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 Simulation

BosonQ Psi

Seed Round in 2024
BosonQ Psi develops simulation software that harnesses quantum computing to accelerate advanced simulations for highly engineered products in the aerospace and electric vehicle industries. Its flagship product, BQPhy, integrates novel quantum algorithms into backend engineering solvers, enabling significant cost savings and reduced computing time on both current high-performance computers and future industrial-scale quantum systems.

Barnyard Games

Seed Round in 2023
Barnyard Games is a gaming studio specializing in strategic games and simulations. It offers an innovative platform that enables user-generated content using Unreal Engine, fostering fun, social, and collaborative gameplay experiences.

StatusPro

Series A in 2023
StatusPro is a sports technology company that leverages data, augmented reality, and virtual reality to develop training and gaming products. It specializes in creating three-dimensional simulations that analyze player performance during NFL games. This data is then transformed into virtual reality experiences, allowing players to practice in immersive environments. The company's innovative approach enhances the training capabilities for coaches and athletes, while also enriching the experience for fans of the sport. Through its unique combination of technology and sports analytics, StatusPro aims to revolutionize how training and engagement in football are approached.

Vorticity

Series A in 2022
Founded in 2019, Vorticity specializes in developing domain-specific accelerators initially focused on fluid dynamics. Its proprietary compute architecture significantly enhances the speed of fluid dynamics problem-solving, serving sectors such as aerospace, life sciences, and nuclear energy.

Synthesis

Series A in 2021
Founded in 2020 by Josh Dahn, Synthesis is an online educational platform headquartered in San Mateo, California. It offers enrichment programs for students aged 8 to 14, focusing on collaborative thinking games and game-based curricula to cultivate strategic thinking, teamwork, communication skills, and decision-making abilities.

AI.Reverie

Venture Round in 2020
AI.Reverie, Inc. is a San Jose, California-based company that specializes in developing a simulation platform for generating synthetic data and simulations. Founded in 2016, AI.Reverie provides a suite of synthetic data and vision application programming interfaces (APIs) to assist businesses in training and retraining their machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence applications. The platform is designed to cater to various industries, enabling clients to create customized virtual environments that facilitate the training of AI systems. By focusing on applications relevant to smart cities, sustainable farms, and smart homes, AI.Reverie aims to enhance the effectiveness of AI technologies, ultimately contributing to improved safety, sustainability, and efficiency in everyday life.

Emulate

Series D in 2020
Emulate is a biotechnology company that develops organ-on-a-chip human emulation technology to model how diseases, medicines, chemicals, and foods affect human health. Its platform includes lung, intestinal, liver, and skin organ chips that reproduce normal biology and disease states, enabling human-relevant insights beyond traditional cell culture or animal models. The company also provides drug development tools and instrumentation software to support research and development workflows for researchers across biotechnology, pharmaceutical, consumer health, cosmetics, chemical, food, and agrochemical sectors, as well as government agencies and academic institutions. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Boston, Emulate aims to accelerate understanding of human biology and improve human health outcomes.

Emulate

Debt Financing in 2020
Emulate is a biotechnology company that develops organ-on-a-chip human emulation technology to model how diseases, medicines, chemicals, and foods affect human health. Its platform includes lung, intestinal, liver, and skin organ chips that reproduce normal biology and disease states, enabling human-relevant insights beyond traditional cell culture or animal models. The company also provides drug development tools and instrumentation software to support research and development workflows for researchers across biotechnology, pharmaceutical, consumer health, cosmetics, chemical, food, and agrochemical sectors, as well as government agencies and academic institutions. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Boston, Emulate aims to accelerate understanding of human biology and improve human health outcomes.

AI.Reverie

Venture Round in 2020
AI.Reverie, Inc. is a San Jose, California-based company that specializes in developing a simulation platform for generating synthetic data and simulations. Founded in 2016, AI.Reverie provides a suite of synthetic data and vision application programming interfaces (APIs) to assist businesses in training and retraining their machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence applications. The platform is designed to cater to various industries, enabling clients to create customized virtual environments that facilitate the training of AI systems. By focusing on applications relevant to smart cities, sustainable farms, and smart homes, AI.Reverie aims to enhance the effectiveness of AI technologies, ultimately contributing to improved safety, sustainability, and efficiency in everyday life.

Duality

Venture Round in 2019
Duality Robotics Inc. specializes in human-robot interaction and robotics simulation tools, focusing on industrial applications. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Hayward, California, with an additional office in Pittsburgh, the company offers an autonomy simulator for digital twins and an enterprise metaverse that facilitates the generation of synthetic data at scale. By leveraging artificial intelligence-powered human testers and simulation environments, Duality enables robotics teams to efficiently test and train autonomous vehicles, including sidewalks, cars, and trucks, in a virtual setting. This approach accelerates the time-to-market for various robotics applications, making advanced simulation accessible to machine learning, robotics, and engineering teams.

Akselos

Venture Round in 2018
Akselos is a technology company that develops Integra, a cloud-based engineering simulation platform and digital twin for asset-centric industries. The platform enables engineers to build high-resolution, component-based models of large systems and run parameterized simulations that cover geometric and physical properties, loads, and boundary conditions. It supports hydrodynamic analysis of floating assets and structural assessment of fixed offshore installations, as well as analysis of composites used in wind blades, pressure vessels, pipelines, and rotating machines. Designed for design, virtual prototyping, and real-time monitoring, Integra leverages fast, patented algorithms that can model large-scale assets on portable hardware. The company's vision emphasizes preventative maintenance and reduced unplanned downtime through real-time asset condition and future-state insights, often described as a digital twin with sensors and big data analytics. Akselos was founded in 2011 in Lausanne, with a Cambridge, Massachusetts office and operations in Europe, the USA, and Southeast Asia.

Akselos

Venture Round in 2017
Akselos is a technology company that develops Integra, a cloud-based engineering simulation platform and digital twin for asset-centric industries. The platform enables engineers to build high-resolution, component-based models of large systems and run parameterized simulations that cover geometric and physical properties, loads, and boundary conditions. It supports hydrodynamic analysis of floating assets and structural assessment of fixed offshore installations, as well as analysis of composites used in wind blades, pressure vessels, pipelines, and rotating machines. Designed for design, virtual prototyping, and real-time monitoring, Integra leverages fast, patented algorithms that can model large-scale assets on portable hardware. The company's vision emphasizes preventative maintenance and reduced unplanned downtime through real-time asset condition and future-state insights, often described as a digital twin with sensors and big data analytics. Akselos was founded in 2011 in Lausanne, with a Cambridge, Massachusetts office and operations in Europe, the USA, and Southeast Asia.

Akselos

Venture Round in 2016
Akselos is a technology company that develops Integra, a cloud-based engineering simulation platform and digital twin for asset-centric industries. The platform enables engineers to build high-resolution, component-based models of large systems and run parameterized simulations that cover geometric and physical properties, loads, and boundary conditions. It supports hydrodynamic analysis of floating assets and structural assessment of fixed offshore installations, as well as analysis of composites used in wind blades, pressure vessels, pipelines, and rotating machines. Designed for design, virtual prototyping, and real-time monitoring, Integra leverages fast, patented algorithms that can model large-scale assets on portable hardware. The company's vision emphasizes preventative maintenance and reduced unplanned downtime through real-time asset condition and future-state insights, often described as a digital twin with sensors and big data analytics. Akselos was founded in 2011 in Lausanne, with a Cambridge, Massachusetts office and operations in Europe, the USA, and Southeast Asia.

Schemata

Schemata is a technology company specializing in the creation of immersive, three-dimensional content. It serves the Department of Defense and enterprise clients by providing AI-driven, photorealistic simulation environments. These environments, derived from 2D images, enable real-time interaction and navigation, enhancing training efficiency, reducing costs, and aiding in operational planning and decision-making.
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