Alumni Ventures

Lumanu, Inc. is a digital marketing platform that connects companies with brand ambassadors, focusing on the creator economy. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Oakland, California, with an additional office in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Lumanu offers several solutions to facilitate collaboration between brands and creators. Its SocialCert solution enables influencers to share content and usage rights with marketers, while Content Manager allows for easy ingestion of influencer content. SmartBoost generates advertisements using influencer-created content, enhancing marketing effectiveness. Lumanu streamlines business transactions and payments for creators, ensuring they earn more and receive payments promptly. For businesses, the platform reduces friction in accessing exclusive creator intellectual property and first-party data, ultimately improving return on investment.

Asto CT LLC specializes in X-ray computed tomography (CT) technology designed to enhance the health and safety of horses, particularly thoroughbreds, show horses, and older equines. Founded in 2015 and based in Madison, Wisconsin, the company focuses on improving fracture risk detection, diagnosing lameness, and managing dental and sinus issues. Its innovative system allows for rapid 3D imaging of the lower limbs, head, and neck of standing horses without the need for general anesthesia, ensuring a safer and more comfortable experience for the animals. Asto CT aims to provide high-quality volumetric imaging to improve equine well-being and offer reassurance to horse owners, while pioneering advancements in robotics and multi-slice CT technology for more effective screening and diagnosis.

Full Reign is a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based company founded in 2020 that specializes in a recommendation platform for hair-care products. The platform aims to enhance consumer experience by providing tailored product suggestions based on individual needs and preferences. By leveraging technology, Full Reign seeks to streamline the process of finding suitable hair-care solutions, making it easier for users to navigate the vast array of available products in the market.

SHINE Medical Technologies, Inc. manufactures and supplies medical tracers and cancer treatment elements. The company offers Molybdenum-99, a light-emitting element that is administered to patients for the purpose of diagnosing and staging cancer and heart diseases. It also provides Iodine-131 that is used to treat thyroid cancer and various abnormal thyroid conditions, including hyperthyroidism, as well as to diagnose liver function, renal blood flow, and urinary tract obstruction. The company was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Wisconsin, United States.

LÜM is a social media, music discovery, and streaming application that allows fans to directly support their favorite emerging artists. The company's application focuses on up and coming artists around the world and provides the ability for users to discover, share, and circulate music. They seek to decrease the disparity in exposure between corporate music and new music, and link-local areas into the undiscovered music that is all around them. By rethinking the interaction between social media and streaming, LÜM will eventually become a live entertainment “talent pool” for up and coming music around the world.

Asto CT LLC specializes in X-ray computed tomography (CT) technology designed to enhance the health and safety of horses, particularly thoroughbreds, show horses, and older equines. Founded in 2015 and based in Madison, Wisconsin, the company focuses on improving fracture risk detection, diagnosing lameness, and managing dental and sinus issues. Its innovative system allows for rapid 3D imaging of the lower limbs, head, and neck of standing horses without the need for general anesthesia, ensuring a safer and more comfortable experience for the animals. Asto CT aims to provide high-quality volumetric imaging to improve equine well-being and offer reassurance to horse owners, while pioneering advancements in robotics and multi-slice CT technology for more effective screening and diagnosis.

Founded in March 2012 in partnership with the Medical College of Wisconsin, Somna Therapeutics is a medical device company focused on improving the quality of life for the millions of people suffering from laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) / extraesophageal acid reflux disease (EERD). The Reza Band™, UES Assist Device is designed to be a non-invasive solution. In the near-term, Somna Therapeutics is planning to optimize product design and complete clinical trials to gain FDA clearance. We anticipate upon FDA clearance and product launch, to be selling to hospitals, physician clinics, and home health care.

SimpleMachines, Inc. is a semiconductor design and development company based in Madison, Wisconsin, established in 2016. It specializes in creating a Software-Defined Compute platform that addresses the evolving demands of artificial intelligence, virtual reality, machine learning, robotics, and big data. As traditional computing systems face limitations due to the end of Moore's Law and the increasing complexity of software, SimpleMachines offers a programmable platform that allows for real-time hardware optimization. This innovative approach contrasts with conventional single-purpose systems, which are costly, time-consuming to develop, and often become obsolete upon deployment. The company's platform enables software developers to enhance application performance by dynamically reconfiguring hardware, thus supporting a wide range of use cases and ensuring adaptability in rapidly changing technological environments.

HealthMyne, Inc., a healthcare informatics company, provides novel search, analytics, and imaging solutions to healthcare enterprises. It focuses on providing solutions to cancer care providers. The company’s smart imaging solutions deliver clinical decision support and quality assurance services to reduce diagnostic errors and increase clinical collaboration. Its technology provides physicians with tumor image manipulation, and EHR and image repository search capabilities for diagnosing and treating similar cases. HealthMyne, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Madison, Wisconsin.

SHINE Medical Technologies, Inc. manufactures and supplies medical tracers and cancer treatment elements. The company offers Molybdenum-99, a light-emitting element that is administered to patients for the purpose of diagnosing and staging cancer and heart diseases. It also provides Iodine-131 that is used to treat thyroid cancer and various abnormal thyroid conditions, including hyperthyroidism, as well as to diagnose liver function, renal blood flow, and urinary tract obstruction. The company was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Wisconsin, United States.

HealthMyne, Inc., a healthcare informatics company, provides novel search, analytics, and imaging solutions to healthcare enterprises. It focuses on providing solutions to cancer care providers. The company’s smart imaging solutions deliver clinical decision support and quality assurance services to reduce diagnostic errors and increase clinical collaboration. Its technology provides physicians with tumor image manipulation, and EHR and image repository search capabilities for diagnosing and treating similar cases. HealthMyne, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Madison, Wisconsin.