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 Austin, TX

Knit

Seed Round in 2022
PurPics, LLC, based in Austin, Texas, operates a platform and application designed to connect brands with Gen Z consumers through student organizations. Founded in 2015, the platform enables members of these organizations to promote brand partners by posting pictures on their personal Instagram accounts. In return for increased engagement, brands can make donations for each like these posts receive. By customizing audience targeting based on factors such as region and campus, PurPics facilitates tailored marketing campaigns that enhance brand awareness and consumer interaction. This innovative approach offers brands a more effective means of engaging with their target demographics compared to traditional advertising methods. Through its SaaS-enabled marketplace, PurPics has collaborated with various brands to execute campaigns that drive foot traffic, boost in-store sales, and gather valuable consumer insights.

Virdee Inc.

Seed Round in 2022
Virdee, Inc. is a technology company that provides software to hotels, apartments, and office buildings. The company provides a check-in/out, ID verification, payment collection, and remote support solution to help clients elevate the customer experience, reduce costs, and generate ancillary revenue for owners and operators in the hotel industry, as well as in multifamily, senior living, student housing, and medical facilities. Its software simplifies the access and authentication experience for residents, visitors, and property staff. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Austin, Texas.

SourceDay

Series C in 2022
SourceDay LLC is a software company based in Austin, Texas, that specializes in providing a Software-as-a-Service solution for purchase order management. Founded in 2013, SourceDay offers a platform that centralizes and automates the management of purchase orders, facilitating real-time collaboration between procurement teams and suppliers. Its features include tools for managing purchase order exceptions, requests for quotes, accounts payable collaboration, and quality control, along with mobile access and integration capabilities with various ERP systems such as Syteline, Epicor, and NetSuite. The company's solutions are designed primarily for manufacturing and distribution companies, aiming to enhance supplier performance and streamline procurement processes while reducing associated costs.

ZenBusiness

Series C in 2021
ZenBusiness Inc. is a corporate entity creation and management company based in Austin, Texas, founded in 2015. It provides a technology-driven platform that simplifies the process of starting and managing a business. The company offers software as a service through a web portal and mobile application, enabling users to check their company's status, update registered agent information, and file documents with state authorities. ZenBusiness focuses on business identity theft protection, compliance, and management, utilizing automation to deliver fast and affordable services. Their personalized dashboard provides customers with easy access to essential tools and expert support, making it easier for entrepreneurs to launch and grow their businesses. The company's mission is to make business formation accessible and affordable for aspiring business owners across the nation.

UpEquity

Series B in 2021
UpEquity is a technology-driven mortgage platform based in Austin, Texas, that aims to enhance the home buying experience. Founded in 2019 by Tim Herman and Louis Wilson during their time at Harvard Business School, UpEquity focuses on simplifying the mortgage and refinance processes for borrowers. The company's online portal allows users to easily upload documents for pre-approval, streamlining the overall experience. By reinventing traditional mortgage practices, UpEquity seeks to create a more favorable economic landscape for homebuyers, making the process quicker and more efficient.

Insiteflow

Seed Round in 2021
Insiteflow is a provider of an EHR integrated platform that helps manage clinical decision solutions. The platform helps the practitioner to optimize their clinical workflow solutions by giving POC insights for better decision and treatment planning solutions for patients. It was founded by Anthony Gerardi and Corey Hall in 2018 in Austin, Texas.

Method Financial

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a loan management application designed to simplify accelerate and make debt repayment more secure. The company's loan management application manages, plans, and empowers real-time data and payment access for consumer liabilities, it also allows lenders, fintech, and financial institutions to build personalized lending and financial management experiences supported by comprehensive real-time credit data, evergreen connections, and integrated payment rails, enabling users to securely connect all of a user's liabilities and retrieve comprehensive data.

SourceDay

Convertible Note in 2021
SourceDay LLC is a software company based in Austin, Texas, that specializes in providing a Software-as-a-Service solution for purchase order management. Founded in 2013, SourceDay offers a platform that centralizes and automates the management of purchase orders, facilitating real-time collaboration between procurement teams and suppliers. Its features include tools for managing purchase order exceptions, requests for quotes, accounts payable collaboration, and quality control, along with mobile access and integration capabilities with various ERP systems such as Syteline, Epicor, and NetSuite. The company's solutions are designed primarily for manufacturing and distribution companies, aiming to enhance supplier performance and streamline procurement processes while reducing associated costs.

ThreatWarrior

Series A in 2021
ThreatWarrior is a cloud-native network threat intelligence platform designed to address both known and unknown cyber threats in real time. The platform employs an agentless, deep learning architecture to analyze network traffic, effectively eliminating blind spots, identifying security vulnerabilities, and mitigating active threats across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. By integrating unsupervised neural networks, continuous deep packet inspection, behavior monitoring, network intelligence, and automated response, ThreatWarrior provides a comprehensive solution for organizations. This enables users to gain visibility into their network activities, understand the behavior of all communications within their enterprise, and respond promptly to threats that may be overlooked by other solutions.

Data.world

Venture Round in 2021
Data.world, Inc. operates an open data platform designed to facilitate the discovery, understanding, and sharing of data across various sectors, including finance, education, environment, and politics. Founded in 2015 and based in Austin, Texas, the platform enables users to access and utilize a wide array of data by minimizing data wrangling and simplifying data transformation processes. It fosters collaboration through a large community, allowing users to engage in projects that range from data journalism to social bot detection. Data.world emphasizes the importance of ethical data practices and has co-created the Manifesto for Data Practices, which promotes effective teamwork in data-related endeavors. As a Public Benefit Corporation, Data.world is committed to balancing its mission of enhancing data accessibility and collaboration with the pursuit of shareholder value.

Insiteflow

Seed Round in 2021
Insiteflow is a provider of an EHR integrated platform that helps manage clinical decision solutions. The platform helps the practitioner to optimize their clinical workflow solutions by giving POC insights for better decision and treatment planning solutions for patients. It was founded by Anthony Gerardi and Corey Hall in 2018 in Austin, Texas.

Data.world

Series B in 2020
Data.world, Inc. operates an open data platform designed to facilitate the discovery, understanding, and sharing of data across various sectors, including finance, education, environment, and politics. Founded in 2015 and based in Austin, Texas, the platform enables users to access and utilize a wide array of data by minimizing data wrangling and simplifying data transformation processes. It fosters collaboration through a large community, allowing users to engage in projects that range from data journalism to social bot detection. Data.world emphasizes the importance of ethical data practices and has co-created the Manifesto for Data Practices, which promotes effective teamwork in data-related endeavors. As a Public Benefit Corporation, Data.world is committed to balancing its mission of enhancing data accessibility and collaboration with the pursuit of shareholder value.

StoryFit

Venture Round in 2019
StoryFit Inc. offers artificial intelligence insights and machine learning solutions for the book publishing, movie, and television production industries. The company’s products include StoryFit Metadata and StoryFit Analytics, which enables the publisher to analyze the metadata using artificial intelligence and provide insights related to audience targeting, reader personas, writing evaluation, faceted comps, and informed marketing intelligence. StoryFit Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Future/Proof

Venture Round in 2019
Future/Proof develops beverage brands for millennial customers. Justin Fenchel, Aimy Steadman, and Brad Schultz founded it in 2019, with its headquarters in Austin in Texas.

Compound

Seed Round in 2019
Compound is a global real estate investment marketplace that facilitates the cross-border movement of real estate investment capital between foreign and domestic investors and investment opportunities using an SEC-compliant structure and a network of payment and processing solutions. Compound is a technology-enabled real estate marketplace that is reimagining how the world invests in urban residential real estate. Compound enables diverse groups of people from all around the world to buy and sell small “pieces” of residential real estate in some of the world’s top cities, places like New York City, Miami, Nashville, Austin, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, and beyond.

StoryFit

Series A in 2019
StoryFit Inc. offers artificial intelligence insights and machine learning solutions for the book publishing, movie, and television production industries. The company’s products include StoryFit Metadata and StoryFit Analytics, which enables the publisher to analyze the metadata using artificial intelligence and provide insights related to audience targeting, reader personas, writing evaluation, faceted comps, and informed marketing intelligence. StoryFit Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

High Brew Coffee

Series C in 2018
High Brew Coffee, Inc. specializes in the production of cold-brewed coffee, offering its products through retail stores and online platforms. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, the company emphasizes sustainability by engaging in direct trade partnerships. These collaborations enable High Brew Coffee to source its coffee beans responsibly, ensuring that farmers receive better profitability while minimizing environmental impact.

Zerocater

Series B in 2018
Zerocater, Inc. operates a subscription-based and on-demand food ordering platform tailored for companies and their employees. Founded in 2009 and based in San Francisco, the company specializes in delivering personalized and diet-specific meals sourced from independent restaurants, caterers, food trucks, and private chefs. Zerocater caters to various occasions, including meetings, events, and celebrations, offering a diverse menu that includes breakfast, lunch, dessert, and alcohol from craft breweries. The company serves clients across major cities such as New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Austin, and Los Angeles, with aspirations for national expansion. By focusing on office catering and snack services, Zerocater aims to enhance workplace culture and community through food, leveraging technology and partnerships to streamline its operations and provide insights into food programs.

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.

Iris Plans

Seed Round in 2017
Iris Plans is a tech-enabled service that provides Advance Care Planning (ACP), or “healthcare planning,” to people with serious medical conditions. ACP’s proven benefits result in people receiving higher quality care, less stress on loved ones, higher satisfaction, and lower costs. Iris Plans is the first organization offering nationwide, complete ACP that is tailored specifically to individuals’ circumstances and preferences.

Iris Plans

Seed Round in 2016
Iris Plans is a tech-enabled service that provides Advance Care Planning (ACP), or “healthcare planning,” to people with serious medical conditions. ACP’s proven benefits result in people receiving higher quality care, less stress on loved ones, higher satisfaction, and lower costs. Iris Plans is the first organization offering nationwide, complete ACP that is tailored specifically to individuals’ circumstances and preferences.