Alumni Ventures Group

Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, with offices across North America. It provides access to venture investing for individual accredited investors, particularly alumni networks, by offering diversified portfolios of venture opportunities and allowing members to invest alongside fellow alumni in ventures led by peers. The firm backs early-stage and later-stage opportunities across technology, consumer, healthcare, financial services, and other sectors, with a sector- and geography-agnostic approach. It typically invests between $10,000 and $3 million per deal and emphasizes the involvement of alumni connections and an institutional lead investor in opportunities. Alumni Ventures also offers focused funds to broaden participation, enabling accredited investors to access venture portfolios diversified by type, sector, stage, and geography. The model aims to democratize access to venture capital while maintaining rigorous selection standards through alumni networks.

Rob Adams

Managing Partner

Andrew Baum

Vice President, Treasury and Capital Management

David Beazley

Managing Partner

Ali Byrd

Investor Advisory Council Member

Marco A. Casas

Senior Investment Principal, Basecamp Fund

Matthew Caspari

Managing Partner

Matt Castellini

Senior Associate

Helen Chen

CEO Services Analyst

Cainon Coates

Managing Partner

Michael Collins

Investor

David Cynn

Managing Partner

Thomas Edwards

Associate

Nancy Fechnay

Principal

Yev Gelfand

Investor

Mason Hale

Senior Associate, Chestnut Street and Triphammer Ven

Erik Hammer

Partner

Brian Keil

Managing Partner

Jin Kim

Senior Vice President, Office of Investments

Jess Liu-Brown

Principal

Michael Madden

Co-Founder and Investment Professionals

Todd McIntyre

Managing Partner

Jonathan Meltzer

Partner

Keith Murphy

Director, Video Programs

David S. Muson

CFO

Kayla Phillips

Senior Associate

Aisha Robinson

Comms Team VP of Strategic Communications

Ludwig Schulze

Managing Partner

Matt Scott

Managing Partner

Saad Shaheen

Investor Operations Manager

David Shapiro

Managing Partner

Anton Simunovic

Investor

Chris Sklarin

Managing Partner

Stephen Stolzenberg

Senior Associate

Justin Strausbaugh

Managing Partner

Edward Tsai

Managing Partner

Drew Wandzilak

Senior Associate, Green D and Yard and Strategic Tech Fund

Larry Warnock

Managing Partner

Sarah Worden

Venture Scout

Ray Wu

Managing Partner

Wesley Yiu

Principal

Past deals in Los Angeles, CA

Rypplzz

Seed Round in 2024
Rypplzz is a 3D geospatial technology company that develops a platform to link digital content to precise geo-locations in airspace and to transform physical spaces into smart, addressable environments. Its patented software connects digital files to exact locations across campuses and large venues, enabling monetizable engagement opportunities and location-based experiences in airspace. The platform supports interactive 3D geolocation-based content for sports, entertainment, hospitality, and security applications, turning airspace and real-world spaces into connected, data-enabled environments. By enabling creation, sharing and deployment of location-based digital files, Rypplzz aims to enhance audience engagement and operational intelligence through precise geolocation, improved connectivity, and spatial engineering.

AvantStay

Venture Round in 2024
Founded in 2016, AvantStay specializes in vacation home rentals. It operates across over 60 cities worldwide, offering a curated experience through its proprietary tech platform, which facilitates bookings and manages properties.

Divergent

Series D in 2023
Divergent develops and manufactures 3D-printed cars and has created the Divergent Adaptive Production System (DAPS), an end-to-end software-hardware platform for industrial digital manufacturing. DAPS enables customers to design, additively manufacture, and automatically assemble complex vehicle structures for automotive, aerospace, and defense applications. The system aims to optimize designs, reduce material use, and eliminate upfront capital expenditure by removing tooling needs and dematerializing components, thereby improving manufacturing efficiency and environmental sustainability across vehicle programs. Divergent's approach targets radical reductions in cost and lead times while enabling scalable, custom manufacturing, addressing decarbonization and demand for lighter, stronger structures.

Crate

Seed Round in 2023
Crate is an AI-powered platform for saving, organizing, and sharing online content. The service collects data from across the internet and provides automatic sorting and categorization, along with AI-generated summaries, to help users find and use saved material. Content can be captured from anywhere via a browser extension, enabling easy access to organized information. Founded in 2021, Crate is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Operative Intelligence

Seed Round in 2022
Operative Intelligence develops AI-driven software for contact centers that combines operations management with customer analytics. The platform analyzes and quantifies opportunities to improve performance, and helps systematically manage customer operations. It also converts unstructured customer conversation data into real-world, actionable insights, examining call behaviors and outcomes to reveal how factors influence customer demand at the level of individual inquiries. This enables contact centers to identify root causes through data and insights. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Divergent

Series C in 2022
Divergent develops and manufactures 3D-printed cars and has created the Divergent Adaptive Production System (DAPS), an end-to-end software-hardware platform for industrial digital manufacturing. DAPS enables customers to design, additively manufacture, and automatically assemble complex vehicle structures for automotive, aerospace, and defense applications. The system aims to optimize designs, reduce material use, and eliminate upfront capital expenditure by removing tooling needs and dematerializing components, thereby improving manufacturing efficiency and environmental sustainability across vehicle programs. Divergent's approach targets radical reductions in cost and lead times while enabling scalable, custom manufacturing, addressing decarbonization and demand for lighter, stronger structures.

Duffl

Series A in 2021
Duffl is a Los Angeles-based delivery service that provides snacks and drinks to college students through a campus-focused delivery network. Founded in 2019, Duffl operates a 10-minute delivery service at campuses including UCLA, USC, UCSB, and UC Berkeley, using an on-campus portal and electric scooters to access routes that cars cannot. The platform does not require mandatory sign-ups or credit cards, enabling students to easily access packaged foods on campus.

Trust.co

Seed Round in 2021
Trust.co allows you to compare your data to businesses across the platform to see how your business stacks up, even as markets change. The company allows its clients to get an immediate, full picture of your business and financial metrics so you always know how your business is performing. Trust.co was established in 2019 in Los Angeles, California.

Brella

Series A in 2021
Brella is a networking platform for events, conferences and livestreams that helps professionals discover and connect with high-value contacts. The platform relies on a matchmaking algorithm, often AI-powered, to guide attendees to relevant people, opportunities, and conversations at the right time and place. Based in Jyväskylä, Finland, Brella aims to simplify networking and enable attendees to build meaningful business relationships during live events, conferences, and streams, facilitating face-to-face interactions and timely connections.

United Dwelling

Convertible Note in 2021
United Dwelling, Inc. is a Los Angeles-based company founded in 2019 that focuses on addressing the affordable housing crisis in California. The company specializes in constructing additional dwelling units (ADUs) on underutilized land, such as vacant lots, garages, and backyards. By converting these spaces into affordable homes, United Dwelling helps property owners enhance the value of their real estate while providing housing solutions for low and middle-income residents, particularly in workforce housing. The firm manages the entire process, including design, permitting, construction, tenant placement, property management, and maintenance. Utilizing data-driven insights, United Dwelling identifies suitable properties for development, thereby offering homeowners the opportunity to generate rental income and significantly increase their property value.

FULLFILL

Seed Round in 2021
FULLFILL is a digital platform offering virtual health coaching programs designed to prevent and treat chronic conditions. It partners with employers worldwide to improve employee health and reduce medical expenses. The platform offers evidence-based content, daily support from Master Coaches, and engages employees effectively, doubling medical results compared to traditional programs.

Brella

Seed Round in 2020
Brella is a networking platform for events, conferences and livestreams that helps professionals discover and connect with high-value contacts. The platform relies on a matchmaking algorithm, often AI-powered, to guide attendees to relevant people, opportunities, and conversations at the right time and place. Based in Jyväskylä, Finland, Brella aims to simplify networking and enable attendees to build meaningful business relationships during live events, conferences, and streams, facilitating face-to-face interactions and timely connections.

AvantStay

Venture Round in 2019
Founded in 2016, AvantStay specializes in vacation home rentals. It operates across over 60 cities worldwide, offering a curated experience through its proprietary tech platform, which facilitates bookings and manages properties.

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.

Compass

Series G in 2019
Founded in 2012, Compass is a real estate technology company that provides an online platform for buying, renting, and selling properties. Its end-to-end platform supports the entire transaction workflow by pairing industry talent with technology to create intelligent and seamless experiences. Compass operates across multiple regions in the United States.

Compass

Series F in 2018
Founded in 2012, Compass is a real estate technology company that provides an online platform for buying, renting, and selling properties. Its end-to-end platform supports the entire transaction workflow by pairing industry talent with technology to create intelligent and seamless experiences. Compass operates across multiple regions in the United States.

Divergent

Series B in 2017
Divergent develops and manufactures 3D-printed cars and has created the Divergent Adaptive Production System (DAPS), an end-to-end software-hardware platform for industrial digital manufacturing. DAPS enables customers to design, additively manufacture, and automatically assemble complex vehicle structures for automotive, aerospace, and defense applications. The system aims to optimize designs, reduce material use, and eliminate upfront capital expenditure by removing tooling needs and dematerializing components, thereby improving manufacturing efficiency and environmental sustainability across vehicle programs. Divergent's approach targets radical reductions in cost and lead times while enabling scalable, custom manufacturing, addressing decarbonization and demand for lighter, stronger structures.

Giblib

Giblib is a California-based company founded in 2015 and headquartered in Los Angeles. It operates an online video community platform that serves as a resource for medical education, akin to a streaming service for surgical knowledge. The platform allows surgeons to share and access a curated collection of surgical videos and medical lectures across various specialties. By indexing surgical procedures and creating educational content, Giblib provides medical students and practitioners with valuable insights into surgical techniques and medical practices from experienced professionals.
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