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.

Rob Adams

Managing Partner

Andrew Baum

Vice President, Treasury and Capital Management

David Beazley

Managing Partner

Ali Byrd

Investor Advisory Council Member

Marco A. Casas

Senior Investment Principal, Basecamp Fund

Matthew Caspari

Managing Partner

Matt Castellini

Senior Associate

Helen Chen

CEO Services Analyst

Cainon Coates

Managing Partner

Michael Collins

Investor

David Cynn

Managing Partner

Thomas Edwards

Associate

Nancy Fechnay

Principal

Yev Gelfand

Investor

Mason Hale

Senior Associate, Chestnut Street and Triphammer Ven

Erik Hammer

Partner

Brian Keil

Managing Partner

Jin Kim

Senior Vice President, Office of Investments

Jess Liu-Brown

Principal

Michael Madden

Co-Founder and Investment Professionals

Todd McIntyre

Managing Partner

Jonathan Meltzer

Partner

Keith Murphy

Director, Video Programs

David S. Muson

CFO

Kayla Phillips

Senior Associate

Aisha Robinson

Comms Team VP of Strategic Communications

Ludwig Schulze

Managing Partner

Matt Scott

Managing Partner

Saad Shaheen

Investor Operations Manager

David Shapiro

Managing Partner

Anton Simunovic

Investor

Chris Sklarin

Managing Partner

Stephen Stolzenberg

Senior Associate

Justin Strausbaugh

Managing Partner

Edward Tsai

Managing Partner

Drew Wandzilak

Senior Associate, Green D and Yard and Strategic Tech Fund

Larry Warnock

Managing Partner

Sarah Worden

Venture Scout

Ray Wu

Managing Partner

Wesley Yiu

Principal

Past deals in Human Resources

Praxis Labs

Series A in 2023
Praxis Labs designs and delivers diversity and inclusion training solutions that blend research-based curriculum with immersive technology. It develops virtual reality and online learning modules to help employees understand and empathize with implicit bias, using perspective-taking experiences and production-grade materials, and provides data-driven metrics to track learning outcomes. The platform enables organizations to implement bias-reduction programs and measure improvements in inclusion within the workplace.

DropStat

Venture Round in 2023
DropStat is a technology company that offers an app-based platform designed to optimize staffing for hospitals. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Beverly Hills, California, DropStat utilizes artificial intelligence and machine learning to predict and autonomously fill staffing gaps, allowing healthcare facilities to manage labor costs more effectively. By streamlining the process of calling staff for open shifts, the platform eliminates the need for traditional communication methods such as calls and texts, thereby enhancing efficiency and reducing financial waste. In addition to improving operational processes, DropStat prioritizes data security, ensuring that sensitive information is protected both in the system and during transmission. The company's mission is to modernize shift communication, ultimately aiming to enhance both patient and staff satisfaction.

TransCrypts

Pre Seed Round in 2023
TransCrypts automates issuance of employment and income verification documents for HR departments using blockchain technology. This streamlines compliance processes, saving time and resources, while empowering employees to control how their work information is shared.

Work & Mother

Venture Round in 2023
Work & Mother provides lactation suites in commercial buildings and a supportive app for working mothers. These suites offer hospital-grade equipment, cleaning services, refrigeration, and additional resources via the app, helping employers meet legal obligations and promoting workplace wellbeing.

ChangeEngine

Seed Round in 2023
ChangeEngine develops data-to-communication software that automates internal communications across teams by integrating existing systems and handling time-consuming tasks. The platform personalizes, sequences, and measures internal messages at scale, helping organizations streamline workflows and drive actions among managers and employees. It focuses on elevating people leaders, enabling them to design and sustain employee experience programs that span distributed and hybrid work environments, and to demonstrate impact to leadership to secure internal budget for experimentation and innovation.

TransCrypts

Pre Seed Round in 2023
TransCrypts automates issuance of employment and income verification documents for HR departments using blockchain technology. This streamlines compliance processes, saving time and resources, while empowering employees to control how their work information is shared.

Assembly

Series A in 2022
Assembly is a no code employee engagement platform that extends from recognition and rewards to productivity and performance management.

Included

Seed Round in 2022
Included operates a people analytics platform focused on enhancing employee engagement and improving diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts within organizations. The platform consolidates employee data, encompassing demographics, performance, and engagement metrics, to provide a comprehensive overview. Utilizing advanced AI techniques, including decision tree analysis, Included's unique AI Analyst Agent efficiently analyzes complex data sets, identifies hidden trends, and reduces manual data processing. This capability empowers organizations to make informed decisions swiftly, ultimately enhancing their people strategies and facilitating the scaling of diversity initiatives. Through its insights and recommendations, Included aims to help organizations effectively connect with and retain their workforce.

Five to Nine

Seed Round in 2022
Five to Nine is a company that offers a culture engagement solution aimed at enhancing workplace connectivity and inclusion. It has developed an online employee engagement platform that facilitates the management and evaluation of both virtual and in-person internal programs. This platform integrates various workflows and gathers event analytics and feedback, allowing organizations to assess employee participation and sentiments effectively. By enabling human resource teams to create communities of interest, Five to Nine plays a significant role in promoting inclusion and improving the overall employee experience within organizations.

OpenComp

Series A in 2022
Founded in 2021 by former Salesforce HR team members Thanh Nguyen and Nancy Connery, OpenComp empowers high-growth companies with compensation intelligence. Its platform enables over 2,000 companies to attract and retain top talent fairly and consistently. OpenComp's tool helps businesses analyze how changes in compensation structure impact cash and equity burn, facilitating accurate benchmarking by gender and ethnicity.

Enboarder

Series B in 2022
Enboarder is a digital platform specializing in employee onboarding and engagement. It focuses on enhancing new hire experiences through engaging content delivered directly to their mobile devices from the moment they accept an offer. The platform's workflow engine coaches managers throughout the onboarding process, while allowing HR teams to create and manage personalized workflows independently.

Humu

Series C in 2022
Humu, Inc., founded in 2017 and based in Mountain View, California, specializes in developing behavioral-change software for human resources. The company's technology leverages scientific research and machine learning to help individuals become better leaders, managers, or teammates. Humu's software enables companies to recognize employee efforts, measure key aspects of workplace dynamics, and foster positive behavioral changes, ultimately aiming to increase productivity and improve the overall work environment.

KarmaCheck

Series A in 2022
KarmaCheck is a San Francisco-based software company that provides background screening and credential verification services for staffing and hiring. It offers both online and offline background checks, including criminal checks, employment and education verifications, motor vehicle records, reference checks, and drug testing, as well as lite checks. The company emphasizes an API-first platform with a mobile-friendly candidate experience, real-time status tracking, and AI-driven automation to accelerate screenings and reduce administrative burden. KarmaCheck integrates with applicant tracking systems and HRIS to streamline workflows and help ensure compliance across hiring processes.

AdeptID

Seed Round in 2021
AdeptID develops machine-learning software that matches talent based on transferable skills, enabling companies to identify hidden potential in their workforce and make informed hiring decisions without relying solely on college degrees.

Humanly.io

Seed Round in 2021
Humanly.io is a hiring platform that specializes in screening and scheduling job candidates through an AI-based system. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, Humanly engages with candidates visiting a company’s job pages and social media, facilitating their qualification and addressing their inquiries. This innovative technology allows organizations to enhance candidate conversion rates across various recruitment channels while significantly reducing the time spent by human resources on each open role. With its focus on efficiency and automation, Humanly streamlines the hiring process for businesses, making it easier to manage candidate interactions at scale.

Utmost

Series B in 2021
Utmost, established in 2018, specializes in talent management software. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company consolidates various talent management systems, simplifying onboarding, offboarding, and compliance processes. Utmost's platform, designed for large enterprises, also optimizes spend and engagement for the extended workforce, serving as a Workday-native alternative to legacy vendor management systems.

Welcome

Seed Round in 2020
Welcome is a company that specializes in designing and developing an offer management and compensation platform tailored for human resource teams. Founded in 2019 and based in New York, the platform facilitates collaboration and approval workflows among team members, while providing real-time insights and notifications regarding candidate engagement. It allows HR teams to set clear expectations concerning roles, compensation, equity, benefits, and organizational mission. In 2022, Welcome was acquired by BambooHR, enhancing its ability to benchmark and communicate compensation effectively using real-time compensation and equity data.

CodeSignal

Series B in 2020
CodeSignal is a cloud-based skills platform that helps organizations discover, assess, and develop technical talent. It provides custom tests aligned with interview processes and assessments that test more than data structures and algorithms, enabling employers to screen engineers more effectively. The platform also supports AI-powered learning solutions and strives to broaden access to opportunities by tapping into underrepresented candidate pools, helping teams save engineering resources and increase speed-to-hire. Used by major companies and learners worldwide, CodeSignal has powered millions of skills evaluations and supports both hiring and development initiatives across tech, finance, and other industries.

KarmaCheck

Venture Round in 2020
KarmaCheck is a San Francisco-based software company that provides background screening and credential verification services for staffing and hiring. It offers both online and offline background checks, including criminal checks, employment and education verifications, motor vehicle records, reference checks, and drug testing, as well as lite checks. The company emphasizes an API-first platform with a mobile-friendly candidate experience, real-time status tracking, and AI-driven automation to accelerate screenings and reduce administrative burden. KarmaCheck integrates with applicant tracking systems and HRIS to streamline workflows and help ensure compliance across hiring processes.

Confirm

Venture Round in 2020
Confirm HR, Inc. is a data-driven hiring platform founded in November 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company has developed an application that assists organizations in making informed hiring decisions by collecting feedback from secondary and backchannel references. This application helps identify candidate traits, verify compatibility, and reduce bias, thereby improving the chances of hiring qualified candidates. Confirm's platform utilizes quantitative methods to assess candidate quality, allowing employers to uncover the right skills and credentials for job roles. By streamlining the hiring process, Confirm aims to match job seekers with their ideal positions more efficiently, facilitating better talent decisions without the influence of subjectivity or politics.

Expo

Venture Round in 2019
Expo develops software for restaurants that integrates with various platforms to provide real-time insights into financials, guest sentiment, delivery services, and operational data. This enables management teams to identify actionable items, optimize efficiency, and enhance profitability.

Landed

Seed Round in 2019
Landed offers an end-to-end recruiting platform for hourly employers, with a focus on the restaurant and hospitality industry. The platform leverages artificial intelligence to connect candidates to employers based on customized criteria and to screen applicants using data points, enabling employers to hire stronger candidates more quickly and efficiently. By streamlining the hiring process for both job seekers and employers, Landed aims to improve match quality and reduce time-to-hire in high-turnover service environments.

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.

Landit

Series A in 2019
Landit, Inc. is a talent management platform based in New York, founded in 2014, that focuses on enhancing the career success and engagement of women and diverse groups in the workplace. The platform offers a personalized career development solution, providing each member with a tailored playbook that includes resources, tools, and connections essential for professional advancement. Key features of Landit's offering encompass personal branding, executive coaching, the establishment of personal advisory boards, and curated skill development aligned with career opportunities. By emphasizing a customized approach, Landit enables enterprises to attract, develop, and retain high-potential diverse talent effectively.

Levee

Seed Round in 2019
Levee is an AI-powered platform that connects informal, unskilled workers to formal, higher-paying jobs across service-oriented sectors such as retail, outsourced services, food service, and healthcare. The platform targets frontline, high-volume hiring, using data science, automation, and recruitment marketing with an inclusive candidate experience to help organizations build an engaged, scalable workforce quickly. It also applies people analytics to improve productivity and reduce absenteeism and turnover. Founded in 2016 and based in São Paulo, Brazil, Levee serves organizations seeking secure labor matches and efficient hiring outcomes.

GoGig

Seed Round in 2018
GoGig is an anonymous professional networking platform that helps currently employed, passively seeking professionals advance their careers confidentially through AI-driven matching based on career desires and cultural fit. The platform enables hiring professionals to access a broader pool of passive candidates via algorithmic search, facilitating connections without public postings or candidate applications. By prioritizing privacy and compatibility, GoGig offers a discreet alternative to traditional recruiting focused on quality matches rather than active job seeking. The service serves both job seekers who prefer discretion while exploring opportunities and employers seeking well-suited candidates who are not actively looking.

Localwise

Seed Round in 2018
Localwise is an online job board established in 2014 and headquartered in Oakland, California. The platform connects students and community members with employment opportunities at local businesses, offering a range of job types including full-time, part-time, and internships. It features job listings across various 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, and technology startups. Localwise emphasizes community engagement by enabling users to receive recommendations from former employers and colleagues, while also allowing businesses to manage their hiring processes through an intuitive application dashboard. This approach facilitates connections between job seekers and the local job community.

Shortlist

Seed Round in 2017
Shortlist Professional Services Private Limited operates an online recruitment platform focused on helping employers in India and East Africa hire candidates based on skills and potential rather than traditional credentials. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Mumbai, the company serves junior to mid-level and commercial roles, sourcing candidates from local markets. The platform employs predictive chat-based interviews and online competency assessments to streamline the hiring process, allowing employers to bypass the more time-consuming and biased stages of recruitment. Through its innovative approach, Shortlist aims to support growing enterprises in finding the right talent efficiently and effectively.

Landit

Seed Round in 2017
Landit, Inc. is a talent management platform based in New York, founded in 2014, that focuses on enhancing the career success and engagement of women and diverse groups in the workplace. The platform offers a personalized career development solution, providing each member with a tailored playbook that includes resources, tools, and connections essential for professional advancement. Key features of Landit's offering encompass personal branding, executive coaching, the establishment of personal advisory boards, and curated skill development aligned with career opportunities. By emphasizing a customized approach, Landit enables enterprises to attract, develop, and retain high-potential diverse talent effectively.

Koru

Series A in 2015
Koru is a developer of a predictive recruitment processing platform that aims to revolutionize talent acquisition. The company's software evaluates applicants based on key performance indicators that are more indicative of early career success than traditional metrics such as GPA or college reputation. Koru has identified and measures essential skills, known as the Koru7, which include Grit, Rigor, Impact, Teamwork, Curiosity, Ownership, and Polish. This innovative approach allows recruiters to efficiently screen and select top-tier candidates while promoting diversity and reducing the costs associated with poor hiring decisions. Koru's clients have reported significant improvements, with increases of 30-60% in high-performing hires and substantial returns on investment.

Humanly.io

Humanly.io is a hiring platform that specializes in screening and scheduling job candidates through an AI-based system. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, Humanly engages with candidates visiting a company’s job pages and social media, facilitating their qualification and addressing their inquiries. This innovative technology allows organizations to enhance candidate conversion rates across various recruitment channels while significantly reducing the time spent by human resources on each open role. With its focus on efficiency and automation, Humanly streamlines the hiring process for businesses, making it easier to manage candidate interactions at scale.
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