Northeastern PE/VC’s Venture Team: a group of highly passionate PE/VC members providing top-tier strategic advisory to the venture ecosystem

Northeastern Growth Partners

What We Do:

Our Venture Team is a versatile advisory group offering support to participants in the venture ecosystem: investors and startups. From initially offering strategic advisory to pre-seed to Series A startups, we now focus on supporting our network of early-stage networks source and learn about today’s new-age early-stage startups by assisting their deal flow. If you are pre-seed or seed stage startup, we can facilitate a warm introduction and present an investment pitch to our unique investor base!

Outsourced Deal Flow

Strategic Advisory

Formerly, NGP offered comprehensive strategic advisory to early-stage startups to enter new markets, discover ideal pricing models, and further develop their product suite.

We support a wide-range of multi-stage industry-agnostic investor clients by sourcing and facilitating warm introductions with superstar early-stage startups.

Slate Milk

  • Featured on Shark Tank, Slate is an ~$80M EV beverages e-commerce platform intended to provide all-natural, high-protein food and drinks with no added sugar. The company's platform sells chocolate milk that contains less sugar, more protein and no artificial colouring with no gluten, nuts, lactose, soy and carrageenan, enabling customers to enjoy flavoured milk which is beneficial for their health.

  • Eshan Gupta, Chloe Conroy, Aurrel Bhatia, Jonathan Meehan, Tiffany Zhou

  • Identifying unique Go-To-Market strategies and key suggesting implementation actions

  • Provided Slate Milk a comprehensive insight into i) university cafeteria, ii) university athletic clubs, iii) gym vending machines, and iv) corporate food service distribution channels and facilitated initial touchpoints for sales

Overview of tangible entry avenues for Quill Payments’ Boston entry

Featured Clients

Martinson Ventures

  • Founded in 2015, Martinson Ventures is a venture capital investment firm based in Newtown, Pennsylvania. The firm prefers to invest in the education technology, healthcare, marketing, software, and financial technology sectors across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.

  • Eshan Gupta, Chloe Conroy, Shashwat Khivasara, Stuart Mitcheltree, Rhea Wadhwa, Keshav Warrier, Hoang Tran, Tiffany Zhou, Spandana Rao

  • For fall 2024, we are supporting Martinson Ventures in sourcing and screening potential investment opportunities for multi-stage tech investments.

  • This project is scheduled to commence in fall 2024.

Quill Payments

Moneta Ventures

  • invest in enterprise software companies building mission-critical solutions for their customers that also have two additional characteristics (or plusses, as we call them) that are truly differentiating: transformational tech and multi-layered monetization strategies.

  • Eshan Gupta, Chloe Conroy, Shashwat Khivasara, Rhea Wadhwa, Keshav Warrier, Hoang Tran, Nikhil Reddy, Tiffany Zhou, Spandana Rao

  • For fall 2024, we are supporting Moneta Ventures in sourcing and screening potential investment opportunities for multi-stage tech investments.

  • This project is scheduled to commence in fall 2024.

  • Quill helps college town merchants attract and retain their ideal customers through past spending behaviors. Their student mobile app helps college students find the best deals and consolidates their loyalty rewards into one easy-to-use platform mapped to transactions made on their cards of choice.

  • Benji Damon, Amaya Malik, Varun Jhamvar, Lois Hong, Hoang Tran

  • The Quill team was tasked with conducting comprehensive research into user dynamics for college students in the Boston college ecosystem to facilitate future market entry plans.

  • The Quill team presented comprehensive insights into Boston college students' spending habits and the college-town merchant-student ecosystem that Quill could tap into for potential expansion opportunities.

Kidogo Media

  • Kidogo is the operator of a multimedia edutainment company intended to curate videos and learning games. The company offers diverse, wholesome, educational, & accessible musical content that features & honors black culture for preschool-age children, enabling clients to make diverse, multicultural content available for all children.

  • Cameron Elder, Shashwat Khivasara, Saariya Faraz, Ananya Karthik, Fedor Bentsa, Siya Jairath

  • Kidogo needed assistance in focusing its Go-To-Market efforts as well as effectively modeling its financial situation over the next five years to confidently approach investors and enter the market with the necessary resources. We also pitched Kidogo to Northeastern's Impact Investing Fund for a seed-stage investment.

  • The Kidogo team i) offered an actionable outline of a school partnership market entry strategy, ii) conducted a SWOT analysis to help Kidogo identify its positioning effectively, and iii) recommended potential sponsors with custom suggested outreach to reach them. We also pitched Kidogo to Northeastern's Impact Investing Fund for a seed-stage investment in 2023.

Meaningful comparison of social media avenues to best improve LeaseClub’s brand presence

LeaseClub

Thoughtful framework to inform PopPD’s pricing efforts suggested using expert interviews

CareX Ventures

  • In early 2024, Kalyani Devaraj founded Carex Ventures, focusing on startups in healthcare, wellness, and food technology. She aims to allocate 10% of the portfolio to impact-focused or minority-owned startups, fostering a diverse and innovative environment.

  • Eshan Gupta, Chloe Conroy, Shashwat Khivasara, Rhea Wadhwa, Keshav Warrier, Hoang Tran, Nikhil Reddy, Tiffany Zhou, Spandana Rao

  • For fall 2024, we are supporting CareX Ventures in sourcing and screening potential investment opportunities for multi-stage tech investments.

  • This project is scheduled to commence in fall 2024.

PopPD

  • Backed by Techstars, PopPD is the developer of an online professional development platform designed to empower educators. The company's platform offers self-paced, on-demand courses, peer-to-peer collaboration, and coaching opportunities, enabling educators to continuously learn and grow.

  • Eshan Gupta, Chloe Conroy, Nick Perrotta, Saariya Faraz, Alex Yang, Shivam Singhal

  • PopPD needed assistance in pursuing extenstive exploration to determine best platform pricing strategy, gain insight into sales processes for K-12 schools, and get a clear understanding of market sizing and their unique positioning.

  • The PopPD team presented a comprehensive research of ~60 pages outlining i) key pricing strategies backed by academic theory and sample cases, ii) detailed school RFP processes with surveyed school principals to determine platform viability, and iii) comparative SWOT analysis of PopPD's competitors to suggest differentiation aspects to raise VC effectively.

  • LeaseClub was a PearVC-backed developer of a rental marketplace platform intended to leverage shared communities like schools to connect new renters to apartments through existing tenants. The company aimed to redefine the traditional apartment search experience, enabling users an access exclusive units earlier than other sites, avoid broker's fees, and unlock a better way to discover their ideal apartment.

  • Shivam Singhal, Alex Yang, Mei Wang, Stuart Mitcheltree, Keshav Warrier

  • The LeaseClub team was tasked with conducting a deep dive exploration into potential marketing and sales strategy to help LeaseClub effectively launch its product in Boston-based undergraduate colleges.

  • Our team conducted comprehensive research into key marketing strategies that could be leveraged by LeaseClub to effectively penetrate the Boston college market. Unfortunately, LeaseClub shut down mid-project.

Sample Deliverables

Focused comparison of Slate Milk and competitors to identify unique selling points