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 Search Engine

Infactory

Seed Round in 2024
Infactory is a developer of an artificial intelligence search tool aimed at providing reliable and accurate search results. The company's platform integrates high-quality data partnerships with both conventional and cutting-edge technologies. This combination enables users to access clear, precise, and trustworthy information efficiently, eliminating unnecessary complexities.

Diem

Seed Round in 2024
Diem is building a social search engine. It’s a dedicated place for people to search, collect, discover and share information, inspired by the way women have been passing knowledge to each other for centuries. Think of it like the best and biggest group chat you’ve ever been a part of, where all the important, silly, quick, private, and frenetic knowledge you share is organized and stored for everyone to benefit from. Diem incentivizes the community to generate content and harnesses this data to build proprietary search algorithms that will enable people to discover, and visualize, the collective knowledge of entire communities in just a few seconds. Diem was co-founded by Emma Bates & Divia Singh in 2020.

Ocular AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Ocular is a Cloud and Artificial Intelligence company, backed by Y Combinator, bringing Enterprise AI and Search to the Workplace and Engineering.

Lasso

Seed Round in 2023
Lasso is the natural language search engine for onchain data.

Divinia

Seed Round in 2022
Divinia is a company focused on enhancing the search experience for consumers, marketers, and e-commerce platforms through its natural language processing software. The firm specializes in lead generation, contextual targeting, and product promotion services, aiming to improve the functionality of e-commerce searches across various sectors, including hotels, consumer goods, cars, and restaurants. By providing product suggestions derived from online reviews, Divinia enables businesses to extract and index authentic insights about available options, which helps to boost conversion rates and overall search efficiency.

Grata

Seed Round in 2021
Grata designs and develops Software-as-a-Service solutions that automate B2B research processes. Its platform helps private equity firms, sales teams, and marketing professionals find, analyze, and engage with private companies using machine learning technology for targeted outreach, market analysis, and voice of customer insights.

Grata

Seed Round in 2020
Grata designs and develops Software-as-a-Service solutions that automate B2B research processes. Its platform helps private equity firms, sales teams, and marketing professionals find, analyze, and engage with private companies using machine learning technology for targeted outreach, market analysis, and voice of customer insights.

Grafiti

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Grafiti is a search engine for graphs, charts, facts, info-graphics, data, and insights. Their mission is to put every chart, graph, and data in any platform to make them searchable and shareable on the web through their Slack integration. They save and organize the user's favorite insights into collections for inspiration or storytelling. Grafiti was founded in 2017 and is based in New York City.

Grafiti

Venture Round in 2019
Grafiti is a search engine for graphs, charts, facts, info-graphics, data, and insights. Their mission is to put every chart, graph, and data in any platform to make them searchable and shareable on the web through their Slack integration. They save and organize the user's favorite insights into collections for inspiration or storytelling. Grafiti was founded in 2017 and is based in New York City.

Vyrill

Seed Round in 2018
Vyrill is a technology company that builds an AI‑powered platform for discovering, analyzing, and leveraging user‑generated video content. Its core product enables brands, retailers, and solution providers to search inside any video on the web or mobile, index and rank video moments, and embed interactive widgets that drive customer acquisition, engagement, and conversion. The platform aggregates videos such as demos, unboxing, reviews, and installation guides from multiple sites, provides analytics and licensing tools, and generates marketing assets like hashtags and product recommendations. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, Vyrill helps businesses turn authentic video experiences into measurable growth.

Talk Local

Series A in 2014
Talk Local is a digital platform that connects consumers seeking services with local businesses in real time. Customers submit service requests that include a brief description of their needs, desired appointment times, and location. The platform then broadcasts these requests to relevant businesses at no cost. Utilizing a sophisticated search engine, Talk Local employs social metrics, publicly available data, and an artificial intelligence-driven matching algorithm to facilitate immediate connections between users and service providers. This approach enables consumers to receive prompt assistance for everyday challenges while helping local businesses to reach potential customers effectively.

Talk Local

Venture Round in 2014
Talk Local is a digital platform that connects consumers seeking services with local businesses in real time. Customers submit service requests that include a brief description of their needs, desired appointment times, and location. The platform then broadcasts these requests to relevant businesses at no cost. Utilizing a sophisticated search engine, Talk Local employs social metrics, publicly available data, and an artificial intelligence-driven matching algorithm to facilitate immediate connections between users and service providers. This approach enables consumers to receive prompt assistance for everyday challenges while helping local businesses to reach potential customers effectively.
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