Investor / VCUpstate New York

Triphammer Ventures

Investor / VC · VC · Ithaca, NY

Triphammer Ventures — Alumni Ventures fund for the Cornell University community. Co-invests alongside top VCs in Cornell University-affiliated companies. Part of Alumni Ventures platform ($1.5B AUM, Manchester NH).

Founded

2014

Region

Upstate New York

Investors

People

About Upstate NY

Upstate New York seeded Silicon Valley more directly than most people realize: IBM started in Endicott, GE's research labs sat in Schenectady, and Kodak and Xerox built deep imaging and photonics expertise in Rochester — engineers and ideas from all three migrated west and helped build what came after. Cornell, RPI, the University of Rochester, and the SUNY system now anchor a semiconductor, photonics, and drone corridor that's a direct descendant of that older industrial-research base, not a recent transplant.

Region Stats

Total firms 137

VC / investors 61

Companies 59

Schools 17

Known For

Semiconductors

Photonics

Drones