New Ventures

Osage University Partners (OUP)
Osage University Partners (OUP) is a Philadelphia-based venture capital firm that has partnered with over 100 leading universities to make direct investments in their most promising startup companies. OUP specializes in understanding the challenges in commercializing core technologies. They bring together partner institutions’ tech transfer offices such as the Center for Technology Licensing at Cornell University (CTL) and through their experience and insights, share best practices and other valuable programs.

Kairos Ventures
Kairos Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm that invest in early stage startups. Depending on the stage of development and the capital requirements of each venture, Kairos makes investments between $150,000 and $20 Million.

The firm works closely with the Technology Licensing at Cornell University (CTL) on investment opportunity in Cornell-licensed startups.

Red Bear Angels (RBA)
Red Bear Angels (“RBA”) is an investment network that connects Cornell entrepreneurs and Cornell-derived innovations with experienced, successful, and passionate angel investors eager to support them with financial and intellectual capital. RBA leverages an extensive network of Cornell-related resources to source, perform diligence, and drive significant growth and value creation for these early-stage, high-potential companies.

The Center for Technology Licensing at Cornell University (CTL) has partnered with RBA with the goal of connecting Cornell faculty and student researchers and entrepreneurs to capital, angels and mentors, and promoting Cornell research and innovation to the investment and corporate community.

Silicon Catalyst
Silicon Catalyst is the only incubator focused exclusively on accelerating solutions in silicon, building a coalition of in-kind and strategic partners to dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of development. With a world-class network of mentors to advise startups, Silicon Catalyst is helping new semiconductor companies address the challenges in moving from idea to realization. The incubator/accelerator supplies startups with a path to design tools, silicon devices, networking, access to funding, banking and marketing acumen to successfully launch and grow their companies’ novel technology solutions. The Silicon Catalyst Angels was established in July 2019 as a separate organization to provide access to seed and Series A funding for Silicon Catalyst portfolio companies.

The Center for Technology Licensing at Cornell University is developing a partnership with Silicon Catalyst to accelerate the commercialization of semiconductor technologies at Cornell University.

TandemLaunch
TandemLaunch is a startup foundry and seed fund based in Montreal. TandemLaunch works with brilliant entrepreneurs to build companies around university technologies.

The Center for Technology Licensing at Cornell University (CTL) is partnering with TandemLaunch to assess Cornell technology and match them with team of entrepreneurs.

The Inventor’s Patent Academy (TIPA)
Patents protect inventions so that inventors can focus on their work and be compensated for it. But many people don’t know how to navigate the patenting process, or even where to start.

That’s why The Inventor’s Patent Academy was created. This free, one-of-a-kind, e-learning course aims to help people understand the patenting process and get them ready to apply for their own patent. It also explores challenges inventors may face along the way—particularly those that typically affect women, people of color, veterans, low-income individuals, people with disabilities, and other underrepresented inventors—and provides advice to overcome them. Throughout the program, participants will hear from actual inventors about the challenges they faced and their successes on their journeys to bring ideas to life.