Columbia University
2960 Broadway, New York, NY, 10027, United States
Overview
Columbia University is a research institution and an Ivy League school located in New York City. It connects its research and teaching with the city's resources, attracts a diverse international faculty and student body, and supports global research and education. The university fosters academic partnerships worldwide and advances knowledge across all disciplines, sharing the outcomes of its work globally.
- Total investments
- 5
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 1
- Active investors
- 8
Sector focus
- Education
- Higher Education
- Medical
- Training
- Universities
Investment portfolio
- Deepgram
Participated · Series C · Jan 2026
Deepgram operates a speech and voice AI platform positioned as infrastructure for developers and enterprises rather than a consumer app. Its platform powers over 200,000 developers and 1,400 organizations, and has processed more than 50,000 years of audio, transcribing over a trillion words. The company has seen rapid APAC growth, with a 96% year‑on‑year increase in API requests and presence in more than 20 APAC markets covering multiple regional languages and dialects. Deepgram plans to open an Asia‑Pacific headquarters in Singapore and expand local sales, support, and low‑latency inference infrastructure to better serve regulated industries and reduce latency. The firm has emphasized low‑latency inference and localized language expertise as key differentiators against large cloud providers and other speech specialists.
- Licify
Participated · Seed · Jul 2023
Licify provides digital supply-chain management software and financial solutions tailored for the construction industry, covering procurement planning, bidding, billing, and payment conciliation. Led by CEO Fernando Olloqui, the company offers products that streamline procurement and payments to enhance efficiency and drive economic growth. Licify raised $3.4M in a seed funding round to support its growth plans. The company intends to use the funds to expand into Mexico, further enhance its product offerings, develop strategic partnerships, and drive adoption of its digital payments services. Prior funding rounds helped Licify scale to over 17,000 clients in Colombia and facilitate more than $2 billion in business between builders and its supply chain in the last two years.
- AvoMD
Participated · Seed · Jun 2023
AvoMD builds a clinical AI platform designed to synthesize patient data, surface evidence-based guidance, and support clinicians with end-to-end AI copilots embedded in the EHR. The company positions its product to reduce clinician friction caused by fragmented datasets and multiple applications, aiming to drive measurable improvements in outcomes, cost savings, revenue, and operational efficiency. AvoMD announced a strategic partnership with DynaMed from EBSCO Clinical Decisions to integrate trusted evidence-based knowledge into the EHR via Ask Avo. The business emphasized clinician-centric design, saying it delivers results “with love, not alerts.” Financially, AvoMD has secured a $10M Series A to accelerate product development and commercialization. The announcement credits engaged customers, partners, and its team for supporting the company's growth.
- Travefy
Participated · Equity · May 2015
Travefy develops online and mobile travel tools that allow groups to collaborate on trip details, build rich itineraries, and collect shared expenses. The company offers free consumer tools as well as white‑labeled and integrated platform partnerships for online travel agents, travel management companies, vacation providers, and travel brands. Led by CEO David Chait, Travefy is based in Lincoln, NE. The company raised $1.8M in funding and intends to use the proceeds to accelerate expansion and drive product innovation. No operating metrics were disclosed in the article. Travefy is a group travel planning platform founded in 2012 by CEO David Chait and based in Lincoln, NE. The product lets users invite friends to travel, poll dates and locations, collaborate on trip details, book hotels, and manage expenses. The company has released a beta of a new management tool to track and settle group expenses, built in partnership with SlidePay. A mobile app was scheduled for release in Fall 2013. Travefy intends to use newly raised funds to scale and commercialize the platform. The company previously received an angel investment from Linseed Capital and a grant from the Nebraska Innovation Fund's Prototyping Program.