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.
Managing Partner, Castor Ventures and Strawberry Creek Ventures
Brittney Wade
Senior Associate, Seed Fund and Doctors Innovate Fund
Drew Wandzilak
Senior Associate, Green D and Yard and Strategic Tech Fund
Sarah Worden
Venture Scout
Ray Wu
Managing Partner-Web3 / Blockchain Fund
Michael Yuann
Director of Investment Operations
Ron Levin
Managing Partner, AV Seed Fund and Doctors Innovate Fund
Past deals in Self-improvement
BetterYou
Series A in 2023
BetterYou is a digital wellness platform that empowers individuals and organizations to make informed health and wellness decisions. By analyzing daily data from users' devices, the platform offers insights into how individuals allocate their time versus what they value most. BetterYou helps users define their personal goals for “time better spent” and supports them in achieving those objectives. Additionally, the platform provides organizations with population-level insights that can lead to improved employee wellness and potential health care savings. By focusing on the interconnected aspects of physical, mental, social, and educational wellness, BetterYou facilitates healthier habits and enhances overall well-being for both individuals and businesses.
Wave Life
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Wave Life is a new kind of mental health platform that makes emotional wellbeing an achievable part of everyday life. The app's mental health coach and toolkit empower users to live each day with intention. Mental health coaching helps to build self-awareness, discover values, and cope with stress.
BetterYou
Venture Round in 2021
BetterYou is a digital wellness platform that empowers individuals and organizations to make informed health and wellness decisions. By analyzing daily data from users' devices, the platform offers insights into how individuals allocate their time versus what they value most. BetterYou helps users define their personal goals for “time better spent” and supports them in achieving those objectives. Additionally, the platform provides organizations with population-level insights that can lead to improved employee wellness and potential health care savings. By focusing on the interconnected aspects of physical, mental, social, and educational wellness, BetterYou facilitates healthier habits and enhances overall well-being for both individuals and businesses.
Wave Life
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Wave Life is a new kind of mental health platform that makes emotional wellbeing an achievable part of everyday life. The app's mental health coach and toolkit empower users to live each day with intention. Mental health coaching helps to build self-awareness, discover values, and cope with stress.
Radical
Venture Round in 2021
Radical is a meditation lifestyle brand that guides participants through dynamic meditation.
Next Big Idea Club
Venture Round in 2020
Next Big Idea Club is a subscription-based book club that aims to provide access to transformative ideas while fostering a community for discussion and collaboration. The platform serves as an online media hub, connecting readers with influential writers and thinkers. It organizes content around the creators' brands, facilitating direct interaction between readers and authors. By emphasizing high-profile thought leaders, Next Big Idea Club seeks to empower individuals to enhance their lives and environments through the exchange of innovative concepts.
Journey Live
Seed Round in 2020
Journey is a simple meditation practice designed for the modern world, providing on-demand and live-streamed meditation courses. Journey was created to share meditation in a way that all people could relate to, wherever they are in life. It has created a simple yet powerful technique that could appeal to a large-scale audience, changing a lot of people’s lives. It takes a step beyond meditation by introducing six simple yet powerful Life Lessons. Founded in 2015 by Stephen Sokoler, Journey Meditation is headquartered in New York.
Tempest
Series A in 2019
Tempest, Inc. operates an online recovery school that provides a digital program for individuals seeking to quit alcohol and improve their lives. Founded in 2014 and based in New York, the company offers an eight-week virtual course, email courses, and various counseling workshops aimed at addressing alcohol addiction and related mental health challenges. The program emphasizes the significance of purpose, meaning, and creativity in fostering a sober lifestyle. Tempest was previously known as Hip Sobriety, Inc. and rebranded in May 2019. By leveraging its digital platform, Tempest equips participants with the necessary tools and support to navigate their recovery journey and cultivate a healthier, more fulfilling life.
Tempest
Venture Round in 2019
Tempest, Inc. operates an online recovery school that provides a digital program for individuals seeking to quit alcohol and improve their lives. Founded in 2014 and based in New York, the company offers an eight-week virtual course, email courses, and various counseling workshops aimed at addressing alcohol addiction and related mental health challenges. The program emphasizes the significance of purpose, meaning, and creativity in fostering a sober lifestyle. Tempest was previously known as Hip Sobriety, Inc. and rebranded in May 2019. By leveraging its digital platform, Tempest equips participants with the necessary tools and support to navigate their recovery journey and cultivate a healthier, more fulfilling life.
Mighty Health
Seed Round in 2019
Mighty Health connects users to coaches to help them become healthier through exercise, nutrition, and wellness.
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