Company Size
11 - 50 employees
Year Founded
2017
About Alumshares
Alumshares’ mission is to help alumni get ahead while accelerating the next generation of groundbreaking companies; to build a place where alumni can come to own a piece of pioneering companies they've already helped to support.
In 2017, Alumshares was founded on one simple idea — what if we could invest in the groundbreaking innovations being created in and around our alma maters?
Growing up in Research Triangle Park, Alumshares started as a passion project among a group of friends surrounded by three fantastic universities. We've always heard about the tremendous impact these universities have on the world around us. Beyond academics and athletics, they play a critical role in spurring on groundbreaking innovations that shape our world in powerful ways.
However, when we’d hear about developments making waves around us, we noticed it was typically to the benefit of totally unrelated stakeholders. Then we thought, what if we could benefit from the scientific creativity, technological ingenuity, and systematic entrepreneurship happening around our universities? After all, as alumni we have indirectly supported many of them. What if we could participate in the Lyricas, Googles, and Gatorades of the world?
We believe there is a better way to invest. And it centers around early access and the power of our collective network. So we set out to help busy and geographically disparate groups of alumni use their network access to own pieces of these breakthrough innovations.
