Andre de Baubigny
Managing Partner- The Farm Ventures @ Alumni Ventures
Menlo Park, United States
Andre de Baubigny is a seed investor at Alumni Ventures in Menlo Park focused on Software and Information Technology. Andre is an experienced investor, investment banker, entrepreneur, and Stanford alum (GSB '95). As an entrepreneur, Andre has launched two private venture funds for individual family offices and founded a wine-related logistics company. As a banker, Andre worked with the most innovative startups of the late 90’s and advised Fortune 500companies on how to react to the immense change that Internet adoption would bring. As an investor, Andre backed leading edge Internet companies, including Songza (sold to Google, now GooglePlay), Trulia (IPO, sold to Zillow), Dash (sold to RIM), Oodle (sold to QVC) and Dataminr. Andre co-founded Deep Fork Capital in 2008 as a Managing Partner of Fund I investing directly for a single ultra-high net worth family. In 2003, he co-founded Vintrust.. Vintrust was a wine management business with over $300 million in wine assets generating over $10 million in revenue and sold in 2009. Prior to Vintrust, Andre managed a $500 million venture fund for a French industrialist and billionaire. In 1998, Andre joined Morgan Stanley & Co. to run its global Internet banking practice, working directly with Mary Meeker. Before that, he founded the Internet banking practice at Robertson Stephens in 1996 and developed Robertson’s unique approach to research coverage for the Internet. Before his business career, Andre was a securities lawyer with Brown & Wood.Andre received his MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 1995. Andre also earned his JD at Boston University School of Law in 1989, where he served as a managing editor of the Annual Review of Banking Law. He also received a B.A. in Economics from Trinity College in Hartford, CT in 1986. Andre is a member of the Board of Directors of the Bay Area Chapter of JDRF, supporting the research to treat and cure type 1 diabetes.
- Total investments:
- 24
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 8%
Last updated:
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Industries Andre de Baubigny invests in
Stages Andre de Baubigny invests in
Countries Andre de Baubigny invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (21%)
- Information Technology 4 (17%)
- Transportation 3 (13%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (13%)
- Apps 2 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 7 (29%)
- Series B 3 (13%)
- Series C 3 (13%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (13%)
- Series A 2 (8%)
Country
- United States 17 (71%)
- Algeria 1 (4%)
- United Kingdom 1 (4%)
Investments
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| Frore Systems develops and supplies advanced thermal management technologies for electronic systems that require efficient heat dissipation without conventional cooling mechanisms. The company’s product portfolio includes AirJet, a solid‑state active cooling chip used in consumer devices, industrial embedded systems, edge AI platforms, and IoThardware to remove heat silently and support compact designs without fans or moving parts. It also produces LiquidJet, a direct‑to‑chip liquid cooling plate designed for high‑performance computing environments such as data centers to address heat removal challenges for modern GPUs and AI workloads.Frore’s technologies aim to replace or augment traditional heat sinks and fans by integrating semiconductor manufacturing techniques into thermal solutions that fit into thinner, lighter, and more rugged device architectures. Its cooling systems are configured to match specific power maps of processors and deliver thermal performance improvements that enable hardware to sustain higher throughput under workload stress. | $143M / Series D / Mar 16, 2026 | ||
| Modular Full-Stack Renewable Energy Solutions for Commercial and Industrial Applications | $50M / Series A / Nov 13, 2025 | ||
| ARRIS is an industrial engineering company that specializes in the fields of machinery manufacturing, automotive, and aerospace. It provides next-gen composites for mass-market applications including aerospace, automotive, sports, and consumer products. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Berkeley, California. | $34M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 30, 2024 | ||
| Auradinescalability, sustainability and security solutions for the infrastructure, enabled by revolutionary blockchain, security, zero-knowledge and AI technologies. | $80M / Series B / Apr 10, 2024 | ||
| Think it, speak it, send it. Effortless voice dictation for Mac and now Windows! | $10M / Seed / Oct 24, 2022 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Turing.com connects world-class remote software engineers with world-class companies. 200+ companies, including those backed by Google Ventures, Andreessen, Founders Fund, Kleiner, and Bloomberg, have hired Turing developers. Over 1M+ developers from across 150+ countries have chosen Turing as their preferred platform for landing remote jobs. | $14M / Seed / Aug 25, 2020 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Yassir is a transportation service that utilizes a mobile app to enable users to book drivers and travel safely.The company's app locates local drivers that provide on-demand convenience and food delivery, allowing Algerians to travel anywhere they want and get food delivered on-demand.Founded in 2016 by Amel Delli, El Mahdi Yettou,Mustapha Baha, and Noureddine Tayebi and is based in Algiers, Alger, Algeria. | $140K / Seed / Apr 20, 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 | ||
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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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Andre de Baubigny invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Transportation startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 24 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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