# Alpha Bridge Ventures

> Alpha Bridge Ventures is a VC fund backing Consumer Goods and Gaming. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: May 2022
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/alpha-bridge-ventures/

Alpha Bridge Ventures is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Consumer Goods and Gaming. Alpha Bridge Ventures invests in post seed stage companies and the personal development of their founders.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Consumer Goods | 3 | 27% |
| Gaming | 2 | 18% |
| Retail | 2 | 18% |
| Internet | 2 | 18% |
| Education | 2 | 18% |

42 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 45% |
| Series A | 3 | 27% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 9% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 9% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Howie Diamond | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/howie-diamond-bfa9 |
| Howie Diamond | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/howie-diamond |
| Kari Sulenes | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kari-sulenes |
| Jacob Chapman | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jacob-chapman |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Juna | Juna is transforming chronic care, starting with GLP-1 weight loss treatments, addressing the needs of over 40% of U.S. adults with obesity. One-size-fits-all healthcare often fails, leaving gaps for the 133 million Americans affected by chronic diseases. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | May 05, 2022 |  |
| TRIPP | TRIPP: Empowering You To Change The Way You FeelNamed the Best VR Meditation App of 2020 by Men’s Health and VR Fitness Insider, The Washington Post calls TRIPP “Meditation-meets-a-video-game-meets-a-Happy-Pill!”TRIPP is the award-winning XR platform designed to address mental and emotional well-being. Proven to drive deep engagement, TRIPPcreates advanced digital products that are based on scientific research and delivered through virtual reality, augmented reality, and mobile devices. TRIPP's platform is currently delivering wellness solutions into consumer households, Fortune 1000 companies and hospitals/clinics worldwide. | $11M | Series A | Jun 25, 2021 |  |
| Kudos | Kudos is a retail company that offers natural disposable baby diapers with cotton liners. The company's chemical-free diapers are made of plant-based renewable materials, providing parents with natural diapers that suit babies' sensitive skin. It was founded by Amrita Saigal in 2019 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. | $2.4M | Seed | Jun 01, 2021 |  |
| Boom Entertainment | Boom Entertainment is a technology company developing a sports gaming application focusing on casual games for the sports betting industry. The company works with professional sports leagues, media companies, and casino operators. | $15.3M | Series A | May 13, 2021 |  |
| Healthy Roots Dolls | Healthy Roots is a toy company that creates dolls and storybooks aimed to teach natural hair care to young girls of color.It aims to empower girls through education, diversity, and positive representation by utilizing a doll, book, and app to teach natural hair care to young girls. The dolls come in different skin tones, facial features, and hairtextures to represent the diversity of the African diaspora. Its first Black doll, Zoe, was launched in 2019, which combines educational play experience with curly hair care. The doll's hair can be styled in a variety of ways with the guidance of the Big Book of Hair. The Big Book of Hair is an illustrated manual for natural hair care. Healthy Roots Dolls' app allows users to track their hair health and get curated content for their specific hair needs to be based on the data they input. Yelitsa Jean-Charles founded the Detroit, Michigan-based company in 2015. | $1M | Seed | Feb 05, 2021 |  |
| Agorus | We’re developing the software and robotics required to streamline and optimize residential construction. By eliminating many of the risks and inefficiencies associated with traditional homebuilding, we are improving how the world builds homes. | $8.5M | Series A | Dec 30, 2020 |  |
| PreAct Technologies | PreAct Technologies aims to bridge the gap between collision avoidance systems and active safety technology. Every millisecond matters before a crash, and our patent-pending suite of sensor technologies, computing systems, and unique countermeasure algorithms aim to drastically reduce fatalities and injuries in a crash. Their Portland-based firmleverages existing vehicle infrastructure to predict and prepare both a vehicle and its occupants for an imminent collision. This alone can reduce the majority of injuries from the most common types of crashes while saving the industry billions of dollars annually.Seasoned automotive experts lead PreAct Technologies, with the engineering team comprised of leaders in computer vision, optics, and parallel processing. It arose from more than 15 years of DARPA-funded research in high-speed optics and computing systems and a major investment from Artis Corporation, the leading US provider of military active protection systems. | $1.6M |  | Dec 03, 2020 |  |
| PreAct Technologies | PreAct Technologies aims to bridge the gap between collision avoidance systems and active safety technology. Every millisecond matters before a crash, and our patent-pending suite of sensor technologies, computing systems, and unique countermeasure algorithms aim to drastically reduce fatalities and injuries in a crash. Their Portland-based firmleverages existing vehicle infrastructure to predict and prepare both a vehicle and its occupants for an imminent collision. This alone can reduce the majority of injuries from the most common types of crashes while saving the industry billions of dollars annually.Seasoned automotive experts lead PreAct Technologies, with the engineering team comprised of leaders in computer vision, optics, and parallel processing. It arose from more than 15 years of DARPA-funded research in high-speed optics and computing systems and a major investment from Artis Corporation, the leading US provider of military active protection systems. | $1.6M | Seed | Dec 03, 2020 |  |
| Nana Academy | Nana is a vertically integrated student-to-operator trade skills school, today focused on Appliance Repair. We work with some of the 35 million people who will lose their jobs by 2030 to tech automation, teaching them trade skills, building their experience through our mentorship program, and connecting them to good jobs on our marketplace. Byperfecting this pipeline and teaching life skills to a new generation of tradespeople, we are accelerating the retooling of America’s workforce and creating millions of economic opportunities. | $4.7M | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2020 |  |
| Sheets & Giggles | Good Housekeeping's "Best Overall" sheet winner, March 2021. Sheets & Giggles is a sustainable direct-to-consumer bedding brand based in Denver, Colorado. S&G is famous for their naturally cooling eucalyptus lyocell sheets and comforters. The company was founded in 2017 by Colin McIntosh, and S&G has since gone on tobecome an award-winning company, has planted tens of thousands of trees (one for each customer), and has popularized eucalyptus lyocell sheets in the United States. | $1.3M | Seed | Aug 06, 2019 |  |

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## FAQ

### What does Alpha Bridge Ventures invest in?

Alpha Bridge Ventures invests primarily in Consumer Goods, Gaming and Retail startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Alpha Bridge Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Alpha Bridge Ventures?

The team at Alpha Bridge Ventures includes Howie Diamond (Co-Founder and Managing Partner), Howie Diamond (Co-Founder and Managing Partner) and Kari Sulenes (Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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