Alumni Ventures Group

Alumni Ventures Group is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, with offices across North America. It provides access to venture investing for individual accredited investors, particularly alumni networks, by offering diversified portfolios of venture opportunities and allowing members to invest alongside fellow alumni in ventures led by peers. The firm backs early-stage and later-stage opportunities across technology, consumer, healthcare, financial services, and other sectors, with a sector- and geography-agnostic approach. It typically invests between $10,000 and $3 million per deal and emphasizes the involvement of alumni connections and an institutional lead investor in opportunities. Alumni Ventures also offers focused funds to broaden participation, enabling accredited investors to access venture portfolios diversified by type, sector, stage, and geography. The model aims to democratize access to venture capital while maintaining rigorous selection standards through alumni networks.

Andrew Baum

Vice President, Treasury and Capital Management

David Beazley

Managing Partner

Matthew Caspari

Managing Partner

Matt Castellini

Senior Associate

Helen Chen

CEO Services Analyst

Past deals in Credits and Lending

Neo Financial

Series D in 2024
Neo Financial is a fintech company delivering spending, savings, and rewards services through a secure money-management platform. It issues a Mastercard-based credit card through ATB Financial and offers a savings account via Concentra Bank with CDIC protection. The platform combines card and rewards capabilities with deposit services and inter-account payments, and it emphasizes no monthly fees or minimum balances to help users save and spend seamlessly.

Parlay

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Parlay is a technology company that specializes in helping community banks and credit unions streamline their small business lending processes. Its core product is a loan packaging platform, which provides analytical tools, a user-friendly borrower portal, loan readiness scoring, pipeline analytics, and a lender dashboard. This platform aims to increase small business lending conversions and efficiency, enabling community banks and credit unions to approve more small businesses for loans and enhance their customer conversion rates.

Honest

Series B in 2024
Honest develops innovative financial products, notably a credit card application that offers no annual fee, low interest rates on purchases, balance transfers, and rewards points. Its platform aims to help customers build credit history and improve their overall financial health.

Tienda Pago

Series B in 2022
Tienda Pago is a merchant support platform designed to assist small merchants in emerging markets by facilitating mobile cashless payments and financing for inventory purchases. The company focuses on creating an ecosystem where both distributors and traders can thrive by offering a closed-loop payment mechanism that leverages mobile technology. This system allows merchants to buy high-demand products on credit, thereby increasing their sales and profit margins. Tienda Pago's platform addresses inefficiencies in traditional payment methods, enabling seamless cashless transactions and supporting the growth of small businesses within its network. Through its services, Tienda Pago aims to promote collaboration among participants, encouraging more traders and distributors to engage with its innovative solutions.

Solid World

Seed Round in 2022
Solid World builds a blockchain‑based platform that turns the forward market for carbon credits into a liquid, transparent marketplace. By allowing project developers to pre‑sell credits, the platform gives them reliable financing and gives buyers and liquidity providers a clear price signal. The company has secured $4 million in forward contracts for its liquidity pools and partners with leading firms in the carbon and blockchain space. Its team combines expertise in commodities, carbon finance and blockchain technology, and the platform is positioned to support derivatives, collateralised loans and on‑chain insurance that use carbon credits as collateral. Solid World’s approach reduces the risk and illiquidity that have limited capital deployment in the carbon market, accelerating the development of new projects.

Fido

Series A in 2022
Fido develops technology that facilitates swift and secure access to digital financial services. Its platform employs machine learning risk models to make instant credit decisions for customers lacking a financial track record, thereby reducing operational costs.

MainStreet

Series B in 2022
MainStreet, founded in 2019 by Daniel Griffin, Doug Ludlow, and Dan Lindquist in San Jose, California, is a company that assists startups and small to medium-sized businesses in identifying and claiming government incentives, tax credits, deductions, and stimulus funds. Its platform analyzes payroll and accounting systems to align clients with applicable federal, state, and local tax credits while managing legal workflows, ultimately aiming to save clients both time and money. MainStreet charges a flat success fee of 20% upon the disbursement of incentives. In addition to its core services, the company also provides personal finance tips and advice to help consumers grow their wealth and improve their financial well-being. Headquartered in the United States, MainStreet is supported by prominent investors, including SignalFire and Gradient Ventures.

Honest

Series A in 2021
Honest develops innovative financial products, notably a credit card application that offers no annual fee, low interest rates on purchases, balance transfers, and rewards points. Its platform aims to help customers build credit history and improve their overall financial health.

Moneymade

Seed Round in 2021
Moneymade is an online portal that offers services for online investments in real estate, loans, farmland, stocks, gold, the metaverse, NTFs, sports cards, collectibles, and more. They provide real-time market data.

Plastiq

Series D in 2020
Plastiq Inc. is a payment service provider that allows users to make payments with credit and debit cards, regardless of whether the recipient accepts card payments. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, Plastiq facilitates transactions for various expenses, including tuition, taxes, rent, utilities, and insurance, targeting businesses, institutions, and individual consumers in the United States and Canada. The platform enables users to earn credit card rewards, access early-payment discounts, and manage their cash flow more effectively. By automating B2B payments, Plastiq offers small and medium-sized enterprises a comprehensive suite of services that simplifies the payment process, allowing them to pay or receive payments via credit cards without incurring additional fees. The company aims to provide innovative payment solutions on a global scale, serving customers in over 150 countries.

Plastiq

Venture Round in 2019
Plastiq Inc. is a payment service provider that allows users to make payments with credit and debit cards, regardless of whether the recipient accepts card payments. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, Plastiq facilitates transactions for various expenses, including tuition, taxes, rent, utilities, and insurance, targeting businesses, institutions, and individual consumers in the United States and Canada. The platform enables users to earn credit card rewards, access early-payment discounts, and manage their cash flow more effectively. By automating B2B payments, Plastiq offers small and medium-sized enterprises a comprehensive suite of services that simplifies the payment process, allowing them to pay or receive payments via credit cards without incurring additional fees. The company aims to provide innovative payment solutions on a global scale, serving customers in over 150 countries.

She's Well

Seed Round in 2019
She's Well provides fertility management services through a subscription model and financing plans, enabling individuals and couples to access fertility testing, IVF, egg freezing, and sperm freezing via a network of leading fertility centers. The company combines financial options with on-demand concierge care to simplify the fertility journey, offering guidance and support to make fertility care more affordable and accessible for people who want to start a family on their own timeline.

Payzer

Series B in 2018
Payzer is a developer of mobile and internet payment applications designed to facilitate payments and enable credit for users with instant approvals. The company offers a cloud-based platform that allows customers to accept payments through credit cards, debit cards, and electronic checks, whether in the field or at their home office. This system provides real-time tracking capabilities across organizations, helping contractors to operate more efficiently and effectively manage their businesses through streamlined payment processes.

Plastiq

Series B in 2018
Plastiq Inc. is a payment service provider that allows users to make payments with credit and debit cards, regardless of whether the recipient accepts card payments. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, Plastiq facilitates transactions for various expenses, including tuition, taxes, rent, utilities, and insurance, targeting businesses, institutions, and individual consumers in the United States and Canada. The platform enables users to earn credit card rewards, access early-payment discounts, and manage their cash flow more effectively. By automating B2B payments, Plastiq offers small and medium-sized enterprises a comprehensive suite of services that simplifies the payment process, allowing them to pay or receive payments via credit cards without incurring additional fees. The company aims to provide innovative payment solutions on a global scale, serving customers in over 150 countries.

Archblock

Seed Round in 2018
Archblock is a financial technology company that focuses on bridging institutional capital with decentralized finance (DeFi) through innovative web3-enabled products. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, Archblock operates the TrustToken platform, which facilitates the creation of asset-backed tokens for global trading. The company emphasizes transparency and accessibility in lending by connecting institutional lenders and fund managers to DeFi markets. Its offerings include a modular suite of tools that allows institutions to create and manage stablecoins, tokenize real-world assets, and securely manage portfolios. Archblock's platform ensures compliance with fiduciary responsibilities and provides a legal framework that enforces smart contract terms, thereby enhancing the integrity of financial transactions.

Archblock

Venture Round in 2017
Archblock is a financial technology company that focuses on bridging institutional capital with decentralized finance (DeFi) through innovative web3-enabled products. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, Archblock operates the TrustToken platform, which facilitates the creation of asset-backed tokens for global trading. The company emphasizes transparency and accessibility in lending by connecting institutional lenders and fund managers to DeFi markets. Its offerings include a modular suite of tools that allows institutions to create and manage stablecoins, tokenize real-world assets, and securely manage portfolios. Archblock's platform ensures compliance with fiduciary responsibilities and provides a legal framework that enforces smart contract terms, thereby enhancing the integrity of financial transactions.

Plastiq

Series B in 2017
Plastiq Inc. is a payment service provider that allows users to make payments with credit and debit cards, regardless of whether the recipient accepts card payments. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, Plastiq facilitates transactions for various expenses, including tuition, taxes, rent, utilities, and insurance, targeting businesses, institutions, and individual consumers in the United States and Canada. The platform enables users to earn credit card rewards, access early-payment discounts, and manage their cash flow more effectively. By automating B2B payments, Plastiq offers small and medium-sized enterprises a comprehensive suite of services that simplifies the payment process, allowing them to pay or receive payments via credit cards without incurring additional fees. The company aims to provide innovative payment solutions on a global scale, serving customers in over 150 countries.
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