Funded Startups in Ithaca
Across the 22 most recent Ithaca-area funded entries, the largest disclosed round is Ascribe Bioscience’s $12M Series A (2025-10-19).
Across the 22 most recent Ithaca-area funded entries, the largest disclosed round is Ascribe Bioscience’s $12M Series A (2025-10-19). The next-largest disclosed amounts cluster far lower: Dimensional Energy’s $20M (2023-12-12) and only a few others sit above $10M, while most disclosed rounds fall into the hundreds of thousands to low single-digit millions (e.g., The Finger Lakes Land Trust $100K on 2025-06-06; GradeWiz $500K on 2025-03-12). That makes the disclosed funding distribution less “scale-heavy” than the presence of a single $12M headline might suggest.
Rounds also concentrate by sector and time: Agriculture and Farming appears 4 times (Ascribe Bioscience 2025-10-19; The Finger Lakes Land Trust 2025-06-06; Capro-X 2023-06-21; Agrynex 2023-04-13), while five entries carry “Series Unknown” (plus two “undisclosed” amounts tied to Series Unknown on 2025-08-20 and 2025-08-14). Temporally, the listed rounds span 2021-02-05 (Rosie) through 2025-10-19 (Ascribe Bioscience), with multiple Seed/early rounds appearing in mid-2023 and Seed again recurring in 2025 (e.g., SimpliFed $4M on 2025-02-04).
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Frequently asked
What stands out as the largest disclosed round in the Ithaca list, and how concentrated are the next-largest disclosed amounts?
The largest disclosed amount is Ascribe Bioscience’s $12M Series A on 2025-10-19. The next-largest disclosed figures are noticeably lower and dispersed (e.g., Exotanium $12M on 2022-11-07 and Exostellar $15M on 2023-09-13; Dimensional Energy is $20M on 2023-12-12), while smaller disclosed rounds include The Finger Lakes Land Trust at $100K on 2025-06-06 and GradeWiz at $500K on 2025-03-12.
Which sectors are over-represented in this 22-row Ithaca dataset?
Agriculture and Farming is the only sector that reaches a repeat cluster of 3+ entries, appearing 4 times: Ascribe Bioscience (2025-10-19, $12M), The Finger Lakes Land Trust (2025-06-06, $100K), Capro-X (2023-06-21, undisclosed), and Agrynex (2023-04-13, $50K). Other sectors visible here (Energy, Biotechnology, Software Development) appear fewer than 3 times each.
How much of the list has undisclosed funding or unclear round stages, and does that skew recent dates?
Five entries list “Series Unknown” (Ursa Space Systems 2025-08-20, Inso Biosciences 2025-08-14, EMPEQ 2024-01-22, Capro-X 2023-06-21, and EkoStinger 2023-10-05). Two of those “Series Unknown” rows also show “undisclosed” amounts (Ursa Space Systems on 2025-08-20 and Inso Biosciences on 2025-08-14), placing at least some amount uncertainty directly in the late-2025 window.
Are there any temporal clusters in the most recent year covered here?
Yes. In 2025, multiple rounds appear close together: GradeWiz ($500K) on 2025-03-12, SimpliFed ($4M) on 2025-02-04, The Finger Lakes Land Trust ($100K) on 2025-06-06, and Ascribe Bioscience ($12M) on 2025-10-19, with two undisclosed/Series-Unknown entries on 2025-08-14 and 2025-08-20. In mid-2023, there is another dense pocket including Exostellar (2023-09-13, $15M), Yoomi (2023-07-26, $310K), and Capro-X (2023-06-21, undisclosed).
Which stage labels and dollar ranges look most consistent, based on the disclosed amounts?
Early-stage labels dominate the visible disclosed values: Seed rounds include SimpliFed’s $4M on 2025-02-04 and Yoomi’s $310K on 2023-07-26, while Pre-Seed is represented by GradeWiz at $500K on 2025-03-12. Larger disclosed amounts cluster at Series A and one-off categories like Venture - Series Unknown (Odyssey Semiconductor Technologies $5M on 2021-04-01; Rosie $10M on 2021-02-05), with many smaller disclosed rounds also appearing via Grants (e.g., Halomine $1M on 2021-10-05 and Ascribe Bioscience grant $500K on 2021-11-17).
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