Alumni Ventures

Alumni Ventures Group, LLC is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, founded in 2013. The firm specializes in seed and early-stage investments, as well as late-stage pre-IPO opportunities, with a flexible approach that is sector and geographic agnostic. Alumni Ventures aims to provide high-quality, diversified venture portfolios to individual investors, particularly accredited alumni from top entrepreneurial schools, who may not have had access to venture capital previously. The firm focuses on backing companies that have an alumni connection and are led by established institutional investors with expertise in their respective fields. Additionally, Alumni Ventures offers focused funds that enable accredited investors to access a diverse portfolio of investments across various types, sectors, stages, and geographies.

Rob Adams

Executive Partner

Gail Ball

Venture Scout

Andrew Baum

Vice President, Treasury and Capital Management

Helen Chen

CEO Services Analyst

Michael Collins

CEO

Michael Egziabher

Principal, Basecamp

Mason Hale

Senior Associate, Chestnut Street and Triphammer

Jin Kim

Emmet Street Ventures - Founding Council Chair

Madden, Michael J.

Managing Partner and Co-Founder

Jonathan Meltzer

Managing Partner

David Muson

CFO

Michael Peri

Partner

Aisha Robinson

Vice President of Performance Marketing

Saad Shaheen

Director

David Shapiro

Managing Partner, Blue Ivy

Brittney Wade

Senior Associate, Seed Fund and Doctors Innovate Fund

Sarah Worden

Venture Scout

Michael Yuann

Director of Investment Operations

Past deals in Texas

Aiden

Seed Round in 2023
Aiden provides intelligent software packages with an AI bot that reduces manual work and improves security posture. Aiden simplifies the IT process, giving users peace of mind and security by ensuring their computers get exactly the software they need and nothing else.

Knit

Seed Round in 2022
Knit is an end-to-end insights platform that combines the power of quantitative, video, and artificial intelligence to help marketers gain a faster and more comprehensive understanding of their target audience.

Legion Health

Seed Round in 2022
Legion Health provides telepsychiatry services that enhance patient access to mental health care. The company focuses on integrating technology to streamline interactions between patients and providers while ensuring services are covered by insurance. It aims to support comprehensive mental wellness through personalized treatment plans and collaboration with other care team members.

Propulsion Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Propulsion Labs is a web development and design agency that specializes in creating functional and visually appealing websites and applications for businesses of all sizes. The company offers a range of software development services, including consulting, business planning, competitive assessment, and interactive strategy. By establishing a clear mechanism for collecting and documenting client requirements, Propulsion Labs ensures that it effectively translates business ideas into technological solutions that drive success and profitability. Their approach enables clients to leverage the necessary expertise to achieve their business objectives.

Virdee

Seed Round in 2022
Virdee is a SaaS company delivering digital check-in and virtual concierge services to the hospitality and commercial real estate industries.

LevelField

Seed Round in 2022
LevelField is a financial services company that provides a comprehensive range of offerings encompassing traditional banking, securities, and digital assets. The company has developed a digital asset investment platform aimed at enhancing efficiency in the complex cryptocurrency market. By promoting the mainstream adoption of digital assets, LevelField combines transactional and financing products to cater to both cryptocurrency and traditional financial sectors. Its platform includes a desktop trading interface, which is currently in early access, and features a secure custody solution employing military-grade technology. This enables customers to access decentralized financial services with a strong emphasis on safety and security.

Heading Health

Seed Round in 2022
Heading Health is a technology-enabled mental health platform improving access to affordable care. It delivers personalized treatment solutions that leverage evidence-based therapeutics and technologies such as Spravato, transcranial magnetic stimulation, telepsychiatry, and intramuscular ketamine.

SourceDay

Series C in 2022
SourceDay they provide purchase order management system of ERP, for buyer and supplier relationships to help customers standardize processes to reduce errors, communication delays, material delays, frustrations and communications.

The Helper Bees

Series B in 2022
The Helper Bees is an InsurTech successfully improving the home care experience for the payer and care-recipient. They work with some of the world’s largest insurance carriers to deliver transformative experiences in digitization, sourcing great care options, and applying machine learning to power intelligent care and claim analytics and processing.

Velostics

Seed Round in 2021
Velostics is a logistics Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company specializing in automating manual and paper-based truck scheduling, check-in and order entry processes for terminals, warehouses and plants. The Velostics® AI platform automates communication between carriers and facilities systems and logistics teams to schedule, check-in, and load vehicles faster and error-free. The location-specific Velostics Pass™ technology and QR code enables required shipment data to be exchanged contactlessly and eliminates delays and paperwork from check-in, shipping and receiving process. Velostics solutions have a proven track record of minimizing delays and demurrage, reducing errors, and increasing operational efficiency and throughput so that companies may achieve strong ROI in just a few months. To learn more, please visit www.velostics.com.

Clarity Security

Seed Round in 2021
Clarity Security, founded in 2020 and based in Dallas, Texas, specializes in a security platform that enhances identity governance practices. The platform automatically identifies and correlates identities across various infrastructures and applications, facilitating the deployment and management of role-based access control. It also collects comprehensive user access reports, which support clients in certifying access, automating account life cycles, and streamlining compliance processes. Through these capabilities, Clarity Security aims to improve the overall management of identities and access within organizations.

ZenBusiness

Series C in 2021
ZenBusiness Inc. is a company that specializes in corporate entity creation and management services, founded in 2015 and headquartered in Austin, Texas. It offers an all-in-one platform that consolidates essential tools and services for small business owners, enabling them to start, run, and grow their businesses effectively. Through its user-friendly website and mobile application, customers can manage their business compliance, finances, and online presence from a single dashboard. ZenBusiness distinguishes itself by combining innovative technology with personalized human support, providing expert guidance via phone, chat, and email. The company is committed to social impact and inclusivity, operating as a Public Benefit Corporation and supporting diverse entrepreneurs through partnerships and grant programs. It also engages in community initiatives, offering resources and opportunities for small business owners to succeed. ZenBusiness is recognized as a trusted partner in the business formation process, striving to simplify the complexities of entrepreneurship and empower individuals from various backgrounds to achieve their goals.

UpEquity

Series B in 2021
UpEquity is a tech-enabled mortgage platform creating a better way to buy a home. UpEquity empowers customers to close offers fast by leveraging its proprietary combination of free cash offers, automated underwriting and low mortgage rates. Even first-time homebuyers receive access to the best houses on the market, in turn democratizing the American Dream. UpEquity was founded in 2019 by Tim Herman and Louis Wilson while they were attending Harvard Business School and later graduated from Y Combinator's Summer 2019 accelerator program.

Insiteflow

Seed Round in 2021
Insiteflow is a provider of an EHR integrated platform that helps manage clinical decision solutions. The platform helps the practitioner to optimize their clinical workflow solutions by giving POC insights for better decision and treatment planning solutions for patients. It was founded by Anthony Gerardi and Corey Hall in 2018 in Austin, Texas.

Wrench

Series D in 2021
Wrench, Inc. is a mobile auto repair service that specializes in providing car and truck repair at customers' homes and offices. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the company operates additional offices across various states, including Arizona, California, Florida, and Texas. Wrench offers a wide range of services, such as alternator and battery replacement, brake repairs, diagnostic services, oil changes, and more. The company also features an online appointment booking system, allowing customers to conveniently schedule repairs. Wrench aims to simplify vehicle maintenance through its mobile mechanics, catering to the needs of both individual customers and fleet management.

SourceDay

Convertible Note in 2021
SourceDay they provide purchase order management system of ERP, for buyer and supplier relationships to help customers standardize processes to reduce errors, communication delays, material delays, frustrations and communications.

ThreatWarrior

Series A in 2021
ThreatWarrior specializes in Network and Digital Supply Chain Protection, focusing on the prevention of both known and unknown cyber threats. Its agentless, deep learning platform conducts real-time analysis of network traffic to identify security vulnerabilities and eliminate blind spots across on-premises, public cloud, and hybrid environments. By integrating unsupervised neural networks, continuous deep packet inspection, behavior monitoring, and automated response, ThreatWarrior offers a comprehensive solution for organizations to monitor their networks and supply chains effectively. This technology empowers businesses to understand the behavior of all communications within their enterprise, enabling them to respond efficiently to threats that may be overlooked by other solutions.

Alto

Series B in 2021
Alto provides on-demand rides using a dedicated fleet of new, safe, and well-maintained vehicles. Each driver is an employee of Alto and is carefully vetted and trained to give members a professional and predictable ride, every time. Alto's elegant apps and in-car technology customize each member's experience each time. In short, members drive everything, except for the car. The company is launching in Dallas, Texas with plans to scale to new US cities in 2019. Alto was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, United States

Mainline

Seed Round in 2021
Deploying a white-glove, white-label approach, Mainline helps usher colleges and universities, brands, and organizations into the esports space. Using custom tech, tailored production, and expert tournament organization, Mainline works to deploy and reinforce esports programs at all levels.

Hello Alice

Series B in 2021
Hello Alice is a FinTech platform established in 2017 by Carolyn Rodz and Elizabeth Gore, headquartered in Houston, Texas. The platform is designed to support small business owners by providing access to credit, loans, grants, and business planning services. It connects entrepreneurs of all backgrounds—regardless of gender, ethnicity, geography, or stage of growth—with the necessary programs, networks, and opportunities for success. Through its innovative use of machine learning, Hello Alice curates mentorship, events, tools, and resources tailored to the specific needs of each business. The company collaborates with enterprise business services, government agencies, and institutions to enhance support for small and medium enterprises, ultimately aiming to drive increased revenues for its users.

Aiden

Seed Round in 2021
Aiden provides intelligent software packages with an AI bot that reduces manual work and improves security posture. Aiden simplifies the IT process, giving users peace of mind and security by ensuring their computers get exactly the software they need and nothing else.

Data.world

Venture Round in 2021
data.world makes it easy for everyone—not just the “data people”—to get clear, accurate, fast answers to any business question. Our cloud-native data catalog maps your siloed, distributed data to familiar and consistent business concepts, creating a unified body of knowledge anyone can find, understand, and use. data.world is also home to the world’s largest collaborative data community. It’s where people team up on everything from social bot detection to award-winning data journalism. We use what we learn from this community to improve the enterprise product and vice versa. Our team co-created the Manifesto for Data Practices, the most effective, ethical, and modern approach to data teamwork. More people signed the Manifesto for Data Practices in its first year than signed the Agile Manifesto in its first two years combined. In 2019 DataPractices.org became a Linux Foundation Project. The vendor-neutral community features new, open courseware to help people and organizations improve data practices through inclusion, experimentation, accountability, and impact. We are a Public Benefit Corporation. Most corporations are required to prioritize shareholder returns above all else. Not us. We are legally structured as a Public Benefit Corporation so we can pursue our mission and shareholder value with equal vigor. This ability is rare, powerful, and sustaining.

Mythic

Series C in 2021
Mythic Inc. is a technology company that specializes in designing and developing silicon chips and artificial intelligence (AI) processing units. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, with an office in Austin, Texas, Mythic focuses on creating analog matrix processors that enable AI capabilities across a range of devices, from fitness bands and hearing aids to self-driving cars and robotic drones. The company’s flagship products include the M1076 Analog Matrix Processor and various PCIe and M.2 cards. Mythic's technology integrates hybrid digital and analog computations within flash arrays, providing desktop-grade compute power in a compact form factor while maintaining performance, energy efficiency, and accuracy. The company has assembled a diverse team of experts in neural networks, software design, and processor architecture to advance AI deployment in real-world environments.

Insiteflow

Seed Round in 2021
Insiteflow is a provider of an EHR integrated platform that helps manage clinical decision solutions. The platform helps the practitioner to optimize their clinical workflow solutions by giving POC insights for better decision and treatment planning solutions for patients. It was founded by Anthony Gerardi and Corey Hall in 2018 in Austin, Texas.

Hitch

Seed Round in 2021
Hitch is solving intercity transportation by offering an affordable, personal, and safe ride-sharing service to consumers.

Method Financial

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Method Financial is a financial connectivity API for consumer liability data + payments. Method provides connectivity to consumer credit and liability accounts, enabling end-to-end refinance experiences, real-time account data access, and one-click checkout.

Burrow

Series C in 2021
Burrow, Inc. is a New York-based furniture company that designs, manufactures, and supplies a range of home furnishings, including customizable sofas, sectionals, loveseats, armchairs, and ottomans, as well as tables, rugs, and various accessories. Founded in 2016, Burrow focuses on creating luxury furniture that is both easy to move and comfortable, utilizing sustainably-sourced hardwood and non-toxic, scratch- and stain-resistant fabrics. The company aims to reinvent the home furnishing experience by offering personalized and durable products that allow customers to avoid traditional retail markups. Burrow sells its items through physical showrooms in several states, including Washington, Massachusetts, Texas, and California, as well as through its online platform. The company's manufacturing facility is located in Mexico City, Mexico.

Linear Labs

Venture Round in 2020
Linear Labs, Inc., based in Fort Worth, Texas, specializes in manufacturing innovative electric motors for various industries, including electric vehicles, micro-mobility, robotics, and HVAC systems. The company's flagship product, the Hunstable Electric Turbine, features a unique design with multiple rotors, allowing it to perform efficiently under diverse conditions. Linear Labs focuses on enhancing energy utilization with its advanced motor systems, which can adapt their physical design in real-time to optimize performance. This technology results in significant improvements in torque, extended operational range, and reduced power consumption. By utilizing these new motor designs, customers can lower costs associated with components, raw materials, and assembly while increasing overall motor efficiency. Founded in 2012, Linear Labs aims to lead the evolution of electric motor technology for a more sustainable future.

Data.world

Series B in 2020
data.world makes it easy for everyone—not just the “data people”—to get clear, accurate, fast answers to any business question. Our cloud-native data catalog maps your siloed, distributed data to familiar and consistent business concepts, creating a unified body of knowledge anyone can find, understand, and use. data.world is also home to the world’s largest collaborative data community. It’s where people team up on everything from social bot detection to award-winning data journalism. We use what we learn from this community to improve the enterprise product and vice versa. Our team co-created the Manifesto for Data Practices, the most effective, ethical, and modern approach to data teamwork. More people signed the Manifesto for Data Practices in its first year than signed the Agile Manifesto in its first two years combined. In 2019 DataPractices.org became a Linux Foundation Project. The vendor-neutral community features new, open courseware to help people and organizations improve data practices through inclusion, experimentation, accountability, and impact. We are a Public Benefit Corporation. Most corporations are required to prioritize shareholder returns above all else. Not us. We are legally structured as a Public Benefit Corporation so we can pursue our mission and shareholder value with equal vigor. This ability is rare, powerful, and sustaining.

Hello Alice

Venture Round in 2020
Hello Alice is a FinTech platform established in 2017 by Carolyn Rodz and Elizabeth Gore, headquartered in Houston, Texas. The platform is designed to support small business owners by providing access to credit, loans, grants, and business planning services. It connects entrepreneurs of all backgrounds—regardless of gender, ethnicity, geography, or stage of growth—with the necessary programs, networks, and opportunities for success. Through its innovative use of machine learning, Hello Alice curates mentorship, events, tools, and resources tailored to the specific needs of each business. The company collaborates with enterprise business services, government agencies, and institutions to enhance support for small and medium enterprises, ultimately aiming to drive increased revenues for its users.

StoryFit

Venture Round in 2019
StoryFit puts the power of artificial intelligence in the hands of publishers and studios. StoryFit is a technology company that delivers artificial intelligence insights and solutions for the book publishing, movie, and television production industries. The name StoryFit comes from that simple idea: know how your story fits in the landscape; find a story to fit your audience, and an audience that fits your story. It represents their motivation and their promise to their customers: to support creative decision-makers in their production of memorable stories by providing the smartest, most adaptable, and most dynamic machine learning insights to narrative content available.

Wrench

Series C in 2019
Wrench, Inc. is a mobile auto repair service that specializes in providing car and truck repair at customers' homes and offices. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the company operates additional offices across various states, including Arizona, California, Florida, and Texas. Wrench offers a wide range of services, such as alternator and battery replacement, brake repairs, diagnostic services, oil changes, and more. The company also features an online appointment booking system, allowing customers to conveniently schedule repairs. Wrench aims to simplify vehicle maintenance through its mobile mechanics, catering to the needs of both individual customers and fleet management.

Future/Proof

Venture Round in 2019
Future/Proof develops beverage brands for millennial customers. Justin Fenchel, Aimy Steadman, and Brad Schultz founded it in 2019, with its headquarters in Austin in Texas.

Car Body Lab

Venture Round in 2019
Car Body Lab is a site that provides auto repair services and connects clients with qualified mechanics. In order to repair scratches, scuffs, dents, cracks, and other types of damage, the company's platform provides certified technicians along with mobile vans that it is expected to reach with creative technology. This enables customers to get their repairs done easily and affordably in their driveway or in private parking.

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.

Burrow

Series B in 2019
Burrow, Inc. is a New York-based furniture company that designs, manufactures, and supplies a range of home furnishings, including customizable sofas, sectionals, loveseats, armchairs, and ottomans, as well as tables, rugs, and various accessories. Founded in 2016, Burrow focuses on creating luxury furniture that is both easy to move and comfortable, utilizing sustainably-sourced hardwood and non-toxic, scratch- and stain-resistant fabrics. The company aims to reinvent the home furnishing experience by offering personalized and durable products that allow customers to avoid traditional retail markups. Burrow sells its items through physical showrooms in several states, including Washington, Massachusetts, Texas, and California, as well as through its online platform. The company's manufacturing facility is located in Mexico City, Mexico.

StoryFit

Series A in 2019
StoryFit puts the power of artificial intelligence in the hands of publishers and studios. StoryFit is a technology company that delivers artificial intelligence insights and solutions for the book publishing, movie, and television production industries. The name StoryFit comes from that simple idea: know how your story fits in the landscape; find a story to fit your audience, and an audience that fits your story. It represents their motivation and their promise to their customers: to support creative decision-makers in their production of memorable stories by providing the smartest, most adaptable, and most dynamic machine learning insights to narrative content available.

Wrench

Series B in 2018
Wrench, Inc. is a mobile auto repair service that specializes in providing car and truck repair at customers' homes and offices. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the company operates additional offices across various states, including Arizona, California, Florida, and Texas. Wrench offers a wide range of services, such as alternator and battery replacement, brake repairs, diagnostic services, oil changes, and more. The company also features an online appointment booking system, allowing customers to conveniently schedule repairs. Wrench aims to simplify vehicle maintenance through its mobile mechanics, catering to the needs of both individual customers and fleet management.

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.

Honor

Series C in 2018
Honor is the largest senior care network and technology platform globally, dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for older adults and their families. Founded in 2014 in San Francisco by Cameron Ring, Monica Lo, Sandy Jen, and Seth Sternberg, the company aims to improve in-home care services for seniors. In 2021, Honor expanded its reach by acquiring Home Instead, which strengthened its network and introduced a relationship-based care model. The company combines workforce management and technology expertise with personalized care delivered through a network of third-party providers. This integrated approach allows older adults to receive reliable, transparent, and quality care, enabling them to live safely and comfortably in their own homes.

High Brew Coffee

Series C in 2018
High Brew Coffee helps farmers achieve greater profitability with less environmental impact.

Zerocater

Series B in 2018
Zerocrater is a platform for office catering and snacks that allows users to select from a number of food options and have them delivered to their workplace from eateries. The platform of the company provides catering meals to small and medium-sized enterprises and simplifies the ordering procedure, allowing clients to create a high-performing office culture by bringing employees together over food. Zerocrater was established in 2009 in San Francisco, California by Arram Sabeti.

Tethr

Venture Round in 2018
Tethr enables the enterprise to make smarter business decisions based on the true Voice of the Customer, with an AI-driven communications intelligence platform that listens to and analyzes every customer conversation and surfaces contextual understanding and insights from the data. Based on over a decade of best-practice CX research, Tethr gives organizations the ability to measure what matters and share the voice of the customer insights across the organization to directly impact sales results, customer loyalty, operating costs, compliance, and risk.

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.

Iris Plans

Seed Round in 2017
Iris Plans is a tech-enabled service that provides Advance Care Planning (ACP), or “healthcare planning,” to people with serious medical conditions. ACP’s proven benefits result in people receiving higher quality care, less stress on loved ones, higher satisfaction, and lower costs. Iris Plans is the first organization offering nationwide, complete ACP that is tailored specifically to individuals’ circumstances and preferences.

Iris Plans

Seed Round in 2016
Iris Plans is a tech-enabled service that provides Advance Care Planning (ACP), or “healthcare planning,” to people with serious medical conditions. ACP’s proven benefits result in people receiving higher quality care, less stress on loved ones, higher satisfaction, and lower costs. Iris Plans is the first organization offering nationwide, complete ACP that is tailored specifically to individuals’ circumstances and preferences.
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