The Alchemy Group

The Alchemy Group

The Alchemy Group operates from Springfield, Massachusetts, listing four partners — Chris Bignell, Kevin Sanborn, Brett Gearing, and Chris Sims — with a deliberate departure from hierarchical venture capital staffing. The firm's site states the team was built to cover a broad set of topics with a small group, suggesting a generalist seed practice rather than a sector-specialized fund. The firm identifies early-stage seed as its primary deployment zone, providing both investment capital and advisory support to startups in New England. No specific portfolio companies appear on the website; the portfolio page omits named holdings. Without published AUM or fund-close data, the scale of committed capital remains entirely opaque — consistent with a lean, founder-led vehicle operating below institutional reporting thresholds. No team size, headcount, or additional office locations are disclosed. The partner group is the only team layer visible, and no adjacent vehicles — philanthropic foundations, real-asset arms, or club memberships — appear in any public source. No fund names, vintage years, or limited-partner references are available. Within the last 24 months, no verifiable operational events such as fund closes, promotions, or new office openings were found. Alchemy's genuine structural difference lies in its stated organizational form: a deliberately small partnership that rejects VC convention in favor of wide topic coverage with low headcount. The lack of public portfolio names, fund sizes, and sector tags makes this a low-disclosure firm whose investment activity is difficult for an external allocator to size or diligence through primary sources alone.