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 Impact Investing

Mesh

Seed Round in 2023
Mesh is a financial technology company that provides a user-friendly investment app designed specifically for retail investors. The platform offers comprehensive stock analysis and strategic investment tools to assist users in making informed financial decisions. By focusing on accessibility and education, Mesh aims to empower individual investors to enhance their investment strategies and gain a deeper understanding of the markets. The company is dedicated to simplifying the investment process, making it easier for users to navigate their investment journeys and achieve their financial goals.

Benny

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Benny operates an employee-focused lending platform that allows employees of publicly traded companies to access funds for participating in their employer's stock purchase plans. By providing loans specifically designed for this purpose, Benny enables employees to purchase company stock at discounted prices, enhancing their investment opportunities. This service aims to empower employees to make the most of their earning potential through involvement in stock ownership, thereby fostering a more engaged workforce and promoting long-term financial growth.

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.

Quiver Quantitative

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of an investment research platform designed to bridge the data gap between individual investors and institutions. The company's platform gives retail investors free access to alternative datasets that are typically reserved for hedge funds and institutional investors and aggregates alternative stock data from across the internet, enabling users to make an informed investment decision and thereby have increased returns.

Parallel Markets

Series A in 2022
Parallel Markets Inc. is an investor identity company that operates an online platform aimed at simplifying the onboarding and verification process for investors. Founded in 2018 and based in New York, the company provides services that authenticate and verify user credentials, allowing investors to share their qualifications across various platforms with a single click. The platform caters to both individual and institutional investors, offering a suite of identity products designed to enhance the efficiency of partner onboarding processes. Additionally, Parallel Markets tokenizes companies and other real assets, facilitating the verification of accredited investors and enabling the seamless signing of deals. This innovative approach supports the public ownership and trading of typically illiquid assets such as companies, funds, real estate, sports teams, and art.

Pontoro

Seed Round in 2021
Pontoro operates a digital asset securitization and liquidity platform aimed at addressing the significant shortfall in infrastructure debt financing, estimated at $20 trillion. By leveraging its blockchain-based technology, Pontoro facilitates the flow of infrastructure loans from major bank originators to institutional investors, enhancing access to these typically private market assets. The company has developed an initial infrastructure loan pipeline valued at $500 million through relationships with large banks. In addition to expanding its offerings, Pontoro is in discussions with several prominent financial institutions to explore distribution opportunities for its digital assets, targeting registered investment advisors, family offices, and ultra-high net worth investors. With a team experienced in underwriting and managing over $100 billion in large-scale infrastructure projects worldwide, Pontoro aims to foster broader investor participation and improve liquidity and price transparency in this sector.

Doorvest

Series A in 2021
Doorvest Inc. operates an online platform designed for individuals seeking to invest in rental properties. Founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, the company offers a comprehensive service that simplifies the process of identifying, purchasing, and managing income-generating rental homes. The platform caters primarily to busy professionals who aim to generate passive income and build equity through real estate investment. Doorvest provides transparency in the investment process, offering users detailed insights into cash flow, property activity, and legal documentation through an investor dashboard. This end-to-end solution is intended to make real estate investing accessible and straightforward, enabling users to achieve homeownership and financial growth.

Abatable

Seed Round in 2021
Abatable is a provider of a carbon procurement and market intelligence platform designed to facilitate climate action for hard-to-abate emissions. The company assists organizations in offsetting their emissions by offering diversified portfolios of trusted carbon offsets. By leveraging its platform, Abatable navigates the complexities of the voluntary carbon markets, enabling corporate buyers, carbon project developers, and intermediaries to access reliable climate solutions. This approach not only supports credible paths to net zero but also aims to deliver significant and lasting positive environmental and social impacts.

Intrinio

Series B in 2021
Intrinio is a financial data company that offers platform consists of an application programming interface. Intrinio's mission is to help investors save money and make time so they can live more meaningful lives. We believe investors waste time on data collection, data entry, and data analysis because traditional financial data providers stifle innovation through high prices and restrictive technology. The Intrinio Fintech marketplace solves this problem by making financial data affordable and easy to access for developers, unleashing their creative potential to build the next generation of financial analytics products. Dozens of data feeds are currently available at disruptively low prices, providing data types such as FDIC bank data, real time IEX stock prices, fundamental US 10Q and 10K data, and insider transactions. Dozens of applications built with that data are also available, applications that free up investors to focus on what really matters- testing assumptions, conducting research, and generating insight. By uniting data providers, developers, and investors around a new model for financial innovation, the Intrinio Fintech marketplace promises to refocus the financial data industry on the developers and investors that make meaning out of data.

Mesh

Convertible Note in 2021
Mesh is a financial technology company that provides a user-friendly investment app designed specifically for retail investors. The platform offers comprehensive stock analysis and strategic investment tools to assist users in making informed financial decisions. By focusing on accessibility and education, Mesh aims to empower individual investors to enhance their investment strategies and gain a deeper understanding of the markets. The company is dedicated to simplifying the investment process, making it easier for users to navigate their investment journeys and achieve their financial goals.

Impact Biosystems

Seed Round in 2021
Impact Biosystems is a developer and creator of adaptive hardware and software solutions for people in the health and fitness space. The company offers hardware connected recovery platform that makes users feel better with custom measurements of their body and make the gamifying and socializing experience adapted to them, thereby enabling athletes of all varieties to uniquely feel better, perform at their peak, and help them live longer. Impact Biosystems' goal is to make athletes of all varieties uniquely feel better, perform at their peak and help them live longer. It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Halo Investing

Series C in 2021
Halo Investing, Inc. is a financial technology company based in Chicago, Illinois, that specializes in a multi-issuer platform for structured notes. Founded in 2015, the company aims to democratize access to structured notes, an investment product that provides predefined outcomes and downside protection, typically available only to ultra-high net worth individuals. Halo Investing offers a range of services, including advisory support for investment management firms, predefined investment strategies, and portfolio diversification solutions for financial advisors. Additionally, the company manages securities and portfolios for individuals, their related entities, and pension and profit-sharing plans. By developing technology that streamlines the analysis, purchase, and management of structured notes, Halo Investing enhances efficiencies for issuing banks while empowering a broader audience of investors.

Market AI

Seed Round in 2020
Market is a business focused on enhancing financial health and fostering partnerships within various industries. Founded in 2019 and based in Santa Monica, California, it provides advisory services that assist direct-to-consumer and app-based companies in gaining insights into their financial performance. By offering analytics and insights, Market empowers businesses to make informed decisions and improve their overall financial health. Additionally, Market facilitates better understanding among companies, helping them identify and connect with potential partners to drive growth.

Ellevest

Venture Round in 2020
Ellevest, Inc. is an investment management firm based in New York City, established in 2014, that focuses on providing tailored financial services specifically for women clients. The firm employs fundamental analysis and a top-down approach to manage diverse, client-focused portfolios across various global asset classes. Ellevest has developed a digital investment platform that incorporates a proprietary algorithm, taking into account factors such as women's salary peaks and financial goals to create customized investment plans. This approach aims to empower female investors by offering an engaging user experience and a thoughtful selection of investments, ensuring that their financial aspirations are prioritized and met effectively.

Shoulder Innovations

Venture Round in 2020
Shoulder Innovations, Inc. is a medical device company based in Holland, Michigan, specializing in orthopedic solutions for shoulder replacement surgery. Founded in 2009, the company has developed a Total Shoulder Replacement System that features innovative inset glenoid fixation technology, addressing the critical challenge of reliable fixation for glenoid implants. This technology not only enhances post-surgical implant stability, reducing the risk of revision surgeries, but also simplifies surgical instrumentation, which can lead to shorter operative times and lower costs. Shoulder Innovations markets its products through distribution partners across the United States, aiming to improve patient care and reduce overall healthcare costs.

Icon Savings Plan

Seed Round in 2020
Icon Savings Plan, operated by Icon Savings Corporation, Inc., offers innovative online retirement saving plans tailored for both businesses and individuals. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, the company specializes in providing recordkeeping, employee onboarding solutions, and investment options. Its proprietary technology facilitates a portable and universally accessible workplace savings plan, designed to meet the needs of the modern workforce. By delivering a simpler and more cost-effective alternative to traditional retirement plans, Icon Savings Plan enables employers to offer comprehensive retirement solutions that enhance financial literacy and support retirement savings for all employees.

Parallel Markets

Venture Round in 2020
Parallel Markets Inc. is an investor identity company that operates an online platform aimed at simplifying the onboarding and verification process for investors. Founded in 2018 and based in New York, the company provides services that authenticate and verify user credentials, allowing investors to share their qualifications across various platforms with a single click. The platform caters to both individual and institutional investors, offering a suite of identity products designed to enhance the efficiency of partner onboarding processes. Additionally, Parallel Markets tokenizes companies and other real assets, facilitating the verification of accredited investors and enabling the seamless signing of deals. This innovative approach supports the public ownership and trading of typically illiquid assets such as companies, funds, real estate, sports teams, and art.

Influence.co

Seed Round in 2020
influence.co, Inc. develops online platform for influencers, brands, marketers, talent managers, and agencies to connect. The company offers influencer-marketing services to create public digital media kits, communicate with other members, and apply directly to brands they would like to work with. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Diego, California with additional offices in Melbourne, Australia, Denver, Colorado, New York and Las Vegas, Nevada.

On Deck

Series A in 2020
On Deck is a platform serving the many strands of identity that unite ambitious people around the globe. Their ever-growing community and action-oriented programming will help the people to get there—fast. On Deck will up-level career, launch, and scale big ideas, or make lifelong friends.

Alto Solutions

Seed Round in 2020
Alto Solutions, Inc. operates an online platform designed for self-directed individual retirement accounts (IRAs), facilitating investments in alternative assets. The company offers several products, including Alto IRA, which allows users to invest in private equity, venture capital, real estate, loans, and cryptocurrency, as well as Checkbook+ IRA, providing check-writing control for enhanced real estate investment management. Additionally, Alto CryptoIRA enables users to connect with cryptocurrency exchanges like Coinbase for trading. The platform includes a user-friendly dashboard for managing accounts and investments and assists individuals in determining their eligibility for various investments while identifying trusted financial custodians for asset management. Alto Solutions serves a diverse clientele, including wealth managers, registered investment advisors, and entrepreneurs, effectively democratizing access to alternative investments. Founded in 2015 and based in Nashville, Tennessee, the company was previously known as Saltvest, Inc.

Alto Solutions

Venture Round in 2020
Alto Solutions, Inc. operates an online platform designed for self-directed individual retirement accounts (IRAs), facilitating investments in alternative assets. The company offers several products, including Alto IRA, which allows users to invest in private equity, venture capital, real estate, loans, and cryptocurrency, as well as Checkbook+ IRA, providing check-writing control for enhanced real estate investment management. Additionally, Alto CryptoIRA enables users to connect with cryptocurrency exchanges like Coinbase for trading. The platform includes a user-friendly dashboard for managing accounts and investments and assists individuals in determining their eligibility for various investments while identifying trusted financial custodians for asset management. Alto Solutions serves a diverse clientele, including wealth managers, registered investment advisors, and entrepreneurs, effectively democratizing access to alternative investments. Founded in 2015 and based in Nashville, Tennessee, the company was previously known as Saltvest, Inc.

Influence.co

Seed Round in 2019
influence.co, Inc. develops online platform for influencers, brands, marketers, talent managers, and agencies to connect. The company offers influencer-marketing services to create public digital media kits, communicate with other members, and apply directly to brands they would like to work with. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Diego, California with additional offices in Melbourne, Australia, Denver, Colorado, New York and Las Vegas, Nevada.

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.

WorldCover

Series A in 2019
WorldCover operates a peer-to-peer risk relief network aimed at protecting farmers from natural disasters, particularly droughts, through an innovative insurance platform. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, the company utilizes satellite technology and mobile money to deliver cost-effective crop insurance to smallholder farmers, primarily in developing countries. By leveraging remote sensing and advanced risk modeling, WorldCover addresses the significant climate risks faced by farmers, improving their food and income security. The platform not only provides financial protection to farmers but also offers investors an opportunity for diversified returns with a direct social impact, targeting the substantial market of individuals reliant on agriculture for their livelihoods.

Intrinio

Series A in 2019
Intrinio is a financial data company that offers platform consists of an application programming interface. Intrinio's mission is to help investors save money and make time so they can live more meaningful lives. We believe investors waste time on data collection, data entry, and data analysis because traditional financial data providers stifle innovation through high prices and restrictive technology. The Intrinio Fintech marketplace solves this problem by making financial data affordable and easy to access for developers, unleashing their creative potential to build the next generation of financial analytics products. Dozens of data feeds are currently available at disruptively low prices, providing data types such as FDIC bank data, real time IEX stock prices, fundamental US 10Q and 10K data, and insider transactions. Dozens of applications built with that data are also available, applications that free up investors to focus on what really matters- testing assumptions, conducting research, and generating insight. By uniting data providers, developers, and investors around a new model for financial innovation, the Intrinio Fintech marketplace promises to refocus the financial data industry on the developers and investors that make meaning out of data.

Alto Solutions

Seed Round in 2019
Alto Solutions, Inc. operates an online platform designed for self-directed individual retirement accounts (IRAs), facilitating investments in alternative assets. The company offers several products, including Alto IRA, which allows users to invest in private equity, venture capital, real estate, loans, and cryptocurrency, as well as Checkbook+ IRA, providing check-writing control for enhanced real estate investment management. Additionally, Alto CryptoIRA enables users to connect with cryptocurrency exchanges like Coinbase for trading. The platform includes a user-friendly dashboard for managing accounts and investments and assists individuals in determining their eligibility for various investments while identifying trusted financial custodians for asset management. Alto Solutions serves a diverse clientele, including wealth managers, registered investment advisors, and entrepreneurs, effectively democratizing access to alternative investments. Founded in 2015 and based in Nashville, Tennessee, the company was previously known as Saltvest, Inc.

WorldCover

Series A in 2019
WorldCover operates a peer-to-peer risk relief network aimed at protecting farmers from natural disasters, particularly droughts, through an innovative insurance platform. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, the company utilizes satellite technology and mobile money to deliver cost-effective crop insurance to smallholder farmers, primarily in developing countries. By leveraging remote sensing and advanced risk modeling, WorldCover addresses the significant climate risks faced by farmers, improving their food and income security. The platform not only provides financial protection to farmers but also offers investors an opportunity for diversified returns with a direct social impact, targeting the substantial market of individuals reliant on agriculture for their livelihoods.

Downstream

Venture Round in 2019
Downstream Impact Inc. specializes in developing software designed to enhance brands' presence on Amazon. Founded in 2017 and based in Seattle, Washington, the company provides a comprehensive Amazon advertising suite that includes paid search services, analytics, automation, and catalog optimization. By leveraging machine learning, Downstream enables brands to effectively manage their advertising efforts, automating inputs and translating outputs to maximize market share and profitability in the competitive e-commerce landscape.

Haven Money

Venture Round in 2018
How busy millennials master money. Haven helps you effortlessly manage your finances with a free dashboard, automated saving and investing, and with high-yield accounts.

OpenInvest

Series A in 2018
OpenInvest is a Public Benefit Corporation and asset manager that uses technology to mainstream customized ethical investing. OpenInvest is a YCombinator and Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup powering the post-fund future. Their team of senior technologists from the hedge fund industry and civil society leaders is first tackling under-served markets in customized ESG asset management. With seed funding, the team has built fully integrated and proprietary direct-indexing construction, management, trading, proxy voting, and UX systems that now serve thousands of customers. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Mic

Venture Round in 2018
Mic Network Inc. operates an online platform dedicated to publishing news, focusing on issues relevant to society's changemakers. Established in 2011 and headquartered in New York, the company provides original reporting across various topics, including politics, business, culture, science, and the environment. Mic aims to reach an audience of 50 million monthly, delivering diverse perspectives that challenge conventional viewpoints. As of November 2018, Mic Network Inc. is a subsidiary of BDG Media Inc.

Haven Money

Venture Round in 2017
How busy millennials master money. Haven helps you effortlessly manage your finances with a free dashboard, automated saving and investing, and with high-yield accounts.

Mic

Series C in 2017
Mic Network Inc. operates an online platform dedicated to publishing news, focusing on issues relevant to society's changemakers. Established in 2011 and headquartered in New York, the company provides original reporting across various topics, including politics, business, culture, science, and the environment. Mic aims to reach an audience of 50 million monthly, delivering diverse perspectives that challenge conventional viewpoints. As of November 2018, Mic Network Inc. is a subsidiary of BDG Media Inc.

Sparkfund

Series B in 2017
SparkFund is a financial technology company that lets businesses pay overtime for energy-efficient products and services. It offers software platforms and tools that are necessary to sell products "As a Service". It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in the District of Columbia, United States.

Sparkfund

Venture Round in 2016
SparkFund is a financial technology company that lets businesses pay overtime for energy-efficient products and services. It offers software platforms and tools that are necessary to sell products "As a Service". It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in the District of Columbia, United States.
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