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 Mexico

Moons

Series A in 2021
Moons is a health, wellness, and fitness company that offers dental services. Its services feature a new way to straighten teeth without using braces by providing transparent aligners. they create a 3D model of teeth, then, one of their specialists will design treatment. The company was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Mexico City, Distrito Federal.

Mendel

Seed Round in 2021
Mendel Biotechnology, Inc. is a plant biotechnology company based in Hayward, California, founded in 1997. The company focuses on developing genetic and chemical solutions aimed at enhancing agricultural productivity. Its offerings include products designed to improve biofuel feedstocks, yield enhancement, drought and freezing tolerance, disease resistance, nutrient use efficiency, and cold germination. Mendel has established strategic partnerships with prominent organizations such as Monsanto, BP, and Bayer CropScience, and it operates across multiple regions, including the United States, Europe, and China.

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.

Burrow

Series C in 2021
Burrow, Inc. is a furniture design and manufacturing company based in New York, founded in 2016. It specializes in creating luxury furniture for homes, offering a diverse range of products including sofas, sectionals, sleepers, loveseats, armchairs, and ottomans, as well as tables, rugs, and various accessories like pillows and throws. The furniture is handcrafted from sustainably-sourced hardwood and features non-toxic, scratch- and stain-resistant fabrics. Burrow sells its products through physical showrooms located in several states, including Washington, Massachusetts, Texas, and California, as well as online. The company also operates a manufacturing facility in Mexico City, Mexico.

Lang.ai

Seed Round in 2021
Lang.ai is a language understanding platform founded in 2012 and headquartered in Madrid, Spain, with additional offices in the United States and Mexico. The company specializes in developing an online application that leverages unsupervised artificial intelligence to process and analyze language data from various sources, including social networks. Lang.ai's software is utilized by enterprise clients across Europe, America, and Asia, including notable companies such as Santander and Vodafone. Their technology primarily focuses on automating processes related to text analysis, including customer experience survey analysis, email and chat management for customer service, chatbot development, and call center automation. By streamlining these processes, Lang.ai enhances operational efficiency for its clients.

Mureni

Seed Round in 2020
Mureni, S.A.P.I. DE C.V. is a healthcare startup based in Mexico City that specializes in designing and developing invisible dental aligners. The company provides a range of services including x-rays, 3D scans, and evaluation photographs to facilitate effective dental treatment. By utilizing advanced three-dimensional scanning and printing technologies, Mureni enables customers to receive orthodontic care that is metal-free and minimizes discomfort, allowing for treatment without the need for frequent visits to an orthodontist. Operating primarily in Mexico and Brazil, Mureni aims to assist dentists in Latin America in enhancing their revenue and streamlining their operations through innovative technology solutions.

Parrot Software

Seed Round in 2020
Parrot Software offers the most innovative and best software, hardware, and process consulting solutions for point of sale and satellite optimization satisfaction of our restaurant and/or fast-food customers. The software handles all of the expected tasks, including customer payments, ordering, seating, and data visualization.

Kolors

Seed Round in 2020
Kolors is a technological platform that focuses on providing intelligent intercity mobility of bus transportation in the region.

Forager

Venture Round in 2020
Forager Group, Inc. is a company that specializes in cross-border freight and logistics services, primarily catering to supply chain networks in the automotive and aerospace sectors. Established in 2018 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Forager offers a range of services, including standard, expedited, and cross-border truckload solutions. The company utilizes advanced technology to address the challenges faced by cross-border shippers, providing modern and efficient transportation solutions. Additionally, Forager features a user-friendly web-based transportation management platform that enhances service delivery in the logistics industry. Its operations extend throughout the United States, Mexico, and Canada.

Lentesplus

Series D in 2020
Lentesplus.com is a prominent e-commerce platform that specializes in the sale of contact lenses, transforming the Latin American market by offering competitive prices that are typically 20% to 30% lower than industry standards. The company operates in Colombia, Mexico, Chile, and Argentina, focusing on delivering a seamless shopping experience. Customers can easily order contact lenses and, in many cases, receive their products on the same day. Lentesplus also emphasizes customer service by simplifying the reordering process to just two clicks. Additionally, the platform assists customers in obtaining accurate visual exams from specialists to ensure the correct fit and specifications of their lenses, thereby enhancing the overall shopping experience.

Sonoro

Seed Round in 2020
Sonoro is a global media company creating premium, Spanish-language audio content. It collaborates with world-class storytellers to create content across a range of verticals that can be distributed broadly. Sonoro was founded in 2020 and is based in Los Angeles, CA, and with an office in Mexico.

Hola Cash

Seed Round in 2020
Cash allows its users to recharge their cell phones with Hola Cash and earn rewards. And also pay their Telcel, AT&T, Unefon and many more all companies present.

Burrow

Venture Round in 2019
Burrow, Inc. is a furniture design and manufacturing company based in New York, founded in 2016. It specializes in creating luxury furniture for homes, offering a diverse range of products including sofas, sectionals, sleepers, loveseats, armchairs, and ottomans, as well as tables, rugs, and various accessories like pillows and throws. The furniture is handcrafted from sustainably-sourced hardwood and features non-toxic, scratch- and stain-resistant fabrics. Burrow sells its products through physical showrooms located in several states, including Washington, Massachusetts, Texas, and California, as well as online. The company also operates a manufacturing facility in Mexico City, Mexico.

Burrow

Series B in 2019
Burrow, Inc. is a furniture design and manufacturing company based in New York, founded in 2016. It specializes in creating luxury furniture for homes, offering a diverse range of products including sofas, sectionals, sleepers, loveseats, armchairs, and ottomans, as well as tables, rugs, and various accessories like pillows and throws. The furniture is handcrafted from sustainably-sourced hardwood and features non-toxic, scratch- and stain-resistant fabrics. Burrow sells its products through physical showrooms located in several states, including Washington, Massachusetts, Texas, and California, as well as online. The company also operates a manufacturing facility in Mexico City, Mexico.

Alba

Seed Round in 2018
Alba is a Chile-based company that operates an application designed to connect families with vetted and trained babysitters across Chile, Argentina, and Mexico. The platform allows parents to specify their childcare needs, review recommended profiles, and communicate with candidates before making a selection. Families can reserve a babysitter and complete payments through the app. Alba aims to enhance the childcare experience by providing a quick matching service, typically within 15 minutes, and ensuring that caregivers are professionally trained. The company emphasizes safety and reliability by offering a 24/7 support team, commercial liability insurance, and features that enable real-time monitoring of care sessions, including text updates and GPS tracking. Through these services, Alba seeks to provide peace of mind to parents while ensuring a high-quality experience for both children and caregivers.

Eva

Venture Round in 2018
Higia Technologies, founded in 2016 and based in Mexico City, has developed EVA, an accessible and non-invasive wearable device aimed at assessing breast cancer risk. The device features tactile sensors that map the surface of the breast and its surrounding areas, enabling women to monitor changes in breast temperature, size, and weight. Equipped with biosensors, EVA continuously collects and analyzes this information, providing users with a reliable tool for tracking their breast health.

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.

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.