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 Sustainability

Mycocycle

Seed Round in 2023
Mycocycle is an environmental remediation company that specializes in decarbonizing waste streams through the innovative use of fungi in a process known as mycoremediation. By developing engineered ecosystems, Mycocycle transforms toxic waste into non-toxic biomass, which can then be repurposed for the manufacture of new products. The company serves a diverse clientele, including waste management firms, landfill operators, material recycling facilities, and manufacturers seeking to adopt closed-loop processes. Its technologies not only help divert materials from landfills but also enable businesses to reuse feedstock in manufacturing or recycle it for other applications, contributing to a more sustainable waste management landscape.

Ecosapiens

Seed Round in 2023
Ecosapiens is a Web3 and NFT project designed to empower individuals in the fight against climate change. The company offers a platform that integrates carbon into digital art while emphasizing nature-based solutions for carbon removal, reduction, and prevention. Through its innovative approach, Ecosapiens enables consumers to actively contribute to environmental sustainability and make a meaningful impact on the climate.

Ecosapiens

Seed Round in 2022
Ecosapiens is a Web3 and NFT project designed to empower individuals in the fight against climate change. The company offers a platform that integrates carbon into digital art while emphasizing nature-based solutions for carbon removal, reduction, and prevention. Through its innovative approach, Ecosapiens enables consumers to actively contribute to environmental sustainability and make a meaningful impact on the climate.

Cambium Carbon

Seed Round in 2022
Cambium Carbon is an early-stage social enterprise dedicated to addressing climate change through reforestation and urban wood reuse. The organization operates reforestation hubs that focus on creating local regenerative wood supply chains. By reclaiming wood waste from urban forests, Cambium Carbon generates revenue to fund tree planting and maintenance efforts. This approach not only supports city planners in developing sustainable job opportunities but also contributes to the creation of resilient urban environments. Through its systems-level natural climate solutions, Cambium Carbon aims to foster a circular economy that benefits both communities and the environment.

Risilience

Series A in 2021
Risilience provides an analytics and SaaS platform for corporate businesses to assess their climate change risks and manage their transformation to reach net zero emissions.

Sustainment

Seed Round in 2020
Sustainment is an online software platform that efficiently connects manufacturing vendors and heavy industry to enable American manufacturing. Their platform incorporates data infrastructure technology, algorithm-based matching and optimization, encrypted transfer protocols, semi-autonomous sourcing techniques, and excellent UX design to provide an intuitive customer experience for sourcing teams and manufacturing vendors.

Thousand Fell

Venture Round in 2019
Thousand Fell is a New York-based company that designs and produces sneakers for both men and women, focusing on sustainability and recyclability. The company's sneakers are crafted from twelve biodegradable or recyclable materials, including aloe vera, castor bean, coconut, sugar cane, palm leaf, and recycled water bottles. Thousand Fell aims to provide a viable alternative to conventional synthetic footwear, which often contributes to landfill waste. In addition to offering lace-up and slip-on styles, the company is developing subscription refurbishment kits to extend the lifespan of its products, promoting a "cobbler model" for direct-to-consumer sales. Furthermore, Thousand Fell is working on a digital closet platform to enhance transparency regarding product and material circularity, encouraging customers to return their sneakers for recycling once they are no longer in use.

Tipa

Series C in 2019
TIPA has developed breakthrough 100% biodegradable and compostable flexible packaging solutions for food and beverages. Imitating nature’s and just like an orange peel, their packaging solutions bring a new generation of packaging that easily biodegrade post-consumption and reduce dramatically their impact on the environment. Ranging from simple one-ply films to complex multi-layer products, their packaging solutions offer a combination of superior properties in almost every aspect including high yield, flexibility, transparency, impact strength, and barrier properties.
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