Red Bear Ventures is a venture capital network backing private companies founded or led by Cornell students, faculty, staff, and alumni. It invests deal by deal through SPVs based on domain-expert conviction, spanning pre-seed through Series Z primaries and secondaries, with Series A activity in the United States. The firm’s investment areas include biotechnology, life sciences, oncology, fintech, climate, energy, semiconductors, AI, consumer, education, sports, and future of work.