Alain Hanover
Senior Partner and Founding Managing Partner @ Alumni Ventures
Waltham, United States
Alain Hanover is a seed investor at Alumni Ventures in Waltham focused on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data. Alain has 30+ years of experience as a VC, angel investor, CEO, serial entrepreneur, Board Member, and advisor. He was Co-founder of Common Angels, New England’s leading investment group; Managing Director and CEO of Navigator Technology Ventures, a high-tech VC firm funded by Draper Lab; and CEO of Viewlogic, an innovative chip design softwarecompany. Alain has mentored over 100 MIT high-tech spinoffs and served on the MassTech Board through the terms of six governors. He was honored as Inc Magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year. He has BSEE and SB Math degrees from MIT, SM Computer Science from Harvard, and OPM from Harvard Business School.
- Total investments:
- 33
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 6%
Last updated:
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Industries Alain Hanover invests in
Stages Alain Hanover invests in
Countries Alain Hanover invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 6 (18%)
- Big Data 5 (15%)
- Information Technology 5 (15%)
- FinTech 4 (12%)
- Software 4 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 10 (30%)
- Series A 7 (21%)
- Series B 6 (18%)
- Series C 3 (9%)
- Funding Round 2 (6%)
Country
- United States 19 (58%)
- Canada 1 (3%)
- United Kingdom 1 (3%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Rigetti Computing is a full-stack quantum computing company. It designs and manufactures quantum integrated circuits. It packages and deploys those chips in a low-temperature environment, and they build control systems to perform quantum logic operations on them. The company develops software to integrate its systems directly into existing cloudinfrastructure. It has also developed new algorithms for quantum computing, with a focus on near-term applications in computational chemistry and machine learning. Our product, Forest, is the world’s first full-stack programming and execution environment for quantum/classical computing. It was founded in 2013 and is based in Berkeley, California. | $100M / Post-IPO Equity / Mar 02, 2022 | ||
| Openprise is a data orchestration platform that automates the manual processes that sales and marketing automation solutions.With Openprise, data-driven marketing and sales teams can simplify their martech stack with a single platform to automate hundreds of business processes like list loading, cleansing and enrichment, account scoring, and manymore. Openprise is designed from the ground up for CRM, so it has all the best practices, business logic, and data companies need to clean up their data, focus on the right targets, and scale up their operations to grow revenue faster. | $16M / Series A / Oct 20, 2021 | ||
| Vouch provides business insurance solutions designed for high-growth companies through a tech-enabled platform. The company offers access to multiple insurance carriers and instant quoting capabilities through its MGA brand, Corix. Its services are structured to help startups and technology-driven businesses manage risk as they scale. Vouchcontinues to expand its offerings by integrating technology and industry expertise to address emerging risks. | $60M / Series C / Sep 10, 2021 | ||
| Rigetti Computing is a full-stack quantum computing company. It designs and manufactures quantum integrated circuits. It packages and deploys those chips in a low-temperature environment, and they build control systems to perform quantum logic operations on them. The company develops software to integrate its systems directly into existing cloudinfrastructure. It has also developed new algorithms for quantum computing, with a focus on near-term applications in computational chemistry and machine learning. Our product, Forest, is the world’s first full-stack programming and execution environment for quantum/classical computing. It was founded in 2013 and is based in Berkeley, California. | $79M / Series C / Aug 04, 2020 | ||
| Plastiq provides convenient, flexible, and secure payment options. Plastiq makes it possible for business owners and savvy consumers to use a credit card for practically any expense, even ones like rent that normally require a check. The service makes it easier for cardholders to earn credit card rewards, tap early-payment discounts, and use cashin the ways that make the most sense for their lives.Plastiq is advancing innovative payment solutions to more than 150 countries around the world.Plastiq was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $75M / Series D / Mar 25, 2020 | ||
| Humio operates as a time-series logging and aggregation platform designed for unrestricted and comprehensive event analysis. It is deployable on any infrastructure including both in the cloud and on-premises. Humio enables data aggregation, exploration, reporting, and analysis from a range of sources ingesting massive volumes of log data instantly.Its data storage and in-memory search/query engine technologies provide customers cost-competitive log management and analysis solution, all while requiring significantly less hardware and engineering resources.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in London, England. | $20M / Series B / Mar 25, 2020 | ||
| BlockFi is a secured non-bank lender that offers USD loans to crypto-asset owners who collateralize the loan with their crypto-assets. Their products bring additional liquidity to the blockchain asset sector and meet the needs of both individuals and institutions holding blockchain assets. BlockFi holds clients' Bitcoin and Ether with aregistered custodian and issues loans in USD to their bank accounts. Currently operating in beta launch, lending in 35 US states to retail investors and companies.BlockFi’s mission is to provide liquidity, transparency, and efficiency to digital financial markets by creating products that meet the needs of consumers and corporations across the globe. They leverage a sophisticated infrastructure that integrates with multiple blockchains, they plan to expand their product set based on their retail and institutional client's needs. | $30M / Series B / Feb 13, 2020 | ||
| Medivis manufactures Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) for augmented reality surgical navigation. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in the Flatiron district of New York City. | $2.7M / Seed / Feb 07, 2020 | ||
| Securrency delivers financial technology products for the tokenized issuance and trading of securities. The company’s protocol can be utilized on the Ethereum, Stellar, Ripple, EOS, and other distributed ledgers, as well as on legacy systems, allowing for seamless on-chain and off-chain movement of tokens. Securrency makes financial services moresecure, transparent, efficient, and accessible by integrating legacy financial services with recent advances in distributed ledger technologies, payment gateways, and security frameworks. Built from the ground up with security and compliance at its core, Securrency enables an efficient market, bringing together investors seeking yield with value creators, such as asset owners, startups or fund managers requiring capital. | $17.6M / Series A / Jan 08, 2020 | ||
| Spiral is a software company that focuses on building solutions for scanning customer feedback using AI. | $2.4M / Seed / Dec 19, 2019 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Alumni Ventures
Alumni Ventures identifies and co-invests in deals alongside various established venture capital firms across multiple stages, from pre-seed to later-stage growth. Investors can participate through annual funds containing multiple companies or via a syndicate for individual deal-by-deal selections. The firm maintains several distinct investmentteams that evaluate opportunities across sectors such as artificial intelligence, healthcare, and strategic technology.
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What does Alain Hanover invest in?
Alain Hanover invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 33 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Alain Hanover closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 33 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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