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 Austin, TX
Terradepth
Series A in 2023
Terradepth, Inc. is a data-as-a-service company based in Austin, Texas, founded in 2018. The company focuses on increasing ocean knowledge by centralizing and monetizing ocean data through its cloud-based platform, Absolute Ocean. Terradepth employs unmanned submersibles for autonomous and high-resolution data collection, creating a scalable repository of processed ocean data. It offers various data products, surveys on request, and maintains a collection of analytical reports for sale. By providing access to this comprehensive ocean data, Terradepth enables organizations and individuals to make informed, ecologically responsible decisions regarding ocean resources.
StoryFit
Series A in 2022
StoryFit is an AI-driven technology company serving the book publishing, film, and television industries. Its platform delivers predictive audience insights and analytics to help publishers and studios make development, marketing, and merchandising decisions. By analyzing metadata and comparing content to comparable works, StoryFit supports audience targeting, reader personas, writing evaluation, and stakeholder decision-making. The solution provides content recommendations and scenario simulations that estimate how audiences will respond to books, scripts, or finished productions, enabling strategic choices from development through marketing.
SourceDay
Series C in 2022
Founded in 2013, SourceDay specializes in SaaS solutions for automating purchase order management processes. It offers a platform that centralizes PO processes, provides real-time supplier performance metrics, enables PO collaboration, and integrates with ERP systems. Serving manufacturing and distribution companies, SourceDay aims to reduce errors, delays, and frustrations in buyer-supplier relationships.
ZenBusiness
Series C in 2021
ZenBusiness is a comprehensive platform dedicated to empowering small business owners. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, the company offers an all-in-one solution for starting, running, and growing businesses. ZenBusiness provides tools for entity creation and management, compliance services, banking, bookkeeping, marketing, and more. It stands out by combining innovative technology with live human support, ensuring customers have access to expert guidance via phone, chat, email, webinars, and even a concierge service. Committed to social impact and inclusivity, ZenBusiness is a Public Benefit Corporation that encourages employee volunteer work and offers initiatives like the Mavs Business Assist program and $5K grant program.
SourceDay
Convertible Note in 2021
Founded in 2013, SourceDay specializes in SaaS solutions for automating purchase order management processes. It offers a platform that centralizes PO processes, provides real-time supplier performance metrics, enables PO collaboration, and integrates with ERP systems. Serving manufacturing and distribution companies, SourceDay aims to reduce errors, delays, and frustrations in buyer-supplier relationships.
Data.World
Venture Round in 2021
Data.World develops an open data platform that enables users to discover, understand, share, and collaborate on diverse datasets. Its platform supports various formats and sectors, fostering a collaborative community for both business and public use.
Mesa Cloud
Seed Round in 2021
Mesa Cloud is a graduation management system founded in 2019 by John Kennedy and based in Austin, Texas. The company has developed a platform that monitors student academic progress, tracking achievements against their graduation journey. This digital safety net provides educational districts with an alternative to manual processes for identifying and addressing issues that may hinder student progress. By offering clear visibility into each student's academic standing and managing their schedules, Mesa Cloud aims to facilitate a more efficient path to graduation.
Data.World
Series B in 2020
Data.World develops an open data platform that enables users to discover, understand, share, and collaborate on diverse datasets. Its platform supports various formats and sectors, fostering a collaborative community for both business and public use.
StoryFit
Venture Round in 2019
StoryFit is an AI-driven technology company serving the book publishing, film, and television industries. Its platform delivers predictive audience insights and analytics to help publishers and studios make development, marketing, and merchandising decisions. By analyzing metadata and comparing content to comparable works, StoryFit supports audience targeting, reader personas, writing evaluation, and stakeholder decision-making. The solution provides content recommendations and scenario simulations that estimate how audiences will respond to books, scripts, or finished productions, enabling strategic choices from development through marketing.
Future/Proof
Venture Round in 2019
Future/Proof develops beverage brands for millennial customers. Justin Fenchel, Aimy Steadman, and Brad Schultz founded it in 2019, with its headquarters in Austin in Texas.
Compound
Seed Round in 2019
Compound is a global real estate investment marketplace that facilitates the cross-border movement of real estate investment capital between foreign and domestic investors and investment opportunities using an SEC-compliant structure and a network of payment and processing solutions. Compound is a technology-enabled real estate marketplace that is reimagining how the world invests in urban residential real estate. Compound enables diverse groups of people from all around the world to buy and sell small “pieces” of residential real estate in some of the world’s top cities, places like New York City, Miami, Nashville, Austin, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, and beyond.
StoryFit
Series A in 2019
StoryFit is an AI-driven technology company serving the book publishing, film, and television industries. Its platform delivers predictive audience insights and analytics to help publishers and studios make development, marketing, and merchandising decisions. By analyzing metadata and comparing content to comparable works, StoryFit supports audience targeting, reader personas, writing evaluation, and stakeholder decision-making. The solution provides content recommendations and scenario simulations that estimate how audiences will respond to books, scripts, or finished productions, enabling strategic choices from development through marketing.
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