Laura Rippy
Managing Partner, Board Member @ Alumni Ventures
Waltham, United States
Laura Rippy is a seed investor at Alumni Ventures in Waltham focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Laura (Bordewieck) Rippy is the Founder & Managing Partner at Green D Ventures & she attended Dartmouth College in 1985.
- Total investments:
- 97
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 10%
Last updated:
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Industries Laura Rippy invests in
Stages Laura Rippy invests in
Countries Laura Rippy invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 20 (21%)
- Software 16 (16%)
- Health Care 10 (10%)
- Information Technology 8 (8%)
- FinTech 7 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 32 (33%)
- Series A 26 (27%)
- Series B 10 (10%)
- Series C 8 (8%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 5 (5%)
Country
- United States 73 (75%)
- Norway 1 (1%)
- Singapore 1 (1%)
- South Africa 1 (1%)
- United Kingdom 1 (1%)
Investments
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Vendelux
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Vendelux is the leading Event Intelligence Platform that helps marketers make more data-driven decisions around event attendance, sponsorship, and hosting. Customers match CRM data against a proprietary database of over 30,000 events, including speaker, sponsor, and attendee information, to easily find their prospects, customers, and competitorseverywhere they are going to be. | $50M / Series B / Jul 08, 2026 | |
Picogrid
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Picogrid is a technology company that develops hardware and software systems for integrating mission-critical assets across defense, public safety, and industrial environments. Its platform connects sensors, unmanned systems, command-and-control tools, and other digital infrastructure to support coordinated operations across land, sea, air, andspace. The company provides products such as data integration platforms, edge computing nodes, and interoperability tools that enable information sharing and operational control across systems from different vendors. Picogrid supports use cases including base security, air defense, satellite operations, signals intelligence, wildfire monitoring, and human-machine teaming. Its technology is designed to help organizations manage and coordinate distributed systems through a unified operational framework. | $45M / Series A / May 29, 2026 | |
Multitude Insights
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Multitude Insights helps law enforcement agencies leverage their unstructured data. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, United States. | $10M / Series A / Feb 27, 2026 | |
Lexi
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Lexi stands to transform AI and community health delivery so that everyone may receive multilingual, relationship-centered care. | $1.4M / Pre-Seed / Feb 17, 2026 | |
TRM Labs
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TRM Labs is a blockchain intelligence company that helps financial institutions, crypto businesses, and government agencies detect and investigate crypto-related financial crime and fraud. Our products are trusted by leading companies including PayPal, Visa, FTX, Uniswap, Anchorage, and federal agencies such as the FBI and IRS. Every day, we tacklechallenges in data engineering, data science, and threat intelligence to advance our mission to build a safer financial system for billions of people. To accomplish our mission, we have raised over $79M from JPMorgan Chase, Visa, Citi, PayPal, Block, Tiger Global, and Bessemer. Our team is made up of world class experts from the FBI, U.S. Secret Service, US Treasury Department, McKinsey, Coinbase, and top-tier tech companies. TRM is a remote-first workplace, with hubs in San Francisco, Washington, DC, and London. | $70M / Series C / Feb 04, 2026 | |
Risotto
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Risotto uses artificial intelligence to resolve IT help inquiries automatically. | $10M / Seed / Jan 27, 2026 | |
Nerd Apply
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Nerd Apply is an education technology company that offers a data platform designed for college counselors and independent educational consultants. The platform aggregates de-identified admissions data, including test scores, essays, and extracurricular activities, to identify patterns in college acceptances. Counselors use these tools to benchmarkstudent profiles, manage application data, and provide evidence-based guidance to families. The company focuses on using historical application results to assist in building college lists and setting realistic expectations for the admissions process. | $3.2M / Seed / Jan 27, 2026 | |
Northwood Space
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Northwood Space is a hardware solution that dramatically increases the number of orbits and frequency bands available for satellite communications from the ground. | $100M / Series B / Jan 27, 2026 | |
Grid Aero
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Grid Aero designs and develops uncrewed, long-range cargo aircraft and the associated autonomous logistics network that move heavy payloads across extended distances with low operational complexity. Its flagship aircraft, the Lifter family, integrates simplified rugged airframes with autonomous navigation systems to support distributed fleetoperations with minimal human oversight. The company’s platform enables scalable networked logistics for a range of missions, including assured cargo delivery, surveillance integration, and flexible aerial support across both defense and commercial contexts. Grid Aero also explores partnerships to combine its autonomous airlift capabilities with intelligence and mission services for use in remote or infrastructure-limited scenarios. | $20M / Series A / Jan 26, 2026 | |
Barnwell Bio
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Barnwell Bio analyzes waste streams for insights into animal health and farm management. | $6M / Seed / Jan 26, 2026 | |
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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.
Alumni Ventures Contacts
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Alexandra Critch
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Alex Ovabor
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Allison Newman
Paralegal, Compliance Officer
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What does Laura Rippy invest in?
Laura Rippy invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 97 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 Laura Rippy closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 97 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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