Investors in Berkley

They focus on industries which are changing and evolving rapidly, often driven by factors such as changes in demographics, regulation, the need for the state to seek efficiencies and the continuing trend towards outsourcing. Our investment horizon is long-term and predicated on evaluating market and industrial trends. Industries that we are currently interested in include healthcare, social care, education services, IT managed and outsourced services industries.

Better Ventures provides funding and support to technology startups building innovative solutions to big and important problems, from work and education to health and sustainability. Given the magnitude of the these problems and the enormous market opportunities they represent, it takes the best and brightest minds armed with the best resources to address them. These are the people they seek to back – entrepreneurs committed to using the tools and methodologies of the modern technology startup to build world-changing companies that make money and do good. They're thinking big and expecting big results, and so are the entrepreneurs they back.

Alumni Ventures Group, formerly known as Launch Angels Management Company, LLC, is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, startups and early-stage investments. The firm is sector and geographic agnostic. Alumni Ventures Group was founded in 2013 and is based in Winchester, Massachusetts.

Bee Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in genesis, seed/startup, pre-seed stage, and very early stage startup investments. The firm is socially conscious and does not invest in companies that help bars sell more alcohol, or drive ever more consumerism with children. It seeks to invest in companies across the US. It seeks to invest a smaller amount in the genesis stage. It takes a stake between six percent and eight percent. Bee Partners was founded in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Albion typically invests £2-5m for a minority stake Series A and early Series B. They support outstanding entrepreneurs who have demonstrated product-market fit, a clear go to market strategy and long term differentiation in a growth market. They look at most sectors, with a particular focus on digital B2B companies – enterprise software and technology services – across a broad range of sectors, including digital health, cybersecurity, martech and fintech. Companies that benefit from macro themes around disruption, digital transformation, and the trend towards a data-driven economy are particularly attractive. They also invest in companies commercialising IP from University College London via the UCL Technology Fund.

Albion typically invests £2-5m for a minority stake Series A and early Series B. They support outstanding entrepreneurs who have demonstrated product-market fit, a clear go to market strategy and long term differentiation in a growth market. They look at most sectors, with a particular focus on digital B2B companies – enterprise software and technology services – across a broad range of sectors, including digital health, cybersecurity, martech and fintech. Companies that benefit from macro themes around disruption, digital transformation, and the trend towards a data-driven economy are particularly attractive. They also invest in companies commercialising IP from University College London via the UCL Technology Fund.

Beginning with the Spring 2018 SkyDeck cohort, each of the 20 companies accepted into the SkyDeck full cohort will be eligible for investment of up to $100,000 from the Berkeley SkyDeck Fund. Created as a joint venture among UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering, Haas School of Business, and the Vice Chancellor for Research Office, SkyDeck Berkeley has become the apex startup launchpad for UC Berkeley-affiliated entrepreneurs. As one of the first in-house public research university accelerator programs, our goal is to foster entrepreneurial excellence through personalized and specialized engagement to our teams by providing access to our network of advisors, investors, workshops and other resources.