by BR Venture Fund | Jun 20, 2023 | Blog
Big Red Ventures (BRV), Cornell’s early-stage venture capital fund, is excited to announce its investment in B Generous, a “Donate Now, Pay Later” fintech company serving the nonprofit sector, marking BRV’s third investment of 2022-23. Founded in 2020 by serial...
by BR Venture Fund | Jun 18, 2023 | Blog, Industry Interviews
AV: Can you tell us a bit about your experience before Cornell? Aaron Holiday: I grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana and went to Morehouse College to study computer science. In my junior year, I saw the impact of software in corporate applications and later worked at...
by BR Venture Fund | Jun 1, 2023 | Blog, Industry Interviews
Eloho Omame is a Partner at TLcom Capital LLP, based in Lagos. Eloho is on the Board of Pastel. She is also a mentor for Endeavor in Nigeria and supports African startups as a co-founder/GP of FirstCheck Africa, a female focused pre-seed venture capital fund. Prior to...
by BR Venture Fund | May 17, 2023 | Blog, Industry Interviews
Eitan Kyiet is the CEO of Road2 Ventures, an early-stage venture fund / innovation center based in Haifa Israel. Road2 offers a combination of investment funding, knowledge from its affiliates, and industry partners to help position Israeli tech companies for success...
by BR Venture Fund | May 4, 2023 | Blog, Industry Interviews
Interviewed by Laura DeMassa, Fund Manager ’22-’23 Antler is not your typical pre-seed venture capital fund. Antler identifies the world’s strongest founders who they believe have the ability to build the world’s next biggest businesses. Antler works with them...
by BR Venture Fund | Apr 25, 2023 | Blog, Uncategorized
Could you please describe your path to venture capital, beginning at Cornell and ultimately ending up at JAZZ Venture Partners? At Cornell, I studied life sciences, focusing on computational biology. Most of my background was in the lab and centered around science and...