Tony Chen ’12

🐻🎉 70 Cornellians came to the Boston gatherings!! Cornellians work on such interesting tech! one Cornellian makes weight loss pills for cats, another aggregates patient data for research, another grows cotton in the lab, another helps self-driving car figure out where they are!! it's super-exciting!

🐻🤖 New Jersey Robotics Championship!! (a Cornellian's child was competing!) The robots pick up blocks, and put them into baskets! it was so exciting to watch!!

🐻🥧 Cornellians celebrating Pi Day!! I ate a Sour Apple Pie (5/5), a Hudson Apple Pie (5/5), and a topo chico for my beverage (5/5)!! it was a wonderful group of Cornellians, across the industries (accounting, medicine, entrepreneurship, government, finance, healthcare, language)

Pitch your Startup at the EMI Pitch Competition!! johnson.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

🐻📈 Cornell's Emerging Markets Institute (EMI) is a huge reason why Cornell is so well-regarded in the International community!! (it's a reason why so many International students choose to study at Cornell!!) It is the top research institute on businesses in the Emerging Markets

Ciba Health: cibahealth.com
Get a Cornell EMBA: www.johnson.cornell.edu/programs/emb...

🐻🚀 2 Cornell EMBA classmates lead a Series B startup!! Ciba Health sends customers a box of devices to monitor their health, and provides health and nutrition recommendations to reverse diabetes, manage chronic issues, improve mental health, and more!!

🐻🎒 I visited a Cornellian's school!! Debra Stern '87 is executive director of the Amani Public Charter School, that serves 5th-8th grades, in a diverse under-resourced neighborhood!! I attended the fundraising music performance, the students are so talented!!!

🐻🚀 I'm at Cornell Tech today, to hold Office Hours, 10am-2pm!! if you're looking to connect with Cornellians, please come see me at the Bloomberg Cafe!!

🐻🏀 it's International Women's Day!! I watched Cornell Women's Basketball play Columbia!! Women Sports are really important! 82% of the F500 women CEOs played sports in college, it trains leadership and teamwork and important skills!!!

🐻🚀 Cornellians at a Cornellian Series A startup!! Tabs was founded by Ali Hussain '12 and Deepak Bapat '11, and they've hired so many Cornellians!!! it's a great place to work!!

Tabs is the best Accounts Receivable software!! the AI creates invoices from contracts, makes sure you get paid!!

🐻🥼 Cornell Tech HealthNext Summit was so inspirational!!
- Arianna Huffington spoke about healthy habits!
- Congressman Ted Lieu spoke about healthcare legislation!
- the CEO of MSK (top cancer hospital) spoke about innovation in large hospitals!
- Cornell Tech startups shared their startup journey!

full list of every Cornellian startup: bigredai.org/startups

🐻🚀 Big Red Startups!! in the last month, 11 startups raised VC funding! Cornellians are the best founders!
🚀 2025-02-20, Series C: Arize AI - Aparna Dhinakaran, PhD Dropout - LLM evaluation platform
🚀 2025-02-19, Series A: OpenEvidence - Zachary Ziegler ’17 - Organizing the world’s medical knowledge

🐻🎾 Cornell Men's Tennis playing Yale in NYC this afternoon!! it's wonderful to see alumni and students cheer on the players!! the ball goes so fast!!!

🐻🎉 84 Cornellians came to the Food Court Event last night!! success story: 2 Food Court Events ago, a Cornellian met a Cornellian who referred her to a job, 1 Food Court Event ago, she met a Cornellian who prepped the Cornellian for the interview, and now she has a new job!!

The Food Court Event is tonight, Tue 2/25, 6pm-10pm at The Hugh's food court (601 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10022), I'm at 202-415-5342 if you need help finding it!!

🐻🎉 NYC Food Court Event tonight!! Cornellians have been meeting at the Food Court for 3 years now! Cornellians who met each other 3 years ago, continue to meet each other today!!

🐻🎉 Cornell Alumni Leadership Conference was so much fun!! I went on Saturday, and I met so many Cornellian volunteer leaders from around the world! Cornell has such a wonderful alumni community, because of our wonderful alumni volunteers, who organize events and engage everyone!!

🐻👨‍🎤 Alex Schwalb '22 is a DJ in Philadelphia!! he did a great job at the Cornell Boat Party last night!! a wonderful festive environment!!!

my live location sharing: maps.app.goo.gl/YuTjXjRq2RTF...

🐻🎉 I'm on the train to Philadelphia!! I really hope to see you!!
- 9am-11am (Penn Campus)
- 11am-1pm (Rittenhouse Square)
- 1pm-3pm (Chinatown)
- 3pm-4pm (Center City)

text me at 202-415-5342 if you can meet! my live location sharing is in the comments!

start a startup!! tech.cornell.edu/impact/runway/

🐻🚀 I met so many Cornellian startups, at the Cornell Tech Startup happy hour!!! every month, PhDs meet to share their progress on turning their academic research into unicorn startups, the community is so amazingly supportive!

Cornellians get 15% off with discount code "HTHNXTCT15"!!
register: healthnextai2025.eventbrite.com?aff=TonyChen

The Cornell HealthNext Summit on March 3-4, at Cornell Tech, features the best of research and industry, where venture capitalists, startups, researchers, doctors, professors, engineers all come together to discuss the future of Healthcare and Technology!!

🐻🥼 Cornell is the leader in Healthcare Technology!! Cornell Tech and Weill Cornell sit next to each other in Manhattan, resulting in the best collaborations, where the top engineers and the top doctors come together to save lives and make medical breakthroughs!!

🐻🍫 I visited a Cornellian at Tony's Chocolonely!! it's a great mission based chocolate company (with a great name!!)

They make sustainable chocolate, that treats their supply chain well!! good pay and lots of foundation support!!

Visit Sydney Hamroff '19 at Hall E, Booth 5095 at Expo West

🐻🎉 I'm visiting Philadelphia on Sat 2/22, to meet Cornellians, I really hope to see you!! I'm trying to meet every Cornellian, please come:
- 9am-11am (Penn Campus)
- 11am-1pm (Rittenhouse Square)
- 1pm-3pm (Chinatown)
- 3pm-4pm (Center City)

Text me 202-415-5342, and I'll send you my location!!

🐻🚀 Cornell Tech Hackathon project, goes through YC, and becomes a Seed Stage Startup!! Hackathons are the best ways to learn about startups, and find co-founders!! I remember their presentation, super-impressive, they traveled all the way from Europe, to participate at the Cornell Tech hackathon!!