Plum Alley is an investment company that directs funds to innovative companies, with a focus on improving lives through technology and innovation. The company has invested $80 Million in 32 companies with member investors and through their Plum Alley Venture Fund I.

Plum Alley Ventures Company

Plum Alley

Cybersecurity InsideView

Plum Alley Ventures Company (PAVC) is an operating company with a centralized venture asset management platform. PAVC, provides capital, services, and infrastructure to address critical challenges led by gender-diverse founders and allocators. The strategic edge in capital allocation across sectors and stages propels initial investments towards successful exits, bringing value to all stakeholders:
- Founders: Enhanced capital access for gender-diverse founders in STEM.
- GPs: Strategic infrastructure and capital to domain-expert female allocators.
- Investors: Diversified returns and liquidity for investment efficiency.

PAVC invests across early stage to high growth technology companies across sectors with at least one woman founder from the STEM fields. Additionally, PAVC has a strategic network of funds across sector and stages that are operated by domain expert female GPs disrupting huge markets and driving exponential value for people, industry and the planet. The firm provides opportunities to invest in directs through it's Member Syndicates and in Funds that are co-managed by sector expert allocators.

Our influential members pay annual fees for membership to access Plum Alley's curated syndicate investments and exclusive learning experiences around innovation and investing. We are NYC based with members and syndicate company investments across the country.

The Plum Alley team has also completed the first close of our Plum Alley Venture Fund. We are continuing to actively raise capital.

We are deeply committed to providing more access, money and opportunities for visionary women founders and gender diverse teams. We invest largely at the Series A level (not angel) alongside VCs and institutional investors where we invest in the $750k - $1.5M range.

As of May 2021, Plum Alley has deployed more than $35 million in 24 companies with gender diverse founding teams.

For more information visit plumalley.co or email info@plumalley.co.

Thank you to Nasdaq for partnering to launch Plum Alley Ventures Company. The event was a testament to the excitement and inspiration surrounding the launch of an innovative venture platform, designed to unlock investment opportunities across all stages and drive liquidity in technologies that are reshaping industries, lives, and our planet.

As an operating company with a centralized venture asset management platform, Plum Alley Ventures Company provides capital, services, and infrastructure to address critical challenges led by gender-diverse founders and allocators. The strategic edge in capital allocation across sectors and stages propels initial investments towards successful exits, bringing value to all stakeholders:
- Founders: Enhanced capital access for gender-diverse founders in STEM.
- GPs: Strategic infrastructure and capital to domain-expert female allocators.
- Investors: Diversified returns and liquidity for investment efficiency.

Notable moments from the event included a session with Howard Morgan, Chair of $7.5 billion AUM and Co-Founder of Renaissance Technologies, who shared his rationale for supporting and investing in Plum Alley Ventures Company (PAVC). Additionally, attendees heard from Deborah Buresh Jackson, Founding Partner, on the optimism and macro forces driving PAVC, and Jack Cassel, Head of Listings - Nasdaq on the new rubric in public markets. The new rubric explored the interlacing of private markets and the need for innovative strategies of PAVC which was eloquently presented by Avantika Daing, Founding Partner.

The event highlighted four pioneering technologies that are reshaping industries, lives, and our planet: ultra-compact gene editing by Janice Chen, Co-Founder of Mammoth Biosciences; electric and autonomous freight by Linnéa Kornehed Falck, Co-Founder of Einride; carbon fermentation by Lisa Dyson, PhD, Co-Founder of Air Protein; and engineered waste fiber by Stacy Flynn, Co-Founder of Evrnu®, SPC.

PAVC extends gratitude to its partners Nasdaq, Fidelity Investments, and CrossCountry Consulting for their support. Please reach out with interest to partner with PAVC at info@plumalley.co 
  
#venture #investingindiversity #Innovation #Investment #Impact #PAVC #Nasdaq #VentureCapital #TechTransformation #reshapingtechnologies #DiverseFounders #LIQUIDITY #PortfolioDiversification 
Karen Snow Sehr Thadhani Andrea R. Joffe Selby Drummond Sunil Rao Pratibha Vuppuluri Liz Walsh Benjamin Robbins Alicia Z. Ananya Kohli Charlie Stephens Kenneth F. Egan

We had a wonderful evening at Rise, created by Barclays hosting the kick-off event of our Women in AI series - The State of AI Today.🤗🥂🎉

Plum Alley’s Deborah Buresh Jackson and Avantika Daing had a dynamic conversation with our panelists Yuzhui Liu of Bloomberg, Nadia Wallace of Biobot Analytics and Victoria Piunova of LOLIWARE Inc., including a deep dive on the rapid development of artificial intelligence and it’s applications in the financial service💰, human health👩🔬 and climate tech🌱 industry. Panelists shared their experience, current roles at their companies and how they got there, and how they are building AI to solve some big problems in their respective industries. 🤖💻⚙️

🙏A huge thank you to our investors and friends who attended the event to support us and participate in this important conversation. Plum Alley is committed to discovering high quality female founded AI and technology companies. We will continue to explore this space and present more interesting and intriguing AI events in the future, so stay tuned and reach out if you would like to get involved!

#WomeninAI #technology #innovation #GenAI #AI #MachineLearning #financialService #Healthcare #HumanHealth #ClimateTech #VentureCapital #FemaleFounder #VentureInvesting

🌟Join Plum Alley on 10/30 at Rise, created by Barclays for the kick-off event of our Women in AI series, where we will feature, promote, discuss and learn from outstanding female innovators and experts in the rapidly evolving field of AI. 🥂

Dr. Henna Karna, Google
Yuzhui Liu, Bloomberg
Victoria Piunova, LOLIWARE Inc.
Nadia Wallace, Biobot Analytics

We have these amazing speakers who will discuss the rapid development of AI over the past year and the impact it has brought to the world, as well as how innovators building AI applications to tackle problems in a variety of industries including financial service, healthcare and climate tech, and how they see the evolving technology shaping the future. 🤖💻⚙️

👉RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/eG54Anmq 

#WomeninAI #technology #innovation #GenAI #AI #MachineLearning #financialService #Healthcare #ClimateTech #VentureCapital #FemaleFounder #VentureInvesting

The bells are ringing! Today, TiE New York celebrates 25 years of fostering entrepreneurship through education, mentorship, incubation & access to capital. TiE has supported 25,000 startups, helping them to raise $50B, create 2.5M jobs, and achieving over $1T in new wealth creation to the global economy. Plum Alley was excited to honor the incredible work of Tie NY at Nasdaq’s  #OpeningBell ceremony - joined by the NY Chapter’s executive team, including Plum Alley’s own Avantika Daing. Plum Alley looks forward to many more years of outstanding service to the NYC entrepreneurial community.  See you at the next Opening Bell ceremony! Robert F. Phillips Dharti Arvind Desai & Manjusha Tipre

Learn more about TiE’s mission and see the full ceremony here:
https://lnkd.in/e8JPhVxu

#NASDAQ #OpeningBell #TiE #TiENYC #entrepreneurship #startups

Another year, another outstanding, purposeful and inspiring #ClimateWeek here in NYC! Plum Alley was proud to have participated in, organized and supported two fabulous events last week, as well as attend some outstanding programming from friends and partners in the NYC #ClimateTech ecosystem.

Our own Avantika Daing joined Plum Alley portfolio company founder Shely Aronov (InnerPlant), Sara Eckhouse (FoodShot Global), and Ana Pavlovic (Eion) on a panel moderated by Jennifer Strong (SHIFT Podcast) at Rise, created by Barclays to discuss how to leverage the massive amount of data we can glean from soil in agriculture and food systems to create more sustainable and efficient agriculture practices.

We were also thrilled to partner with Kaplak Partners and JVP for a closing session at Margalit Startup City . Kaplak’s Matthew Hooper moderated a panel with Plum Alley portfolio company founder Lisa Dyson, PhD (Air Protein), Gal Shargil-Yaari (Rho Impact/Corporate Responsibility Association (CRA) at Columbia Law School), and Andrew Little, CSRIC (Floodlight), to share their perspectives as founders, builders and innovators on how new technologies can help accelerate the clean energy transition towards a sustainable future.

Avantika Daing and Deborah Buresh Jackson were thrilled to join ClimateImpact's #FemaleFoundersCouncil launch event in partnership with Unreasonable and Barclays, joining our founders Dr. Lisa Dyson and Stacy Flynn (Evrnu®, SPC).

Plum Alley team members also joined new friends and old at events sponsored and hosted by Rise, created by Barclays, Climate Vine, Good Growth Capital, Scottish Development International, 🌏 The Atlas Capital, Altru Institute, Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law, and many more. A good time to be at the forefront of technology driving impact in our world!

#climatetechNYC #agtech #soilregeneration #sustainability #greentech #carbonremoval #carboncapture #energytransition #emissionreduction #emergingtechnologies #femalefounders #venturecapital

PLUM

CO:PLUMALLEY

Plum Alley

locale

market

industry

website

linkedin

peer of

Metrics