TechU

TechU is a biotechnology company founded in 2013 and based in Great Neck, New York. The company focuses on investing in platform technologies that leverage complex scientific and engineering advancements to create significant global impact. TechU seeks out transformative technologies from leading universities and research centers worldwide, prioritizing those with enduring implications rather than short-term returns. The firm aims to provide early capital and knowledgeable support to technologists, fostering innovation that offers distinct competitive advantages. Guided by experienced entrepreneurs, TechU is dedicated to identifying foundational technologies that will shape the future.

Natanel Barookhian

Founder and Managing Partner

31 past transactions

Sydecar

Seed Round in 2022
Sydecar builds tools that remove the headache of organizing private investments for investors so they can focus on making deals, not spreadsheets. Their lightweight, powerful technology helps investors manage subscription documents, compliance, banking, tax reporting, and admin for all of their deals of any size in one place. It was founded in 2021 and is based in Walnut, California, United States.

Sound Health

Seed Round in 2021
Sound Health uses acoustic resonance to provide nasal relief. Its current product is an app that scans the face to map the bone structure and then a headband that plays music at personalized frequencies for 10 minutes. The headband is off the shelf and the sound levels are akin to wearing earpods. It envisions the headband to be over-the-counter (OTC) so it’s easily accessible to patients, whether prescribed by doctors or not.

Elemental Machines

Venture Round in 2021
Elemental Machines is revolutionizing science-based industries with a smart lab platform that offers powerful, data-driven insights to improve laboratory operations, research, development, and manufacturing outcomes. Continuously monitoring equipment and environmental variables provides new levels of clarity, transparency, consistency, and improved repeatability and gathers new data sets for advanced analytics.

DropGenie

Seed Round in 2021
DropGenie is building connected hardware to automate gene editing. They are accelerating the pace of discovery through the generation of standardized and compatible scientific information.

New Age Meats

Series A in 2021
New Age Meats is a biotechnology company that develops healthy cultivated meat grown from animal cells instead of animal slaughter.

Atom Bioworks

Seed Round in 2021
Atom Bioworks is a developer of a pattern-recognition enabled DNA-antibody-mimic rational design platform for sensing and therapeutics of infectious diseases.

Quilt Data

Seed Round in 2021
Quilt makes data-driven companies more collaborative by allowing everyone in the organization—not just data scientists— to work with data in a way that is faster, more collaborative and more trustworthy. Organizations that use Quilt make informed decisions more rapidly, allowing them to be more successful and gain an unfair advantage in today’s increasingly data-driven world.

Sydecar

Venture Round in 2021
Sydecar builds tools that remove the headache of organizing private investments for investors so they can focus on making deals, not spreadsheets. Their lightweight, powerful technology helps investors manage subscription documents, compliance, banking, tax reporting, and admin for all of their deals of any size in one place. It was founded in 2021 and is based in Walnut, California, United States.

Arevo

Series B in 2020
AREVO, based in Silicon Valley, California, develops technology to enable direct digital additive manufacturing of ultra-strong, lightweight composite parts for end use applications in high volume. With the company's unique combination of breakthrough materials, powerful design/build software, and free motion robotics for the first “true 3D” construction, AREVO is moving beyond prototypes by enabling the design and fabrication of large, mass-produced parts and structures, quickly leading 3D printing into mainstream manufacturing. AREVO provides designers and manufacturers with unprecedented freedom to unlock the unparalleled strength and weight of composite materials for a wide range of consumer and industrial products, and has seen early success manufacturing CFRTP composite parts for OEM customers. With an initial focus on Aerospace, Defense, Consumer Electronics, Transportation, and Consumer Goods, Arevo is poised to optimize additive manufacturing services to OEM’s worldwide.

New Age Meats

Seed Round in 2020
New Age Meats is a biotechnology company that develops healthy cultivated meat grown from animal cells instead of animal slaughter.

RemoteHQ

Seed Round in 2020
RemoteHQ is an internet company that specializes in providing software platform designed to connect people to the applications and virtual resources. Its platform serves as a host of team meetings, sales demos, support calls, and training sessions.

Nomic

Seed Round in 2020
Nomic is a bioengineering company working to make the human proteome as broadly and easily accessible as the human genome. They are building the nELISA, a next-generation ELISA platform for measuring proteins at scale and at high throughput. They offer scientists protein profiling solutions to empower them to decide the scope and scale of their experiments.

Volumetric

Seed Round in 2020
Volumetric is an advanced biomaterials and biofabrication company that develops a 3D bioprinting platform intended to create materials with living cells with applications in biomaterials, cancer research, and human organ replacements.

Arpeggio Bio

Seed Round in 2020
Arpeggio Biosciences leverages state of the art sequencing approaches coupled with powerful machine learning to uncover novel insights into a compound's biological mechanism of action. The company is diverse set of molecular biologists, computer scientists, and biotechnology enthusiasts passionate about understanding where, why, and how therapeutics work.

ReviveMed

Convertible Note in 2019
ReviveMed is a precision-medicine platform that leverages the data from small molecules or metabolites. The company's technology is based on a network-based machine learning algorithm for integrative analysis of untargeted metabolomic data with other large-scale molecular information, including data from genes, proteins, drugs and diseases, transforming metabolomic data into actionable insights, enabling development of in-house therapeutics for patients suffering from liver diseases and ailments.

Arpeggio Bio

Seed Round in 2019
Arpeggio Biosciences leverages state of the art sequencing approaches coupled with powerful machine learning to uncover novel insights into a compound's biological mechanism of action. The company is diverse set of molecular biologists, computer scientists, and biotechnology enthusiasts passionate about understanding where, why, and how therapeutics work.

Ayar Labs

Series A in 2018
Ayar Labs develops a monolithic in-package optical I/O (MIPO) solution for applications that require high bandwidth, low latency, and power-efficient short-reach interconnects. The company disrupts the traditional performance, cost, and efficiency curves of the semiconductor and computing industries by driving improvement in interconnect bandwidth density at lower power. Its patented approach uses industry-standard cost-effective silicon processing techniques to develop high speed, high density, low power optical-based interconnect “chiplets” and lasers to replace traditional electrical-based I/O. Ayar’s flagship product is a chip called TeraPhy that implements its optical technology on compact silicon die. The chip can be integrated directly into a central processing unit, graphics card, or another processor to give it optical data transmission capabilities.

Accion Systems

Venture Round in 2018
Accion Systems specializes in in-space propulsion systems for satellites. It developed the Tiled Ionic Liquid Electrospray (TILE) technology, which offers efficient, scalable electric propulsion. TILE is designed to support various satellite maneuvers, including attitude control, collision avoidance, orbit changes, and deorbiting. This propulsion system can be used on a range of spacecraft, from small cubesats to large platforms.

ReviveMed

Seed Round in 2018
ReviveMed is a precision-medicine platform that leverages the data from small molecules or metabolites. The company's technology is based on a network-based machine learning algorithm for integrative analysis of untargeted metabolomic data with other large-scale molecular information, including data from genes, proteins, drugs and diseases, transforming metabolomic data into actionable insights, enabling development of in-house therapeutics for patients suffering from liver diseases and ailments.

Cyclops.io

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Cyclops.io is a team of serial entrepreneurs with backgrounds from Cisco, Nuance, Bessemer Venture Partners, MIT, Caltech and Harvard. They have an extensive background in online video and collaboration, machine vision and deep learning. Their mission is to replicate the feeling and collaborative richness of being in the same room. It could be used internally by distributed teams or by sales or customer service with customers or partners. Everything should be as simple as a click. They are constantly looking for ways to improve your experience. Stay tuned for new and exciting features.

RemoteHQ

Venture Round in 2017
RemoteHQ is an internet company that specializes in providing software platform designed to connect people to the applications and virtual resources. Its platform serves as a host of team meetings, sales demos, support calls, and training sessions.

Multiply Labs

Venture Round in 2017
Multiply Labs manufactures personalized pharmaceutical capsules that are tailor-made to the unique needs of each patient. Multiply Labs’ product is enabled by the combination of pharmaceutical science with robotics technology. The company has built and operates a unique robotic pharmaceutical manufacturing facility. Multiply Labs is the first company ever to bring to the market 3D printed capsules.

Ayar Labs

Seed Round in 2016
Ayar Labs develops a monolithic in-package optical I/O (MIPO) solution for applications that require high bandwidth, low latency, and power-efficient short-reach interconnects. The company disrupts the traditional performance, cost, and efficiency curves of the semiconductor and computing industries by driving improvement in interconnect bandwidth density at lower power. Its patented approach uses industry-standard cost-effective silicon processing techniques to develop high speed, high density, low power optical-based interconnect “chiplets” and lasers to replace traditional electrical-based I/O. Ayar’s flagship product is a chip called TeraPhy that implements its optical technology on compact silicon die. The chip can be integrated directly into a central processing unit, graphics card, or another processor to give it optical data transmission capabilities.

Accion Systems

Series A in 2016
Accion Systems specializes in in-space propulsion systems for satellites. It developed the Tiled Ionic Liquid Electrospray (TILE) technology, which offers efficient, scalable electric propulsion. TILE is designed to support various satellite maneuvers, including attitude control, collision avoidance, orbit changes, and deorbiting. This propulsion system can be used on a range of spacecraft, from small cubesats to large platforms.

WhoKnows

Seed Round in 2016
WhoKnows is the first omni-channel lead gen platform driven by AI and specifically optimized for startups. We have a unique combination of data (over 370M AI-enriched profiles) and lead gen services (email marketing, paid ads, SEO, telemarketing, etc) that allows startups to experiment rapidly in order to build and scale their specific growth engine. The best part is that after an initial discovery period, our pricing is based on performance, so you only pay for the leads that are generated and can fix your acquisition costs.

Bevi

Series A in 2015
Bevi develops a smart water dispenser that provides customizable flavors made from filtered tap water and natural ingredients. Bevi aims to eliminate waste from the production, shipping, and disposing of bottled beverages. Bevi envisions a future where a smarter platform (powered by the municipal water supply) transforms how beverages are delivered.

Accion Systems

Seed Round in 2015
Accion Systems specializes in in-space propulsion systems for satellites. It developed the Tiled Ionic Liquid Electrospray (TILE) technology, which offers efficient, scalable electric propulsion. TILE is designed to support various satellite maneuvers, including attitude control, collision avoidance, orbit changes, and deorbiting. This propulsion system can be used on a range of spacecraft, from small cubesats to large platforms.

Capio

Seed Round in 2014
Capio was born in Silicon Valley at Carnegie Mellon University’s Speech@SV. It was here that Dr. Ian Lane – a leading authority in Speech Recognition, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning – set out to redefine the way they communicate with the technologies around us. Today, Capio is focused on developing the engine that drives all human-to-machine experiences. Based on years of research developed at CMU, they’ve engineered patented innovations that deliver unprecedented accuracy, reliability, insights and efficiency. Powered by the latest advancements in Machine Learning and High Performance Computing, their contextually-aware ASR solutions power applications across multiple industries, including Automotive, Robotics, Call Center, Voice Biometrics, Home Automation and Transcription. At Capio, they create groundbreaking speech technologies that enable more natural human-machine interaction.

Bevi

Seed Round in 2014
Bevi develops a smart water dispenser that provides customizable flavors made from filtered tap water and natural ingredients. Bevi aims to eliminate waste from the production, shipping, and disposing of bottled beverages. Bevi envisions a future where a smarter platform (powered by the municipal water supply) transforms how beverages are delivered.

LedgerX

Series A in 2014
LedgerX develops an institutional derivatives exchange platform for digital currencies. It has applied for registration with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to operate a swap execution facility and derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 2014, it was formerly known as NYBX INC and is based in New York, New York.
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