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 Minnesota

OpenGov

Venture Round in 2021
OpenGov, Inc. provides a cloud-based platform designed to enhance budgeting, performance management, and transparency for public sector clients. Its offerings include OpenGov Intelligence, which supplies analytics and visualizations for decision-makers, and OpenGov Comparisons, facilitating benchmarking among governments within its network. The platform also features ERP software to streamline financial management for local governments and OpenGov Transparency, which allows the public to access financial data and track tax revenue usage. The company serves over 2,000 public agencies across 48 states, with notable clients including the State Treasurer of Ohio and the city of Minneapolis. OpenGov, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, aims to empower governments with streamlined operational tools and relevant data to foster informed decision-making and enhance public outcomes.

BetterYou

Venture Round in 2021
BetterYou is a digital wellness platform that helps to make better health and wellness decisions every day. The platform leverages the data exhaust created from using their devices every single day to create insight around where people spend their time vs. what's actually important to them. Their users define what “time better spent” looks like, and to help them stay on track. BetterYou provides population-level insights back to organizations, helping them drive health savings downstream by improving their employees’ digital and overall wellness. It also allows individuals to maximize their time and stay focused on goals that matter.

Particle

Venture Round in 2019
Web infrastructure provisioning, deployment, maintenance, and support for small to medium sized businesses.

Civic Eagle

Venture Round in 2019
Civic Eagle develops software that helps companies discover and analyze legislation and regulations with no manual work. Civic Eagle's platform searches, tracks, and works with legislations across the country and does the discovery work so that policy advocates can focus on winning campaigns, thereby enabling clients to promote better democratic outcomes for people and their communities. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

StemoniX

Series B in 2019
StemoniX Inc. is a biotechnology company that specializes in stem cell technologies to enhance drug discovery and personalized medicine. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with an additional office in La Jolla, California, StemoniX provides innovative platforms for pharmaceutical and research institutions. Its flagship solution focuses on the three-dimensional printing of stem-cell-derived human tissue, enabling the creation of living cells in larger formats. This technology is particularly beneficial for studying various diseases, including heart disease, dementia, breast cancer, autism, and ALS. By advancing the production and application of stem cell technologies, StemoniX aims to meet the evolving needs of the healthcare sector.

OpenGov

Venture Round in 2019
OpenGov, Inc. provides a cloud-based platform designed to enhance budgeting, performance management, and transparency for public sector clients. Its offerings include OpenGov Intelligence, which supplies analytics and visualizations for decision-makers, and OpenGov Comparisons, facilitating benchmarking among governments within its network. The platform also features ERP software to streamline financial management for local governments and OpenGov Transparency, which allows the public to access financial data and track tax revenue usage. The company serves over 2,000 public agencies across 48 states, with notable clients including the State Treasurer of Ohio and the city of Minneapolis. OpenGov, founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, aims to empower governments with streamlined operational tools and relevant data to foster informed decision-making and enhance public outcomes.

Structuralapp

Venture Round in 2018
Structural, Inc. is a software company based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, founded in 2017. The company specializes in creating a comprehensive people directory that consolidates employee data from various sources within an organization. This platform enhances communication and collaboration by allowing employees to connect with one another and discover internal opportunities more efficiently. Structural's offerings include tools for managing enterprise teams and supporting remote and distributed workforces. By providing a dynamic and data-rich environment, Structural aims to strengthen teams and boost overall organizational performance.