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 Northeastern US

Humming Homes

Seed Round in 2023
Developer of property management platform designed for the modern homeowner. The company's platform provides end-to-end home management services with a digital-first experience, offering a dedicated in-person home management team with a single point of contact, and everyday support as well as employment data and insights, enabling single-family homeowners to avoid reactive and expensive home maintenance issues.

PathSpot

Series A in 2022
PathSpot Technologies, Inc. develops and manufactures a system controlled by a software that protects restaurants and their customers from the threat of food-borne illness. It utilizes a unique algorithm for filtering, processing, and analyzing fluorescent light to scans an employee's hands to detect pathogens that cause food borne illness. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York City, New York.

Veritonic

Series A in 2022
Veritonic, Inc. is a marketing analytics platform based in New York, specializing in commercial sound and serving the advertising industry. Founded in 2015 by Andrew Eisner and Scott Simonelli, the company provides artificial intelligence-driven metrics and marketing response data to measure, compare, and test various audio elements, including music, voiceovers, jingles, and audio logos. Veritonic's services encompass online testing, analytics, and workflow management, enabling users to make data-driven decisions, measure emotional responses, and gather both qualitative and quantitative insights. The platform facilitates benchmarking of brand progress and allows users to efficiently manage, save, and share audio tracks, thereby enhancing their marketing strategies.

Prophia

Venture Round in 2022
Prophia is a technology company that specializes in transforming the commercial real estate leasing process through its innovative digital platform. Established in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, Prophia aims to simplify the negotiation, administration, and management of commercial leases. The platform facilitates collaboration between landlords and tenants by enabling them to agree on essential terms and efficiently engage with legal teams to finalize leases. With a team that brings over 50 years of combined experience in commercial real estate and technology, Prophia focuses on providing actionable insights that help commercial property owners make informed decisions. The company's operations extend to key cities such as Seattle, New York, and Chicago, reflecting its commitment to enhancing the accessibility and effectiveness of commercial real estate data.

Finwave Semiconductor

Venture Round in 2022
Finwave Semiconductor develops a 3DGaN technology designed to enhance 5G devices.

Cube

Series B in 2022
Cube is a financial planning and analysis software that empowers finance teams and businesses in delivering insights. It provides the capabilities to deliver custom reports for regulatory groups, executives, team leads, and key stakeholders. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in New York.

Sesame

Series B in 2022
Sesame, Inc., operating as SesameCare, is a New York-based company that provides a platform for booking medical appointments and consultations. Founded in 2018, the company aims to simplify healthcare by connecting patients directly with doctors, offering transparent pricing and clear descriptions of medical services. SesameCare primarily serves uninsured individuals or those who prefer to pay for their healthcare services upfront. By addressing the complexities and hidden costs often associated with traditional healthcare, Sesame seeks to make quality medical care more accessible and affordable for a broader range of patients.

Nextiles

Seed Round in 2022
Nextiles is a New York-based company founded in 2019 that specializes in smart apparel technology, merging athletic clothing with an advanced analytics system to enhance exercise performance and safety. The company innovatively integrates electrically conductive fibers into fabrics using a patented sewing technology, allowing for the development of wearables that include motion sensors directly within the apparel. This unique approach enables the creation of responsive and adaptive devices, providing valuable insights into an individual's movement patterns. With a strong foundation in electrical engineering and circuit design, Nextiles offers its expertise to businesses looking to develop or enhance their own Internet of Things (IoT) and smart device products.

Jetty

Venture Round in 2022
Jetty is a financial services company on a mission to make renting a home more affordable and effortless for everyone. Jetty's solution helps property managers increase lease conversion, reduce bad debt, and streamline operations. For the renter, Jetty lowers the barrier to entry, saving residents thousands of dollars on move-in costs. Jetty was founded by Mike Rudoy and Luke Cohler in 2015 and is headquartered in New York.

Legacy

Series B in 2022
Legacy is a company focused on transforming male fertility through innovative testing and preservation solutions. Founded by healthcare and fertility experts, Legacy provides home-based kits that allow men to analyze, improve, and preserve their sperm without the need to visit a clinic. Their offerings include sperm analysis and cryogenic storage options, facilitating the preservation of fertility for clients in a straightforward and accessible manner. The company collaborates with leading hospitals, fertility clinics, and progressive employers to ensure high-quality services. Legacy has garnered recognition through various awards, including victories at TechCrunch Disrupt and MassChallenge Boston, and has attracted investment from notable firms such as Bain Capital Ventures and Section 32.

RGo Robotics

Series A in 2022
R-Go Robotics is pioneering an artificial perception technology that enables mobile robots to understand complex surroundings and operate autonomously just like humans. Our business model is to partner with robotics manufacturers who share our vision of a future where automation is unfettered but focused on real-world solutions. Our team is comprised of world-class leaders with deep academic and industry experience, and we have a proven track record in bringing world-class innovation to market. ​We are currently in stealth mode.

Seaspire Skincare

Seed Round in 2022
Seaspire Skincare is into manufacturing multifunctional colorants and actives influenced by the biodiversity of the ocean.

Bach

Seed Round in 2022
BACH LLC operates a platform and mobile application designed to assist groups in planning, booking, and organizing bachelor and bachelorette parties. Based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, the app enables users to discover various experiences, invite and chat with guests, and collaboratively build a personalized itinerary. Additionally, it offers features for tracking and splitting expenses, ensuring a streamlined and efficient planning process for users.

Activ Surgical

Series B in 2022
Activ Surgical is a digital surgery company focused on improving surgical efficiency, accuracy, patient outcomes, and accessibility. Its scalable and patent-protected surgical software platform technology is driven by computer vision, artificial intelligence, analytics, and machine learning to enhance a surgeon’s intra-operative decision making, and reduce unintended and preventable surgical complications. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Skyline Robotics

Seed Round in 2022
Skyline Robotics specializes in automating all real estate maintenance work at heights. The company believes that humans are more than robots which is why they aim to automate all tasks that are dangerous, dirty, and dull. By providing industrial robots senses like sight, hearing, touch, and a brain, Skyline Robotics enables the automation of multiple service sectors. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York.

Highlight

Seed Round in 2022
Highlight is a market research platform established in 2020 and based in New York, New York. It specializes in facilitating efficient and scalable at-home product testing. The platform allows brands to seamlessly distribute products and collect data from a diverse, vetted community of engaged consumers. This approach enables companies to obtain high-quality product insights at scale, enhancing their ability to make informed decisions based on real consumer feedback.

Cambium Carbon

Seed Round in 2022
Cambium Carbon is an early-stage social enterprise dedicated to addressing climate change through reforestation and urban wood reuse. The organization operates reforestation hubs that focus on creating local regenerative wood supply chains. By reclaiming wood waste from urban forests, Cambium Carbon generates revenue to fund tree planting and maintenance efforts. This approach not only supports city planners in developing sustainable job opportunities but also contributes to the creation of resilient urban environments. Through its systems-level natural climate solutions, Cambium Carbon aims to foster a circular economy that benefits both communities and the environment.

Cyglera

Convertible Note in 2022
Our mission at Cylera is to protect healthcare organizations and their patients from those who wish to do them harm. Enabled by our breakthrough technology, we take a patient-centric approach to defend and optimize all of the devices that healthcare providers rely on to provide care including medical devices, operational technology, and enterprise IoT, so that together we can safeguard what matters most.

Satellite Bio

Series A in 2022
Satellite Bio specializes in cell therapy, regenerative medicine, synthetic biology, cell biology, and tissue engineering. It focuses on the development and implementation of proprietary, off-the-shelf, implantable satellite organs as living therapeutic solutions that can transform the lives of millions of patients who suffer from serious diseases.

Canela Media

Series A in 2022
Canela Media, Inc. operates as a digital media company. The company offers brand to connect with multicultural audiences with its free streaming service. It offers Canela.TV, video and display solutions, branded content, and influencers marketing. The company performs a comprehensive analysis for brands to understand their position on social media and identifies influencers to improve position. Canela Media, Inc. was incorporated in 2019 and is based in New York, New York.

Koxa

Venture Round in 2022
Developer of a fintech API platform designed to connect ERPs and accounting software with corporate bank accounts. The company's platform offers cloud-based tools such as identifying and access management, permission and approvals of customer requests as well as handles all the security, identity, and other banking operations, enabling banks and financial institutions to perform treasury-related operations efficiently.

Epicore Biosystems

Series A in 2022
Epicore Biosystems, Inc. has developed a proprietary wearable microfluidic platform that is ‘skin-like’ and capable of analyzing small droplets of sweat for proteomics, inflammatory markers, hydration, and health biomarkers to enable personalized management of health, performance and nutrition. Epicore's wearable sensing technology is based on over two decades of microfluidics and soft materials research by Prof. John Rogers and Prof. Roozbeh Ghaffari at Northwestern University's Querrey-Simpson Institute for Biolectronics.

Parallel Markets

Series A in 2022
Parallel is an investor identity company. We work directly with investors and investment platforms to simplify the onboarding and verification process. Investors who are already using Parallel are able to sign up and share all of their investor credentials with a single click. We work with both individuals and entities and have a whole suite of identity products to help make our partner’s onboarding processes better.

Maisonette

Series C in 2022
Maisonette Inc. operates an online marketplace specializing in baby and child products. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, the company curates a selection of high-quality children's items sourced from renowned designer brands and unique boutiques worldwide. By focusing on an expertly curated shopping experience, Maisonette aims to provide a superior platform for both consumers seeking premium children's products and smaller retailers looking to reach a broader audience.

Pixm

Seed Round in 2022
Pixm is a computer and network company that specializes in cybersecurity and endpoint security. Its services also offer anti-phishing, email security, computer vision, and deep learning it helps companies, businesses, and organizations on website, network, and computer security. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, United States.

MainStreet

Series B in 2022
MainStreet is a technology company based in San Jose, California, that operates a B2B Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform designed to assist startups in identifying and claiming government incentives, tax credits, deductions, and stimulus programs. Founded in 2019, MainStreet's software connects with clients' payroll systems to automate the data collection necessary for qualifying for various financial programs, ultimately helping to save time and money. The platform is tailored for startups at various stages of growth, including bootstrapped, pre-seed, seed, and series funding rounds, across multiple industries such as software, hardware, biopharma, biotech, aerospace, materials, and manufacturing. MainStreet charges a flat success fee based on the incentives disbursed to its clients and is supported by notable investors in the venture capital space.

Iterative Scopes

Series B in 2022
Iterative Scopes provides doctors with real-time computer-aided detection and diagnostic tools powered by computer vision and machine learning technology that improves patient outcomes by helping gastroenterologists detect and categorize lesions in real-time, including those that often elude the human eye, and bring care worldwide by providing doctors with access to deep neural networks trained by experienced GI specialists. Iterative Scopes was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Mantra Health

Series A in 2022
Mantra Health is a developer of a mental healthcare platform specifically designed to cater to students. The platform provides access to psychiatric care, free online assessments, and scheduled initial video consultations, allowing students to receive personalized care plans. By facilitating treatment in a comfortable and accessible manner, Mantra Health aims to enhance the mental well-being of students, making it easier for them to seek help and manage their mental health from the convenience of their homes.

Trading.TV

Series A in 2022
Trading.TV is the world's first social live stream and immersive chat platform for traders and financial content creators. Think, FinTech love child of Twitch and Slack.

Stockpress

Seed Round in 2022
Stockpress is a file management platform that allows teams to organize, manage, collaborate and share files with others. It is a cloud file storage and management for teams.

Basil Systems

Seed Round in 2021
Basil Systems is an Internet of Things (IoT) company specializing in smart switches that enhance user convenience, energy efficiency, and security. The company aims to make automation accessible and affordable for a wide audience, facilitating an easy transition from traditional switches to smart alternatives. Users can control their appliances remotely via a dedicated application or locally through touch buttons on the switch panel. Additionally, Basil Systems offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that utilizes machine learning to deliver analytics and insights tailored for medical device and pharmaceutical companies, leveraging insights from product, market, and regulatory data.

Tibles

Seed Round in 2021
Tibles operates a digital collecting ecosystem on the Flow blockchain, focusing on the value of ownership and the experience of collecting. The company has developed a trading platform that serves as a marketplace for digital non-fungible tokens (NFTs), enabling users to buy and sell unique digital collectibles. By collaborating with various brands, Tibles creates a diverse range of collectibles, including cards, comic books, sticker books, and multimedia objects. This platform not only facilitates transactions but also fosters a community among collectors, enhancing the overall experience of digital collecting.

Bach

Seed Round in 2021
BACH LLC operates a platform and mobile application designed to assist groups in planning, booking, and organizing bachelor and bachelorette parties. Based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, the app enables users to discover various experiences, invite and chat with guests, and collaboratively build a personalized itinerary. Additionally, it offers features for tracking and splitting expenses, ensuring a streamlined and efficient planning process for users.

Architect.io

Seed Round in 2021
Architect.io, Inc. is a Boston-based company founded in 2019 that offers a platform designed for managing and developing cloud applications. It specializes in facilitating collaboration among teams through its unique DevOps-as-a-Service model, which integrates deployment, networking, and security automation. The platform enables users to streamline processes by providing end-to-end deployment capabilities for complex systems, with a focus on managing the interactions between related microservices.

FanUp

Seed Round in 2021
FanUp gamifies sports and esports for every fan. FanUp is, Fantasy sports and esports re-imagined; with fun, interactive, and pop-culture styled contests. Our brands, prizes and social features, cater to causal fans and a younger demographic, ensuring we grow the entire market. We’re not a betting app, we’re far greater. Most apps focus on 35-60-year-old middle-age men. FanUp was created for 18-34 year-old social fans and young professionals. Our users: - Love sports and esports gaming - Are 2.5x more likely to game and compete w/ social features - Are more diverse (43% are women) - Want to interact with pop-culture, brands and influencers Our mantra: Fans and innovation first, always. We’re leading a transformative shift in sports and culture. Squad up and compete year-round in contests for your fav sports & esports leagues. FanUp, and may the best fans win.

Droplette

Series B in 2021
Droplette is their patent-pending transdermal delivery system for delivery of drugs up to 60% larger than current treatments deep into skin over large surface areas. Their unique device is painless, contact free, portable and generates no disposables. It is designed to deliver antibiotics for serious ulcers and skin infections, reducing risk secondary complications or antibiotic resistance. Future applications include localized delivery of chemotherapeutics for skin cancer and drugs for anti-aging.

Houwzer

Series B in 2021
Houwzer, LLC provides real estate brokerage services for buying and selling a home. It also provides industry insights for home buyers and sellers. In addition, it offers communication tools, featured listings, total transaction management, social and email marketing, and direct mail campaign services. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with additional offices in Washington, District of Columbia; Baltimore, Maryland; and Haddonfield, New Jersey.

Transcend Therapeutics

Series A in 2021
Transcend Therapeutics, Inc. is engaged in the development of pharmaceuticals for the treatment of diseases caused by oxidative stress and resultant tissue damage.

Obligo

Series B in 2021
Obligo rids both landlords and renters from the burden of security deposits and makes the move-in process as simple as checking into a hotel. Owners and managers use Obligo to simplify their move-in process, comply with changing regulatory landscapes, and make their listings more appealing to renters. As the only non-insurance deposit alternative, Obligo’s credit-based model keeps landlords secure and renters accountable by combining Open Banking technology and AI-based underwriting.

GRO Biosciences

Series A in 2021
GRO Biosciences is leveraging breakthrough technologies from computational protein design and synthetic biology to develop best-in-class protein therapeutics with enhanced properties. The company has established multiple genomically recoded strains of bacteria that can incorporate non-standard amino acids into proteins to confer increased potency, stability, and targeted delivery. GRO Biosciences is applying its technology platform to develop improved protein therapeutics for diabetes, growth disorders and autoimmunity. The company, co-founded by Dr. George Church, is located at the Harvard Life Lab, a shared laboratory space for high-potential life sciences and biotechnology startups founded by Harvard faculty, alumni, students, and postdoctoral scholars.

Outbound AI

Seed Round in 2021
Outbound is a technology company based at the Rensselaer Technology Park in Troy, New York. Outbound combines cloud-based dialing and email technology coupled with powerful data insights to create an end to end selling solution for B2B sales teams.

LeadIQ

Series B in 2021
LeadIQ, Inc. develops an innovative sales prospecting automation platform designed to enhance lead management and improve sales productivity. The company's key products include Prospector, which allows users to search for prospects on LinkedIn and other websites while saving them directly into their CRM tools, and Scout, which retrieves contact information from company websites. Additionally, LeadIQ offers personal intelligence APIs that provide comprehensive profiles, including email, phone numbers, and job details for potential leads. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in South San Francisco, California, LeadIQ also maintains offices in Singapore and New Hampshire. The platform aims to streamline the sales process by enabling sales teams to capture leads efficiently, enrich data with relevant information, and focus on high-quality leads, ultimately facilitating increased deal closures and revenue growth.

LeadIQ

Series B in 2021
LeadIQ, Inc. develops an innovative sales prospecting automation platform designed to enhance lead management and improve sales productivity. The company's key products include Prospector, which allows users to search for prospects on LinkedIn and other websites while saving them directly into their CRM tools, and Scout, which retrieves contact information from company websites. Additionally, LeadIQ offers personal intelligence APIs that provide comprehensive profiles, including email, phone numbers, and job details for potential leads. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in South San Francisco, California, LeadIQ also maintains offices in Singapore and New Hampshire. The platform aims to streamline the sales process by enabling sales teams to capture leads efficiently, enrich data with relevant information, and focus on high-quality leads, ultimately facilitating increased deal closures and revenue growth.

Olaris

Series B in 2021
Olaris, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Waltham, Massachusetts, founded in 2013. The company develops a precision medicine diagnostic platform that focuses on metabolite profiling for the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. By utilizing personalized biomarkers of response and integrating machine learning algorithms, Olaris aims to transform the approach to disease diagnosis and treatment.

Vahan

Series A in 2021
Vahan Inc. develops a mobile education platform for low-income populations. The company offers Vahan, an application for feature phones and smartphones that enables students to practice what they’re learning in the classroom, outside it. Its application helps students maximize learning outcomes; and Web-based learning management system allows instructors to track their students' scores and progress, review students' responses, and send them feedback via SMS or voice messages. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey.

EasyKnock

Series B in 2021
EasyKnock, Inc. is a real estate technology company founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, with an additional office in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company specializes in sale-leaseback programs, allowing homeowners in the United States to access their home equity without needing to move. Its primary offerings include the Sell and Stay program, which enables homeowners to receive cash for the value of their home while retaining the option to buy it back or move at their convenience, and MoveAbility, designed for those planning a near-term relocation. Through these programs, EasyKnock aims to provide homeowners with financial flexibility and support in managing their housing needs.

blockfi

Series E in 2021
BlockFi, Inc. is a financial services company that specializes in cryptocurrency wealth management. Founded in 2017 and based in Jersey City, New Jersey, BlockFi offers a range of products designed for crypto investors. Its flagship offering is the BlockFi Interest Account, which allows users to earn interest on their Bitcoin, Ether, and Gemini Dollar holdings. The company also provides secured loans to clients who collateralize their loans with cryptocurrency, facilitating liquidity for both individuals and institutions. Additionally, BlockFi operates a trading platform that enables the exchange of various cryptocurrency pairs and offers customizable lending solutions. With a focus on enhancing financial accessibility and transparency in the digital asset space, BlockFi aims to meet the evolving needs of its clients while ensuring secure management of their crypto assets through a registered custodian.

Metrobi

Seed Round in 2021
Metrobi Inc. is a company specializing in pre-scheduled delivery services designed for business-to-business transactions. Founded in 2016 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, Metrobi utilizes a mobile platform that incorporates artificial intelligence to optimize local deliveries for businesses. The company's technology enables efficient routing and pairing of deliveries, allowing for bulk product pickups from stores or warehouses and subsequent delivery to various destinations. This innovative approach increases driver productivity by 23% and reduces mileage by up to 50%. By facilitating a shared delivery service and providing an on-demand fleet, Metrobi aims to lower delivery costs for businesses while ensuring fair compensation for drivers.

Looking Glass Factory

Series A in 2021
Looking Glass Factory Inc. develops and manufactures holographic display designed for 3D creators. The company provides Looking Glass, a desktop holographic display that blends light field and volumetric display technologies that allow users to make, share, and interact with 3D creations, content, and experiences. provides volumetric printing services. Its solutions include drug discovery, medical visualization, experiential marketing, and 3D storytelling. It also provides software to manage the holographic displays. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Brooklyn, New York. It has an additional location in Hong Kong.

Glean AI

Venture Round in 2021
Glean Analytics Inc. specializes in providing an AI-powered spend management solution designed for small and mid-market companies. Founded in 2019 and based in New York, Glean offers a comprehensive platform that helps finance teams track their spending in real time, compare expenses against budgets, and identify cost drivers. The solution provides proactive alerts for potential savings and irregular spending patterns, enabling users to gain insights into their expenditures at a granular level. By analyzing expense data, Glean assists organizations in uncovering overlooked opportunities for cost reduction and optimizing their vendor spending.

Big Room

Seed Round in 2021
Big Room is the world's first real-time, hardware-independent AI camera crew.

Slate

Funding Round in 2021
Slate, Ltd. is a content creation platform designed for social media, enabling users to produce on-brand content quickly and efficiently. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, the platform allows companies to customize their social media posts using branded fonts, colors, filters, graphics, and animations through a mobile app. This functionality streamlines the process of preparing content for platforms like Instagram Stories and social media feeds, eliminating the need for desktop computers or reliance on designers. Additionally, Slate enhances the ability to sponsor engaging real-time content, thereby expanding the range of monetizable assets available. The platform is utilized by various teams across major sports leagues, as well as by prominent brands in media and entertainment.

Glean AI

Seed Round in 2021
Glean Analytics Inc. specializes in providing an AI-powered spend management solution designed for small and mid-market companies. Founded in 2019 and based in New York, Glean offers a comprehensive platform that helps finance teams track their spending in real time, compare expenses against budgets, and identify cost drivers. The solution provides proactive alerts for potential savings and irregular spending patterns, enabling users to gain insights into their expenditures at a granular level. By analyzing expense data, Glean assists organizations in uncovering overlooked opportunities for cost reduction and optimizing their vendor spending.

Singuli

Venture Round in 2021
Singuli is an optimization platform for modern retail for retailers who are hindered in managing merchandise-planning with spreadsheets, reports, and legacy tools. This SaaS platform uses real-time data-sets and advanced machine learning to provide demand forecasting and inventory optimization tools that yield dramatic improvements in margins and working capital utilization.

Slate

Seed Round in 2021
Slate, Ltd. is a content creation platform designed for social media, enabling users to produce on-brand content quickly and efficiently. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, the platform allows companies to customize their social media posts using branded fonts, colors, filters, graphics, and animations through a mobile app. This functionality streamlines the process of preparing content for platforms like Instagram Stories and social media feeds, eliminating the need for desktop computers or reliance on designers. Additionally, Slate enhances the ability to sponsor engaging real-time content, thereby expanding the range of monetizable assets available. The platform is utilized by various teams across major sports leagues, as well as by prominent brands in media and entertainment.

Burq

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Burq is a delivery management platform that connects businesses with multiple on-demand delivery providers through a single integration. The platform enables clients to offer commission-free, same-day delivery options to their customers, enhancing their service offerings. By providing access to a network of leading delivery services, Burq allows businesses to present various delivery choices, empowering customers to select the option that best meets their needs. This approach streamlines the logistics process for companies seeking efficient and flexible delivery solutions.

Bravo Sierra

Series A in 2021
Bravo Sierra is the first military-native performance wellness company, pioneering a user-driven performance personal care and nutrition organization developed within the U.S. military community. Powered by the insight generated through social manufacturing including direct collaboration with its core community of 1,000 U.S. military active duty service members, the company delivers performance goods with unprecedented responsiveness and accuracy for those who serve and for the benefit of all. Designed to support and enhance today's ultra-active lifestyle and engineered with critically relevant innovation and stress-tested in the field, the products include first-to-market technologies and formulas that are clean, vegan, and cruelty-free. Bravo Sierra is built around a revenue share model contributing 5% of all sales to the Morale Welfare and Recreation (MWR) program, which offers a complete range of community support and quality of life programs for members of the U.S. Armed Forces, their families, retirees, and veterans.

AllHere

Series A in 2021
AllHere, Inc. is a Boston-based company that focuses on reducing chronic absenteeism in K-12 schools through its intervention management platform. The platform offers various tools, including referral management to analyze chronic absence data at multiple levels, intervention tracking applications for monitoring attendance interventions such as home visits and mentoring, and automated analytics reports to assess the effectiveness of intervention programs. Additionally, AllHere employs artificial intelligence and supervised machine learning to enhance its chatbot software, facilitating real-time, one-on-one communication between schools and families. This approach aims to create engaging experiences that support student recruitment, retention, and success by providing timely assistance and information to families.

Nomad Data

Seed Round in 2021
Nomad Data, founded in 2020 and based in New York, specializes in developing a data management platform that facilitates connections between data buyers and sellers. The platform offers cloud-based tools for data discovery and includes a search engine to help users navigate internal business information. By structuring data files and tracking activities, Nomad Data enables businesses to access differentiated data, enhancing decision-making, marketing, storytelling, and customer visibility. This approach aims to empower clients to make informed decisions using the wealth of data available to them.

Jock MKT

Series A in 2021
Jock MKT is a fantasy gaming platform where users can make real money – every minute, every second, of every game. Jock MKT allows users to buy and sell shares of athletes in real time.

Recount Media

Series B in 2021
Recount Media, Inc. is a New York-based media platform that specializes in political news through high-quality journalism and short-form video content. Founded in 2018, the company produces The Daily Recount, a flagship show that curates and summarizes essential political news events in a concise format. The platform also features interviews and segments like Recap 2020, which remix television news to convey important political stories effectively. Recount Media emphasizes delivering news without unnecessary complexity or misleading narratives, catering to an audience seeking straightforward and reliable information in five minutes or less.

Datanomix

Series A in 2021
Datanomix, Inc., based in Nashua, New Hampshire, develops a software platform tailored for industrial manufacturers to enhance productivity in manufacturing environments. Founded in 2015, the company focuses on the global Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) transformations. Its Manufacturing Analytics platform integrates machine data streams from the shop floor to generate actionable insights for decision-makers. By providing an intuitive analytics framework, Datanomix helps manufacturers understand key factors affecting costs, process variation, product quality, and predictive maintenance. This approach extends the value of traditional data visualization and productivity tools, empowering manufacturers of all sizes with robust decision-making capabilities aimed at improving production, performance, and profitability.

Breach Insurance

Seed Round in 2021
Breach develops, underwrites, and distributes insurance solutions for the digital asset marketplace. The company insures the loss of crypto assets due to cryptocurrency exchange hacks. It creates an intuitive dashboard that allows users to easily set up their policy, customize policy notifications, and submit a claim. It was founded in 2018 in Boston, Massachusetts.

Breach Insurance

Seed Round in 2021
Breach develops, underwrites, and distributes insurance solutions for the digital asset marketplace. The company insures the loss of crypto assets due to cryptocurrency exchange hacks. It creates an intuitive dashboard that allows users to easily set up their policy, customize policy notifications, and submit a claim. It was founded in 2018 in Boston, Massachusetts.

Wasabi

Series C in 2021
Wasabi Technologies, Inc. is a cloud storage provider that offers a fast and cost-effective platform for hybrid and multi-cloud media workflows. The company specializes in hot storage solutions compatible with Amazon S3, delivering average time-to-first-byte speeds of less than 15 milliseconds and ensuring data integrity with active checking. Wasabi's services support a variety of applications, including archiving, backup and recovery, content delivery, and data analytics, catering to sectors such as media and entertainment, education, healthcare, and law enforcement. The company provides a free trial capped at 1 TB of storage and offers flexible pricing options, ensuring that organizations can access secure and reliable data storage without complex pricing structures or unpredictable fees. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Wasabi was previously known as BlueArchive, Inc. before rebranding in 2017.

Bend Financial, Inc.

Series A in 2021
Bend Financial, Inc. specializes in designing and developing health savings account management solutions. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the company offers a suite of services aimed at enhancing health plan management. As a next-generation provider of health savings accounts, Bend Financial focuses on delivering innovative tools that facilitate better management of health-related expenses for individuals and organizations.

Boundless

Series B in 2021
Boundless operates in two distinct sectors: education and immigration services. In the education sector, Boundless Learning, Inc. offers an online platform that provides a wide range of study materials, including content in subjects such as accounting, biology, history, and computer science, along with quizzes and PowerPoint templates. The platform aims to enhance the accessibility and utility of open educational resources for students. In the immigration sector, Boundless empowers families by offering tools, information, and personalized support to help them navigate the immigration system efficiently and affordably. The company's platform connects immigrants with resources, including access to immigration lawyers and online filing options. Founded in 2011 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, Boundless has expanded its focus to include immigration services since its inception in 2017, with headquarters in Seattle, Washington.

HYPR

Series C in 2021
HYPR is The Passwordless Company backed by Comcast, Samsung, and Mastercard. The HYPR Cloud Platform makes it easy to go Passwordless across the enterprise by combining the security of a smart card with the convenience of a smartphone. With HYPR, businesses are finally able to solve the desktop MFA gap, eliminate customer passwords, and deliver lightning-fast login experiences their users love.

pulseData

Series A in 2021
pulseData, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in developing machine learning software tailored for healthcare providers. The company's platform leverages adaptive and predictive data science tools to identify patients at risk of adverse medical outcomes, enabling healthcare organizations to deliver targeted care to those who need it most. By analyzing vast amounts of data, including individual patient information and population patterns, pulseData aids care management teams in providing timely and effective interventions. This approach not only enhances patient care but also aims to reduce preventable illnesses and optimize medical cost savings for healthcare enterprises.

Alyce

Series B in 2021
Alyce, Inc. operates an AI-driven platform designed to enhance sales and marketing efforts through personalized gifting solutions. Founded in December 2015 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company offers SWAG SELECT, an online tool that facilitates the selection and distribution of gifts via direct mail from an extensive catalogue. Alyce's platform focuses on one-to-one gifting and account-based marketing, utilizing personal social data to identify optimal gifts for recipients. It manages the entire process, including orders, shipping, and reporting, for a wide range of gift quantities. The approach aims to foster genuine relationships, achieving significantly higher account penetration and pipeline growth compared to traditional methods. Alyce's solutions are designed to make B2B gift-giving straightforward, effective, and measurable, all while being provided at no cost to users.

Grata

Seed Round in 2021
Grata is the first search engine for company discovery, providing a single source of truth to find small to middle market private companies. Grata's next-generation SaaS platform automates the B2B research process on the 30 million businesses in the U.S., helping business development professionals across private equity, banking and recruiting discover companies instantly. Grata indexes billions of sources on the web and has innovated the latest NLP technology. Over 100 customers have transacted over $1 billion dollars with companies they've found through Grata. Grata was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, USA.

Stavvy

Series A in 2021
Stavvy is a modern lending experience designed to connect lenders with their title, settlement, and appraisal vendors. The Stavvy Connect is a fully-integrated, digital mortgage vendor platform that allows mortgage banking professionals to seamlessly and securely communicate and access vendor data & deliverables without fragmentation or exposure to unnecessary risk. The Stavvy Notarize empowers title agents, lawyers, notaries and other real estate professionals to leverage the power of web conference technology to conduct virtual closings and meetings in real-time.

Scipher Medicine

Series C in 2021
Scipher Medicine is a biotechnology company based in Waltham, Massachusetts, that focuses on developing a molecular technology platform to predict patient responses to drug therapies, particularly in cardiovascular and autoimmune diseases. The company offers several diagnostic tests, including PrismDx, which identifies patients who may not respond to specific medications, PrismRA for patients with rheumatoid arthritis, and PrismUC for those with ulcerative colitis. These tests enable healthcare providers to prescribe more suitable alternative therapies for patients who are unlikely to benefit from traditional treatments. Scipher Medicine emphasizes the importance of providing scientifically backed data to improve patient outcomes and enhance treatment decisions. The company has also established a strategic partnership with Ambry Genetics Corporation to further advance its capabilities. Founded in 2014, Scipher Medicine was previously known as DZZOM Delaware Corporation before changing its name in 2015.

Big Room

Seed Round in 2021
Big Room is the world's first real-time, hardware-independent AI camera crew.

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.

Atentiv

Seed Round in 2021
ATENTIV was the first company to pioneer digital therapies for behavioral disorders due to developmental delays of cognitive skills, initially for ADHD. It is combining scientific and clinical rigor, with the ingenuity of the tech industry and the power of big data analytics into a platform of products for use by providers, health care insurers and employers. Atentiv’s products deliver treatments not through a pill but through a creative and immersive action adventure video game to treat cognitive deficiencies and improve symptoms associated with behavioral disorders.

SoLo Funds

Series A in 2021
SoLo Funds, Inc. is a mobile money exchange and lending platform that connects lenders and borrowers, allowing users to borrow on their own terms and lenders to benefit from their contributions. Established in 2015 and based in New York City, SoLo Funds operates as an alternative financial solution, offering rapid loan options to borrowers while providing lenders with significant value. The platform has evolved from a unique lending marketplace into a comprehensive community banking solution that leverages individual capital, insurance, and banking products, supported by advanced A.I. underwriting technology.

Marble

Seed Round in 2021
Insurance companies spend billions on marketing to find new customers, and often those costs come back to you in the form of higher premiums. We’re changing that. At Marble, we put our members at the center of the insurance process so they can effortlessly protect the things they care about, all while earning the value they deserve. We’re laser-focused on saving insurance customers money by building a rewards-based membership program. This same loyalty program serves as a more direct and effective marketing channel for insurance companies. It’s not often that you get to say this when talking about insurance, but with Marble, everybody truly does win.

Beam Organics

Series A in 2021
Beam Organics Inc is a wellness brand that specializes in manufacturing cannabidiol-infused products designed to promote athletic recovery, overall wellness, and restful sleep. Established in 2018 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company offers a diverse range of THC-free CBD products, including tinctures, salves, and oil droppers. Beam Organics focuses on providing consumers with innovative solutions for their health needs through its carefully formulated products.

RapidSOS

Series C in 2021
RapidSOS, Inc. operates an emergency response data platform that delivers critical information from over 350 million connected devices directly to 9-1-1 and first responders during emergencies. The platform enhances public safety by providing rich multimedia, health profiles, and real-time incident data, supporting more than 4,800 Emergency Communications Centers and protecting over 90% of the U.S. population during approximately 250 million emergencies each year. Key offerings include the Clearinghouse, which enables emergency requests from RapidSOS-enabled devices, and an Emergency API suite that transmits user data to emergency services. Additionally, the RapidSOS Portal provides public safety agencies with secure access to life-saving data. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, RapidSOS collaborates with certified partners to improve emergency response times and outcomes, ultimately aiming to create a safer future through the integration of technology and public safety efforts.

InteRNA Technologies

Series B in 2021
InteRNA Technologies B.V. is a biotechnology company based in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, with a research and development center in Utrecht. Founded in 2006, the company focuses on developing microRNA (miRNA)-based therapeutics aimed at treating cancer. These drugs target previously undruggable pathways, enhancing the effectiveness of existing therapies and addressing drug resistance. InteRNA employs advanced techniques such as massively parallel sequencing and proprietary bioinformatics to analyze and validate miRNA sequences. Recently, the company secured additional equity financing to further advance its lead program for melanoma treatment, reflecting its commitment to innovation in oncology.

Holler

Series B in 2021
Holler Technologies, Inc. is a Conversational Media company based in New York, established in 2016. It specializes in the creation and delivery of expressive visual content designed to enhance online conversations. The company utilizes its Suggestion AI Technology to provide users with relevant content at opportune moments, making peer-to-peer messaging more engaging and effective. Holler also operates a full-service animation production studio and creative agency, focusing on original animation and relatable characters that resonate with audiences. With a dedicated team of technologists, digital animators, and media industry professionals, Holler processes and services over 1 billion messages daily, contributing significantly to the digital communication landscape.

Green Check Verified

Seed Round in 2020
Green Check Verified, Inc. develops a cloud-based regulatory compliance platform for legal cannabis-related businesses and financial institutions. Its software-as-a-service platform uses compliance monitoring and reporting tools to offer real-time access to traditional banking services, enabling cannabis businesses to monitor and share their compliance history. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in North Haven, Connecticut.

Markable Creators(Markable AI)

Convertible Note in 2020
BCG reported that 70% of Gen Z discover products through content platforms, not directly on a retailer website. Social commerce is NOW. The global fashion E-commerce digital advertising allocation is $200 billion. Mai is making social visual discovery shopping a reality on every photo and video across any social platforms or devices. Viewers can click and shop the clothing they see while watching videos, such as TV shows, movies, and other digital media. Mai bridges the gap between social content and e-commerce, through a fully-automated AI computer vision technology, a sophisticated e-commerce bidding system, and a user personalization system. At Mai, we have spent three years working with top computer vision AI scientists, AI engineers, and fashion experts that created the world’s 1st fully automated video fashion shopping solution. We are connected with numerous top global e-commerce platforms, with total 200M SKUs available, daily updated with an out-of-stock rate <3%. Moreover, Mai is already live with two of the biggest social content platforms in Asia, with more to come. Mai has won the No.1 winner of MIT AI Idol contest in Jul 2020, and also won the title of “Most fundable company by investment value” at the biggest Asia Internet Conference in Nov 2020.

Nirvana Health

Seed Round in 2020
Nirvana Health, based in New York City and founded in 2020 by Kelvin Chan, provides an insurance intelligence platform designed to assist mental health care providers in managing complex insurance-related tasks. The company focuses on automating the processes involved in filing, managing, and following up on insurance claims, thereby allowing therapists to concentrate more on patient care. By leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, Nirvana Health offers tools that facilitate coverage checks, client billing, payment plans, and reimbursement services, streamlining the financial management for providers. This comprehensive approach not only saves time and resources but also ensures that therapists can deliver reliable care without being hindered by administrative burdens.

Routable AI Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Routable AI Inc., founded in 2019 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, specializes in fleet management software designed for on-demand transportation services, including shuttles and buses. The company aims to address the evolving mobility landscape, targeting the high-capacity mobility-as-a-service market, which is projected to be worth $30 billion. By leveraging advanced AI and patent-pending routing algorithms developed from extensive research at MIT, Routable AI provides a platform that significantly enhances operational efficiency for fleet operators. This technology enables dynamic routing of transportation services, leading to reductions in fleet sizes by up to 80% while offering a cost-effective and convenient alternative for commuters and corporations alike.

Centivo

Series B in 2020
Centivo Corporation is a health plan administrator that provides innovative health insurance solutions for self-funded employers, employees, and clinicians. Founded in 2016 and based in Stamford, Connecticut, with additional offices in New York and Buffalo, the company aims to deliver high-quality, affordable healthcare by facilitating partnerships between employers and primary care teams. Centivo offers a comprehensive suite of services, including technology, claims processing, customer support, and population health management, to efficiently administer health benefits. Its model emphasizes collaboration between members and their primary care providers, encouraging cost-effective healthcare choices. Members benefit from personalized tools for patient-doctor matching and receive support through a user-friendly app and concierge services. Employers are supported by Centivo's commitment to eliminating waste and ensuring accountability in performance.

Parlay App Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Parlay App Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a customer collaboration platform aimed at enhancing the interaction between product development teams and their customers. Founded in 2017 and located in Wilmington, Massachusetts, the platform enables users to share ideas, review potential product updates, analyze user sentiment, and assess the effects of future developments. By fostering direct engagement with users, Parlay App Inc. seeks to address common shortcomings in product development processes, moving away from reliance on analytics and support chat systems to promote more meaningful dialogue between creators and consumers. This approach aims to ensure that products are better aligned with user needs and preferences.

Parlor

Seed Round in 2020
Parlor is an online curatorial platform that helps collectors discover artwork worth investing in. It is committed to sharing insights and learnings on the rapidly growing ultra-contemporary art market.

Zapata Computing

Series B in 2020
Zapata Computing is a quantum software company that offers computing solutions for industrial and commercial use. It provides hardware-agnostic solutions for simulation, optimization, and machine learning applications in chemistry, finance, logistics, pharmaceuticals, engineering, and materials. Zapata Computing is a spun out of Harvard University launched by a group of Harvard scientists, including Alán Aspuru-Guzik. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

FreightFlows

Venture Round in 2020
FreightFlows, Inc. provides maritime market intelligence for traders, shippers, owners, and brokers. It develops a data platform to source, synthesize, and analyze current market data that allows customers to optimize operational decision-making and risk management. The company’s platform allows users to explore market, port, and fleet activity trends; identify vessel availability; identify vessel routes and ETA; and gain visibility into commodity cargoes and trade activities. In addition, it provides market analysis services to trade in futures markets, reduce commercial risk, and hedge against freight rate volatility. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Ellevest

Venture Round in 2020
Ellevest, Inc. is an employee owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to women clients. It manages separate client-focused portfolios. The firm invests in different asset classes in markets across the globe. The firm employs fundamental analysis along with top-down approach to create its portfolios. It was formerly known as Ellevate Financial, Inc. Ellevest, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in New York City.

Loadsmart

Venture Round in 2020
Loadsmart, Inc. operates an online platform designed to streamline the logistics process for shippers and carriers. Founded in 2014 by Felipe Capella and Ricardo Salgado, the company is headquartered in New York, with an additional office in Chicago. The platform offers users the ability to obtain real-time, bookable rates, facilitating efficient interactions between shippers and carriers. It allows shippers to quickly move freight and helps carriers optimize their capacity by keeping trucks full. Loadsmart's service includes features for obtaining quotes, booking trucks, and tracking freight from pickup to delivery, thereby enhancing the overall efficiency of the shipping process.

FanUp

Seed Round in 2020
FanUp gamifies sports and esports for every fan. FanUp is, Fantasy sports and esports re-imagined; with fun, interactive, and pop-culture styled contests. Our brands, prizes and social features, cater to causal fans and a younger demographic, ensuring we grow the entire market. We’re not a betting app, we’re far greater. Most apps focus on 35-60-year-old middle-age men. FanUp was created for 18-34 year-old social fans and young professionals. Our users: - Love sports and esports gaming - Are 2.5x more likely to game and compete w/ social features - Are more diverse (43% are women) - Want to interact with pop-culture, brands and influencers Our mantra: Fans and innovation first, always. We’re leading a transformative shift in sports and culture. Squad up and compete year-round in contests for your fav sports & esports leagues. FanUp, and may the best fans win.

Arable

Series B in 2020
Arable Labs, Inc. specializes in developing a solar-powered Internet of Things (IoT) device equipped with advanced sensors for in-field crop monitoring. This technology allows farmers to digitize and optimize their agricultural decisions by providing critical data about the impact of weather and other factors on crop yield, quality, and harvest timing. Arable's integrated system combines unique spectral and thermal sensors with agronomic modeling and software tools, enabling users to monitor crop development and identify stressors such as water or nutrient deficiencies. The platform serves a diverse clientele, including farmers, agronomists, researchers, food processors, and agricultural enterprises, facilitating real-time insights and predictive analytics that enhance productivity and sustainability. Established in 2014, Arable is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Princeton, New Jersey. The company has received various accolades, highlighting its innovation in agricultural technology.

Fabric Technologies

Series B in 2020
Fabric Technologies, Inc. is a Brooklyn-based company that specializes in providing life insurance solutions aimed at helping families secure their financial futures. Founded in 2015, it offers affordable term life insurance, along with essential services such as last will and testament preparation and tools for organizing family finances. The company prioritizes simplifying the life insurance process, making it more accessible for new parents. Through its subsidiary, Fabric Insurance Agency, LLC, the company also offers services including life insurance, health insurance, and accidental death coverage. Their flagship products include Fabric Instant, an accidental death insurance policy, and Fabric Premium, a term life insurance policy that covers deaths resulting from both accidents and illnesses. Overall, Fabric Technologies strives to create a smarter, user-friendly approach to insurance for families across the United States.

Welcome

Seed Round in 2020
Welcome designs and develops offer management and compensation platform for human resource (HR) team. Its platform helps to collaborate, approve workflow across the team, access real time insights, get notifications on candidate engagement, and set clear expectations about the role, compensation, equity, benefits, and mission. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in New York, New York.

Perch

Venture Round in 2020
Perch is a technology-driven commerce company that specializes in acquiring and operating successful Amazon FBA (fulfillment by Amazon) businesses. The firm focuses on products that have a strong track record of positive customer reviews and consistently rank among the top three in their respective categories on Amazon. Its portfolio includes a diverse range of brands, such as those producing exfoliating brushes, slime-making kits, leggings, and reusable straws. Perch employs its platform for sales analytics, pricing, advertising and marketing strategies, and inventory management. Founded in 2019 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, Perch aims to leverage technology to enhance the performance and growth of its acquired brands.