RedHawk Ventures
20 S Elm St, Oxford, Ohio, 45056, United States
Overview
Redhawk Ventures is a venture capital that funds creative and innovative startups with tremendous market opportunities, founded by Miami University students and alumni. The firm provides advisory services and funding to grow young businesses from the earliest stages of idea generation onward. Members of Redhawk Ventures attain practical knowledge of the funding process through establishing funding criteria and actual allocation of capital in the range of $1,000-$25,000. Affiliated with the Page Center for Entrepreneurship at Miami University's Farmer School of Business, Redhawk Ventures (previously Miami University Student Venture Fund) is a completely student-led venture capital organization.
- Total investments
- 2
- Lead investments
- 1
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 5
Sector focus
- Finance
- Financial Services
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Pieces
Participated · Series A · Jul 2024
Founded in 2021 by Tsavo Knott and Mack Myers, Pieces offers a platform that allows software engineers to capture and store code, links, text, images, and other assets directly from copy-paste workflows. The company is expanding its offering with Live Context in Pieces Copilot+, an on-device feature that delivers real-time, context-aware guidance while developers work. Pieces currently records about 18,000 daily active users and boasts a 90-day retention rate above 65%. Management aims to grow daily active users to 100,000–150,000 by the end of 2024. The startup employs roughly 20 full-time staff and collaborates with additional remote contributors. Fresh funding will support continued product development and user-growth initiatives.
- Apricity Robotics
Led · Seed · Feb 2024
Apricity Robotics develops an AI-powered robotic arm to autonomously conduct echocardiography ultrasound procedures and enable remote monitoring by echo-cardiologists. The system is designed to let specialists oversee multiple procedures simultaneously from a centralized location. Apricity targets reduced diagnostic wait times—reporting the potential to cut waits from months to days—and improved access to echocardiograms in rural regions and understaffed facilities. The company is led by Miami University alumni Aaron Crookes and Jeffrey Toaddy. Apricity recently completed a seed financing to support its product development and deployment; no revenue or user metrics are disclosed in the article.