Seed Fund 4 Newsletter — Q1 2022

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

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IN THIS ISSUE: Highlighting the newest investments for the Seed Fund 4 (formerly Basecamp 2021) portfolio, recent news about portfolio companies, innovative portcos in the spotlight, and more.

Seed Fund 4 News

Since our last investor update, AV’s Seed Fund 4 has continued to deploy capital, adding new companies and follow-ons across a diverse range of sectors, stages, and geographies. Learn more about these investments below.

Alumni Ventures TV

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

…Bam Azizi of Front Financial, a brokerage-agnostic platform on a mission to help investors build better portfolios and track investments. Watch Video »

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New Investments

Since our last update, Seed Fund 4 has added 60+ companies to its portfolio. Some of the most recent investments are highlighted below.

  • AdeptID, a social impact company using machine learning to improve job mobility for non-college educated workers
  • Audit Sight, a financial automation company whose proprietary models take in transaction-level data and processes it to perform more efficient auditing tests
  • Basil Systems, a medtech and pharmaceutical industry database providing analytics and insights that guide strategic healthcare product development
  • Pariti, a community-led marketplace for entrepreneurs in early-stage startups to raise capital and grow their businesses
  • Rare Circles, an NFT membership platform empowering artists, photographers, musicians, brands, and others to build customized online shops to sell their NFTs and manage revenues
  • Stark, an integrated and intelligent SaaS software compliance tool built for mid-market and enterprise companies
  • Teal HQ, a career management platform that guides workers through their ideal long-term career path with digital tool sets to ensure long-term professional development, coaching, job matching, and compensation negotiation
  • Trading TV, an immersive video streaming and chat platform for traders and financial content creators to form communities, communicate, collaborate, and educate themselves on financial markets
  • Wonder, a Web3 infrastructure platform that empowers DAOs to launch and scale products with ease through an intuitive task management system

Follow-on Investments

  • BigRoom, a live video production platform allowing users to edit and produce professional-grade video content on the fly with proprietary AI for analyzing thousands of visual and audio factors in real time
  • Graphite, a platform connecting companies with the right consultant for the job through data-driven matching and analysis
  • Nitricity, an energy company leveraging environmentally friendly processes to develop a system to produce carbon-free fertilizer
  • Tilled, a payment facilitation service intended to support the financial backend of marketplaces, SaaS companies, and integrated software vendors
  • Tripleblind, a company enabling digital privacy through a tool suite designed for safely providing and consuming sensitive data and algorithms in encrypted space

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Seed Fund 4 Portfolio Spotlight

Modern workplaces need efficient office operators — Office Managers, IT, Facilities, HR, and so on. These teams must work together to monitor and develop workplace productivity. However, current workplace solutions are outdated and inconvenient. These disjointed tools can impede business growth and progress. Enter Office Otter, a centralized communication task management platform. Its suite of tools — including priority dashboards, performance reports, project organization templates, and more — can empower upward mobility for Internal Operations teams. Read More »

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