# Wharton Alumni Angels

> Wharton Alumni Angels is a VC fund backing Software and Machine Learning. See 34 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Fort Washington, United States
- Total investments: 34
- Last investment: Dec 2025
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wharton-alumni-angels/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/wharangels
- Website: https://www.whartonalumniangels.com/

Wharton Alumni Angels is a VC fund in Fort Washington focused on Software and Machine Learning. Founded in 2016, Wharton Alumni Angels is an active angel investment group composed of University of Pennsylvania alumni and non-Penn alumni who have joined their angel community. Their members are entrepreneurs, senior business executives, and institutional investors with a global reach. Wharton Alumni Angels'​ over 200 members in 15countries have invested in more than 30 early stage companies in the past three years. Wharton Alumni Angels members seek to add value 'beyond the deal'​ and actively provide mentoring and assistance to young companies. They are enthusiastic about entrepreneurs and passionate teams pursuing their dreams. Through a global membership and the Wharton alumni community, the organization has a deep network and close relationships with venture capital funds, other angel networks, and innovation ecosystems worldwide to cultivate the growth of start-ups. Wharton Alumni Angels participates most often in seed and Series A investments, and occasionally later-stage rounds and does not focus on specific verticals or industries.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $730k–$4.7M |
| Pre-Seed | $300k–$2.4M |
| Series A | $7.5M–$13M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 29% |
| Machine Learning | 9 | 26% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 9 | 26% |
| SaaS | 7 | 21% |
| Health Care | 6 | 18% |

81 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 14 | 41% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 12% |
| Series A | 3 | 9% |
| Angel | 2 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 6% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 19 | 56% |
| Brazil | 3 | 9% |
| Canada | 2 | 6% |
| China | 1 | 3% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Abhinav Asthana | Angel Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abhinav-asthana |
| Christina Kelmon | Member | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christina-kelmon |
| Déa Wilson | Angel Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/d%C3%A9a-wilson |
| Gerardo Zampaglione | Investor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gerardo-zampaglione |
| Jacky Chen | Managing Director (Canada) | 20 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jacky-chen-837e |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cayuga Biotech | Cayuga Biotech is a startup developing novel hemostatic drugs and devices to reduce uncontrollable bleeding which is a leading cause of death from traumatic injuries. The company's polyphosphate-based drug accelerates the body's own clotting process to contain clotting at the injury site and thus minimize the risk of side effects. Cayugais developing drugs for indications that treat traumatic hemorrhage as well as rare bleeding disorders. | $5M | Seed | Dec 11, 2025 |  |
| Alltius | Alltius's platform KNO allows product owners to harness the power of Generative AI in a secure, accurate, and reliable manner to add conversational capabilities to their products. KNO is currently being used as a no-code Help SaaS tool that is trained on product knowledge bases, support tickets, and video tutorials. It reduces the time peoplespend looking for answers by 100x, increasing customer NPS and reducing support costs by 40–70%. The "Humans of Alltius" include professors from CMU and the University. of California, consultants from BCG and McKinsey, and engineers from Facebook, Google, Rippling, and D.E. Shaw are driven by the obsession of augmenting human intelligence through AI. | $2.4M | Pre-Seed | May 30, 2023 |  |
| Secret Skin | Secret Skin is a value-driven discovery platform that connects conscious consumers to global Conscious beauty brands. | $765K | Pre-Seed | Dec 12, 2022 |  |
| Motion2AI | Motion2AI is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) software company that focuses on forklift tracking and forklift telematics. Our solutions proactively prevent forklift accidents, reduce labor costs, improve fleet utilization, and help warehouse managers make data-driven decisions. | $12.6M | Series A | Aug 17, 2021 |  |
| Fluid Biomed | Fluid Biotech is a Calgary based company that aims to develop the next generation of stents to improve patient well-being and realise better health and quality of life through innovation. | $4.7M | Seed | Aug 11, 2021 |  |
| Agile Devices | Agile Devices offer catheter-based interventional procedures helping patients during a stroke. It helps medical practitioners reduce the procedure time to respond to time bound emergencies. | $1.4M |  | Mar 09, 2021 |  |
| Agile Devices | Agile Devices offer catheter-based interventional procedures helping patients during a stroke. It helps medical practitioners reduce the procedure time to respond to time bound emergencies. | $1.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 09, 2021 |  |
| DarwinAI | DarwinAI is the next evolution in A.I. development. Based on distinguished scholarship by an award-winning team led by a Canada Research Chair in A.I., DarwinAI takes the guesswork out of building better A.I. Through our patented Generative Synthesis™ A.I.-building A.I., DarwinAI enables A.I. to work in the real world by making deep learningfaster, portable, scalable, and understandable. Making A.I. work for anyone, anywhere, anytime. |  | Seed | Jan 06, 2021 |  |
| Pinktada | Pinktada is a primary and secondary market for hotel rooms, architected on tokenization. Pinktada transforms hotel booking by enabling tokenization in the travel market. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Houston, Texas. | $415K | Pre-Seed | Jan 05, 2021 |  |
| DarwinAI | DarwinAI is the next evolution in A.I. development. Based on distinguished scholarship by an award-winning team led by a Canada Research Chair in A.I., DarwinAI takes the guesswork out of building better A.I. Through our patented Generative Synthesis™ A.I.-building A.I., DarwinAI enables A.I. to work in the real world by making deep learningfaster, portable, scalable, and understandable. Making A.I. work for anyone, anywhere, anytime. | $5.9M | Seed | Dec 15, 2020 |  |

10 of 34 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Wharton Alumni Angels invest in?

Wharton Alumni Angels invests primarily in Software, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 34 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 Wharton Alumni Angels's check size?

Wharton Alumni Angels typically joins rounds of $730k–$4.7M at Seed, $300k–$2.4M at Pre-Seed and $7.5M–$13M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Wharton Alumni Angels participates in.

### How do I contact Wharton Alumni Angels?

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### Who are the partners at Wharton Alumni Angels?

The team at Wharton Alumni Angels includes Abhinav Asthana (Angel Investor), Christina Kelmon (Member) and Déa Wilson (Angel Investor), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. 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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