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

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

Matthew Caspari

Managing Partner

Past deals in Database

SurrealDB

Series A in 2024
SurrealDB is a versatile, multi-model database designed for modern and traditional applications. It offers cloud readiness, deployment flexibility across various environments, and a focus on developer experience, ensuring scalability and data consistency without platform concerns.

Ocient

Series B in 2024
Founded in 2018, Ocient develops a high-performance data analytics platform designed for rapid analysis of massive datasets. Its platform efficiently handles large datasets measured in terabytes, petabytes, or exabytes with trillions or quadrillions of rows, enabling organizations to harness the power of big data at scale and velocity.

Polybase Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Polybase Labs is a company that specializes in providing a web3 platform for database management, leveraging blockchain technology to ensure a decentralized and secure approach to data storage. The platform supports various types of data, including user profiles and transaction histories, utilizing zero-knowledge technology to enhance information security, privacy, and integrity. By offering a robust solution for developers and organizations, Polybase Labs facilitates the secure management of sensitive data while promoting decentralized storage solutions.

Polybase Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Polybase Labs is a company that specializes in providing a web3 platform for database management, leveraging blockchain technology to ensure a decentralized and secure approach to data storage. The platform supports various types of data, including user profiles and transaction histories, utilizing zero-knowledge technology to enhance information security, privacy, and integrity. By offering a robust solution for developers and organizations, Polybase Labs facilitates the secure management of sensitive data while promoting decentralized storage solutions.

ApertureData

Seed Round in 2022
ApertureData develops a unified database platform that streamlines AI deployment by centralizing diverse datasets like images, videos, documents, and embeddings. It offers knowledge graph and vector search capabilities, enhancing productivity for data science teams building multimodal AI solutions.

Intrinio

Series B in 2021
Intrinio is a financial data company that provides an API‑based platform designed to make financial information affordable and easily accessible. The service offers a wide range of data feeds, including fundamentals, economic indicators, insider transactions, institutional holdings, executive compensation, stock and options prices, and earnings estimates. By delivering data from SEC filings and other sources in user‑friendly formats, Intrinio enables investors and developers to focus on analysis and innovation rather than data collection and entry. The company’s marketplace model connects data providers, developers, and investors, fostering a more efficient and developer‑centric financial data ecosystem.

bit.io

Seed Round in 2021
Founded in 2019, bit.io is a San Francisco-based company offering a zero-configurable, scalable cloud database. It combines secure data storage and querying with social features akin to GitHub, enabling users to share databases easily.

Ondat

Series B in 2021
Ondat is a developer of a cloud-native storage platform that facilitates persistent storage volumes directly on any Kubernetes node, offering flexibility in data management for containerized applications. The platform enables users to deploy applications and data storage across various environments, ensuring high levels of application performance, resilience, and dependability. Ondat supports containerized databases and CI/CD workloads, providing advanced features such as erasure coding, replication, and data reduction through deduplication and compression. Additionally, it enhances data mobility with replication and migration services, ensuring secure data storage and management through encryption and policy management. This empowers clients to maintain control over their data while optimizing their cloud infrastructure.

Ocient

Series B in 2021
Founded in 2018, Ocient develops a high-performance data analytics platform designed for rapid analysis of massive datasets. Its platform efficiently handles large datasets measured in terabytes, petabytes, or exabytes with trillions or quadrillions of rows, enabling organizations to harness the power of big data at scale and velocity.

Fauna

Series A in 2020
Fauna, Inc. is a cloud-based platform that specializes in providing a NoSQL database solution designed for modern serverless applications. The company's flagship product, FaunaDB, features a distributed transactional query engine, a web-native GraphQL API, and a serverless query language (FQL), enabling developers to create applications with custom business logic efficiently. FaunaDB supports various data models, including relational, document, and graph data, and offers capabilities such as access control, data isolation, encryption security, and consistent performance metrics. The platform is designed for frictionless integration with various JavaScript frameworks and programming languages, making it adaptable for diverse development environments. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Fauna is a fully remote organization driven by a leadership team with extensive experience in the tech industry, and it serves a variety of customers, including notable innovators like Nextdoor and NVIDIA.

Intrinio

Series A in 2019
Intrinio is a financial data company that provides an API‑based platform designed to make financial information affordable and easily accessible. The service offers a wide range of data feeds, including fundamentals, economic indicators, insider transactions, institutional holdings, executive compensation, stock and options prices, and earnings estimates. By delivering data from SEC filings and other sources in user‑friendly formats, Intrinio enables investors and developers to focus on analysis and innovation rather than data collection and entry. The company’s marketplace model connects data providers, developers, and investors, fostering a more efficient and developer‑centric financial data ecosystem.

Ocient

Series A in 2018
Founded in 2018, Ocient develops a high-performance data analytics platform designed for rapid analysis of massive datasets. Its platform efficiently handles large datasets measured in terabytes, petabytes, or exabytes with trillions or quadrillions of rows, enabling organizations to harness the power of big data at scale and velocity.
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