Your Window Into the Innovation Economy

Check out some of our portfolio companies in the news from August 2021!

The capabilities of 3D printing are driving advancements across industries, such as rapid prototyping, improved product quality and consistency, reduced manufacturing costs, and more. As a result, the global 3D printing market is projected to reach nearly $106 billion by 2030.

Venture firms invested approximately $330 billion across 15,500 deals in 2021. With so many private companies raising capital, how do VCs sift out red flags and potential winners?

An important part of being a venture capitalist is performing diligence on new investments. One of the most basic forms of diligence is a review of a company’s cap table.

For many people, our pets are family. We want to give them not only all the love in the world, but also the best care. According to the World Animal Foundation, there are 86.9 million domesticated animals living in 66% of pet-owning households in the U.S. Unfortunately, the overall veterinary experience continues to be poor, opaque, and unsatisfying due to the high cost and limited options for care.

Alumni Ventures is one of the most active VC firms in the United States (PitchBook 2020 Global League Tables).

Document tools weren’t built for today’s hyper-collaborative world. While the cloud has made sharing and collaborating on docs easier, significant task-siloing issues remain. Additionally, users must generate and access multiple documents just to leverage the handful of features they actually need. Creating, sharing, and managing all these docs within a given team is time-consuming and far from cost-effective — especially at an enterprise scale.

When you’re shopping online, you want a simple, cohesive experience. Any issues with pages loading or crashing make consumers frustrated and less likely to continue using that ecommerce retailer. This is reflected in the numbers, too. Research by Amazon and others suggests even 100 milliseconds of increased load time reduces revenue by 1%. But these websites are complex and limited by their infrastructure. How do you make sure pages load quickly in a vast content delivery network?