AlumniFunder: A marketplace connecting funders with innovative projects and startups within university alumni networks.
Location
Santa Monica, CA, US
Founded
2012
AlumniFunder is a marketplace for ideas, where youthfully minded doers seek biased capital. The company facilitates the connection between funders and doers for specific projects (e.g., social entrepreneurship, campus impact, design, research) and startups within university alumni ecosystems.
AlumniFunder seeks to enrich the experiential education of students as well as the reach of alumni to execute on worthy projects. Further, the company is building a free platform to support equity investing in startups and technology-transfer initiatives that will launch this summer, alongside a $10MM side-car fund that will co-invest 1/3 with the alumni ''crowd.
AlumniFunder - Classification
NAICS
520000Finance and Insurance
523000Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities