Portfolio News

Infrastructure demands are rising, and the outdated construction industry can’t keep up. Alumni Ventures portfolio company Toggle Robotics addresses this gap by delivering affordable, advanced robotics and automation solutions.

Alumni Ventures portfolio company Layer presents an attractive AI software alternative for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). Layer allows companies to easily deploy and manage cost-effective AI copilots — next-gen chatbots that serve as dynamic virtual assistants. Layer’s copilots seamlessly integrate with complex web platforms, enhancing user experiences and streamlining web interfaces.

Flo Recruit’s modern software solution enhances the hiring process for law firms and law students.

According to the U.S. SBA, there are nearly 2 million veteran-owned businesses in the U.S., which employ over 5 million Americans and generate $1.3 trillion annually. Below we honor some of the brave founders in our portfolio who’ve served our nation. Join us in celebrating both their exceptional patriotism and contributions to innovation.

Womaness offers innovative menopause products with accessible, safe, and chic solutions in skin and body care, feminine care, sexual health, and supplements.

Alumni Ventures portfolio company Kayhan Space provides scalable, cloud-based collision-avoidance services for operators of satellite constellations who need complete situational awareness of their fleet. The company’s Pathfinder platform uses machine learning to help commercial and governmental satellite operators avoid nearby satellites, space debris and other potential risks.

Alumni Ventures has served as a value-add partner for all 1,200+ companies we’ve invested in, whether they’re seeking their first checks or laying the groundwork for an IPO. Read about the impact we are having on our seed and pre-seed portfolio companies in their own words. In many cases, we’ve leveraged the expertise of Alumni Ventures’ ~50 investing professionals and our network of more than 600,000 community members to help them scale into promising, later-stage companies. We have since been invited by some of them to invest in additional financing rounds.

Many academics, tech luminaries, and entrepreneurs believe that we are in the midst of an unprecedented artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, some arguing that the development of AI could rival the discovery of electricity. While history and hindsight will determine the scale of this technological leap forward, established tech giants and startups alike have embraced the technology.

The potential of superconductor technology has introduced the world to what could eventually become one of the breakthrough technological discoveries in human history, easily on par with the discovery of electricity, steam power, and generative artificial intelligence. It certainly has the attention of VCs, who immediately grasped how this transformative tech could fundamentally reshape the modern economy.

Alumni Ventures portfolio company Ossium Health is well-positioned to develop a leading solution in the global stem cell therapy market, projected to reach $31.4 billion by 2030. Powered by the world’s largest bone marrow donor bank, Ossium is leveraging an unprecedented amount of data on stem cell behavior and characteristics to develop therapies for blood, immune, and inflammatory diseases.

Alumni Ventures portfolio company Zapata AI has developed a hardware and software stack that lets corporations use AI and quantum computing to address their hardest problems. Zapata tailors solutions to enterprises’ domain-specific, industrial-scale business problems to drive growth, savings, and unprecedented insight.