Alumni Ventures

Alumni Ventures Group, LLC is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 and based in Manchester, New Hampshire, with additional offices in major cities across North America. The firm specializes in seed, early-stage, and late-stage pre-IPO investments, focusing on companies with an alumni connection and supported by established institutional lead investors. Alumni Ventures aims to provide accredited investors, particularly alumni from top entrepreneurial schools, with access to diversified venture portfolios that span various sectors and geographic regions. The firm typically invests between $0.01 million and $3 million and does not require board or observer seats in its portfolio companies. Through its managed fund families, Alumni Ventures enables investors to participate in a collaborative investment approach, fostering connections among alumni while facilitating investment opportunities in innovative ventures.

Rob Adams

Managing Partner

Gail Ball

Venture Scout

Andrew Baum

Vice President, Treasury and Capital Management

David Beazley

Executive Partner

Ali Byrd

Investor Advisory Council Member

Matt Caspari

Managing Partner, Strawberry Creek and amp; Deep Tech

Matt Castellini

Senior Associate

Helen Chen

CEO Services Analyst

Cainon Coates

Managing Partner

Michael Collins

CEO

Thomas Edwards

Associate

Yev Gelfand

Investor

Mason Hale

Senior Associate, Chestnut Street and Triphammer Ven

Jin Kim

Senior Vice President, Office of Investments

Lucas Kirshenbaum

VC Investor

Ron Levin

Managing Partner, AV Seed Fund and Doctors Innovate Fund

Jess Liu-Brown

Principal

Michael Madden

Co-Founder and Investment Professionals

Jonathan Meltzer

Managing Partner

Tom Meyer

Managing Partner, Nassau Street

Keith Murphy

Director, Video Programs

David Muson

CFO

Aisha Robinson

Comms Team VP of Strategic Communications

Saad Shaheen

Investor Operations Manager

Stephen Stolzenberg

Senior Associate

Justin Strausbaugh

Managing Partner, Lakeshore

Brittney Wade

Senior Associate, Seed Fund

Sarah Worden

Venture Scout

Wesley Yiu

Partner

Henri Yuan

Investor

Michael Yuann

Director of Investment Operations

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

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.

Heading Health

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a mental health platform intended to improve access to convenient and accessible mental health care. The company's platform delivers personalized treatment services that leverage evidence-based therapeutics and technologies, transcranial magnetic stimulation, telepsychiatry, and intramuscular ketamine, enabling patients to notice meaningful outcomes and achieve mental well-being through effective and affordable treatments.

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 company based in Austin, Texas, that specializes in corporate entity creation and management services. Founded in 2015, it offers a comprehensive platform that leverages technology to streamline business formation and management processes. ZenBusiness provides users with tools for checking their company's status, updating registered agent information, and filing necessary documents with the state through a user-friendly website and mobile application. The company focuses on making the process of starting and managing a business affordable and accessible, offering low-cost formation services, discounted business solutions, and expert support. Its mission is to empower individuals from diverse backgrounds to achieve their entrepreneurial dreams by consolidating essential services and resources into a single, intuitive dashboard.

UpEquity

Series B in 2021
UpEquity is a technology-driven mortgage platform based in Austin, Texas, founded in 2019 by Tim Herman and Louis Wilson. The company aims to enhance the home buying experience by streamlining the mortgage process, making it easier and faster for borrowers. UpEquity offers services such as mortgage and refinance, and its platform allows users to upload documents for pre-approval. By utilizing automated underwriting, free cash offers, and competitive mortgage rates, UpEquity seeks to address inefficiencies in the home buying process and empower customers to close offers quickly. The company gained initial support through Y Combinator's Summer 2019 accelerator program.

Insiteflow

Seed Round in 2021
Insiteflow is a company based in Austin, Texas, that specializes in an integrated electronic health record (EHR) platform designed to enhance clinical decision-making. Founded in 2018 by Anthony Gerardi and Corey Hall, the platform aims to improve clinical workflows by providing point-of-care insights that support better decision-making and treatment planning for patients. Insiteflow's technology focuses on automating EHR workflows to increase user adoption, efficiency, and effectiveness, while also capturing the decisions made by clinicians and staff within EHR databases. This approach allows healthcare professionals to drive improvements at critical decision points, ultimately transforming the results and return on investment from existing analytics and EHR systems.

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 that facilitates the discovery and understanding of data across various sectors, including finance, education, and environment. Founded in 2015 and based in Austin, Texas, the platform allows users to minimize data wrangling, ingest and export diverse formats, and share insights in context, thereby enhancing collaboration and visibility in data projects. It features a cloud-native data catalog that connects siloed data with consistent business concepts, making it accessible for all users, not just data specialists. Data.World also hosts a large collaborative data community, where participants engage in projects ranging from social bot detection to data journalism. As a Public Benefit Corporation, Data.World aims to balance its mission with shareholder interests, promoting ethical data practices and fostering an inclusive environment for experimentation and accountability.

Insiteflow

Seed Round in 2021
Insiteflow is a company based in Austin, Texas, that specializes in an integrated electronic health record (EHR) platform designed to enhance clinical decision-making. Founded in 2018 by Anthony Gerardi and Corey Hall, the platform aims to improve clinical workflows by providing point-of-care insights that support better decision-making and treatment planning for patients. Insiteflow's technology focuses on automating EHR workflows to increase user adoption, efficiency, and effectiveness, while also capturing the decisions made by clinicians and staff within EHR databases. This approach allows healthcare professionals to drive improvements at critical decision points, ultimately transforming the results and return on investment from existing analytics and EHR systems.

Hitch

Seed Round in 2021
Operator of a ride-sharing platform designed to offer promising and joyful intercity transportation to customers. The company's platform permits pre-booking rides to concerts, airports and intercity trips and specializes in rides over a distance of a hundred miles aiming to replace traditional methods of traveling intercity such as trains and buses, enabling travelers to travel long distances at a low price.

Method Financial

Pre 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.

data.world

Series B in 2020
Data.World, Inc. operates an open data platform that facilitates the discovery and understanding of data across various sectors, including finance, education, and environment. Founded in 2015 and based in Austin, Texas, the platform allows users to minimize data wrangling, ingest and export diverse formats, and share insights in context, thereby enhancing collaboration and visibility in data projects. It features a cloud-native data catalog that connects siloed data with consistent business concepts, making it accessible for all users, not just data specialists. Data.World also hosts a large collaborative data community, where participants engage in projects ranging from social bot detection to data journalism. As a Public Benefit Corporation, Data.World aims to balance its mission with shareholder interests, promoting ethical data practices and fostering an inclusive environment for experimentation and accountability.

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. is a producer of cold-brewed coffee beverages based in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2013, the company offers ready-to-drink coffee made from Arabica beans that undergo a slow brewing process, resulting in a naturally sweeter product with higher antioxidant levels, increased caffeine, and lower acidity. This approach allows consumers to enjoy a refreshing coffee experience with less sugar. High Brew Coffee engages in direct trade partnerships, which enable the company to purchase coffee from sustainable sources while supporting farmers in achieving greater profitability and minimizing environmental impact. The company serves its customers through retail locations and online sales.

ZeroCater

Series B in 2018
ZeroCater, Inc. is a food service company that specializes in providing personalized meal solutions for workplaces. Founded in 2009 and based in San Francisco, the company offers a subscription-based and on-demand platform that delivers meals from independent restaurants, caterers, and private chefs. ZeroCater caters to various occasions, including meetings, events, and celebrations, with menu options ranging from breakfast and lunch to desserts and happy hour selections, as well as alcoholic beverages from craft breweries. The company serves clients in major cities such as New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Austin, and Los Angeles, and aims to foster workplace culture and community through food. ZeroCater has established itself as a prominent provider in the office catering sector, partnering with various businesses across industries.

Tethr

Venture Round in 2018
Tethr provides an AI-driven communications intelligence platform that analyzes customer conversations to deliver actionable insights. By processing data from various customer interactions, including phone calls and chats, Tethr helps organizations understand the true Voice of the Customer. This platform is built on extensive customer experience research and enables businesses to gather and share valuable insights across their teams. The insights generated can enhance sales performance, boost customer loyalty, and improve compliance, ultimately leading to more informed business decisions and reduced operating costs.

Iris Plans

Seed Round in 2017
Iris Plans, Inc. is a technology-driven company that offers advance care planning (ACP) services to individuals facing serious medical conditions. By utilizing a telehealth platform, Iris Plans alleviates the challenges that these conditions impose on patients, families, and the healthcare system. The company provides access to healthcare professionals who work with patients and their families to develop tailored plans that guide significant healthcare decisions. Their services include the completion of living will documents, creation of personal health goals, and educational discussions via live video conferencing. Additionally, Iris Plans ensures the electronic dissemination and storage of these documents, including medical power of attorney and directives to physicians, specific to the state of residence. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Iris Plans serves customers across the United States, aiming to enhance the quality of care and reduce stress for patients and their loved ones.

Iris Plans

Seed Round in 2016
Iris Plans, Inc. is a technology-driven company that offers advance care planning (ACP) services to individuals facing serious medical conditions. By utilizing a telehealth platform, Iris Plans alleviates the challenges that these conditions impose on patients, families, and the healthcare system. The company provides access to healthcare professionals who work with patients and their families to develop tailored plans that guide significant healthcare decisions. Their services include the completion of living will documents, creation of personal health goals, and educational discussions via live video conferencing. Additionally, Iris Plans ensures the electronic dissemination and storage of these documents, including medical power of attorney and directives to physicians, specific to the state of residence. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Iris Plans serves customers across the United States, aiming to enhance the quality of care and reduce stress for patients and their loved ones.
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