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.
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Past deals in Social Media
Bluesky
Series A in 2024
Bluesky is a social media network that enables users to engage with communities and express creativity. The platform allows users to customize their feeds and provides moderation tools for content management. It focuses on user control over the social media experience.
Knit
Series A in 2024
PurPics, LLC, based in Austin, Texas, operates a platform and application designed to connect brands with Gen Z consumers through student organizations. Founded in 2015, the platform enables members of these organizations to promote brand partners by posting pictures on their personal Instagram accounts. In return for increased engagement, brands can make donations for each like these posts receive. By customizing audience targeting based on factors such as region and campus, PurPics facilitates tailored marketing campaigns that enhance brand awareness and consumer interaction. This innovative approach offers brands a more effective means of engaging with their target demographics compared to traditional advertising methods. Through its SaaS-enabled marketplace, PurPics has collaborated with various brands to execute campaigns that drive foot traffic, boost in-store sales, and gather valuable consumer insights.
Diem
Seed Round in 2024
Diem is building a social search engine. It’s a dedicated place for people to search, collect, discover and share information, inspired by the way women have been passing knowledge to each other for centuries. Think of it like the best and biggest group chat you’ve ever been a part of, where all the important, silly, quick, private, and frenetic knowledge you share is organized and stored for everyone to benefit from.
Diem incentivizes the community to generate content and harnesses this data to build proprietary search algorithms that will enable people to discover, and visualize, the collective knowledge of entire communities in just a few seconds.
Diem was co-founded by Emma Bates & Divia Singh in 2020.
Allstar
Series A in 2023
Allstar is a company that focuses on empowering gamers to become creators of short-form video content through innovative tools and infrastructure. Its platform allows users to easily capture, personalize, and share their most significant gaming and esports moments as high-quality videos. By democratizing gaming content, Allstar enables gamers to produce professional-quality clips, facilitating the discovery and sharing of their favorite gaming experiences across various platforms and devices. Through its technology, Allstar aims to enhance the gaming community's engagement and creativity by providing accessible content creation solutions.
Rodeo
Seed Round in 2023
Rodeo is a software development company focused on creating social networking applications. Its primary product aims to help users identify and plan social activities with friends, fostering stronger connections. Currently, the company operates in stealth mode.
222
Seed Round in 2023
222 is a social platform that enables users to connect with new people, discover local activities, and deepen relationships through in-person experiences. The platform focuses on quality social interactions and uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to match individuals with similar tastes and preferences based on a survey about social events, helping users form meaningful connections and expand their networks.
Slate
Seed Round in 2023
Slate operates as a content creation and brand management platform designed for teams, enabling them to produce and manage social media content efficiently. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, the company provides a suite of tools including fonts, colors, filters, graphics, and animations through a custom mobile app. This allows users to create on-brand content and post directly to various social media platforms such as Instagram stories. Slate is utilized by major brands like the NFL, VISA, and Budweiser, and was recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in 2022.
Revel.xyz
Venture Round in 2022
Revel.xyz is a Web3 personal media collecting and trading platform, forming communities around shared assets and people.
CHEQ
Seed Round in 2022
CHEQ is the world's first social payments platform, connecting consumers and businesses to create frictionless, amazing in-person experiences. CHEQ's universal ordering and payment app can be used by restaurants, stadiums, hotels, and more to make transactions fun, easy, and worry- free. Users can even send food and drinks directly to their friends from anywhere in the world. CHEQ lets venues retain their unique branding within the app and keep their direct relationships with their guests.
Niche
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Niche is a social application that reinvents the way people connect and build community. It is a members-only club for the user's communities, groups, and hobbies.
Stadium Live
Series A in 2022
Stadium Live is a Toronto-based developer of a sports entertainment platform for the next generation of sports and esports fans. The platform builds a digital universe at the intersection of sports and culture, enabling fans to follow live scores, engage with sporting events remotely with friends, and participate in play, earn, and shop experiences around sports and culture. The ecosystem also includes a sports community platform that creates a virtual space where fans can hang out, express individuality, and buy and earn digital collectibles, aiming to become a go-to destination for contemporary sports and culture fans.
Knit
Seed Round in 2022
PurPics, LLC, based in Austin, Texas, operates a platform and application designed to connect brands with Gen Z consumers through student organizations. Founded in 2015, the platform enables members of these organizations to promote brand partners by posting pictures on their personal Instagram accounts. In return for increased engagement, brands can make donations for each like these posts receive. By customizing audience targeting based on factors such as region and campus, PurPics facilitates tailored marketing campaigns that enhance brand awareness and consumer interaction. This innovative approach offers brands a more effective means of engaging with their target demographics compared to traditional advertising methods. Through its SaaS-enabled marketplace, PurPics has collaborated with various brands to execute campaigns that drive foot traffic, boost in-store sales, and gather valuable consumer insights.
PrismPop
Seed Round in 2022
PrismPop is a mobile‑first social commerce platform that connects beauty consumers with personalized product recommendations and community‑driven content. Launched in 2018 and headquartered in Pasadena, California, the company enables users to discover, review, and share beauty products while providing third‑party manufacturers a channel to reach engaged shoppers. Its technology blends curated content, user interaction, and data insights to create a safe, personalized space where individuals can document their beauty journeys and recommend products to peers.
Quiver Quantitative
Seed Round in 2022
Quiver Quantitative is a platform designed to democratize access to alternative data for retail investors. It aggregates unique datasets typically reserved for institutions, such as credit card transaction history and social media data, and presents them in a user-friendly web dashboard.
Proxi
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Proxi develops a no-code mapping software that enables local experts and influencers to create, customize, and embed highly interactive maps into their social media platforms, websites, and apps. This platform facilitates crowdsourcing of geographic recommendations, powering future location-based experiences.
Piggy
Seed Round in 2022
Piggy is a mobile platform designed to help users easily track and discover trending content from their devices. The platform allows individuals to create and share engaging content on topics they are passionate about, ranging from presentations and documents to web pages, greeting cards, invitations, and blog posts. By providing familiar tools and features reminiscent of social media, Piggy enables users to craft personal documents and presentations efficiently, enhancing their ability to express themselves and connect with others.
FanUp
Seed Round in 2021
FanUp is a dynamic platform designed for sports and pop culture enthusiasts, focusing on providing engaging and personalized experiences for casual fans, particularly targeting Gen Z and women. With over 700,000 users and a strong presence on social media, FanUp offers a variety of features, including free-to-play contests, daily and season-long fantasy competitions, and innovative crossover games that blend sports and pop culture. Users can participate in challenges and group play, competing for cash and brand prizes while enjoying a fun and interactive environment. The platform aims to redefine fan engagement by offering memorable experiences, such as meet-and-greets with athletes and celebrities, rather than focusing solely on conventional betting. Backed by notable investors, FanUp is positioned as a leader in creating the next generation of fandom experiences.
SoWork
Seed Round in 2021
SoWork is a virtual coworking platform that enables organizations to support remote, distributed, and hybrid work models. It functions as a virtual office with video, audio, and chat, plus integrations and enterprise-grade security. The platform includes customizable maps and avatars to tailor the space for teams, helping members feel connected, energized, and innovative within a branded virtual office.
Civis Analytics
Series B in 2021
Civis Analytics, Inc. is a data science software company that empowers organizations to make data-driven decisions. Founded in 2013 and based in Chicago, Illinois, Civis offers a range of tools and services, including the Civis platform for predictive analytics, which facilitates end-to-end data workflows. The company's offerings include the Community Outreach and Engagement Hub, designed for government and nonprofit teams to effectively reach and engage their target audiences; the Census Intelligence Center, which aids census coordinators and leadership; and various tools for audience targeting and message testing. Additionally, Civis provides data science consulting, consumer insights, market research, and media optimization services. By combining advanced software solutions with expertise in data science and survey methodology, Civis Analytics helps both public and private sector organizations enhance their decision-making processes and achieve a competitive edge.
Lumanu
Series A in 2021
Founded in 2016, Lumanu develops a digital platform connecting companies with brand ambassadors. It offers solutions like SocialCert for influencer content sharing, Content Manager for ingesting content, and SmartBoost for creating ads using influencer creatives. Serving brand marketers, performance marketers, agency marketers, and creators/influencers, Lumanu operates from Oakland, California with an additional office in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Slate
Funding Round in 2021
Slate operates as a content creation and brand management platform designed for teams, enabling them to produce and manage social media content efficiently. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, the company provides a suite of tools including fonts, colors, filters, graphics, and animations through a custom mobile app. This allows users to create on-brand content and post directly to various social media platforms such as Instagram stories. Slate is utilized by major brands like the NFL, VISA, and Budweiser, and was recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in 2022.
Groovetime
Seed Round in 2021
Groovetime develops an interactive platform that enables users to learn, practice, and compete in various dance challenges. The platform employs AI-powered feedback, offers a diverse range of daily updated dance challenges, provides practice tools for skill improvement, and facilitates social mini-games for competition.
Primer
Seed Round in 2021
Primer is a business-to-business marketing platform that focuses on enhancing marketing technologies for companies. It offers services such as audience automation, LinkedIn automation, and marketing and sales automation. The platform enriches leads and matches them across different channels while orchestrating workflows to streamline marketing efforts. By connecting various applications and facilitating data movement, Primer enables coordinated multichannel campaigns. Additionally, it assists in mapping a lead's identity across multiple marketing channels, providing sales personnel with accurate contact information to improve lead conversion rates and maximize advertising efficiency.
Markable Creators
Convertible Note in 2020
Markable Creators leverages AI-powered computer vision to enable social visual discovery shopping. It bridges the gap between social content and e-commerce by allowing viewers to shop clothing seen in videos across various platforms. The company offers a fully-automated solution, connecting with major global e-commerce platforms and live on prominent Asian social content platforms.
Civis Analytics
Series A in 2020
Civis Analytics, Inc. is a data science software company that empowers organizations to make data-driven decisions. Founded in 2013 and based in Chicago, Illinois, Civis offers a range of tools and services, including the Civis platform for predictive analytics, which facilitates end-to-end data workflows. The company's offerings include the Community Outreach and Engagement Hub, designed for government and nonprofit teams to effectively reach and engage their target audiences; the Census Intelligence Center, which aids census coordinators and leadership; and various tools for audience targeting and message testing. Additionally, Civis provides data science consulting, consumer insights, market research, and media optimization services. By combining advanced software solutions with expertise in data science and survey methodology, Civis Analytics helps both public and private sector organizations enhance their decision-making processes and achieve a competitive edge.
FanUp
Seed Round in 2020
FanUp is a dynamic platform designed for sports and pop culture enthusiasts, focusing on providing engaging and personalized experiences for casual fans, particularly targeting Gen Z and women. With over 700,000 users and a strong presence on social media, FanUp offers a variety of features, including free-to-play contests, daily and season-long fantasy competitions, and innovative crossover games that blend sports and pop culture. Users can participate in challenges and group play, competing for cash and brand prizes while enjoying a fun and interactive environment. The platform aims to redefine fan engagement by offering memorable experiences, such as meet-and-greets with athletes and celebrities, rather than focusing solely on conventional betting. Backed by notable investors, FanUp is positioned as a leader in creating the next generation of fandom experiences.
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.
Next Big Idea Club
Venture Round in 2020
Next Big Idea Club is a subscription-based book club that aims to provide access to transformative ideas while fostering a community for discussion and engagement. The company operates an online media platform that connects readers with high-profile thought leaders, allowing them to explore and discuss impactful concepts. By organizing content around each creator's brand, it serves as a hub for ideas and insights, enabling members to interact not only with each other but also directly with the authors. Through this approach, Next Big Idea Club seeks to inspire personal growth and community development through the power of literature and thought leadership.
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.
LÜM
Seed Round in 2020
LÜM, based in Madison, Wisconsin, operates a social music streaming application that connects emerging artists with fans and music curators. Its platform, also called LÜM, allows artists to build their brand, connect with fans, and earn support through a virtual gifting system. Fans can discover new music, customize their library, share finds, and earn rewards for supporting top artists. Curators can gather followers, create playlists, and share their discoveries with the LÜM community. The company also sells branded merchandise online. LÜM is set to integrate blockchain technology and NFTs, aiming to launch NFT Access Passes with over 10,000 artists, providing an easy entry point for the music industry into blockchain and the metaverse.
Influence.co
Seed Round in 2020
Influence.co, Inc. is an online platform founded in 2016 and based in San Diego, California, with additional offices in Melbourne, Australia, Denver, Colorado, New York, and Las Vegas, Nevada. The company specializes in connecting influencers, brands, marketers, talent managers, and agencies within the influencer marketing ecosystem. Its platform provides a comprehensive toolkit that allows influencers to create professional digital media kits, showcase their work, and communicate with other members. This facilitates collaboration between influencers and brands, enabling marketing agencies to discover and recruit influencers while effectively managing and tracking their content. By fostering a supportive community and promoting collaborative commerce, Influence.co empowers individuals in the influencer economy to grow their businesses and pursue their passions.
Adventr
Venture Round in 2020
Adventr offers a SaaS platform for designing, distributing, and analyzing interactive video content. Its flagship product enables users to create viewer-driven videos with real-time choices, enhancing engagement metrics. Content can be embedded or distributed via ad networks and publishers.
PrismPop
Pre Seed Round in 2020
PrismPop is a mobile‑first social commerce platform that connects beauty consumers with personalized product recommendations and community‑driven content. Launched in 2018 and headquartered in Pasadena, California, the company enables users to discover, review, and share beauty products while providing third‑party manufacturers a channel to reach engaged shoppers. Its technology blends curated content, user interaction, and data insights to create a safe, personalized space where individuals can document their beauty journeys and recommend products to peers.
PrismPop
Convertible Note in 2020
PrismPop is a mobile‑first social commerce platform that connects beauty consumers with personalized product recommendations and community‑driven content. Launched in 2018 and headquartered in Pasadena, California, the company enables users to discover, review, and share beauty products while providing third‑party manufacturers a channel to reach engaged shoppers. Its technology blends curated content, user interaction, and data insights to create a safe, personalized space where individuals can document their beauty journeys and recommend products to peers.
LÜM
Seed Round in 2020
LÜM, based in Madison, Wisconsin, operates a social music streaming application that connects emerging artists with fans and music curators. Its platform, also called LÜM, allows artists to build their brand, connect with fans, and earn support through a virtual gifting system. Fans can discover new music, customize their library, share finds, and earn rewards for supporting top artists. Curators can gather followers, create playlists, and share their discoveries with the LÜM community. The company also sells branded merchandise online. LÜM is set to integrate blockchain technology and NFTs, aiming to launch NFT Access Passes with over 10,000 artists, providing an easy entry point for the music industry into blockchain and the metaverse.
Stacks
Seed Round in 2019
Stacks is a social video studio building the future of entertainment.
Capture Technologies
Venture Round in 2019
Capture Technologies is a California-based technology company with an additional office in Moscow. It develops Capture, a social app that focuses on real-time interactions using smartphone cameras and AI technologies.
Influence.co
Seed Round in 2019
Influence.co, Inc. is an online platform founded in 2016 and based in San Diego, California, with additional offices in Melbourne, Australia, Denver, Colorado, New York, and Las Vegas, Nevada. The company specializes in connecting influencers, brands, marketers, talent managers, and agencies within the influencer marketing ecosystem. Its platform provides a comprehensive toolkit that allows influencers to create professional digital media kits, showcase their work, and communicate with other members. This facilitates collaboration between influencers and brands, enabling marketing agencies to discover and recruit influencers while effectively managing and tracking their content. By fostering a supportive community and promoting collaborative commerce, Influence.co empowers individuals in the influencer economy to grow their businesses and pursue their passions.
Glow
Seed Round in 2019
Glow Technologies Inc. operates an online platform designed to support podcasters in building their media businesses. Established in 2019 and based in Seattle, Washington, Glow provides tools that enable podcast creators to foster direct relationships with their listeners. The platform allows users to create custom marketing web pages that align with their brand, while listeners can subscribe to premium content or make one-time payments directly from their preferred podcast player. By facilitating these subscriptions, Glow helps podcasters access new revenue streams, enhancing their content offerings and audience engagement beyond traditional advertising and sponsorships.
FlickPlay
Seed Round in 2019
FlickPlay is a Los Angeles-based company developing a gamified platform that merges physical and digital worlds. Users can create augmented reality films using NFTs as unlockable assets, fostering social content creation.
Markable Creators
Series A in 2019
Markable Creators leverages AI-powered computer vision to enable social visual discovery shopping. It bridges the gap between social content and e-commerce by allowing viewers to shop clothing seen in videos across various platforms. The company offers a fully-automated solution, connecting with major global e-commerce platforms and live on prominent Asian social content platforms.
Mammoth
Venture Round in 2019
Mammoth Media is a mobile media company focused on redefining entertainment for the mobile-first generation through innovative applications and engaging content. The company is known for its popular platforms, Yarn and Wishbone. Yarn delivers micro-stories in a text message format, boasting 60 million stories and 8 billion messages read, with users averaging 56 minutes of reading in their first week. Wishbone serves as a social networking app where users create and vote on polls, having generated 80 million cards and 18 billion votes to date. Both applications are consistently ranked among the Top 100 in the United States, reaching a significant portion of Generation Z and Millennials. Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Mammoth Media combines original content production with user-generated contributions, enhancing engagement and providing valuable insights to content owners and advertisers.
Songclip (Audiobyte)
Series A in 2018
Songclip™ is a new licensed music format built specifically for texting, social posts, and quick communication. Songclip’s multi-patented networked product solution, the Songclip API, integrates seamlessly into social platforms, mobile apps, and virtual marketplaces to drive expression, monetization, and music streaming. Songclip operates the world’s foremost searchable library of 5-30 second meta-tagged music clips, in partnership with the music industry. For more information, visit songclip.com
Capture Technologies
Seed Round in 2018
Capture Technologies is a California-based technology company with an additional office in Moscow. It develops Capture, a social app that focuses on real-time interactions using smartphone cameras and AI technologies.
Mic Network
Venture Round in 2018
Mic Network Inc. is an online news platform based in New York, founded in 2011. The company focuses on delivering news tailored for a mobile and social media-savvy audience, primarily targeting millennials and society's changemakers. Mic Network provides coverage across various topics, including politics, business, culture, science, and the environment, aiming to inform, empower, and inspire its readers. With a monthly audience of 50 million, the platform emphasizes original reporting and diverse perspectives on significant issues, encouraging engagement and challenging conventional thinking. As of late 2018, Mic Network operates as a subsidiary of BDG Media Inc.
Markable Creators
Venture Round in 2017
Markable Creators leverages AI-powered computer vision to enable social visual discovery shopping. It bridges the gap between social content and e-commerce by allowing viewers to shop clothing seen in videos across various platforms. The company offers a fully-automated solution, connecting with major global e-commerce platforms and live on prominent Asian social content platforms.
Vertical Mass
Venture Round in 2017
Vertical Mass, Inc. is an online data management platform based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 2013. The company specializes in serving celebrities and businesses in the music, entertainment, and sports industries by enabling them to collect, manage, and store data on their fans across various digital channels, including social media, websites, mobile applications, ecommerce, and content streaming services. By leveraging this proprietary audience data, clients can gain insights into fan affinities, allowing for more effective advertising and content distribution. Vertical Mass empowers its users to enhance engagement with their audience, optimize marketing strategies, and ultimately drive revenue through data monetization options such as aggregation, sales, or licensing. The platform is tailored to meet the unique needs of a diverse clientele, from emerging influencers to established industry leaders.
Mic Network
Series C in 2017
Mic Network Inc. is an online news platform based in New York, founded in 2011. The company focuses on delivering news tailored for a mobile and social media-savvy audience, primarily targeting millennials and society's changemakers. Mic Network provides coverage across various topics, including politics, business, culture, science, and the environment, aiming to inform, empower, and inspire its readers. With a monthly audience of 50 million, the platform emphasizes original reporting and diverse perspectives on significant issues, encouraging engagement and challenging conventional thinking. As of late 2018, Mic Network operates as a subsidiary of BDG Media Inc.
Vertical Mass
Series A in 2016
Vertical Mass, Inc. is an online data management platform based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 2013. The company specializes in serving celebrities and businesses in the music, entertainment, and sports industries by enabling them to collect, manage, and store data on their fans across various digital channels, including social media, websites, mobile applications, ecommerce, and content streaming services. By leveraging this proprietary audience data, clients can gain insights into fan affinities, allowing for more effective advertising and content distribution. Vertical Mass empowers its users to enhance engagement with their audience, optimize marketing strategies, and ultimately drive revenue through data monetization options such as aggregation, sales, or licensing. The platform is tailored to meet the unique needs of a diverse clientele, from emerging influencers to established industry leaders.
AdvisorConnect
Convertible Note in 2015
AdvisorConnect is a platform designed to accelerate sales for financial advisors and insurance agents. It uses AI-driven technology to automate workflows, analyze network data in real-time, and facilitate strategic decision-making in product marketing and content.
Statisfy
Seed Round in 2014
Statisfy is a marketing technology platform that allows consumers and brands to engage in an interactive question-and-answer format. The platform enables users to create questions and share them across social media, fostering a fun and social experience. For brands, Statisfy offers tools for targeted native advertising and customer engagement, providing valuable insights and market intelligence that are not easily accessible through traditional methods. By encouraging users to share their opinions and preferences quickly, Statisfy enhances audience participation and connection. Additionally, the platform supports writers, bloggers, and creators in gathering crowdsourced answers, ultimately helping them grow their audience. Overall, Statisfy combines entertainment with effective marketing strategies, creating a unique space for both consumers and brands.
Hullabalu
Seed Round in 2014
Hullabalu is a New York City-based company dedicated to creating original stories aimed at the new generation. Drawing inspiration from a love of fantastical worlds and timeless classics, Hullabalu develops engaging narratives that promote strong values and positive character development. The company features a series of stories centered around a diverse group of characters, complemented by illustrations, music, and interactive activities. Through its innovative approach, Hullabalu seeks to provide children with entertaining and meaningful experiences that foster imagination and encourage positive growth.
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