
Alpha Capital
122 South Michigan Avenue Suite 1700, Chicago, IL, 60603, United States
Overview
Founded in 1984, Alpha Capital is a private equity investment firm which provides equity financing for promising growth businesses and for buyouts or recapitalizations of established companies. The investment activity of Alpha Capital is concentrated in the greater Midwest, however, Alpha will consider investments on nationwide basis. Currently, Alpha Capital Partners and affiliates manage over $135,000,000 in three venture capital partnerships and other equity accounts. With approximately $90 million of capital, Alpha Capital's latest limited partnership fund is actively investing at this time. A subsidiary of the most recent fund is federally licensed as a Small Business Investment Company (SBIC).
- Total investments
- 6
- Lead investments
- 2
- Investments · 12mo
- 3
- Active investors
- 3
Sector focus
- Biotechnology
- Finance
- Financial Services
- Funding Platform
- Lending
- Software
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- ORCA AI Agent
Participated · Series A · Aug 2026
ORCA AI Agent is building an AI-native execution layer designed to connect intelligence, automation, and liquidity across the prediction market ecosystem. Its platform offers real-time data analysis, autonomous strategy execution, cross-market routing, portfolio management, and institutional-grade risk controls. ORCA is supported by Nodepay's data and ecosystem infrastructure to process distributed market signals and translate them into actionable intelligence. The company plans to expand prediction market integrations and strengthen its AI agent infrastructure following the Series A. The $7 million strategic funding round provides capital to accelerate product development and support the project's global ecosystem growth.
- BOHR Chain
Led · Equity · Dec 2025
BOHR Chain offers a modular Layer-1 protocol that combines a Staked Proof-of-Authority (SPoA) consensus with a vCompute layer powered by Zero-Knowledge Proofs, enabling real-time, trustless verification of complex AI computations. Its architecture supports a Native PaaS framework with "One-Click Protocol" and "One-Click MEME Launchpad" features aimed at lowering barriers for Web3 developers. The project positions itself as the "internet backbone" for compute resources, facilitating ownership, leasing, and liquidity of global computing power. Current initiatives include expanding high-performance physical nodes across North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia. Funds are also directed toward strengthening its MPL modular protocol layer to support future AI and DePIN applications. While no revenue or user metrics were disclosed, the company emphasizes rapid infrastructure growth and ecosystem adoption.
- MetYa
Participated · Equity · Dec 2025
MetYa operates a fast-growing platform designed to connect traditional asset management with emerging technologies such as blockchain, AI analytics, and decentralized finance. Current offerings include AI-powered portfolio insights, integrated social features that let users interact around financial activity, and streamlined payment and settlement rails for cross-border and tokenized asset transfers. The company also provides infrastructure that improves access to a wide range of digital and tokenized assets, appealing to both retail and institutional users. With its new financing, MetYa plans to double down on social and payment integration, refine its AI investment tools, and deepen global liquidity connectivity so users can trade across markets seamlessly. Management positions these upgrades as critical to staying ahead in the rapidly evolving digital asset and fintech sectors. Although the firm did not disclose revenue, user numbers, or valuation, the sizeable investment signals strong investor confidence in its growth trajectory.
- NuLink
Participated · Equity · May 2024
NuLink provides decentralized privacy protection technology via an API aimed at integrating privacy features into decentralized applications. Its platform is positioned to help developers, startups, small businesses and enterprises build applications while adopting security and privacy best practices. The company emphasizes privacy-preserving tooling for dApps rather than a consumer-facing product. NuLink is described as being based in Sweden. The article reports that NuLink completed a $1.6M strategic financing. The raise signals outside investor interest in its API-focused privacy offering. NuLink provides privacy-preserving technology for decentralized applications through an out-of-the-box API platform. The platform offers endpoint encryption and cryptographic access control, using Proxy Re-Encryption and Attribute-Based Encryption to grant access by policy. For data recipients, NuLink supports Zero-Knowledge Proofs for privacy-preserving data availability and can employ Fully Homomorphic Encryption for enterprise-level data computation. The company highlights use cases including encrypted NFT marketplaces, electronic health record sharing, joint medical data analysis, decentralized digital rights management, privacy-preserving social networks, and encrypted financial data prediction. Co-founder David Jiao said the roadmap is to create a smart and scalable software architecture and to evolve from privacy data sharing to privacy data computing while building industry-specific use cases. NuLink announced a $4 million raise from a syndicate of crypto investors, per the company press release.
- BaishanCloud
Led · Series C · Jan 2018
BaishanCloud is a provider of cloud data services in China, founded in April 2015 by Huo Tao. The company offers a cloud data service called Orchsym designed to give Internet and enterprise customers data security, data integration, and API management tools. BaishanCloud maintains offices and R&D centers in Beijing, Seattle, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Xiamen and Guian. The company completed a Series C+ private equity financing and has formed a strategic partnership with Industrial and Commercial Bank of China that includes equity investment and banking facilities. Baishan intends to use the funds to continue enhancing product and R&D investment for new data products. With the close of Series C+, Baishan has completed a total of six rounds of private equity financing since its inception. BaishanCloud offers a cloud suite that includes cloud delivery, cloud storage, and cloud linkage, addressing data life cycle management. The suite is designed to fulfill data-transmission, data-storage, data-consumption, and data-governance needs for Internet and enterprise customers. The company completed a $50M Series C financing in June 2018. Baishan plans to invest the new capital to further enhance its service capability. Founded in April 2015 by Huo Tao, CEO, BaishanCloud maintains offices and R&D centers in Beijing, Seattle, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Xiamen and Guian. The firm focuses on expanding and strengthening its cloud data services for its target customers.