Seth Corder
Partner at High Alpha
Chicago, Illinois
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Director
2025 - Current
Immersive, seven month long programmatic experience that provides expertise, positioning, exposure, and insight to drive customer growth.
Board Observer
2024 - 2025
Led the Series A financing
Nostra AI’s Edge Delivery Engine is the first edge that caches dynamic content enabling 20% faster load times for ecommerce merchants.
Raised $13,105,498.00 from Crosscut Ventures, Matthew Prince, Good Friends, High Alpha, Sugar Capital and Signal Peak Ventures.
Board Member
2024 - 2025
Led the Series A financing.
Paccurate is a cartonization API that lowers shipping costs and speeds up shipping.
Raised $13,800,000.00 from HPA (Hyde Park Angels), High Alpha, SpringTime Ventures, Royal Street Ventures, Las Olas Venture Capital, Tech Square Ventures and Grand Ventures.
Board Observer
2022 - 2025
Co-led the Series A financing. Chain.io helps anyone involved in buying or moving products around the world work with supply chain vendors, customers, and software platforms more efficiently. With logistics expertise built into the heart of its software, Chain.io plugs into any ecosystem seamlessly and makes sure the right data is going to the right people at the right time. Shippers, logistics service providers, and software providers leverage Chain.io's network to optimize critical business processes.
Chain.io is a cloud-based supply chain integration platform designed to optimize supply chain processes.
Raised $18,000,000.00 from High Alpha, EVE Atlas, Grand Ventures, Fontinalis Partners, Mercury and Waybury Capital.
Board Observer
2022 - 2025
Initially participated in the 2018 Pre-Seed financing. Malomo uses shipment tracking technology to drive repeat sales. Using its solution, retailers can share shipping updates with buyers via webpages, app notifications, and emails. When customers check their order tracking, they’re treated to products, ads, and other content Malomo serves to spur additional purchases.
Malomo is a shipment tracking platform for ecommerce businesses.
Raised $8,300,000.00 from Hyde Park Venture Partners, Jeremy Cai, The Vaan Group, Harlem Capital, High Alpha, CX Collective, Alexandre Perrier, Paul Singh, Base10 Partners and Hyde Park Venture Partners.
Board Member
2021 - 2025
Invested in the Seed financing. Superside is building a Creative-as-a-Service solution. The company operates a network of freelance creatives that are tapped by companies to work on logos, display ads, packaging, bigger marketing campaigns and other design-based efforts.
Superside is an always-on design company that delivers great design at scale to Enterprise teams.
Raised $35,120,000.00 from FJ Labs, Slack Fund, Acequia Capital (AceCap), Lugard Road Capital, Freestyle Capital and Prosus Ventures.
Board Observer
2021 - 2025
Led the Series A financing. Smartwyre connects the agricultural inputs industry with accurate and up-to-date product, price and rebate program data. By connecting the cost management and commercial pricing activities within an agricultural input retailer, Smartwyre prevents mismatches between production levels and actual farmer demand, shrinking excess inventory and administrative headaches for business leaders.
Software built for agribusiness performance.
Raised $13,500,000.00 from Fall Line Capital, Anterra Capital, High Alpha, Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and Cavallo Ventures.
Board Observer
2020 - 2025
Led the Seed financing. Woven aims to streamline the hiring software engineers, a process typically requiring skills-testing and multiple rounds of interviews. Job applicants can complete skills testing on Woven’s online platform, which means the hiring company doesn’t have to expend time and effort on in-house testing of job applicants. The Woven assessments measure an applicant’s abilities on several factors, including programming, systems thinking and technical communication.
Woven is the first technical assessment that goes way beyond code so engineering leaders can confidently hire experienced engineers.
Raised $11,065,000.00 from Elevate Ventures, High Alpha and Allos Ventures.
Board Observer
2020 - 2025
Led the Series A financing. Craft is the enterprise intelligence company helping Fortune 500 enterprises and government agencies building resilience and uncover new opportunity. Craft’s unique data platform enables supply chain, procurement and risk managers to monitor their suppliers at scale, increasing visibility and resilience by tracking real-time signals proactively across millions of companies globally. Craft provides comprehensive company data, advanced analytics and intuitive software that delivers best-in-class intelligence, in an integrated cloud-based software.
Helping supply chain and procurement professionals discover, evaluate, and monitor suppliers to create stronger supply chain resilience.
Raised $42,000,000.00 from ServiceNow Ventures, Stacey Epstein, Point Field Partners, High Alpha, Edith Harbaugh, BAM Elevate, Uncork Capital, Greycroft and Frederic Kerrest.
Partner
2019 - 2025
I led the investment team and invested in early stage B2B SaaS companies. We invested in 70+ incredible founders during my time with the firm. In addition to my board positions, I led or supported investments in: Amplio, Attentive, Botkeeper, Common Turst, Empower Delivery, Escala, Idemeum, Kevala, Logik.io, Nacelle, Orbiit, Pimly, Rheaply, Smartsuite, Sinai, Singuli, Socio, Tavus, The Mom Project, Wholesail, and Writ.
High Alpha creates and funds companies through a new model for entrepreneurship that unites company building and venture capital.