Alumni Ventures

Alumni Ventures Group, LLC is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 and based in Manchester, New Hampshire, with additional offices in major cities across North America. The firm specializes in seed, early-stage, and late-stage pre-IPO investments, focusing on companies with an alumni connection and supported by established institutional lead investors. Alumni Ventures aims to provide accredited investors, particularly alumni from top entrepreneurial schools, with access to diversified venture portfolios that span various sectors and geographic regions. The firm typically invests between $0.01 million and $3 million and does not require board or observer seats in its portfolio companies. Through its managed fund families, Alumni Ventures enables investors to participate in a collaborative investment approach, fostering connections among alumni while facilitating investment opportunities in innovative ventures.

Rob Adams

Managing Partner

Gail Ball

Venture Scout

Andrew Baum

Vice President, Treasury and Capital Management

David Beazley

Executive Partner

Ali Byrd

Investor Advisory Council Member

Matt Caspari

Managing Partner, Strawberry Creek and amp; Deep Tech

Matt Castellini

Senior Associate

Helen Chen

CEO Services Analyst

Cainon Coates

Managing Partner

Michael Collins

CEO

Thomas Edwards

Associate

Yev Gelfand

Investor

Mason Hale

Senior Associate, Chestnut Street and Triphammer Ven

Jin Kim

Senior Vice President, Office of Investments

Lucas Kirshenbaum

VC Investor

Ron Levin

Managing Partner, AV Seed Fund and Doctors Innovate Fund

Jess Liu-Brown

Principal

Michael Madden

Co-Founder and Investment Professionals

Jonathan Meltzer

Managing Partner

Tom Meyer

Managing Partner, Nassau Street

Keith Murphy

Director, Video Programs

David Muson

CFO

Aisha Robinson

Comms Team VP of Strategic Communications

Saad Shaheen

Investor Operations Manager

Stephen Stolzenberg

Senior Associate

Justin Strausbaugh

Managing Partner, Lakeshore

Brittney Wade

Senior Associate, Seed Fund

Sarah Worden

Venture Scout

Wesley Yiu

Partner

Henri Yuan

Investor

Michael Yuann

Director of Investment Operations

Past deals in Entertainment

JADU

Series A in 2022
Jadu AR Inc., operating under the name Jadu, is a company based in Los Angeles, California, that specializes in augmented reality technology. Founded in 2019, Jadu has developed a mobile application that enables users to engage with holograms of their favorite musicians and performers, allowing fans to perform alongside these virtual representations. The application is available on the App Store, enhancing the interactive entertainment experience for users by blending real and digital performances.

Sizzle

Seed Round in 2022
Sizzle is a new web service that leverages AI to automatically create gaming highlights from Twitch and YouTube videos. For instance, Sizzle can automatically convert a full 20 minute Fortnite gameplay video into a "sizzle", or a 5 minute condensed game, with all of the highlights in chronological order. Today, many of the 700 million gaming fans find 8 hour livestreams on Twitch too much, and a mish-mash of highlights on YouTube too limiting. Sizzle offers a clear third choice: these fans can watch condensed versions of full streams from top streamers such as Ninja or Daequan, getting the full arc of the story. Sizzle is available at www.sizzle.gg.

FanUp

Seed Round in 2021
FanUp gamifies sports and esports for every fan. FanUp is, Fantasy sports and esports re-imagined; with fun, interactive, and pop-culture styled contests. Our brands, prizes and social features, cater to causal fans and a younger demographic, ensuring we grow the entire market. We’re not a betting app, we’re far greater. Most apps focus on 35-60-year-old middle-age men. FanUp was created for 18-34 year-old social fans and young professionals. Our users: - Love sports and esports gaming - Are 2.5x more likely to game and compete w/ social features - Are more diverse (43% are women) - Want to interact with pop-culture, brands and influencers Our mantra: Fans and innovation first, always. We’re leading a transformative shift in sports and culture. Squad up and compete year-round in contests for your fav sports & esports leagues. FanUp, and may the best fans win.

FourFront

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of an entertainment platform designed to combine real-life actors and artificial intelligence to pull audiences. The company's platform allows to chat personally with the virtual characters across communication platforms and to create fictional influencers that leverage the proprietary tools to appear real, enabling audiences to get a social and interactive marketing experience.

FanUp

Seed Round in 2020
FanUp gamifies sports and esports for every fan. FanUp is, Fantasy sports and esports re-imagined; with fun, interactive, and pop-culture styled contests. Our brands, prizes and social features, cater to causal fans and a younger demographic, ensuring we grow the entire market. We’re not a betting app, we’re far greater. Most apps focus on 35-60-year-old middle-age men. FanUp was created for 18-34 year-old social fans and young professionals. Our users: - Love sports and esports gaming - Are 2.5x more likely to game and compete w/ social features - Are more diverse (43% are women) - Want to interact with pop-culture, brands and influencers Our mantra: Fans and innovation first, always. We’re leading a transformative shift in sports and culture. Squad up and compete year-round in contests for your fav sports & esports leagues. FanUp, and may the best fans win.

VENN

Series A in 2020
VENN is a new 24/7 post-cable network aimed at gaming, esports and entertainment audiences. Launching in 2020 and broadcasting live from studios in New York and Los Angeles, VENN will be distributed across a broad range of media platforms and offer original programming produced in-house and in partnership with some of the biggest names and creators across industries.

FanUp

Seed Round in 2020
FanUp gamifies sports and esports for every fan. FanUp is, Fantasy sports and esports re-imagined; with fun, interactive, and pop-culture styled contests. Our brands, prizes and social features, cater to causal fans and a younger demographic, ensuring we grow the entire market. We’re not a betting app, we’re far greater. Most apps focus on 35-60-year-old middle-age men. FanUp was created for 18-34 year-old social fans and young professionals. Our users: - Love sports and esports gaming - Are 2.5x more likely to game and compete w/ social features - Are more diverse (43% are women) - Want to interact with pop-culture, brands and influencers Our mantra: Fans and innovation first, always. We’re leading a transformative shift in sports and culture. Squad up and compete year-round in contests for your fav sports & esports leagues. FanUp, and may the best fans win.

Adventr

Venture Round in 2020
Adventr provides its users with a platform to design, distribute, and analyze interactive, viewer-driven, video content. Its proprietary flagship product is a drag and drop SaaS network, which facilitates the creation and distribution of interactive video. Adventr’s viewers have the ability to make choices within the content, changing the video’s actions or responding to characters in real-time, improving engagement across all metrics. Its video content can be embedded or distributed via ad networks and publishers.

Stacks

Seed Round in 2019
Stacks is a social video studio building the future of entertainment.

Sandbox

Seed Round in 2015
Sandbox Network, Inc. is a digital entertainment company based in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 2015. It specializes in providing multi-channel network services for the gaming entertainment industry, focusing on content creation for game creators. The company enables digital creators to express their imagination and engage with audiences through its platform, which supports a diverse range of digital content. By fostering an environment where creative individuals can thrive, Sandbox Network aims to entertain and connect audiences around the world.

Hullabalu

Venture Round in 2014
Hullabalu is a New York City-based company focused on creating engaging stories for children that promote strong values and positive character development. Drawing inspiration from fantastical worlds and classic tales, Hullabalu develops original story series featuring a cast of characters, vibrant illustrations, music, and interactive activities. Their approach aims to provide children with enjoyable narratives that not only entertain but also instill meaningful lessons and values.
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