Alumni Ventures Group, LLC is a venture capital firm based in Manchester, New Hampshire, founded in 2013. The firm specializes in seed and early-stage investments, as well as late-stage pre-IPO opportunities, with a flexible approach that is sector and geographic agnostic. Alumni Ventures aims to provide high-quality, diversified venture portfolios to individual investors, particularly accredited alumni from top entrepreneurial schools, who may not have had access to venture capital previously. The firm focuses on backing companies that have an alumni connection and are led by established institutional investors with expertise in their respective fields. Additionally, Alumni Ventures offers focused funds that enable accredited investors to access a diverse portfolio of investments across various types, sectors, stages, and geographies.
Senior Associate, Seed Fund and Doctors Innovate Fund
Drew Wandzilak
Senior Associate, Green D and Yard and Strategic Tech Fund
Sarah Worden
Venture Scout
Michael Yuann
Director of Investment Operations
Past deals in Sales Automation
Savvy Wealth
Series A in 2024
Savvy Wealth is a digital-first platform designed to modernize the wealth management industry for financial advisors. Recognizing the inefficiencies in traditional practices, Savvy provides integrated technology that enhances client experience and streamlines operations. By acquiring established wealth management firms, Savvy empowers these advisors to leverage AI-powered software, sales and marketing automation, and improved back office workflows. This approach allows financial advisors to increase their revenue potential while minimizing the need for additional staff. Ultimately, Savvy Wealth aims to transform the financial advisory landscape by enabling advisors to focus more on client engagement and growth.
UserHub
Pre Seed Round in 2024
UserHub is a pricing tool designed specifically for software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies to optimize seat management and enhance revenue. The platform offers a range of features, including express and enterprise licensing, billing solutions, and plan upgrades. Additionally, it provides a hosted portal that facilitates the unlocking of seats and supports upselling strategies. By streamlining the monetization process, UserHub enables businesses to sell more seats efficiently, ultimately driving growth and improving overall sales performance.
Conveyor
Series A in 2023
Conveyor is a leading platform that utilizes generative AI to streamline and automate customer security reviews, addressing a significant pain point in the sales process. By providing an end-to-end solution that includes a customer-facing trust portal, a GPT-powered tool for responding to questionnaires, and a comprehensive service for questionnaire completion, Conveyor enables vendors to enhance trust with their customers. This innovative approach significantly reduces the time spent on the tedious task of sharing security information and answering security questionnaires by over 90%. Trusted by top SaaS companies, Conveyor aims to simplify the security review process, allowing information security teams to focus on more strategic tasks.
RecruitBot
Seed Round in 2023
RecruitBot is a recruitment agency software that leverages big data and machine learning to enhance the hiring process. It operates an artificial intelligence-based platform designed to help organizations find ideal candidates for various positions. By partnering with public and private data companies, RecruitBot builds and maintains a comprehensive collection of global candidate profiles. The platform features a customizable drip campaign interface that automates outreach to suitable candidates, allowing clients to engage with multiple prospects simultaneously. This approach enables hiring managers to predict candidate relevance for specific roles, ultimately saving time and streamlining the recruitment process.
MedScout
Seed Round in 2023
MedScout is a revenue acceleration platform tailored for medical device and diagnostic companies. It offers sales enablement software that integrates medical claims intelligence from both public and private payors, providing users with critical insights into market dynamics. The platform is designed to assist sales professionals and leaders by delivering data on patient demographics, procedure volumes, referral patterns, and payment information. This functionality allows clients to conduct thorough market analysis, develop effective strategies, and enhance sales execution, ultimately optimizing operational productivity and fostering growth in their respective territories.
Minoa
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Minoa is a collaborative value management tool that assists SaaS companies in selling value over the whole client lifecycle. Minoa is improving the buying experience and improving the performance of every sales professional.
Arrows
Venture Round in 2023
Arrows is a collaborative software platform that streamlines the customer onboarding process through personalized checklists. It allows businesses to send tailored onboarding plans to each customer, complete with automated email reminders, due dates, and assigned tasks. By facilitating mutual buy-in, Arrows helps build trust during onboarding, ensuring that all parties are aligned on goals and timelines. The platform replaces complicated spreadsheets with a user-friendly internal dashboard, enabling teams to start with templates while easily customizing plans for individual customers. This approach not only enhances the onboarding experience but also ensures that important steps are not overlooked, making it an efficient solution for businesses seeking to improve customer engagement from the outset.
Gearflow
Series A in 2022
Gearflow is a company focused on streamlining the parts ordering process for heavy equipment fleets. It offers a platform that simplifies access to parts suppliers, enhances communication, and provides robust reporting capabilities. Designed for small to midsize construction contractors, the platform serves as an outsourced parts and tool manager, allowing equipment and parts sellers to list their inventories nationally and create unique storefronts. Users can manage all aspects of the sales process through a single dashboard, which facilitates nationwide sales, package tracking, and overall process management, thereby improving efficiency and accessibility in the construction industry.
Conveyor
Seed Round in 2021
Conveyor is a leading platform that utilizes generative AI to streamline and automate customer security reviews, addressing a significant pain point in the sales process. By providing an end-to-end solution that includes a customer-facing trust portal, a GPT-powered tool for responding to questionnaires, and a comprehensive service for questionnaire completion, Conveyor enables vendors to enhance trust with their customers. This innovative approach significantly reduces the time spent on the tedious task of sharing security information and answering security questionnaires by over 90%. Trusted by top SaaS companies, Conveyor aims to simplify the security review process, allowing information security teams to focus on more strategic tasks.
Openprise
Series A in 2021
Openprise, Inc. operates a data orchestration platform that automates various data management processes for marketing and sales teams. Founded in 2013 and based in San Mateo, California, the platform enhances efficiency by automating tasks such as data onboarding, cleansing, enrichment, and unification. It facilitates the ingestion of data from both internal systems and third-party providers, ensuring continuous cleansing and normalization of marketing data in real time. Openprise also enriches data by filling in missing values and allows for precise segmentation to support personalized marketing campaigns. By consolidating data from multiple sources into a comprehensive view, it enables organizations to streamline their marketing technologies, improve data quality, and focus on revenue growth. The platform is designed to simplify the marketing technology stack, making it accessible for users without programming expertise.
LeadIQ
Series B in 2021
LeadIQ, Inc. is a company that specializes in sales prospecting automation, offering tools designed to enhance lead management and sales productivity. Its main products include Prospector, which enables users to search for prospects on LinkedIn and other platforms while saving the information in CRM systems, and Scout, which helps find contact details directly from company websites. Additionally, LeadIQ provides personal intelligence APIs that allow for the comprehensive profiling of individuals, including their email, phone numbers, and job information. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in South San Francisco, California, with additional offices in Singapore and New Hampshire, LeadIQ aims to streamline the lead capture process, allowing sales teams to focus on high-quality leads and ultimately drive business growth. The platform integrates with various data sources to enrich profiles, reducing time spent on unqualified leads and enhancing sales efficiency.
Alyce
Series B in 2021
Alyce, Inc. is an AI-powered platform based in Boston, Massachusetts, that specializes in personalized gifting for sales and marketing. Founded in 2015, Alyce offers a unique service that allows businesses to send curated gifts through its online platform, SWAG SELECT. This platform provides users with a diverse catalogue of gift options and employs artificial intelligence to analyze personal social data, ensuring that the selected gifts resonate with recipients. Alyce simplifies the process of direct mail and account-based marketing by managing orders, shipping, and tracking for a wide range of gift quantities. The company's approach not only fosters genuine relationships but also significantly enhances engagement metrics, delivering improved account penetration and pipeline growth compared to traditional methods.
Primer
Seed Round in 2021
Primer is a business-to-business marketing platform that focuses on enhancing marketing technologies for companies. It offers services such as audience automation, LinkedIn automation, and marketing and sales automation. The platform enriches leads and matches them across different channels while orchestrating workflows to streamline marketing efforts. By connecting various applications and facilitating data movement, Primer enables coordinated multichannel campaigns. Additionally, it assists in mapping a lead's identity across multiple marketing channels, providing sales personnel with accurate contact information to improve lead conversion rates and maximize advertising efficiency.
Funnel IQ
Seed Round in 2021
Funnel IQ is a revenue operations platform designed specifically for RevOps teams in B2B SaaS companies. Founded in 2020 by Matt Volm and Ganesh Sridharan in Seattle, Washington, the platform connects marketing, sales, and customer success efforts, providing a comprehensive solution for managing go-to-market (GTM) data. Funnel IQ offers a no-code platform that enables users to build and manage integrations across their technology stack, delivering a unified source of truth for all GTM data. This facilitates end-to-end insights and analytics, allowing teams to collaborate effectively and understand the channels and activities that drive recurring revenue. The platform serves both large and small subscription-based businesses, positioning itself as an essential operating system for revenue generation.
Mayan
Seed Round in 2021
Mayan is a developer of a growth automation platform that supports online sellers in enhancing their business performance through data-driven solutions. The platform offers a range of services including sales reporting, inventory management, keyword analysis, pay-per-click optimization, and inventory optimization. By utilizing these tools, sellers can accelerate their growth, improve their return on marketing investments, and reduce the risk of inventory stock-outs. Overall, Mayan's technology empowers clients to optimize their brand equity and increase revenue effectively.
Lang.ai
Seed Round in 2021
Lang.ai is a language understanding platform that automates the processing and analysis of unstructured text from customer interactions. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Madrid, Spain, with additional offices in the United States and Mexico, the company utilizes artificial intelligence to enhance support conversations. Its technology allows users to automatically tag and categorize customer interactions, enabling the identification of patterns within their data. The platform features capabilities such as intent customization, real-time self-supervised classification, and algorithmic preprocessing, which facilitate tokenization, lemmatization, and intent induction. By streamlining these processes, Lang.ai helps businesses optimize costs and improve efficiency in managing customer communications.
Ordo
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Ordo is a wholesale management platform that helps cannabis brands launch, scale, and grow. A CRM built for the needs of cannabis sales teams. With an emphasis on simplicity, we give reps tools that actually help in performing the unique job functions found in the cannabis wholesale sector. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Funnel IQ
Seed Round in 2020
Funnel IQ is a revenue operations platform designed specifically for RevOps teams in B2B SaaS companies. Founded in 2020 by Matt Volm and Ganesh Sridharan in Seattle, Washington, the platform connects marketing, sales, and customer success efforts, providing a comprehensive solution for managing go-to-market (GTM) data. Funnel IQ offers a no-code platform that enables users to build and manage integrations across their technology stack, delivering a unified source of truth for all GTM data. This facilitates end-to-end insights and analytics, allowing teams to collaborate effectively and understand the channels and activities that drive recurring revenue. The platform serves both large and small subscription-based businesses, positioning itself as an essential operating system for revenue generation.
Emissary
Venture Round in 2020
Emissary, Inc. operates an online platform that connects sales professionals with former executives of target companies, offering valuable insights into the sales process. This hybrid SaaS marketplace facilitates interactions between sales teams and individuals, referred to as emissaries, who have firsthand experience with the organizations in question. These emissaries, often ex-executives or recent employees, provide critical knowledge about the culture, decision-making processes, and internal dynamics of their former companies. By leveraging this information, clients can develop effective sales strategies, accelerate deal closures, and enhance existing client relationships. Emissary aims to enable its users to achieve a significant return on their investment by unlocking new business opportunities and optimizing sales efforts. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, the company was previously known as Leroy Technologies, Inc. before rebranding in February 2017.
Openprise
Venture Round in 2019
Openprise, Inc. operates a data orchestration platform that automates various data management processes for marketing and sales teams. Founded in 2013 and based in San Mateo, California, the platform enhances efficiency by automating tasks such as data onboarding, cleansing, enrichment, and unification. It facilitates the ingestion of data from both internal systems and third-party providers, ensuring continuous cleansing and normalization of marketing data in real time. Openprise also enriches data by filling in missing values and allows for precise segmentation to support personalized marketing campaigns. By consolidating data from multiple sources into a comprehensive view, it enables organizations to streamline their marketing technologies, improve data quality, and focus on revenue growth. The platform is designed to simplify the marketing technology stack, making it accessible for users without programming expertise.
Alyce
Series A in 2019
Alyce, Inc. is an AI-powered platform based in Boston, Massachusetts, that specializes in personalized gifting for sales and marketing. Founded in 2015, Alyce offers a unique service that allows businesses to send curated gifts through its online platform, SWAG SELECT. This platform provides users with a diverse catalogue of gift options and employs artificial intelligence to analyze personal social data, ensuring that the selected gifts resonate with recipients. Alyce simplifies the process of direct mail and account-based marketing by managing orders, shipping, and tracking for a wide range of gift quantities. The company's approach not only fosters genuine relationships but also significantly enhances engagement metrics, delivering improved account penetration and pipeline growth compared to traditional methods.
Knoq
Seed Round in 2019
Knoq is a technology company focused on facilitating neighborhood conversations to promote products and services that enhance community living. Formerly known as Polis, Knoq recruits and trains local representatives, referred to as Knoqers, who engage with their neighbors directly. The company's platform is utilized by various direct-to-home brands, including Google Fiber and NRG, to optimize their outreach efforts. Knoq's application streamlines door-to-door sales and canvassing by identifying potential prospects, creating efficient walking routes for canvassers, and automating data capture and tracking of results. The company has experienced significant growth, expanding at a rate of 500% year-over-year and is actively hiring to support its development. Knoq is backed by several venture capital firms, including Haystack VC and Initialized.
Alephee
Seed Round in 2019
Aleph is a company that provides a cloud-based platform aimed at enhancing e-commerce for brands, particularly in the Aftermarket Automotive industry. It facilitates visibility into online sales across various marketplaces, including Mercado Libre, Amazon, and Shopee. By enabling brands to connect with resellers, Aleph allows for the sharing of catalogs and inventory, which helps increase sales and market share while optimizing logistics costs. The platform standardizes distributor catalogs and integrates supply and online sales processes, allowing companies to list their products on e-commerce sites and receive automatic updates on stock and pricing. This comprehensive approach connects the commercial chain, ultimately driving revenue growth for its users.
Conversica
Series C in 2018
Conversica is a company based in Foster City, California, specializing in artificial intelligence-driven lead engagement software. Its flagship product, the Conversica AI Sales Assistant, automates routine business conversations to augment the workforce by engaging prospects through natural, multi-channel, two-way conversations. This software contacts, engages, qualifies, and follows up with leads until they convert into opportunities or opt out. The solution is designed to personalize interactions at scale, supporting multiple languages and communication channels. Conversica serves various industries, including automotive, education, finance, insurance, real estate, and technology, helping businesses secure customers more efficiently.
Conversica
Series C in 2018
Conversica is a company based in Foster City, California, specializing in artificial intelligence-driven lead engagement software. Its flagship product, the Conversica AI Sales Assistant, automates routine business conversations to augment the workforce by engaging prospects through natural, multi-channel, two-way conversations. This software contacts, engages, qualifies, and follows up with leads until they convert into opportunities or opt out. The solution is designed to personalize interactions at scale, supporting multiple languages and communication channels. Conversica serves various industries, including automotive, education, finance, insurance, real estate, and technology, helping businesses secure customers more efficiently.
Costello
Seed Round in 2018
Costello is a sales co-pilot software designed to enhance the efficiency of sales teams by keeping deals and conversations organized. The platform consolidates essential information about each deal in a user-friendly interface, allowing sales representatives to prioritize their efforts effectively. By highlighting gaps in the sales process, Costello helps identify at-risk deals and those that may not be a good fit. The intelligent assistant offers insights and actionable suggestions, enabling reps to prepare for calls with key questions and share relevant customer stories. This approach not only streamlines follow-up but also equips sales teams to navigate critical moments during sales calls, thereby increasing the likelihood of closing more deals.
Conversica
Series B in 2016
Conversica is a company based in Foster City, California, specializing in artificial intelligence-driven lead engagement software. Its flagship product, the Conversica AI Sales Assistant, automates routine business conversations to augment the workforce by engaging prospects through natural, multi-channel, two-way conversations. This software contacts, engages, qualifies, and follows up with leads until they convert into opportunities or opt out. The solution is designed to personalize interactions at scale, supporting multiple languages and communication channels. Conversica serves various industries, including automotive, education, finance, insurance, real estate, and technology, helping businesses secure customers more efficiently.
AdvisorConnect
Convertible Note in 2015
AdvisorConnect is a sales acceleration platform designed to assist financial advisors and insurance agents in client acquisition and business development. The platform employs an AI-driven Network Navigator, which helps advisors identify potential clients by analyzing data from various social media, email accounts, and mobile devices. By consolidating this information, AdvisorConnect enables users to discover suitable markets and prospects embedded within their existing social networks. Additionally, the platform automates workflows and provides real-time, network-based analytics, allowing advisors to enhance their product, marketing, and content strategies effectively. Through these features, AdvisorConnect aims to streamline the process of finding new clients and improve the overall efficiency of advisors' operations.
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