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    NYU Innovation Venture Fund

    New York, New York, United StatesFounded 2010
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    The NYU Innovation Venture Fund is a seed-stage venture capital fund created in 2010 that invests exclusively in startups founded by, and/or commercializing technologies and intellectual property developed at NYU. The $20 million evergreen fund provides pre-seed and seed capital, connections, and coaching to help NYU students, faculty, and researchers transform ideas and inventions into startups.

    Their most common stage is seed (67% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $10.6M (across 9 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    9

    Fund Size

    $20M

    Top Stage

    Seed

    Last 12 Mo

    0

    Team

    FR

    Frank Rimalovski

    Managing Director

    AH

    Azade Hosseini

    Startup Investor

    EK

    Evan Korth

    Investment Committee Member

    NR

    Neal Rooney

    Venture Fund Fellow

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    9 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    GigFinesse logoGigFinesseSeries A$15MJan 2026
    Steg AI logoSteg AISeed$5MAug 2023
    Rilla logoRillaSeed$3.7MDec 2022
    Clarifai logoClarifaiSeries C$60MOct 2021
    KitSplit logoKitSplitUnknown$2.1MFeb 2018
    Keen Home logoKeen HomeSeed$1.5MOct 2014
    Vengo logoVengoSeed$1MFeb 2013
    Rilla logoRillaSeed$3.7M—
    Wrapbook logoWrapbookSeed$3.6M—

    Top Co-Investors

    Crew Capital2 shared
    Canada Pension Plan Investment Board1 shared
    Next Capital1 shared
    SineWave Ventures1 shared
    Union Square Ventures1 shared
    New Enterprise Associates1 shared
    Menlo Ventures1 shared
    Corazon Capital1 shared
    GV1 shared
    LDV Capital1 shared
    Lux Capital1 shared
    Trousdale Ventures1 shared
    Soma Capital1 shared
    Root Ventures1 shared
    LAUNCH1 shared
    Galvanize Climate Solutions1 shared
    American Family Ventures1 shared
    Brand Foundry Ventures1 shared
    True Ventures1 shared
    BoxGroup1 shared

    Last updated: 20 October 2026