Alumni Ventures

Alumni Ventures Group provides high-quality, diversified venture portfolios to individual investors who previously haven't had access to VC. It helps accredited alums from top entrepreneurial schools invest together in the ventures of fellow alums. The firm backs companies with an alumni connection and an institutional lead investor with expertise in the space. AVG also offers focused funds that allow any accredited investor access to a venture portfolio, diversified by type, sector, stage, and geography. Beth Obermiller, Michael Madden, and Mike Collins co-founded the firm in Manchester, New Hampshire in 2013.

Greg Baker

Managing Partner, Bascom, Towerview and amp; Sports

Gail Ball

Venture Scout

Andrew Baum

Vice President, Treasury and Capital Management

David Beazley

Executive Partner

Helen Chen

CEO Services Analyst

Michael Collins

CEO

Michael Egziabher

Principal, Basecamp

Mason Hale

Senior Associate, Chestnut Street and Triphammer Ven

Matt Jones

Senior Associate, Towerview and amp; Sports Fund

Lucas Kirshenbaum

VC Investor

Michael Madden

Managing Partner and Co-Founder

Keith Murphy

Director, Video Programs

David Muson

CFO

Michael Peri

Partner

Aisha Robinson

Comms Team VP of Strategic Communications

Saad Shaheen

Investor Operations Manager

David Shapiro

Managing Partner, Blue Ivy

Brittney Wade

Senior Associate, Seed Fund

Sarah Worden

Venture Scout

Wesley Yiu

Partner

Michael Yuann

Director of Investment Operations

Past deals in Crowdfunding

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.

Benny

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Benny lends to employees of publicly traded companies so they can participate in their employer's stock purchase plans. HeyBenny strongly believes in promoting workplace happiness. Their commitment lies in creating joyful work environments through the utilization of their innovative application. Through extensive research, they have developed a professional yet enjoyable tool that automates people management and offers personalized benefits to employees. With the HeyBennyApp, individuals gain access to a wide array of well-being benefits and round-the-clock support, all conveniently available at their fingertips.

Quiver Quantitative

Seed Round in 2022
Quiver Quantitative is an alternative data platform designed for retail investors. The company's alternative data allows investors to access new and unique data sources to help them make decisions. Alternative data, on the other hand, is typically priced for institutional clients and is not widely available to retail investors. This has resulted in a one-way information flow, with hedge funds purchasing consumer data (such as credit card transaction history and social media data) and using it to outperform retail investors in the market. It scrapes alternative stock data from the internet and compiles it in a free, user-friendly web dashboard.

Parallel Markets

Series A in 2022
Parallel Markets is an Identity verification and accreditation platform for financial platforms. The company works 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. The Company work with both individuals and entities and have a whole suite of identity products to help make our partner’s onboarding processes better.

Trading.TV

Series A in 2022
Trading.TV is a content-driven financial services company for the next generation of investors. Our mission is to empower anyone to achieve financial freedom by merging entertainment and fintech into a simple, but powerful social experience. The platform enables creators to produce fun, interactive and informative content that investors can easily consume, take part in and act on by trading mentioned assets, from stocks and crypto to NFTs and collectibles – all in one place.

Arc Technologies

Seed Round in 2022
Arc is the full-service finance platform for SaaS, that provides software startups with customized financial products. In partnership with Stripe, Arc is building a first-of-its-kind fintech solution where software founders can borrow, save, and spend on one comprehensive digital platform.

FanUp

Seed Round in 2021
The Next Generation of Fandom & Fantasy FanUp is the fastest growing fandom and fantasy community where sports & pop culture fans win social experiences with their favorite athletes, celebrities, and brands. 850M+ views on TikTok 6M+ followers 700K+ users (86% Gen Z, 54% women) 28 Countries FanUp is an extreme outlier, creating the next generation of fan experiences. We’re the go-to platform for Gen Z, Women and Casual Fans (the largest set of fans in the world) with the most entertaining, rewarding, and personalized experiences. Fueled by our viral social community and the most innovative games, we are the bridge for athletes, brands, influencers, and every fan. Over 350M mobile casual fans (18-34 yrs. old) crave a new product that’s fun, engaging, and rewarding. Unlike conventional betting and fantasy apps that just want your money, FanUp delivers interactive entertainment that personalizes every fans experience from tickets to games, meet and greets with their favorite athletes and celebrities, the hottest brand prizes, all while winning together. FanUp is backed by founding investors in DraftKings, Skillz, The Score, HQO, Rippling, and Spotify. Take gaming to the next level. FanUp, where every fan wins ™

Doorvest

Series A in 2021
Doorvest is a full-service real estate investing platform that helps busy working professionals own passive income rental homes. The company is an end-to-end rental home investing platform that helps individuals own real estate to generate passive income and build equity. Its platform assists in investing in cash flowing rental homes by properly identifying, planning, purchasing, and owning lease houses that enable users to unlock homeownership, passive income, and equity by investing in properties online.

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.

Crown Affair

Seed Round in 2021
Crown Affair is a hair-care brand that specializes in luxury products and consumer goods. The company offers a variety of haircare products, including shampoos, conditioners, hair oils, and treatment masks. These products are formulated with natural ingredients and are free from harmful chemicals like sulfates, parabens, and silicones. Crown Affair emphasizes mindful practices and self-care rituals, aiming to transform the way people approach haircare.

Upstock

Seed Round in 2021
Upstock (Fintech, SaaS) helps any company attract, motivate and retain any kind of worker. We're based around the idea that anyone, anywhere should be able to share ownership in the companies they build. We are targeting the 99% of companies that do not currently have access to traditional equity systems. We serve a huge growing market, focusing on equity "plan creation" and "plan communication." We pick up where cap table providers (who do “equity reporting”) leave off. We save companies a lot of time and lower their legal bills by 10x. Most importantly, our customers are doubling retention and experiencing the magic that happens when their employees really believe that they are an owner.

Zevvy

Seed Round in 2021
Flux EV is a Fintech platform that accelerates EV adoption making it easy and affordable for drivers to go electric. Founded in 2021, the company is headquartered in Hayward, California.

Peachy Patients

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Peachy Patients offers a tool designed to make healthcare affordable and accessible to patients. It enables patients to pay their medical bills in one place, earn cash-back on every dollar spent, and be confident that they are always paying the correct price. The Peachy Patients platform puts patients at the center of the healthcare experience, providing them with the tools and resources they need to access care at a reasonable cost.

Hitch

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

FanUp

Seed Round in 2020
The Next Generation of Fandom & Fantasy FanUp is the fastest growing fandom and fantasy community where sports & pop culture fans win social experiences with their favorite athletes, celebrities, and brands. 850M+ views on TikTok 6M+ followers 700K+ users (86% Gen Z, 54% women) 28 Countries FanUp is an extreme outlier, creating the next generation of fan experiences. We’re the go-to platform for Gen Z, Women and Casual Fans (the largest set of fans in the world) with the most entertaining, rewarding, and personalized experiences. Fueled by our viral social community and the most innovative games, we are the bridge for athletes, brands, influencers, and every fan. Over 350M mobile casual fans (18-34 yrs. old) crave a new product that’s fun, engaging, and rewarding. Unlike conventional betting and fantasy apps that just want your money, FanUp delivers interactive entertainment that personalizes every fans experience from tickets to games, meet and greets with their favorite athletes and celebrities, the hottest brand prizes, all while winning together. FanUp is backed by founding investors in DraftKings, Skillz, The Score, HQO, Rippling, and Spotify. Take gaming to the next level. FanUp, where every fan wins ™

Feedcast

Pre Seed Round in 2020
We help creators to monetize their content through audio courses

Fan Controlled Football

Venture Round in 2020
Fan Controlled Football is the first fan-run professional sports league. From selecting the team logos, colors and head coaches to calling plays, the fans are calling the shots.

Fan Controlled Football

Venture Round in 2020
Fan Controlled Football is the first fan-run professional sports league. From selecting the team logos, colors and head coaches to calling plays, the fans are calling the shots.

Fan Controlled Football

Seed Round in 2020
Fan Controlled Football is the first fan-run professional sports league. From selecting the team logos, colors and head coaches to calling plays, the fans are calling the shots.

Crown Affair

Seed Round in 2020
Crown Affair is a hair-care brand that specializes in luxury products and consumer goods. The company offers a variety of haircare products, including shampoos, conditioners, hair oils, and treatment masks. These products are formulated with natural ingredients and are free from harmful chemicals like sulfates, parabens, and silicones. Crown Affair emphasizes mindful practices and self-care rituals, aiming to transform the way people approach haircare.

Kindest

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Kindest is the first ever, fully-automated fundraising platform for non-profits. Kindest is an internet company that is enabling non-profit organizations to fundraise for FREE. The tip-based model eliminates all friction for onboarding. "Kindest is one of the fastest-growing startups in my entire portfolio." -Charles Hudson, Precursor Ventures

StoreCash

Seed Round in 2020
StoreCash is a mobile payment service that allows users to pay with QR codes at over 200,000 shops while earning cash back.

On Deck

Series A in 2020
On Deck is a platform serving the many strands of identity that unite ambitious people around the globe. Their ever-growing community and action-oriented programming will help the people to get there—fast. On Deck will up-level career, launch, and scale big ideas, or make lifelong friends.

Raise

Seed Round in 2020
Raise is a digital payment platform that allows consumers to purchase discounted gift cards and earn savings on transactions across various retailers. The platform allows users to buy and sell gift cards, facilitating a marketplace where individuals can exchange unwanted gift cards for cash or other cards. Raise also offers a rewards program that enables customers to earn points on purchases, which can be redeemed for future savings. By partnering with numerous brands, Raise enhances consumer choice and accessibility to various products and services while promoting cost-effective shopping solutions.

Podcorn

Seed Round in 2019
Podcorn is a self-service marketplace connecting podcasters with advertisers for native sponsorships. They make it easy for brands to connect to the right podcasters to create authentic messages that resonate and engage listeners across audio platforms.

Portal

Seed Round in 2019
Portal is an innovative digital video sharing platform that changes how people earn money from their content. Portal has no secret algorithms that tracks every move instead, viewers can instantly send creators $0.10-$100 to show their appreciation.

WorldCover

Series A in 2019
WorldCover protects farmers around the world from droughts, by offering satellite-enabled insurance delivered with mobile money. Founded by MIT computer science and finance professionals, WorldCover is building an insurance platform to address the $100 billion in climate risks facing the world today. WorldCover's platform improves food and income security for smallholder farmers in developing countries. More than 70% of the 2.5 billion people living at the “base of the pyramid” throughout the world rely on agriculture for income and sustenance.

Jebbit

Series B in 2019
Jebbit has built the world’s first declared data platform. Our platform enables marketing and sales teams to create beautiful, mobile experiences aimed at capturing the most important consumer data an enterprise needs. Instead of relying on third-party data which is often highly inaccurate and incomplete, enterprise brands use Jebbit to capture consumer intentions, motivations, and preferences. Customers include travel, ecommerce, and sports brands such as Cathay Pacific Airways, LifeLock, and the New England Revolution. Jebbit was named one of the Top 25 Most Promising Companies in the World by CNBC, the Best Tech Culture in Boston 2016, and its cofounders are Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees. To learn how you can get started with a declared data strategy, visit www.jebbit.com.

Long Game

Venture Round in 2019
Long Game designs fun and engaging customer experiences on top of savings products to encourage responsible financial planning. The personal finance app allows its users to play games and win cash prizes up to $1 million.

WorldCover

Series A in 2019
WorldCover protects farmers around the world from droughts, by offering satellite-enabled insurance delivered with mobile money. Founded by MIT computer science and finance professionals, WorldCover is building an insurance platform to address the $100 billion in climate risks facing the world today. WorldCover's platform improves food and income security for smallholder farmers in developing countries. More than 70% of the 2.5 billion people living at the “base of the pyramid” throughout the world rely on agriculture for income and sustenance.

Haven Money

Venture Round in 2018
How busy millennials master money. Haven helps you effortlessly manage your finances with a free dashboard, automated saving and investing, and with high-yield accounts.

Haven Money

Venture Round in 2017
How busy millennials master money. Haven helps you effortlessly manage your finances with a free dashboard, automated saving and investing, and with high-yield accounts.

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.

Upstart

Series C in 2017
Upstart is a lending platform that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to price credit and automates the borrowing process. The company's proprietary underwriting model identifies borrowers despite limited credit and employment history by using variables including schools attended, area of study, and work experience. Upstart powered banks can offer higher approval rates and experience lower loss rates*, while simultaneously delivering the exceptional digital-first lending experience their customers demand. Upstart was founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Mateo, California and Columbus, Ohio.

Sparkfund

Series B in 2017
SparkFund is a financial technology company that lets businesses pay overtime for energy-efficient products and services. It offers software platforms and tools that are necessary to sell products "As a Service". It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in the District of Columbia, United States.

Zight

Seed Round in 2016
Zight is an award-winning and top-rated solution with a community of over 4M users and growing who are finding freedom with visual asynchronous communication. Zight scales with you, is easy to use and eliminates the need to use different applications for screenshots, GIFs, screen recordings, and web recordings. Zight is used for internal and external communication across teams, helping organizations save hundreds of people hours, reducing productivity losses caused by poor communication and misunderstanding, and eliminating unnecessary and draining meetings.

Sparkfund

Venture Round in 2016
SparkFund is a financial technology company that lets businesses pay overtime for energy-efficient products and services. It offers software platforms and tools that are necessary to sell products "As a Service". It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in the District of Columbia, United States.
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