We are a Venture Capital firm and community of Brown alumni investors, executives, entrepreneurs, and innovation enthusiasts. We raise capital from Brown alumni and friends of the community, and seek to invest primarily in alumni-led startups. We are private, for-profit, and not part of (but friendly with) Brown. 

Every year, we build a portfolio of 20-30 companies spanning industry, stage and geography. We co-invest alongside established venture capital lead investors. 

We are an experienced, diverse community of over 15,000 alumni with different backgrounds and reasons for joining. If you are a Brunonian interested in entrepreneurship or venture capital, let's connect. We are a part of the Alumni Ventures Group family of funds, one of the most active VC funds in the world.

Learn more here: https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/19/alumni-ventures-group-is-the-most-active-venture-fund-youve-never-heard-of/
            

    
    

    
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Parkloco, backed by some of the top angel investors and funds from Boston, was the first predictive analytics platform that helped parking lot owners & operators maximize profits and optimize occupancy. The company raised over $1M in financing and was acquired by Volley Automation in January 2019, a robotics company based out of Silicon Valley.

Course name: Management of Industrial and Non-profit Organizations (ENGN 9) & Managerial Decision Making (ENGN 90)
• Assisted the Professor in writing up a case study on Rainwater For Humanity, a Brown University venture involved in setting up water-harvesting tanks in Kerela, India
• Conducted weekly sections to consider different aspects of case studies including Finance, Operations, Strategy and Marketing
• Graded a section of final papers for over 550 students and evaluated case studies from different perspectives
            

    
    

    
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• Played Professional Soccer for 18 months
• Took on a managerial role in the team, responsibilities included tabulation and visualization of results and team building
• Coached the under-12 team of the club

Co-founder & CEO, Adaptive


Ronak Massand • Co-Founder & CEO at Adaptive • Peerlist Profile

• Develop a business model to reflect real time parking information through a mobile application which would be beneficial to private parking lot owners and customers
• Check the technical feasibility of this idea and conduct a market resea

Park.IT

• Worked with a 6 person team to develop commercialization strategy for a Low Power Wireless Transmitter that utilizes the radio-frequency bandwidth to transfer data in order to identify, track or simply transmit information signals
• Perfo

Low Power RF transmitter

• Conducted a research study that focused on Operational problems faced by companies when outsourcing any Service or Manufacturing
• Interviewed founders of start-ups to analyze problems they faced while outsourcing manufacturing
• Identifi

Outsourcing problems that companies face

• The primary purpose of this project was to make our autonomous vehicles easy to manipulate using a GUI interface. 
• Our setup also provided for a multi-functional re programmable general purpose robot which maintained its internal system