NYU Innovation Venture Fund is a micro venture capital firm in New York that focuses on startups. Founded 2010 in New York, United States by Frank Rimalovski, it invests in early stage ventures and seed. Its portfolio companies include KitSplit, PainQx, Vidcode, OpenTrons, Kinvolved, Clarifai, Framed Data, Keen Home, Brooklinen, and Orca Pharmaceuticals. As of March 2020, NYU Innovation Venture Fund has made 16 investments. Their most recent investment was on February 21, 2018, when KitSplit raised $2.1M. NYU Innovation Venture Fund has had four exits, the most notable of which include Keen Home, Framed Data, and numberFire. The company has raised a single venture fund, NYU Innovation Venture Fund I. This fund was announced on January 1, 2010 and raised a total of $20M.
Timeline
Funded Companies
A company building robots to automate experiments of life scientists
PainQx is a New York City-based diagnostics and software company developing pain measurement systems.
People
Frank Rimalovski
Managing Director
Dee Dao
Investment Associate
Sergei Revzin
Venture Associate
Further reading
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Companies
Brooklinen
Clarifai
Framed Data
Keen Home
Kinvolved
KitSplit
OpenTrons
Orca Pharmaceuticals
PainQx
Vidcode