Value Added to Portfolio Companies
Access to Cornell
Portfolio companies have access to the resources of Cornell across leading departments in engineering, technology, and medicine. In addition, portfolio companies can capitalize on Cornell’s network of globally renowned subject matter experts.
Business Expertise
With a team of full-time MBA students, BR Venture Fund provides portfolio companies with a vast amount of business expertise from management consultants, investment bankers, venture capitalists, doctors, lawyers and more.
Technical Expertise
BR Venture Fund operates out of Cornell’s main campus in Ithaca and Cornell Tech in New York City. Cornell Tech connects our portfolio companies to a growing network of computer scientists, data scientists, tech-focused MBAs, and hardware gurus.
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BRV invests in U.S.-based early-stage companies across all industries.
Recent News
A Conversation with Charles K. Whitehead, Managing Partner and Co-Founder at Ukraine Phoenix Tech Fund
Charles K. Whitehead is the Myron C. Taylor Alumni Professor of Business Law at Cornell Law School and the Founding Director of the Law, Technology & Entrepreneurship program at Cornell Tech in New York City. At Cornell Law School, he teaches Securities...
Interview with Lucas Mittelmeier, Investor at Heal Capital
Big Red Ventures Fund Manager: Lukas Wendt BRV: Lucas, let’s start with the macro picture. How would you describe the current fundraising environment for healthtech startups? Lucas: The market has slowed down noticeably. You can feel it in dealflow...
Interview with Santiago Diaz – Investor, Galaxy Interactive
Big Red Ventures Fund Manager: Rafid Imran Patel The following is an edited excerpt. Rafid: I would love to hear about your journey into VC and what you have done at Galaxy Interactive thus far. Santiago: Prior to Galaxy I was a generalist M&A banker at Evercore...
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