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

Matthew Caspari

Managing Partner

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

Past deals in Developer Tools

Nuon

Series A in 2024
Nuon is a developer of cloud applications that enables businesses to operate their software on customers' cloud accounts. The company focuses on creating fully self-managing cloud environments by handling the deployment, updates, and ongoing management of operations. This approach provides businesses with a control plane that allows application builders to debug applications, access logs, monitor metrics, and receive alerts. Additionally, Nuon's platform facilitates the execution of operational commands in a secure and auditable manner, ensuring the integrity of customer data from a centralized dashboard.

Finix

Series C in 2024
Finix develops a B2B payment processing platform that enables businesses to own, manage, and monetize their payments. The platform uses modular architecture and real-time tracking to consolidate payment data and facilitate global money transfers.

Unified API

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Developer of an application programming interface (API) platform designed for building and launching customer-facing integrations. The company provides access to rapidly expanding categories from customer relationship management to ticketing, enabling developers to add integrations more securely at scale.

Operant

Series A in 2024
Operant is a developer of an application protection platform tailored for cloud-native environments. The company provides automatic discovery and analytics, enabling real-time risk assessments and intelligent runtime enforcement across various cloud infrastructures. Operant's platform offers comprehensive catalogs for APIs, services, and role-based access controls, facilitating swift visibility into API endpoints, service interactions, and security vulnerabilities. By employing risk-weighted scorecards that prioritize security gaps based on criticality, access, and exposure, Operant effectively highlights the most severe security concerns. Additionally, the platform implements contextual controls to enforce precise security measures on legacy endpoints, data storage, and APIs, ensuring seamless integration and optimization of system behavior at scale without the need for instrumentation or friction between development, security, and operations teams.

Observe

Series B in 2024
Observe Inc. develops an online platform for log analytics, infrastructure monitoring, and application performance management. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Komment

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Komment is a technology company that specializes in AI-driven software documentation. Its platform automatically generates documentation for enterprise code, allowing development teams to prioritize innovation and building, rather than manual documentation. The solution integrates seamlessly into existing workflows and ensures documentation remains up-to-date, eliminating the need for third-party sources.

Tromzo

Seed Round in 2023
Tromzo is a developer-first application security management platform designed to streamline the integration of security practices within software development processes. By centralizing application security activities, Tromzo effectively removes barriers between developers and security teams, facilitating a more collaborative approach to security. The platform enables organizations to automate and scale their application security efforts throughout the software development lifecycle, making security more accessible and manageable for developers. This innovative solution aims to enhance the overall security posture of modern software applications while aligning security practices with development workflows.

Unstructured

Series A in 2023
Unstructured is a developer of an open-source data transformation platform that simplifies the process of converting raw data, such as PDFs and Microsoft Office documents, into formats compatible with language models. The platform supports over 25 file types, including PDF, DOC, and PPTX, and offers connectors to various systems like SharePoint, S3, and Databricks. By facilitating effortless data extraction and integration into AI workflows, Unstructured enhances the accessibility of human-generated information, ensuring that it is readily available for generative AI systems. Its modular architecture allows users to incorporate any third-party model, making it a versatile solution for preprocessing natural language data for machine learning applications.

Zenpli

Seed Round in 2023
Zenpli is a developer of an orchestration platform that specializes in identity decisions. The company offers a no-code platform designed to facilitate accurate identity processes, including onboarding, Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance, and fraud management. Zenpli's solutions enable businesses to effectively manage identity-related tasks with ease, ensuring compliance and reducing the risk of identity fraud. Its advanced models support clients in making precise end-to-end identity decisions, allowing for seamless business growth while maintaining security and regulatory standards.

Jolt AI

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Jolt AI develops an online artificial intelligence-powered code generation and chat tool tailored for medium to large-scale production codebases. Its platform enhances system uptime and reliability by creating custom metrics with a single line of code, facilitating real-time analytics dashboard monitoring.

The Believer Company

Series A in 2023
The Believer Company is a game development studio focused on creating engaging gaming experiences by prioritizing the player. With a diverse team of developers from around the globe, the company has a rich history of crafting various popular titles, including games like Words With Friends and League of Legends. The Believer Company specializes in developing open-world games that are accessible across multiple platforms, allowing players to immerse themselves in entertainment that transcends traditional boundaries.

Pontem Network

Seed Round in 2023
Pontem Network is a product studio focused on developing foundational decentralized applications (dApps) for the Aptos blockchain. Its flagship product, the Pontem Wallet, is a secure wallet available on multiple platforms, including Chrome, Firefox, iOS, and Android, allowing users to store and send tokens on the Aptos network. The wallet is integrated with various services, including the Liquidswap decentralized exchange, NFT marketplaces like Topaz and Souffl3, and liquid staking platforms such as Ditto and Tortuga. Additionally, Pontem Network offers tools for developers, including the Move Playground browser code editor, the Move IntelliJ IDE plugin, and ByteBabel, a Solidity-to-Move code translator that enables Ethereum Virtual Machine compatibility on Aptos. Through these products, Pontem Network aims to facilitate innovation and support the growth of the Aptos ecosystem.

Aviator

Seed Round in 2023
Founded in 2021, Aviator is a San Francisco-based developer productivity platform. It automates repetitive workflows for software teams, enabling them to build faster and more efficiently by eliminating mundane tasks.

Nuon

Seed Round in 2022
Nuon is a developer of cloud applications that enables businesses to operate their software on customers' cloud accounts. The company focuses on creating fully self-managing cloud environments by handling the deployment, updates, and ongoing management of operations. This approach provides businesses with a control plane that allows application builders to debug applications, access logs, monitor metrics, and receive alerts. Additionally, Nuon's platform facilitates the execution of operational commands in a secure and auditable manner, ensuring the integrity of customer data from a centralized dashboard.

Makelog

Seed Round in 2022
Makelog offers a product-communication platform that helps teams create, centralize, and share product updates with customers and internal stakeholders. The tool integrates with data sources to pull updates from the work origin and can auto-generate release notes, enabling product owners to publish changes to users and colleagues. By facilitating timely, consistent updates, Makelog supports transparency around shipped features, bug fixes, and upcoming changes.

8base

Series A in 2022
8base is a software platform company offering a low-code/no-code development platform and serverless backend-as-a-service for building and operating enterprise-grade web and mobile applications. The platform includes an app builder, data management tools, a serverless backend, a CLI, and professional services, enabling developers to design, deploy, and scale software without managing infrastructure. It emphasizes an API-first, configurable backend that uses a query language to ensure portability of applications and intellectual property across environments. The company targets mainstream developers and digital teams, aiming to accelerate time to market for enterprise apps, and combines no-code/low-code tooling with AI-assisted design capabilities and ecosystem tooling; some descriptions note blockchain-based underpinnings to support its platform architecture.

No Code Ops

Seed Round in 2022
No Code Ops creates internal tooling to build systems and speed up performance without relying on code.

AdeptID

Seed Round in 2021
AdeptID develops machine-learning software that matches talent based on transferable skills, enabling companies to identify hidden potential in their workforce and make informed hiring decisions without relying solely on college degrees.

GigLabs

Seed Round in 2021
Founded in 2017, GigLabs is on a mission to empower brands, creators and collectors to create defining and memorable NFT experiences. The company partners with brands, agencies and creators to provide easy-to-use products for generating, minting, and selling NFTs that can be presented within fully customizable brand experiences, both on the web and in VR. Built by the GigLabs’ team of experienced blockchain developers and NFT enthusiasts, the API-driven NFT Bridge platform delivers flexible and scalable NFT tools that allow any brand to build any NFT experience imaginable. RareRooms (www.rarerooms.io) is GigLabs’ customizable 3D immersive metaverse for showcasing NFTs - digital collectibles, art and more - that’s integrated across multiple blockchains.

Banana

Seed Round in 2021
Banana develops a machine learning platform that enables developers to train, deploy, and run custom models via a user-friendly API. This streamlines workflows by providing tools for model hosting, performance monitoring, and debugging.

DevRev

Seed Round in 2021
DevRev is a business software startup that focuses on bridging the gap between developers and customers by integrating development processes with customer relationship management (CRM). The company offers an artificial intelligence-native platform designed to enhance product development and customer service, enabling developers to build, support, and expand their offerings more efficiently. By adopting a product-led growth model, DevRev fosters direct collaboration and communication between developers and end-users, promoting customer-centric product development. Its unique approach allows for customizable analytics and low-latency insights, empowering companies to increase product velocity and minimize customer churn. DevRev's solutions are utilized by numerous organizations seeking to thrive in the rapidly evolving landscape of generative AI.

Railway

Seed Round in 2021
Railway is a startup that builds and develops software deployment platforms tailored for engineers. Railway is a small, remote team working on interesting problems at the edge of computing, distributed systems, languages, and compilers.

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.

Mage

Seed Round in 2021
Mage is a developer of an open-source coding tool that empowers businesses to leverage artificial intelligence for predictive analytics. The platform enables users to create and deploy machine-learning models efficiently, allowing for applications in areas such as churn prevention, product recommendations, and customer lifetime value assessment. By facilitating the import and transformation of data from various sources, Mage's technology simplifies the process of building, training, and integrating data into applications. The company's mission is to make AI technology accessible, enabling businesses to enhance customer experiences through innovative solutions.

Balsa

Venture Round in 2020
Balsa is a software company founded in 2020 and based in San Francisco, California. It specializes in developing tools that enhance the productivity of builders by integrating existing platforms such as Jira, GitHub, and Figma into a single interface. By creating innovative second screens tailored for builders, Balsa enables users to streamline their workflows and focus on their projects more effectively. The company aims to amplify the impact of builders by providing them with the necessary tools to move their work forward efficiently.

AppMap

Seed Round in 2020
AppMap develops dynamic runtime code analysis tools for identifying performance, security, and stability issues early in the development process. Its software integrates with popular code editors, providing real-time insights to help developers maintain clear and secure code.

Commerce.js

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Commerce.js is a developer of a modular eCommerce platform that focuses on simplifying and accelerating custom eCommerce development for developers and designers. The company offers headless, API-first backend tools that facilitate the creation of tailored online shopping experiences. By leveraging advanced technology, Commerce.js provides services that include headless architecture and seamless eCommerce software integration, allowing clients to maintain control over their brand narrative.

Commerce.js

Venture Round in 2019
Commerce.js is a developer of a modular eCommerce platform that focuses on simplifying and accelerating custom eCommerce development for developers and designers. The company offers headless, API-first backend tools that facilitate the creation of tailored online shopping experiences. By leveraging advanced technology, Commerce.js provides services that include headless architecture and seamless eCommerce software integration, allowing clients to maintain control over their brand narrative.

Tara AI

Series A in 2019
Tara AI is a San Jose, California-based company founded in 2016, specializing in a platform that connects projects with freelance programmers. The company focuses on simplifying software for product development, addressing the complexities that modern, cross-functional teams face. By designing intuitive and efficient tools, Tara AI aims to enhance collaboration and productivity among engineers and teams, enabling them to meet planned releases with greater predictability. The platform was launched in public beta in April 2020 and has since assisted thousands of users in streamlining their development processes.

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.

npm

Series A in 2018
npm, Inc. operates as a package manager specifically designed for the JavaScript programming language. Founded in 2013 and based in Oakland, California, the company provides a registry that enables developers to install, manage, and publish shared pieces of JavaScript code for both front-end and back-end applications. npm supports the JavaScript community by facilitating the distribution of open-source modules, while also offering paid products for the storage of private packages. Its platform allows developers to discover, share, and reuse code, enhancing collaboration and efficiency within the software development process.

Hatch Apps

Seed Round in 2018
Hatch Apps is a no-code platform that enables teams to create mobile applications, APIs, and databases without requiring extensive technical expertise. By providing a user-friendly interface, Hatch Apps allows businesses to efficiently manage and update their applications, significantly reducing the time and cost associated with traditional software development. The company aims to democratize software development, ensuring that individuals and organizations, regardless of their technical background, can build high-quality software solutions. With a cloud-based application platform, Hatch Apps is focused on driving efficiency and growth for its users while being supported by notable investors in the tech industry.

Kano

Seed Round in 2013
Kano specializes in educational technology, offering kits and a coding platform that empowers users, particularly young minds, to create apps, games, and music while developing essential coding skills.
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