Alumni Ventures

Alumni Ventures Group, LLC is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 and based in Manchester, New Hampshire, with additional offices in North America. The firm specializes in seed, early-stage, and late-stage pre-IPO investments, focusing on companies that have an alumni connection and an institutional lead investor with relevant expertise. It offers high-quality, diversified venture portfolios to individual investors, particularly accredited alumni from top entrepreneurial schools, who previously lacked access to venture capital opportunities. Alumni Ventures Group invests between $0.01 million and $3 million in various sectors and geographies, without seeking board or observer seats. Additionally, the firm provides focused funds that enable any accredited investor to access a diverse venture portfolio, allowing for investment across different types, sectors, stages, and geographical locations.

Gregory Baker

Managing Partner

Bryan Jurewicz

Venture Partner

Michael Madden

Managing Partner

Past deals in Predictive Analytics

ODAIA

Series A in 2022
ODAIA Intelligence Inc. is a Canadian company that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence-based platform for customer engagement analysis. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Toronto, ODAIA offers a cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) platform that enables enterprise clients to automate the mapping of customer touchpoints and journeys. Utilizing advanced techniques in big data mining, process journey mapping, and machine learning, the platform provides insights into customer behavior, predicts future actions, and identifies potential churn. ODAIA simplifies data ingestion and normalization from various sources, offering an intuitive dashboard for visualizing insights and predictions. The company was established by a team of academics and industry professionals, including members from the University of Toronto and the University of Lausanne, whose research has been widely recognized in the field.

Civis Analytics

Series B in 2021
Civis Analytics, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that specializes in data science software designed to help organizations make informed, data-driven decisions. The company offers a comprehensive suite of tools, including the Civis platform, which provides predictive analytics and end-to-end data science capabilities. Additional offerings include the Community Outreach and Engagement Hub, which assists government and nonprofit organizations in effectively reaching and influencing their target audiences; the Census Intelligence Center, a resource for census coordinators and related entities; and various tools for audience targeting, message testing, and media optimization. Civis Analytics also provides consulting services in consumer insights, market research, and data science to enhance organizations' strategic capabilities. Founded in 2013, Civis Analytics has established itself as a leader in analytics solutions for nonprofit, commercial, and government sectors.

Glean AI

Venture Round in 2021
Glean Analytics Inc. specializes in providing an AI-powered spend management solution designed for small and mid-market companies. Founded in 2019 and based in New York, Glean offers a comprehensive platform that helps finance teams track their spending in real time, compare expenses against budgets, and identify cost drivers. The solution provides proactive alerts for potential savings and irregular spending patterns, enabling users to gain insights into their expenditures at a granular level. By analyzing expense data, Glean assists organizations in uncovering overlooked opportunities for cost reduction and optimizing their vendor spending.

Glean AI

Seed Round in 2021
Glean Analytics Inc. specializes in providing an AI-powered spend management solution designed for small and mid-market companies. Founded in 2019 and based in New York, Glean offers a comprehensive platform that helps finance teams track their spending in real time, compare expenses against budgets, and identify cost drivers. The solution provides proactive alerts for potential savings and irregular spending patterns, enabling users to gain insights into their expenditures at a granular level. By analyzing expense data, Glean assists organizations in uncovering overlooked opportunities for cost reduction and optimizing their vendor spending.

Datanomix

Series A in 2021
Datanomix, Inc., based in Nashua, New Hampshire, develops a software platform tailored for industrial manufacturers to enhance productivity in manufacturing environments. Founded in 2015, the company focuses on the global Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) transformations. Its Manufacturing Analytics platform integrates machine data streams from the shop floor to generate actionable insights for decision-makers. By providing an intuitive analytics framework, Datanomix helps manufacturers understand key factors affecting costs, process variation, product quality, and predictive maintenance. This approach extends the value of traditional data visualization and productivity tools, empowering manufacturers of all sizes with robust decision-making capabilities aimed at improving production, performance, and profitability.

pulseData

Series A in 2021
pulseData, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in developing machine learning software tailored for healthcare providers. The company's platform leverages adaptive and predictive data science tools to identify patients at risk of adverse medical outcomes, enabling healthcare organizations to deliver targeted care to those who need it most. By analyzing vast amounts of data, including individual patient information and population patterns, pulseData aids care management teams in providing timely and effective interventions. This approach not only enhances patient care but also aims to reduce preventable illnesses and optimize medical cost savings for healthcare enterprises.

Mayan

Seed Round in 2021
An analytics platform as a service to help facilitate the discovery, analysis, purchase/sale, and operations of Amazon-FBA brands. One-stop shop for Amazon brand owners to understand everything related to their amazon business.

Baffle

Convertible Note in 2021
Baffle, Inc. specializes in data encryption software designed to secure sensitive information in cloud environments and throughout the analytics pipeline. Founded in 2015 and based in Santa Clara, California, the company provides a range of solutions, including advanced data protection, application tier security, and virtualized key management. Baffle's Data Protection Service enables organizations to de-identify data without altering applications, facilitating the secure transfer of data to the cloud for privacy-preserving analytics in artificial intelligence and machine learning. This capability allows businesses to enhance their data utilization while maintaining compliance and safeguarding user privacy.

FUTURE Research

Series B in 2021
FUTURE provides an insight into a new, decentralized way to look at the web, powered by privacy-respecting solutions that implement artificial intelligence techniques on every corner of every day life.

Mage

Seed Round in 2021
Mage is a tool that helps developers use AI and their data to make predictions. Use cases include churn prevention, product recommendations, customer lifetime value, and more. Our mission is to equip businesses with accessible AI technology so they can deliver transformational customer experiences. A mage is someone who uses magic. Advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. We empower individuals with magic by equipping them with AI technology.

Divinia

Seed Round in 2020
Divinia improves the search experience for consumers, marketers, and e-commerce sites through Natural Language Processing. It connects people with the information they want and businesses with consumers they care about. The company reinvented the science of data analytics with its AI-centered technologies such as Unsupervised Learning and Sentiment Analysis to deliver more accurate, faster, and unbiased results at scale. Divinia's technology extracts and indexes authentic insights about searchable options accurately and faster, delivering an improved experience for consumers, stronger conversion rates, and lead generation opportunities for e-commerce sites and marketers. Ji Fang founded the company in Cupertino, California in 2020.

Civis Analytics

Series A in 2020
Civis Analytics, Inc. is a Chicago-based company that specializes in data science software designed to help organizations make informed, data-driven decisions. The company offers a comprehensive suite of tools, including the Civis platform, which provides predictive analytics and end-to-end data science capabilities. Additional offerings include the Community Outreach and Engagement Hub, which assists government and nonprofit organizations in effectively reaching and influencing their target audiences; the Census Intelligence Center, a resource for census coordinators and related entities; and various tools for audience targeting, message testing, and media optimization. Civis Analytics also provides consulting services in consumer insights, market research, and data science to enhance organizations' strategic capabilities. Founded in 2013, Civis Analytics has established itself as a leader in analytics solutions for nonprofit, commercial, and government sectors.

Lily AI

Series A in 2020
Lily AI is the leader in predictive psychographics for retail e-commerce. Consumer spending online for apparel now accounts for over 27% of all clothing sales. Retailers need to understand each consumer’s emotional context while they are actively shopping. Lily AI combines deep product tagging with deep, real-time psychographic analysis to determine the active state of mind of each shopper, and turns that into precise and timely recommendations. These recommendations are proven to lead to higher conversions and lower return rates. Lily AI (lilystyle.ai) was founded by two women who believe clothes to reflect how they feel about themselves. The company is venture-backed and headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Spiral

Seed Round in 2019
Spiral is a software company which is focused on building solutions for customer feedback using AI.

Spiral

Seed Round in 2019
Spiral is a software company which is focused on building solutions for customer feedback using AI.

Datanomix

Series A in 2019
Datanomix, Inc., based in Nashua, New Hampshire, develops a software platform tailored for industrial manufacturers to enhance productivity in manufacturing environments. Founded in 2015, the company focuses on the global Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) transformations. Its Manufacturing Analytics platform integrates machine data streams from the shop floor to generate actionable insights for decision-makers. By providing an intuitive analytics framework, Datanomix helps manufacturers understand key factors affecting costs, process variation, product quality, and predictive maintenance. This approach extends the value of traditional data visualization and productivity tools, empowering manufacturers of all sizes with robust decision-making capabilities aimed at improving production, performance, and profitability.

Datanomix

Venture Round in 2019
Datanomix, Inc., based in Nashua, New Hampshire, develops a software platform tailored for industrial manufacturers to enhance productivity in manufacturing environments. Founded in 2015, the company focuses on the global Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) transformations. Its Manufacturing Analytics platform integrates machine data streams from the shop floor to generate actionable insights for decision-makers. By providing an intuitive analytics framework, Datanomix helps manufacturers understand key factors affecting costs, process variation, product quality, and predictive maintenance. This approach extends the value of traditional data visualization and productivity tools, empowering manufacturers of all sizes with robust decision-making capabilities aimed at improving production, performance, and profitability.

Baffle

Venture Round in 2019
Baffle, Inc. specializes in data encryption software designed to secure sensitive information in cloud environments and throughout the analytics pipeline. Founded in 2015 and based in Santa Clara, California, the company provides a range of solutions, including advanced data protection, application tier security, and virtualized key management. Baffle's Data Protection Service enables organizations to de-identify data without altering applications, facilitating the secure transfer of data to the cloud for privacy-preserving analytics in artificial intelligence and machine learning. This capability allows businesses to enhance their data utilization while maintaining compliance and safeguarding user privacy.

Lily AI

Funding Round in 2018
Lily AI is the leader in predictive psychographics for retail e-commerce. Consumer spending online for apparel now accounts for over 27% of all clothing sales. Retailers need to understand each consumer’s emotional context while they are actively shopping. Lily AI combines deep product tagging with deep, real-time psychographic analysis to determine the active state of mind of each shopper, and turns that into precise and timely recommendations. These recommendations are proven to lead to higher conversions and lower return rates. Lily AI (lilystyle.ai) was founded by two women who believe clothes to reflect how they feel about themselves. The company is venture-backed and headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Lumiata

Series B in 2018
Lumiata is transforming the healthcare enterprise through the application of AI. Bringing predictive power within reach of data science teams and business users, we’re driving predictability and precision at scale — empowering providers and payers to reduce risk and manage costs and move out of reliance on flat data into a future of insights. Lumiata machine learning tools and pre-trained models comprise a scalable platform purpose-built for healthcare. Lumiata products are built from more than 120 million patient records, in-depth clinical knowledge, and its proprietary clinical IP. Lumiata enables healthcare organizations to explore use cases such as underwriting and care management. Lumiata is proud to be backed by Khosla Ventures, Blue Venture Fund, Defy.vc, and AllegisNL Capital. Team Lumiata is distributed across Silicon Valley, Dallas, and Guadalajara, Mexico.

Dataminr

Series E in 2018
Dataminr, Inc. is a real-time information discovery service that specializes in transforming publicly available data into actionable insights for its clients. Founded in 2009 and based in New York, the company employs an AI platform to detect early signs of high-impact events and emerging risks from a diverse array of sources, including social media, blogs, and the dark web. Its flagship product, Dataminr, provides tailored alerts for various sectors, including finance, news, security, and crisis management. For instance, Dataminr for News enables journalists to receive personalized signals based on specific topics and regions, while Dataminr for Finance offers relevant content streams for financial professionals. The platform is adept at identifying critical information related to incidents, threats, and disruptions, empowering businesses to respond promptly to evolving situations such as terrorist threats, social unrest, and extreme weather events. Through its innovative solutions, Dataminr ensures that clients have the necessary information to act confidently in a rapidly changing environment.

Tethr

Venture Round in 2018
Tethr enables the enterprise to make smarter business decisions based on the true Voice of the Customer, with an AI-driven communications intelligence platform that listens to and analyzes every customer conversation and surfaces contextual understanding and insights from the data. Based on over a decade of best-practice CX research, Tethr gives organizations the ability to measure what matters and share the voice of the customer insights across the organization to directly impact sales results, customer loyalty, operating costs, compliance, and risk.

Datanomix

Seed Round in 2018
Datanomix, Inc., based in Nashua, New Hampshire, develops a software platform tailored for industrial manufacturers to enhance productivity in manufacturing environments. Founded in 2015, the company focuses on the global Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) transformations. Its Manufacturing Analytics platform integrates machine data streams from the shop floor to generate actionable insights for decision-makers. By providing an intuitive analytics framework, Datanomix helps manufacturers understand key factors affecting costs, process variation, product quality, and predictive maintenance. This approach extends the value of traditional data visualization and productivity tools, empowering manufacturers of all sizes with robust decision-making capabilities aimed at improving production, performance, and profitability.

Lumiata

Series A in 2017
Lumiata is transforming the healthcare enterprise through the application of AI. Bringing predictive power within reach of data science teams and business users, we’re driving predictability and precision at scale — empowering providers and payers to reduce risk and manage costs and move out of reliance on flat data into a future of insights. Lumiata machine learning tools and pre-trained models comprise a scalable platform purpose-built for healthcare. Lumiata products are built from more than 120 million patient records, in-depth clinical knowledge, and its proprietary clinical IP. Lumiata enables healthcare organizations to explore use cases such as underwriting and care management. Lumiata is proud to be backed by Khosla Ventures, Blue Venture Fund, Defy.vc, and AllegisNL Capital. Team Lumiata is distributed across Silicon Valley, Dallas, and Guadalajara, Mexico.

Hedron

Seed Round in 2017
Analytical Space is in the business of quickly moving data from imaging satellites in space back to the ground. Analytical Space is building the in-orbit communication infrastructure that will enable real time knowledge of what is happening on the surface of our planet.

AdvisorConnect

Convertible Note in 2015
AdvisorConnect is a sales acceleration platform for financial advisors, insurance agents, and the enterprise. Powered by an AI-driven Network Navigator and leveraging Cognitive Experience Design, AdvisorConnect automates advisor workflow and provides network-based analytics to drive product, marketing, and content strategies in real-time.

Dataminr

Venture Round in 2009
Dataminr, Inc. is a real-time information discovery service that specializes in transforming publicly available data into actionable insights for its clients. Founded in 2009 and based in New York, the company employs an AI platform to detect early signs of high-impact events and emerging risks from a diverse array of sources, including social media, blogs, and the dark web. Its flagship product, Dataminr, provides tailored alerts for various sectors, including finance, news, security, and crisis management. For instance, Dataminr for News enables journalists to receive personalized signals based on specific topics and regions, while Dataminr for Finance offers relevant content streams for financial professionals. The platform is adept at identifying critical information related to incidents, threats, and disruptions, empowering businesses to respond promptly to evolving situations such as terrorist threats, social unrest, and extreme weather events. Through its innovative solutions, Dataminr ensures that clients have the necessary information to act confidently in a rapidly changing environment.