Post-COVID Fund Newsletter — Q1 2022

Content at the intersection of entrepreneurship, venture capital, and our community.

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IN THIS ISSUE: Highlighting innovative companies in the Post-COVID Fund portfolio, latest investments for the fund, recent portfolio companies in the news, and more.

Since our last investor update, AV’s Post-COVID Fund has continued to add new companies across a range of sectors, stage, and geographies. You can learn about them below.

Post-COVID Fund News

Read content at the intersection of entrepreneurship, venture capital, and our Post-COVID Fund community.

Post-COVID Fund Portfolio Spotlight

Today, most business gets done in documents and not applications, which impedes the hyper-collaboration characteristic of today’s workspace. Learn how collaboration solutions Coda is solving this problem. Hear from Shishir Mehrotra, the CEO and Co-Founder, about the inspiration behind founding Coda, the benefits it brings to the market, and plans for the future. Watch Video »

New Investments

Here are the other new additions to your Post-COVID Fund portfolio:

  • Coda.io, a collaboration solution that centralizes the most common functions of online documents and work applications
  • Constru, an AI-enabled construction management platform
  • Ellipsis Health, a behavioral biomarker technology developer leveraging scalable analytics combining patient speech and clinical data to predict a patient’s health
  • Paro, an AI-powered platform to match companies with finance experts from its vetted network of remote freelancers
  • Sorcero, a Language Intelligence Platform that allows employees to access their company’s knowledge more efficiently and effectively

Follow-on Investments

Since your last update, the fund has re-invested in the following portfolio companies.

  • Future Research, a subscription-based fitness platform connecting users with personal trainers remotely paired with a smart watch to track exercise metrics
  • Lentesplus, an online contact lens retailer in Latin America, operating in Colombia, Mexico, Chile, and Argentina
  • Refraction AI, a builder and deployer of robotic platforms for providing safe and scalable last-mile goods delivery in urban areas
  • Sustainment, a SaaS platform connecting manufacturing vendors and U.S. machine shops with their enterprise customers
  • Verge Genomics, a company using machine learning and human genomics to accelerate drug discovery

Alumni Ventures TV

AVTV features companies across Alumni Ventures’ entire portfolio, sharing their stories and asks with our community of 600K+ subscribers. This month, hear founder stories and asks from…

…Rishi Mandal of Future, which provides digital fitness and training services. Watch Video »

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…Ken Babcock of Tango, a workflow intelligence software platform designed to create step-by-step documentation with screenshots in seconds. Watch Video »

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