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 Coworking

Five to Nine

Seed Round in 2022
Five to Nine manages & evaluates virtual event programming so you can focus on building the employee experience.

OpenComp

Series A in 2022
OpenComp empowers high-growth companies to confidently make the best business decisions with compensation intelligence. More than 2,000 companies use OpenComp to attract and empower top talent in fair, consistent ways, including Calm, DataRobot, Discord, DrChrono, Figma, Medium, Mosaic, Mux, and Reddit. Founded in 2021 by Thanh Nguyen and Nancy Connery, Salesforce’s founding HR team, OpenComp has raised $24 million in venture capital from J.P. Morgan, TIME Ventures (the investment fund for Marc Benioff), 8VC and more. OpenComp is available for free for organizations up to 50 employees, with tiered pricing and services for other organizations based on size and needs.

Lobby

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Lobby is a Blockchain startup developing management tools for Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). The company's platform is used to help in knowledge management for hundreds of Web3 organizations. It also offers a community editor by which anyone can share their shortcuts with the whole community, helping users to build search shortcuts quickly and launch their workflows with the help of a powerful engine. Lobby Technologies was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Elevent

Seed Round in 2021
Elevent is a marketplace that connects providers and companies to deliver memorable virtual and in-person experiences that build trust and connections. Elevent provides experiences for team building, client engagement, and remote celebrations, among other things. Elevent makes it simple to plan a memorable event without the hassle.

Ayraa

Seed Round in 2021
Ayraa AI is headquartered in the Silicon Valley with planned engineering operations in Mumbai & Pune, India. The company is on a mission to simplify and modernize workplace security, compliance, facilities & operations.

Office Otter

Seed Round in 2021
Office Otter provides a centralized communication task management platform offering on-demand insights. The company’s centralized communication task management platform offers a priority dashboard, project organization templates, performance reports, and communication integration to centralize action items from Slack, Email, text, and more.

Kumospace

Seed Round in 2021
Kumospace is a developer of an online immersive video chat platform intended to provide remote video conferencing. Kumospace's platform facilitates users to connect people through video, voice, chat, and content sharing and provides a security of video conferencing, enabling users to host face-to-face video and connect friends across various devices and locations in a single meeting.

CoScreen

Seed Round in 2021
CoScreen is a developer of a screen sharing software designed to facilitate remote collaboration. The company's software turns the secondary display into a joint team desktop and provides each user their own mouse pointer while keeping the primary desktop private, enabling multiple team members to share their application windows with each other simultaneously and to interact with them as if they were their own.

United Dwelling

Convertible Note in 2021
United Dwelling helps property owners and developers maximize the value of their land by adding a additional dwelling units to their rental or vacant property. Building infill housing on under utilized land is the simplest, most scaleable solution to housing affordability challenges.. United Dwelling handles every aspect of the process including design, permitting, construction, finding qualified tenants, managing, and maintaining the property. The company uses data to identify potential lots that would be suitable for its units. It targets mostly low income and middle-income neighborhoods, with many of the units used for workforce housing.

Mylance

Seed Round in 2021
Mylance is a comprehensive community, business suite, and project generator for independent consultants. Nearly 50% of an independent consultant’s time is spent on non-earning, administrative activities like bookkeeping and finding new projects. By 2028, 90 million freelancers will bring in $1.4 trillion in gross revenue and waste 33 billion hours on administrative tasks in the US alone.

Undock

Seed Round in 2020
Undock, Inc. is a technology company that develops a cloud-based platform designed to streamline the scheduling, coordination, and hosting of meetings. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, Undock employs an advanced AI model that effectively identifies the optimal meeting times for participants by analyzing their availability, preferences, and behaviors. The platform offers a centralized location for collaborative agendas and notes, which can be integrated with various video conferencing tools, enhancing the overall meeting experience for teams and organizations.

Lunchclub

Venture Round in 2020
Lunchclub is an AI superconnector that makes introductions for 1:1 lunch and coffee meetings. Vladimir Novakovski, Hayley Leibson, and Scott Wu founded it in 2018, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California.

Compass

Series G in 2019
Compass is a real estate technology company that provides an online platform for buying, renting, and selling real estate assets. Its end-to-end platform supports the entire buying and selling workflow by pairing the industry’s top talent with technology to make the search and sell experience intelligent and seamless. Compass operates in 22+ regions across the United States including New York, Los Angeles, and Orange County, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Washington D.C., South Florida, The Hamptons, Santa Barbara and Montecito, San Diego, Seattle and Eastside, Philadelphia, Connecticut, Westchester, Aspen, Boulder, Denver, Atlanta, Austin, and Central Texas, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Nashville, and Lake Tahoe. The firm was founded in 2012 by Ugo Di Girolamo, Ori Allon, and Robert Reffkin in New York, New York.

Honcho

Venture Round in 2019
Honcho is the only AI-powered communications protection software that coaches and trains as employees type to help compliance and HR professionals build and maintain exceptional communications practices in their companies. Our communications-protection software helps reduce the risk of non-compliant communications. Detect when users are composing potentially problematic messages, have the ability to archive official communication channels, and support supervisory review of any issues that arise. Show employees, customers, and the world that you care about ensuring an ethical and compliant workplace. And, invest in your communications now to avoid costly litigation, regulatory fines, negative press, and a demoralized culture later.

Alpaca

Venture Round in 2018
Alpaca is a tech start-up that helps both renters and landlords throughout the tedious journey of renting apartments. Its team has helped over 4 million roommates, renters, and landlords through the process of finding a home. Alpaca’s AI manages the largest network of housing Facebook groups in the world, active in over 200 cities. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

GoGig

Seed Round in 2018
GoGig is an anonymous professional networking platform designed to assist employed individuals who are passively seeking career advancement while maintaining confidentiality. The platform employs artificial intelligence and powerful algorithmic search to connect candidates with hiring professionals, focusing on matching based on career desires and cultural fit. By eliminating traditional job postings and application processes, GoGig allows businesses to discover a new pool of passive candidates who may not be visible through conventional recruitment methods. The platform is completely free for candidates, providing a unique approach to job searching without the use of typical gimmicks or keyword-based searches.

Compass

Series F in 2018
Compass is a real estate technology company that provides an online platform for buying, renting, and selling real estate assets. Its end-to-end platform supports the entire buying and selling workflow by pairing the industry’s top talent with technology to make the search and sell experience intelligent and seamless. Compass operates in 22+ regions across the United States including New York, Los Angeles, and Orange County, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Washington D.C., South Florida, The Hamptons, Santa Barbara and Montecito, San Diego, Seattle and Eastside, Philadelphia, Connecticut, Westchester, Aspen, Boulder, Denver, Atlanta, Austin, and Central Texas, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Nashville, and Lake Tahoe. The firm was founded in 2012 by Ugo Di Girolamo, Ori Allon, and Robert Reffkin in New York, New York.

Focusmate

Seed Round in 2018
Focusmate Inc. is a productivity enhancement company based in New York, founded in 2017 by Taylor Jacobson. It offers a virtual coworking platform that connects professionals with peer accountability partners for live, 50-minute working sessions conducted over video. This model is designed to help users stay focused and reduce procrastination by fostering a sense of accountability. The platform incorporates evidence-based productivity strategies developed by executive and leadership coaches, allowing independent workers to effectively manage their time and tasks. Through its innovative approach, Focusmate aims to transform the way individuals work by promoting collaboration and commitment to completing important tasks.

Localwise

Seed Round in 2018
Localwise is an online job board that connects students and community members with jobs at local businesses. The site features full-time, part-time, and internship jobs available in Oakland, Berkley, and San Francisco. The jobs are posted under categories such as art and design, beauty and spa, construction, education, entertainment, food and drink, government, health and fitness, household help, non-profit, professional services, retail, startups and tech, and other. Localwise was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.

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.

Kapow

Venture Round in 2017
Kapow connects companies with venues to book unique client events online in real-time. Their curated marketplace offers a more efficient way for companies to book events designed to acquire, engage and retain clients. Their suite of online tools cover events from start to finish at no additional cost. Venues fill their space during non-peak hours and drive corporate business while companies focus on building relationships with clients and measuring event success.

Homepolish

Venture Round in 2016
Homepolish is a new approach to interior design that brings savvy, expert designers – recruited from the top firms in the country – right to your doorstep. Unlike traditional interior design firms, they don’t charge product markups and their designers work with clients as true design partners, minus the industry ego.
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