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Private Investor
Jan 2021
The leading women’s wellness brand that’s modernizing aging, Womaness empowers women to feel and look great as they age through clinically and doctor-tested supplements, sexual wellness, and skincare products formulated to meet the needs of a changing body.
Available at womaness.com, Ulta Beauty, Amazon, Target, and QVC.
Private Investor
Nov 2018
Founded in 2014, we’re America’s largest venture firm for individual investors and VC investing partner to over 11,000 individuals and institutions. Offerings include institutional-grade funds with large diversified portfolios and deal-by-deal investing through our Syndicates. Investment minimum is $10,000.
• Top-20 VC Firm (Time Magazine ’25)
• Top-Decile Investment Performance (Carta Benchmarks ‘25)
• Top 20 VC Firm (CB Insights 24)
• Top 50 Unicorn VC (Stanford GSB Research ‘25)
• Top 3 Most Active US VC Firm (PitchBook ‘18 - ‘24)
• Most Founder Friendly Investor List (Inc. Magazine ‘24)
• Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company 22)
• #1 Most Active Venture Firm in the US (PitchBook 22 & 23)
• Top 20 Venture Firm (CB Insights 24)
• Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company 22)
• Portfolio of 1,600+ current and historical companies
• 40+ full-time VC investors
• Founders get access to our community of 850,000+ members and 6,000+ Experts.
Offers of securities made only to eligible investors by formal offering documents describing risks, terms, and other important information that must be considered before investing. Example portfolio companies shown for illustrative purposes only, do not necessarily reflect investment outcomes that were or would be obtained by any AV fund or investor, and are not available to future investors, except potentially in follow-on investments. Venture capital investing involves substantial risk, including risk of loss of all capital invested. Past performance does not guarantee future results. The content on this account is intended solely for persons located in the U.S. and is not directed at, and must not be acted upon, by any person in the United Kingdom. UK residents seeking information about AV should refer only to communications issued by Alumni Ventures UK LLP, which provides information solely on a non-promotional basis and only distributes Financial Promotions to eligible recipients in accordance with UK law.
Private Investor
2017
Chestnut Street Ventures is an Alumni Ventures venture capital fund for alumni of Penn that invests in companies with a Penn connection.
Meet the team:
Brain Keil, Managing Partner
Jonathan Meltzer, Managing Partner
Wesley Yiu, Partner
Mason Hale, Associate
Lucas Kirshenbaum, Venture Analyst
We are part of Alumni Ventures, America’s largest venture fund for individuals and the #1 most active venture firm in the US and #3 globally (PitchBook 2022).
Follow Chestnut Street Ventures for content at the intersection of our shared alma mater, venture capital, and entrepreneurship.
We are private, for-profit, and not affiliated with or sanctioned by the university.
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2021
Private Investor
Jan 2021
The leading women’s wellness brand that’s modernizing aging, Womaness empowers women to feel and look great as they age through clinically and doctor-tested supplements, sexual wellness, and skincare products formulated to meet the needs of a changing body.
Available at womaness.com, Ulta Beauty, Amazon, Target, and QVC.
2018
Private Investor
Nov 2018
Founded in 2014, we’re America’s largest venture firm for individual investors and VC investing partner to over 11,000 individuals and institutions. Offerings include institutional-grade funds with large diversified portfolios and deal-by-deal investing through our Syndicates. Investment minimum is $10,000.
• Top-20 VC Firm (Time Magazine ’25)
• Top-Decile Investment Performance (Carta Benchmarks ‘25)
• Top 20 VC Firm (CB Insights 24)
• Top 50 Unicorn VC (Stanford GSB Research ‘25)
• Top 3 Most Active US VC Firm (PitchBook ‘18 - ‘24)
• Most Founder Friendly Investor List (Inc. Magazine ‘24)
• Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company 22)
• #1 Most Active Venture Firm in the US (PitchBook 22 & 23)
• Top 20 Venture Firm (CB Insights 24)
• Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company 22)
• Portfolio of 1,600+ current and historical companies
• 40+ full-time VC investors
• Founders get access to our community of 850,000+ members and 6,000+ Experts.
Offers of securities made only to eligible investors by formal offering documents describing risks, terms, and other important information that must be considered before investing. Example portfolio companies shown for illustrative purposes only, do not necessarily reflect investment outcomes that were or would be obtained by any AV fund or investor, and are not available to future investors, except potentially in follow-on investments. Venture capital investing involves substantial risk, including risk of loss of all capital invested. Past performance does not guarantee future results. The content on this account is intended solely for persons located in the U.S. and is not directed at, and must not be acted upon, by any person in the United Kingdom. UK residents seeking information about AV should refer only to communications issued by Alumni Ventures UK LLP, which provides information solely on a non-promotional basis and only distributes Financial Promotions to eligible recipients in accordance with UK law.
2017
Private Investor
2017
Chestnut Street Ventures is an Alumni Ventures venture capital fund for alumni of Penn that invests in companies with a Penn connection.
Meet the team:
Brain Keil, Managing Partner
Jonathan Meltzer, Managing Partner
Wesley Yiu, Partner
Mason Hale, Associate
Lucas Kirshenbaum, Venture Analyst
We are part of Alumni Ventures, America’s largest venture fund for individuals and the #1 most active venture firm in the US and #3 globally (PitchBook 2022).
Follow Chestnut Street Ventures for content at the intersection of our shared alma mater, venture capital, and entrepreneurship.
We are private, for-profit, and not affiliated with or sanctioned by the university.
1998
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J. J. Keller Foundation, Inc.
Board Member
1998
Investment activity
1998–2021 · 4 investments
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