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 Online Portals

Certa

Series A in 2022
Developer of an operational management platform designed to help with third-party workflow optimization. The company's platform helps to monitor supplier lifecycle management to the customer and partner validation, enabling businesses to manage risk, compliance, and operations of all third parties globally in one place.

Enboarder

Series B in 2022
Enboarder is an onboarding and engagement platform that enhances the new hire experience by focusing on engagement rather than administrative tasks. The platform leverages a workflow engine that provides coaching to managers via mobile devices, enabling them to effectively guide new employees throughout the onboarding process. By delivering engaging content directly to new hires' mobile phones from the moment they accept an offer, Enboarder eliminates the need for applications, usernames, or logins, ensuring a seamless experience across all devices. Human Resources teams can independently create and manage engaging workflows without relying on IT or external consultants, allowing for rapid implementation. The platform also includes features such as check-in surveys, automated IT provisioning, and personalized nudges, which collectively enhance the overall onboarding process and employee engagement.

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.

Evernow

Convertible Note in 2021
Developer of an online teleconsultation platform designed to guide women during and after menopause. The company's platform has online access to specialized doctors, science-backed pieces of information and treatments with conversations and information about effective care for changing hormones, enabling women to live longer and healthier lives.

Enable

Series B in 2021
Enable International Limited specializes in rebate management software and serves as a collaboration platform aimed at enhancing the performance of B2B deals. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom, the company provides tools that facilitate the negotiation of deals, central management of trade agreements, and oversight of receivables. By promoting financial transparency and operational efficiency, Enable seeks to transform how B2B deals are structured, managed, and evaluated, ultimately fostering mutually beneficial growth for all parties involved in trading relationships.

Paro

Series B in 2021
Paro is a growth platform that brings a talent community and businesses together to navigate immediate challenges and architect a plan. Powered by proprietary AI technology and in-depth industry expertise, Paro matches businesses with the right expertise and solutions to solve problems and drive growth. Their elite community of finance and accounting experts provides a range of services to clients, from bookkeeping and accounting to highly specialized corporate development and strategic advisory. By harnessing the power of people and technology, Paro empowers businesses and professionals to pursue meaningful work and go beyond even their loftiest goals.

Alice

Series B in 2021
Hello Alice (helloalice.com) helps businesses launch and grow. A free multi-channel platform, Hello Alice guides business owners by providing funding, networks, and services. Through supporting hundreds of thousands of companies a day in all 50 states and globally, Hello Alice is building the largest community of owners in the country, while tracking data and trends to increase the success rate for entrepreneurs. Our partners include enterprise business services, government agencies, and institutions looking to serve small- and medium-business owners to ensure increased revenues. Founded by Carolyn Rodz and Elizabeth Gore, we believe in business for all by providing access to all owners, including women, people of color, veterans, and every American with an entrepreneurial spirit.

Paloma

Seed Round in 2021
Paloma is a developer of a direct message-commerce platform that empowers brands to enhance their e-commerce capabilities through messaging channels. By facilitating sales via social media direct messages, Paloma enables businesses to manage inventory, create seamless shopping experiences, and streamline the checkout process. The platform is designed to drive higher conversion rates—ranging from 2 to 10 times those of traditional websites—by leveraging customer data to provide valuable insights back to brands. This comprehensive commerce software as a service (SaaS) solution not only helps clients transform customer interactions into sales but also supports sustainable growth by integrating catalog management and performance tracking.

OneRail

Seed Round in 2021
OneRail is a final mile delivery orchestration platform designed to enhance the efficiency of same-day and on-demand deliveries for enterprise clients. By utilizing a cloud-based system, OneRail connects demand signals from various sources, such as point-of-sale systems, eCommerce platforms, and enterprise resource planning tools, to a network of delivery services and internal fleets in real-time. This integration provides clients with real-time visibility and actionable data, allowing for data-driven optimization of the delivery process. With a centralized view of disparate final mile data, OneRail improves the dependability, speed, and cost-effectiveness of fulfillment, making it a valuable solution for businesses seeking to streamline their delivery operations.

Parlor

Seed Round in 2020
Parlor is an online curatorial platform designed to assist collectors in discovering valuable artwork for investment. It focuses on the burgeoning ultra-contemporary art market, offering insights and information to enhance understanding of this sector. Additionally, Parlor operates an art subscription model that allows users to rent artwork from leading galleries for a period of six months to a year. This approach makes art ownership more accessible by providing an opportunity to enjoy gallery-quality pieces at a fraction of the purchase price. Through its services, Parlor aims to bridge the gap between collectors and the art market, facilitating a more inclusive experience for art enthusiasts.

Enable

Venture Round in 2020
Enable International Limited specializes in rebate management software and serves as a collaboration platform aimed at enhancing the performance of B2B deals. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom, the company provides tools that facilitate the negotiation of deals, central management of trade agreements, and oversight of receivables. By promoting financial transparency and operational efficiency, Enable seeks to transform how B2B deals are structured, managed, and evaluated, ultimately fostering mutually beneficial growth for all parties involved in trading relationships.

harbor

Seed Round in 2020
Harbor is a Los Angeles-based company established in 2019 that specializes in retailing public safety equipment and offering disaster preparedness and planning services. The company has developed an app and readiness platform designed to simplify the assessment of preparedness needs and enhance personal safety. By curating expert advice and personalizing the experience, Harbor aims to automate and gamify critical aspects of home safety. This innovative approach seeks to make disaster readiness an engaging and integral part of daily life, ultimately providing users with peace of mind in the face of unexpected events.

newtrul

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Newtrul is a shipment aggregation platform that facilitates connections among shippers, brokers, and freight carriers. By providing a centralized portal, the platform streamlines the truckload freight matching process, allowing trucking companies to efficiently search for and digitally book their next loads. This digitization and aggregation into a spot marketplace enhance the overall efficiency of freight logistics, making it easier for carriers to find job opportunities.

Emissary

Venture Round in 2020
Emissary, Inc. operates an online platform that connects sales professionals with former executives from targeted companies, facilitating the exchange of advice and introductions. This hybrid SaaS marketplace enables sales teams to access valuable insights from individuals, known as emissaries, who possess firsthand knowledge of the organization's dynamics, decision-making processes, and internal politics. By leveraging the expertise of these former executives, Emissary helps clients navigate the sales process more effectively and close opportunities more swiftly. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, Emissary was previously known as Leroy Technologies, Inc., a name it adopted in February 2017.

Emissary

Venture Round in 2020
Emissary, Inc. operates an online platform that connects sales professionals with former executives from targeted companies, facilitating the exchange of advice and introductions. This hybrid SaaS marketplace enables sales teams to access valuable insights from individuals, known as emissaries, who possess firsthand knowledge of the organization's dynamics, decision-making processes, and internal politics. By leveraging the expertise of these former executives, Emissary helps clients navigate the sales process more effectively and close opportunities more swiftly. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, Emissary was previously known as Leroy Technologies, Inc., a name it adopted in February 2017.

Alice

Venture Round in 2020
Hello Alice (helloalice.com) helps businesses launch and grow. A free multi-channel platform, Hello Alice guides business owners by providing funding, networks, and services. Through supporting hundreds of thousands of companies a day in all 50 states and globally, Hello Alice is building the largest community of owners in the country, while tracking data and trends to increase the success rate for entrepreneurs. Our partners include enterprise business services, government agencies, and institutions looking to serve small- and medium-business owners to ensure increased revenues. Founded by Carolyn Rodz and Elizabeth Gore, we believe in business for all by providing access to all owners, including women, people of color, veterans, and every American with an entrepreneurial spirit.

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.

Flatfile

Venture Round in 2020
Flatfile Inc. offers a platform designed to streamline the data onboarding process for businesses by allowing developers to validate, map, and import data from various web applications. Founded in 2018 and based in Denver, Colorado, the company's key products include Portal, an import button that integrates seamlessly into software applications through a JavaScript snippet, and Concierge, which provides secure workspaces for collaboration on data ingestion challenges. Flatfile's platform supports multiple file formats, including CSV, XLS, and TSV, and features a JavaScript configurator that enables users to define target models for data validation. This automation helps organizations manage and structure imported data effectively, reducing the time spent on data cleaning and allowing teams to focus on utilizing their data for decision-making.

Deyor

Seed Round in 2020
Deyor Adventures Pvt. Ltd, founded in 2015 and headquartered in Gurgaon, India, operates as an online travel agency that caters to adventure-driven travelers. The company provides a platform for budget hotel accommodations, ensuring consistent quality and customer satisfaction. Deyor also focuses on creating a lifestyle community for Indian millennials, offering unique online experiences and tailored trips. By addressing the needs of a rapidly growing sector within the travel industry, Deyor has established itself as a leader in facilitating immersive local experiences and outdoor explorations through a variety of boutique accommodations, including houseboats and traditional townhouses. The company has successfully built the largest community of millennial travelers in India, making it a significant player in the hospitality and travel market.

Portal

Seed Round in 2019
Portal is an innovative digital video sharing platform that changes how people earn money from their content. Portal has no secret algorithms that tracks every move instead, viewers can instantly send creators $0.10-$100 to show their appreciation.

Paloma

Seed Round in 2018
Paloma is a developer of a direct message-commerce platform that empowers brands to enhance their e-commerce capabilities through messaging channels. By facilitating sales via social media direct messages, Paloma enables businesses to manage inventory, create seamless shopping experiences, and streamline the checkout process. The platform is designed to drive higher conversion rates—ranging from 2 to 10 times those of traditional websites—by leveraging customer data to provide valuable insights back to brands. This comprehensive commerce software as a service (SaaS) solution not only helps clients transform customer interactions into sales but also supports sustainable growth by integrating catalog management and performance tracking.

Jopwell

Series A in 2017
Jopwell, Inc. is a career platform that connects underrepresented minority professionals and students, specifically Black, Latino/Hispanic, and Native American individuals, with various companies to enhance their career prospects. Founded in 2015 by former Goldman Sachs employees Porter Braswell and Ryan Williams, Jopwell facilitates access to employment opportunities across diverse industries, including technology, finance, education, and healthcare. The platform serves as a valuable resource for both candidates and companies, offering a talent pipeline that helps organizations recruit from backgrounds historically underrepresented in top-tier firms. Jopwell aims to empower individuals at all stages of their careers while promoting diversity in the workplace. Based in New York City, the company has received recognition for its innovative approach to enhancing professional opportunities and fostering a more inclusive workforce.

Shortlist

Seed Round in 2017
Shortlist Professional Services Private Limited is an online recruitment platform founded in 2015 and headquartered in Mumbai, India. The company operates primarily in India and East Africa, focusing on helping growing enterprises hire candidates for junior to mid-level roles based on skills and potential, rather than traditional qualifications. To facilitate this, Shortlist utilizes predictive chat-based interviews and online competency assessments, which streamline the hiring process by allowing employers to bypass the most time-consuming and bias-prone phases. This innovative approach enables businesses to more effectively source candidates from local markets, enhancing the recruitment experience for both employers and job seekers.

Copilot

Seed Round in 2017
Portal Labs operates a professional service platform designed for agencies, consultancies, law firms, and accounting firms. Their platform, named Portal, facilitates the establishment of an online presence for clients, enabling seamless communication, document sharing, payment processing, and messaging within a single interface. This service caters to a wide range of clients, from small agencies to large law firms, allowing them to create a virtual office environment that enhances collaboration and efficiency. Portal Labs is headquartered in New York, New York.

Kapow

Venture Round in 2017
Kapow is an online marketplace that connects companies with unique venues for booking client events in real-time. By offering a curated selection of venues, Kapow provides an efficient platform for companies to plan, manage, and execute events aimed at acquiring, engaging, and retaining clients. The service covers all aspects of event management at no additional cost, allowing companies to concentrate on building client relationships and measuring the success of their events. Concurrently, venues benefit by filling their spaces during non-peak hours and attracting corporate business. This dual approach enhances the event planning experience for both companies and venues.

Sapho

Series A in 2016
Sapho empowers employees with a modern portal experience that surfaces personalized and relevant tasks and data using micro-apps. Sapho micro apps are built by IT on top of existing systems using pre-built templates and a drag-and-drop micro app builder. These micro apps available on any device, intranet, or messenger provide employees proactive notifications about interesting system data, actions that need to be completed, and changes in business data that require attention. It was founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States.
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