Alive Ventures
VC Fund
Los Angeles, United States
Alive Ventures is a startup studio that imagines and builds companies, products, and services that help older adults live work and love. Alive Ventures has formally spun out of the Scan Foundation. Alive Ventures helps de-risk the traditional startup process while attracting high-caliber design and entrepreneurial talent to its mission.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
Last updated:
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Industries Alive Ventures invests in
Stages Alive Ventures invests in
Countries Alive Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
3 more contacts available
Round size
- Seed
- $2.6M–$9M
- Pre-Seed
- $250k–$2.5M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $2M–$7.4M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Education 3 (33%)
- Financial Services 3 (33%)
- Credit 2 (22%)
- FinTech 2 (22%)
- Music 1 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (33%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (22%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (22%)
- Series A 1 (11%)
- Series B 1 (11%)
Country
- United States 5 (56%)
- Peru 2 (22%)
- Colombia 2 (22%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Chima Osuka
EIREIR Alive Ventures
|
EIREIR Alive Ventures | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
John Zapolski
Founder & CEO
|
Founder & CEO | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Prestamype
|
Prestamype was launched in 2017 with the aim of providing a broader access to funding to micro and small businesses, with better credit conditions. With its first product, a secured working capital loan with a real estate collateral, it has lent over USD 24 million to 750 Peruvian entrepreneurs (as of 1st of October 2021). In 2019, Prestamypelaunched its online FX platform called Cambio Seguro. In 2020, the company launched its digital factoring product. In 2021, INCA Ventures and Angel Ventures Peru (AVP), two leading funds in Peru, invested in the company. | $2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 23, 2026 | |
AgriCapital
|
AgriCapital is a financial service firm that provides store credit, productive credit, credit installments, and accompaniment services. | $7.4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 30, 2024 | |
GoodSAM
|
GoodSAM is a food and beverages company that offers snack and food products made with natural ingredients. | $9M / Series A / Sep 30, 2024 | |
Magneto Global
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Magneto Global is a SAAS company that offers a software to help companies in talent acquisition. | $7M / Seed / May 14, 2024 | |
Empower3d
|
Empower3d provides the modern athlete with the tools, resources, and network required for business success. It creates workshops and seminars for individual athletes, college athletic programs, professional teams, leagues, unions, and other sports organizations on a variety of business and finance topics. It assists athletes in expanding theirnetwork by connecting them with some of the world's most respected and experienced business leaders. | $2.6M / Seed / Sep 28, 2022 | |
Medallion
|
Medallion is a company in the media and entertainment industry. Medallion is the future of fans. It was launched in 2020 and is based in New York City, United States. | $9M / Seed / May 17, 2022 | |
Socialize
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Socialize platform with its easy tutorials helps anyone create content on social media. | $250K / Pre-Seed / Mar 24, 2022 | |
Scout - Make Money Moves
|
Scout is an investing platform that enables individuals to construct investment portfolios tailored to their interests, whether it's eco-friendly brands, women-led companies, Bitcoin, or popular Gen Z stocks. With Scout, users have the freedom to select their preferred investment options, while we diligently manage the portfolio to ensuresafety and risk management. | $2.5M / Pre-Seed / Jan 01, 2022 | |
Crehana
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Crehana is an online training platform for creative and digital professionals in Latam and Spain. With more than 500 courses from Design to Coding, they redefining education through affordable and project-based learning. The platform also offers online courses in Design, Illustration, Photography, and Audiovisuals. Their mission is to makeeveryone's professional dream possible through online education. Crehana was founded on April 7, 2015, and is based in Lima, Peru. | $70M / Series B / Aug 05, 2021 |
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FAQ
What does Alive Ventures invest in?
Alive Ventures invests primarily in Education, Financial Services and Credit startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Alive Ventures's check size?
Alive Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.6M–$9M at Seed, $250k–$2.5M at Pre-Seed and $2M–$7.4M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Alive Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Alive Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Alive Ventures?
The team at Alive Ventures includes Chima Osuka (EIREIR Alive Ventures) and John Zapolski (Founder & CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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