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Big Red Ventures
Venture capital · Ithaca, NY, United States · North America
Big Red Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund operated entirely by MBA and other graduate students at Cornell University, founded in 2001. It typically invests up to $25,000 in U.S.-based high-growth companies across all industries and is an evergreen fund that recycles proceeds for reinvestment.
Invests inHealthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning
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Or find every investor that fitsBig Red Ventures lists 16 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (27%), AI & Machine Learning (18%) and Fintech (14%). 86% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Creative Destruction Lab, Insight Partners and Y Combinator.
No funding round on record names Big Red Ventures yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Round figures show recent activity, not Big Red Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 0 companies; its own site lists 16. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 27% | 15% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 18% | 18% |
| Fintech | 14% | 12% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 14% | 6% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 9% | 7% |
| Human Resources | 9% | 1% |
| Enterprise Software | 5% | 8% |
| Media & Entertainment | 5% | 4% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Creative Destruction Lab | 2 |
| Insight Partners | 2 |
| Y Combinator | 2 |
| Alkeon Capital | 1 |
| Argonautic Ventures | 1 |
| Blueprint Health | 1 |
| Brooklyn Bridge Ventures | 1 |
| Cogito Capital | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 42th | 16 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 43th | 27% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers1594%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company16%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Creative Destruction Lab
Compare Big Red Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
16 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abstractive Health creates AI medical record summaries and provides clinical question answering capabilities | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| ATDev provides nearshore staffing in various technologies and roles to support product development journey. | Human ResourcesIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| B Generous provides loans to nonprofits | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Bookkeep automates accounting tasks for Shopify businesses, including revenue recognition, deposit reconciliation, and sales tax compliance. | E-commerce & MarketplacesFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Caper develops and provides smart shopping cart technology with AI to retailers | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Flip AI provides a mobile platform for frontline workers to access various workplace tools and services | Human ResourcesAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | |||
| GrapevineAI delivers whitelisted social campaigns at scale by matching brands with creators and turning content into ads for paid social channels. | Media & EntertainmentAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| LoBio develops a device for at-home plasma collection for lab testing | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| ProofPilot is a sponsor-configured clinical trial platform that spans every stage of the study lifecycle | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| TeraPore creates products that address challenges in nanofiltration processes, especially for purifying novel therapeutic proteins and semiconductor manufacturing. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| TetraScience develops and provides an operating system for scientific intelligence to manage and transform scientific data into AI-native data. | Healthcare & BiotechAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company recovers failed subscription payments for businesses using AI | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Venga creates event invites and RSVP pages | Enterprise SoftwareE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops innovative biomaterials and processes | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- brventurefund.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 16
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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