TechU

TechU is a biotechnology company that operates as a venture capital fund based in Great Neck, New York. The company focuses on investing in platform technologies that leverage scientific and engineering advancements for significant global impact. TechU identifies and supports emerging technologies from leading universities, laboratories, and research centers, emphasizing innovations with the potential for long-term benefits rather than short-term gains. By providing early capital and expert guidance, TechU aims to nurture deep tech pioneers, facilitating their development of transformative solutions. The leadership team comprises experienced entrepreneurs who bring both financial resources and specialized knowledge to the table, ensuring comprehensive support for the innovators they back.

Alexander Angerer

Partner

Natanel Barookhian

Founder & Managing Partner

22 past transactions

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.

DropGenie

Seed Round in 2021
DropGenie is a biotechnology company founded in 2018 and based in Montreal, Canada. The company focuses on developing connected hardware that automates gene editing processes, thereby enhancing the efficiency of genetic engineering. Its platform streamlines liquid handling and experimental conditions, which helps scientists reduce costs while improving the standardization and reproducibility of their work. By generating standardized and compatible scientific information, DropGenie aims to accelerate the pace of discovery in the field of genetics, making advancements in gene editing more accessible to researchers.

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 and consistency, and improved repeatability and gathers new data sets for advanced analytics.

New Age Meats

Series A in 2021
New Age Meats is a biotechnology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2017. The company specializes in producing cultivated meat using an automated, data-driven platform and advanced stem cell technology. By growing meat from animal cells rather than relying on traditional animal slaughter, New Age Meats aims to create healthier and more sustainable meat alternatives.

Destinus

Seed Round in 2021
Operator of a European aerospace company intended to build hydrogen-powered airplanes that aim to make long-range hypersonic flight part of everyday life in the future for sustainable energy, mobility, and security. The company provides airplanes that combine advanced aeronautical and space technologies, providing the aviation industry with a reduction in the time for intercontinental transport by an order of magnitude without compromising comfort, cost, or noise.

Sydecar

Venture Round in 2021
Sydecar is a provider of financial advisory and management services to founders, casual investors, and other related markets. It particularizes in deal syndication, simplifying and cleaning up the capitalization table, setting up a special purpose vehicle, deals sourcing, fundraising, and other related services to clients seeking to invest in private companies, funds, collectibles, debt, and other related instruments.

New Age Meats

Seed Round in 2020
New Age Meats is a biotechnology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2017. The company specializes in producing cultivated meat using an automated, data-driven platform and advanced stem cell technology. By growing meat from animal cells rather than relying on traditional animal slaughter, New Age Meats aims to create healthier and more sustainable meat alternatives.

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
Nplex Biosciences is a biotechnology company based in the United States that specializes in proteomic technology. The company has developed a platform that utilizes DNA nanotechnology to understand, detect, and treat diseases. Nplex offers a range of instruments and automation tools for measuring multiple proteins from blood samples, providing cost-effective solutions for protein data analysis. Its technology integrates seamlessly with industry-standard cytometers, enabling high-throughput analysis and the development of custom protein panels. Nplex aims to enhance existing instruments and workflows while facilitating automation in proteomic research and applications.

Arpeggio

Seed Round in 2020
Arpeggio Biosciences, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Boulder, Colorado, founded in 2017. It specializes in developing software that captures and analyzes cellular RNA activity through a unique combination of biological assays and machine learning algorithms. This technology allows for low-depth sequencing to generate high-resolution snapshots of cellular dynamics in response to drug treatments. By revealing the biological networks that influence a drug's function, Arpeggio's platform aids pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in understanding the mechanisms behind therapeutics. The company’s approach enhances the identification of new drug targets and increases the likelihood of success in clinical advancements. Arpeggio Biosciences is composed of a diverse team of molecular biologists, computer scientists, and biotechnology enthusiasts dedicated to advancing the understanding of drug mechanisms.

ReviveMed

Seed Round in 2018
ReviveMed Inc is a precision-medicine company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2016. The company specializes in utilizing data from small molecules, or metabolites, to create actionable insights through its innovative technology. This technology employs a network-based machine learning algorithm that integrates untargeted metabolomic data with other extensive molecular information, such as genetic, proteomic, and pharmacological data. By transforming this complex data into meaningful insights, ReviveMed aims to facilitate the development of in-house therapeutics specifically for patients suffering from liver diseases and related conditions.

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, Inc. develops advanced optical interconnect solutions, specializing in high-density electronic-photonic chiplets and lasers. Its flagship product, TeraPHY, is a monolithic in-package optical I/O solution designed for applications demanding high bandwidth, low latency, and energy efficiency in short-reach interconnects. Complementing TeraPHY, the company offers SuperNova, a multiwavelength light source that provides continuous wave light essential for TeraPHY's operation. By utilizing patented technologies based on industry-standard silicon processing techniques, Ayar Labs aims to enhance interconnect bandwidth density while reducing power consumption, thereby transforming traditional electrical interconnects in the semiconductor and computing sectors. The company's innovations are applicable across various industries, including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, telecommunications, aerospace, and military applications. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Emeryville, California, Ayar Labs is committed to addressing the challenges posed by increasing data volumes through the miniaturization of fiber optic transceivers.

Accion Systems

Series A in 2016
Accion Systems Inc. is a manufacturer of satellite propulsion systems for the space industry, utilizing proprietary ion beam technology developed at MIT. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the company offers a range of products, including MIN-0 CubeSat and small satellite electric propulsion systems, MAX-1 small satellite electric propulsion systems, and TILE satellite electric propulsion systems. Accion Systems focuses on developing scalable, high-performance, and efficient in-space propulsion technologies to meet the evolving needs of the satellite market.

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 aims to eliminate waste from the production, shipping, and disposing of bottled beverages. We envision a future where a smarter platform (powered by the municipal water supply) transforms how beverages are delivered. It is an ambitious goal, but we are on it!

Accion Systems

Seed Round in 2015
Accion Systems Inc. is a manufacturer of satellite propulsion systems for the space industry, utilizing proprietary ion beam technology developed at MIT. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the company offers a range of products, including MIN-0 CubeSat and small satellite electric propulsion systems, MAX-1 small satellite electric propulsion systems, and TILE satellite electric propulsion systems. Accion Systems focuses on developing scalable, high-performance, and efficient in-space propulsion technologies to meet the evolving needs of the satellite market.

Capio

Seed Round in 2014
Capio, Inc. develops smart automatic speech recognition solutions that transform human-to-machine communication into intuitive experiences. It offers smart ASR engine, a technology that recognizes speech in noisy environments, and learns individual accents and behavior patterns in various interactions. The company serves automotive, robotics, call center, voice biometric, home automation, and transcription industries. Capio, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

LedgerX

Series A in 2014
LedgerX LLC operates an online institutional derivatives exchange platform specifically for digital currencies. Founded in 2013 and based in Vail, Colorado, the company has sought registration with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to function as a swap execution facility and derivatives clearing organization. Formerly known as NYBX INC, LedgerX is focused on providing a regulated environment for trading digital currency futures and options. The platform features physical settlement of contracts, block trading, and algorithmic trading, enabling both individual traders and institutions to transact in cryptocurrencies efficiently. As a subsidiary of NYBX LLC, LedgerX is positioned to enhance the trading landscape for digital assets.
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