Alpha Edison

Alpha Edison is a Los Angeles, California-based knowledge-driven early-stage venture-capital firm founded in 2016, headquartered at 1025 Westwood Boulevard Floor 2, Los Angeles, CA 90024, and led by a partnership including Nick Grouf (serial entrepreneur), Jami Hunt (operational leader), Steve Horowitz (technology partner), and Michael Parekh, employing approximately 24 staff including approximately 13 partners. The firm characterises itself as an ''investment firm focused on category-creating companies'' and applies a research-driven approach combining artificial intelligence, data analytics, and behavioural-science research to identify market opportunities where customer behaviours are shifting, latent demand exists, and ''silent suffering'' can be addressed through new products and business-model innovation, investing primarily at seed and Series A stage in software / AI, fintech, healthcare / HealthTech, SaaS, marketplaces, deep-tech, and related technology-driven verticals across the United States. Alpha Edison has deployed three funds (Fund III approximately USD 78.6 million, with overall assets under management approaching USD 1 billion) across a portfolio of more than 80 companies including unicorns (4 disclosed) and notable investments such as Bird, Aspiration, Alto, Comparably, Rize, Brainbase, Greenfly, RxPost, Upwards, and Honor Education.