools with expert consulting and community engagement events, enabling schools to increase funding, create more economically viable communities and improve graduation rates.

Clarifai

Series A in 2015
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 2013 by 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.

Framed Data

Seed Round in 2014
Framed Data takes data from businesses and turns it into actionable insights and decisions. They train, optimize, and store productionized models in their cloud and provide predictions through an API, eliminating infrastructure overhead. They provide dashboards and scenario analysis tools that tell you which company levers are driving metrics you care about.

Keen Home

Seed Round in 2014
Keen Home develops proactive hardware and software products to protect and enhance your home's core systems. Keen Home’s products provide homeowners with increased comfort, improved efficiency, and a better maintained home. The company’s first product, the Smart Vent, seamlessly controls a home’s heating/cooling airflow on a room-by-room level, resulting in improved comfort and efficiency. The Smart Vent launched in Lowe’s Home Centers in November 2015 and began shipping direct to customers in January 2016. Keen Home’s software platform will serve as the world’s first proactive home health dashboard while offering partners data for lead generation, actuarial insight for risk pricing, and control for peak load management. Keen Home was founded by Ryan Fant, Nayeem Hussain, and Will Mcleod in 2013 and is based in New York City.

Brooklinen

Seed Round in 2014
Brooklinen is a manufacturer and supplier of sheets and pillows. They produce bedding products at a fair price by cutting out the middlemen, focuses on the quality, and eliminates costs such as wholesaling, physical storefronts, and designer licensing fees. Rich and Vicki Fulop established the retail business in 2014 and it is located in Brooklyn, New York.

Orca Pharmaceuticals

Venture Round in 2014
Orca Pharmaceuticals is a new biotechnology startup focusing on treating autoimmune diseases. Funding is from BioMotiv, a Cleveland, Ohio based therapeutics accelerator affiliated with The Harrington Project, and the New York University Innovation Venture Fund. The company, located in Oxford UK, is based on technology developed by inventors from New York University (NYU) in collaboration with the founders in the United Kingdom.

BioDigital

Series A in 2013
BioDigital was founded on the premise that 3D technology could transform the way we understand health and medicine. The founders had witnessed its impact on gaming and Hollywood, and were determined to apply state-of-the-art 3D to healthcare as well. Together they opened BioDigital Systems – a biomedical visualization company – in New York City, and over the years, they have helped make biomedical information more accessible for a diverse list of clients, including hospitals, biotech and medical device companies, pharmaceuticals, non-profit organizations, and academic institutions. The reactions to BioDigital's 3D storytelling – from patients, physicians, healthcare providers, and educators - were so positive that in 2010, BioDigital decided to expand their technology to empower anyone with Internet access to learn about the human body - in a way that resembles life itself. A year later, the BioDigital Human was born. This interactive, medically accurate virtual body enables users to study anatomy, disease, and treatments. The platform is constantly evolving, as our team of software engineers, 3D animators, physicians, and scientists – all with specialized biology training – continue to add both content and features.

TB Biosciences

Series A in 2013
TB Biosciences, Inc. is an early stage development medical diagnostics company founded in June 2013 to develop a rapid point-of-care tuberculosis test that meets performance standards around the world. The goal of TB Biosciences is to commercialize a simple to operate and use tuberculosis test that replaces the 125 year old sputum smear test. The Company is using an array of patented peptides developed and exclusively licensed from the NYU School of Medicine.

Vengo

Seed Round in 2013
Vengo is a software and media company that engages consumers and collects data by combining interactive digital media with point-of-purchase. Selected from 270 companies as "NYC Next Idea 2012," Vengo's next-generation vending machines enable brands such as Trident, Snapple, Dentyne, and Sour Patch Kids to re-engage consumers while generating attractive unit economics (expect six-month payback on new units). Vengo already has established partnerships with Mondelez (one of the largest snack food companies), Snapple, Verizon, CC Vending (second-largest NYC vending machine provider), and Creative Mobile Technologies (NYC taxis). Vengo was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Long Island City, New York.

Tagasauris

Seed Round in 2011
Tagasauris is the developer of a patent-pending human-assisted computing platform designed to “teach” computers the content of a picture or video and how that content relates to the rest of the web. This technology quickly and cost-effectively turns ordinary (“dumb”) visual content into rich searchable media at web-scale and is already being used by corporate customers including Disney, AOL, and ABC. Clients benefit from improved engagement, traffic, and discoverability (e.g. Tagasauris increased website traffic for one client 5,000%+ after tagging 1.8M photos in one early use case). The company employs experts in the fields of linked data, dynamic semantic publishing, and human-assisted computing and is championed by one of the original members of the Watson team at IBM. Tagasauris was incorporated in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Fondu

Seed Round in 2011
Fondu (formerly SpotOn) was a community for sharing bite-sized reviews about places to eat and drink. Users wrote a short review of places they visited and gave it a rating of 1-4 "petals" that got pushed to their followers in the community. After launching SpotOn as an NYC only beta at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC in May, the team spent a lot of time refining the recommendation engine and testing with users. Based on extensive user feedback, the team decided to evolve their product into a social network for bite-sized reviews and renamed the company to Fondu. Fondu was acquired by [Airbnb] (http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-buys-fondu-2012-10) in 2012
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