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AV Investments Featured on 2023 Forbes AI 50 List
The Forbes AI 50 recognizes the most promising AI-driven startups. This year’s list once again features multiple Alumni Ventures portfolio companies — a testament to our firm’s commitment to supporting cutting-edge AI, machine learning, and big data solutions. See below to learn about just some of our 100+ AI-related investments, ranging from biological digital twins to autonomous, sustainable farming at scale.
by AV Communications Team
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Alumni Ventures’ Summer Reading List
It’s that time of year when kids trade their backpacks for beach towels, and Vitamin D becomes a daily companion. For most of us, however, there is still work to be done in these summer months. That’s why we had members of our executive and investing teams recommend some of their favorite books, films, and podcasts centered around entrepreneurship and venture capital that are educational, entertaining, and compelling. So whether you’re lounging by the shore or enjoying a leisurely afternoon, dive into these recommendations to soak up both the sun and the knowledge.
by AV Communications Team
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Boston University: Comm Ave Ventures
Brown: Waterman Ventures
BYU: Provo Ventures
Carnegie Mellon: The Fence Ventures
Columbia: 116 Street Ventures
Cornell: Triphammer Ventures
Dartmouth: Green D Ventures
Duke: Towerview Ventures
Georgetown: Potomac Ventures
Georgia Tech: Fowler Street Ventures
Harvard: Yard Ventures
MIT: Castor Ventures
Northwestern: Purple Arch Ventures
Notre Dame: Two Lakes Ventures
NYU: Bleecker Street Ventures
Ohio State: Mirror Lake Ventures
Penn State: Allen Street Ventures
Penn: Chestnut Street Ventures
Princeton: Nassau Street Ventures
Purdue: Stadium Avenue Ventures
Stanford: Spike Ventures
Texas A&M: Ring Ventures
U Chicago: Lakeshore Ventures
University of Texas: Congress Avenue Ventures
U Washington: Yoshino Ventures
UC Berkeley: Strawberry Creek Ventures
UCLA: Westwood Ventures
UNC: Franklin Street Ventures
University of Michigan: Arbor Street Ventures
USC: Expo Ventures
UVA: Emmet Street Ventures
Wisconsin: Bascom Ventures
Yale: Blue Ivy Ventures
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September 19, 2023
1 min read
AVTV: Pattern
AVTV spotlights Alumni Ventures’ portfolio companies sharing their stories and asks with our community. This episode features Pattern, a digital-first wealth management platform with personalized, human-led financial advice.
by AV Communications Team
September 19, 2023
1 min read
AVTV: PathMatch
AVTV spotlights Alumni Ventures’ portfolio companies sharing their stories and asks with our community. This episode features PathMatch, an app designed to help high school and college students navigate their career choices.
by AV Communications Team
September 19, 2023
3 min read
Forta Health: Delivering Family-Powered Autism Therapy
Alumni Ventures portfolio company Forta Health is making a profound difference in families’ lives by providing personalized care and ensuring early access to therapy critical to effective autism intervention.
by AV Communications Team
September 18, 2023
1 min read
One Startup to Know: Rwazi
Welcome to One Startup to Know. This series examines some of AV’s most impactful and innovative portfolio companies that exemplify our investment ethos. Today we’re showcasing Rwazi, which provides Global 1000 companies with rich, reliable market data to help expand their businesses in Africa’s fast-growing consumer market.
by AV Communications Team
September 18, 2023
4 min read
Alumni Ventures’ Impact on Our Seed-Stage Portfolio Companies
Alumni Ventures has served as a value-add partner for all 1,200+ companies we’ve invested in, whether they’re seeking their first checks or laying the groundwork for an IPO. Read about the impact we are having on our seed and pre-seed portfolio companies in their own words. In many cases, we’ve leveraged the expertise of Alumni Ventures’ ~50 investing professionals and our network of more than 600,000 community members to help them scale into promising, later-stage companies. We have since been invited by some of them to invest in additional financing rounds.
by AV Communications Team
September 14, 2023
3 min read
Unstructured: Making Data AI-Ready
Many academics, tech luminaries, and entrepreneurs believe that we are in the midst of an unprecedented artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, some arguing that the development of AI could rival the discovery of electricity. While history and hindsight will determine the scale of this technological leap forward, established tech giants and startups alike have embraced the technology.
by AV Communications Team
September 13, 2023
The Top 100 Universities That Produce the Most Founders and Startups
PitchBook’s annual University Rankings measure the number of alumni from top colleges and universities who’ve launched venture-backed startups. Alumni Ventures has dedicated funds for more than 30 of the schools on this year’s rankings, including nine of the top 10 on the undergraduate list.
by AV Communications Team
September 11, 2023
Why the Potential of Superconductors Could Create Significant Investment Opportunities
The potential of superconductor technology has introduced the world to what could eventually become one of the breakthrough technological discoveries in human history, easily on par with the discovery of electricity, steam power, and generative artificial intelligence. It certainly has the attention of VCs, who immediately grasped how this transformative tech could fundamentally reshape the modern economy.
by AV Communications Team
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September 28th 2023
Masterclass Live! The Art of Evaluating a Venture Deal
Register today for this exclusive, invite-only episode of our Masterclass Live! series with Alumni Ventures’ Chief Investment Officer Mark Edwards and Deputy CIO Andy Ervin. In this 45-minute session, you’ll discover how to evaluate a deal, walk through the process our own investment teams use to invest in promising startups, and learn how you, too, can invest in startups just like this through our Syndications Program. At Alumni Ventures, we believe everyone should have the opportunity to invest in the next big thing. That’s why we’ve created a platform that allows our investors to flex their skills by investing not only in our offerings of portfolios of startups but also in individual syndication opportunities.
by AV Communications Team
September 8, 2023
Ossium Health: Streamlining Stem Cell Therapies
Alumni Ventures portfolio company Ossium Health is well-positioned to develop a leading solution in the global stem cell therapy market, projected to reach $31.4 billion by 2030. Powered by the world’s largest bone marrow donor bank, Ossium is leveraging an unprecedented amount of data on stem cell behavior and characteristics to develop therapies for blood, immune, and inflammatory diseases.
by AV Communications Team
September 7, 2023
5 min read
Taking a Closer Look at Alumni Ventures’ Seed Fund
Our Seed Fund allows accredited investors to own a diversified portfolio of ~20-30 venture-backed pre-seed and seed-stage companies — rigorously vetted and scored by our experienced teams. Each vintage features high-tech game-changers and disruptive business models from a variety of sectors and geographies.
by AV Communications Team
September 6, 2023
2 min read
VC 101: Why Relationships Matter in VC
Access to top deals can often be driven by who you know. Based on the science behind “six degrees of separation,” our growing network of 600,000 community members provides broad access to the entire VC universe.* In this episode of VC 101, AV Co-Founder and CCO Luke Antal discusses the importance of relationships in successful venture investments.
by Luke Antal
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