# Scott Albert

> Scott Albert is a seed investor at The Aurora Funds backing Software and Information Services. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [The Aurora Funds](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-aurora-funds)
- Location: Chapel Hill, United States
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 75%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-albert-aba87/

Scott Albert is a seed investor at The Aurora Funds in Chapel Hill focused on Software and Information Services. Scott Albert co-founded The Aurora Funds with Jeff Clark in 1994, after already spending nearly a decade in the venture capital industry. Having also spent time as an entrepreneur, he wanted to create an entrepreneur-friendly venture capital firm that could offer hands on support and guidance in addition to funding.Today, he leads the ITinvestment team at Aurora and also oversees much of the day-to-day management of the firm, working closely with the CFO and Controller. He tries to make sure that everyone on the team does everything they can to support Aurora's portfolio companies. He personally spends more than 50% of his time helping entrepreneurs create their go-to-market strategy, raise additional funds, address customer-oriented issues and develop exit strategies. He spends the remainder of his time dealing with internal operational issues, identifying and evaluating new deals and supporting entrepreneurial efforts of the greater RTP community.Prior to forming The Aurora Funds, Scott was the Chief Investment Officer of the North Carolina Technological Development Authority, Inc. ("NCTDA"), a state funded corporation that supports technology based entrepreneurial companies in North Carolina. While there, he led the new venture investment efforts and performed portfolio company monitoring for the NCTDA's extensive statewide portfolio. Prior to serving at the NCTDA, he was at Criterion Venture Partners in Houston, Texas, as a General Partner for a $30 million pool of capital and with Golder, Thoma and Cressey, in Chicago. In addition, he has served as President of a venture-backed start-up company. Before entering the venture capital industry, he was a consultant for Booz, Allen and Hamilton.During his venture capital career, Scott has helped close more than 40 investment deals including a broad range of Information Technology and Life Sciences companies. Scott currently serves on the boards of several Aurora portfolio companies including ALN Medical Management, Centice, StrikeIron and Trivirix. Scott was previously on the boards of Solution Technology (acquired by Rodel) and DataFlux (acquired by SAS) and led the Aurora investment in Blackboard (NASDAQ: BBBB).

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 50% |
| Information Services | 2 | 50% |
| SaaS | 1 | 25% |
| Health Care | 1 | 25% |
| Cyber Security | 1 | 25% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Series B | 1 | 25% |
| Series C | 1 | 25% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nimble Energy | Nimble Energy provides real-time information on the pain points faced by building operators. | $2.8M | Seed | May 08, 2025 |  |
| Feedtrail | Humans are wired for connection. It’s as essential as food and water. So much so that human connection is elemental to positive health outcomes. Perhaps this is why, when asked what patients want most from their healthcare experience, 85 percent of the surveyed said: “a doctor who listens.” That’s the essence of delivering patient-centeredcare—being responsive, respectful, and focused on our unique needs and values. Yet, even with the great strides and investments that we’ve made toward that end, delivering truly responsive, patient-centered care has proven elusive because of varied components, such as efficiency, effectiveness, care coordination, timing, and employee engagement, factor into the equation. The truth is, patient experience is not limited to a single face-to-face interaction with a provider or care team. Instead, one’s healthcare journey is complex and touches upon a myriad opportunities to connect patients with providers, employees, and members across the continuum of care. Each interaction—good, bad, or somewhere in-between—intertwines with the overall human experience, patient outcomes, and, ultimately, the long-term success of healthcare providers. At Feedtrail, we believe delivering healthcare experiences that are exceptional, patient-centered, and profitable requires a new approach—one shaped by a comprehensive understanding of each person’s unique healthcare journey as it unfolds. It’s by capturing human interactions—as they occur in “real-time”—that we can strengthen human connections and advance better outcomes for patients, providers, employees, members, and the entire health economy. The Feedtrail Experience Management platform empowers healthcare organizations and their teams of any size to engage with and learn from patients, clinical care providers, employees, and members instantly, at any point during the lifecycle of care. With advanced analytics and seamless EHR automations, Feedtrail facilitates multichannel interactions that are personalized to users and their care journey tied to specific business objectives. The platform makes it easy to capture healthcare encounters at the moment they occur so organizations can respond when it matters most. Our secure platform is easy to implement, requires no additional hardware or devices, and offers a user-friendly interface that fits seamlessly within any healthcare scenario. We reinforce this technology with deep domain expertise and unparalleled, end-to-end customer support that allows healthcare organizations to identify explicit opportunities for improvement across any number of service lines and act immediately to deliver higher-value experiences. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | May 24, 2021 |  |
| Unitrends | Unitrends increases uptime and confidence in a world in which IT professionals must do more with less. Unitrends leverages high-availability hardware and software engineering, cloud economics, enterprise power with consumer-grade design, and customer-obsessed support to natively provide all-in-one enterprise backup and continuity. The result is a“one throat to choke” set of offerings that allow our customers to focus on their business rather than backup. | $9M | Series C | Apr 30, 2008 |  |
| Unitrends | Unitrends increases uptime and confidence in a world in which IT professionals must do more with less. Unitrends leverages high-availability hardware and software engineering, cloud economics, enterprise power with consumer-grade design, and customer-obsessed support to natively provide all-in-one enterprise backup and continuity. The result is a“one throat to choke” set of offerings that allow our customers to focus on their business rather than backup. | $8.1M | Series B | Jan 18, 2005 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Harbert Growth Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harbert-growth-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [2ndF](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2ndf) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blueridge Climate Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blueridge-climate-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FCA Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fca-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Front Porch Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/front-porch-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Paladin Capital Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paladin-capital-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About The Aurora Funds

VC Fund · Durham, United States

The Aurora Funds is a family of venture capital funds committed to providing resources to help early stage healthcare and information technology companies reach their full potential.

5 contacts available at The Aurora Funds.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jeff Clark | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-clark |
| Chris Kroeger | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-kroeger |
| Doug Gooding | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/doug-gooding |
| Richard Brown | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-brown-f769 |
| Scott Albert | Co-Founder & Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scott-albert |

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## FAQ

### What does Scott Albert invest in?

Scott Albert invests primarily in Software, Information Services and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Scott Albert last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Scott Albert closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 4 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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