Why Are You Passionate About Venture Capital?
VC in 33 Seconds
What makes venture capital so exciting? In this video, Ron Levin shares how running a VC fund is about more than just returns — it’s about backing visionary founders tackling the world’s biggest challenges. From global health to technology, discover how venture investing can drive large-scale impact while creating powerful opportunities for growth.
VC in 33: Why Are You Passionate About Venture Capital?
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In this video, Ron Levin explains why venture capital is one of the most meaningful ways to create change. By investing in bold founders solving major global challenges across industries and regions, VC funds have the potential to drive real impact — while also generating strong returns. Discover how purpose and performance come together in early-stage investing.
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Ron Levin
Managing Partner and Head of AV Super Angel Partner ProgramRon brings a dynamic blend of operational leadership, global business acumen, and values-driven investing to early-stage venture capital. As Managing Partner and Head of the AV Seed Fund at Alumni Ventures, he leads investments in bold, frontier technologies that span sectors and geographies. Ron’s experience ranges from founding and scaling unicorn-status startups to guiding impact-focused portfolios that generate both financial and societal returns. Before joining Alumni Ventures in 2019, Ron served on the Investment Committee at Yard Ventures, AV’s fund for the Harvard community. His own entrepreneurial journey includes co-founding and leading TravelPerk, an enterprise travel management platform that reached multibillion-dollar valuation and global scale. Prior to that, he launched the B2B division of Booking.com and held strategic roles at McKinsey & Co., US Airways, the Maersk Group, and Lycos. Ron studied entrepreneurship at Babson College and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School. A frequent speaker at global investor conferences and guest on top VC podcasts, he is also a passionate world traveler—having visited over 140 countries and all 50 U.S. states. He resides near Boston with his wife and three young children, and shares personal reflections and industry insights at ronlevin.substack.com.
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Ron Levin:
I think the great thing about running venture capital fund is that we get to invest in opportunities that can really solve big problems for large swaths of humanity. And I don’t say that lightly, but I really mean that we have the opportunity to invest in companies that are solving problems for all areas of the world, in all sectors of the economy. There are great opportunities coming every day that we see from dynamic, innovative founders that are really trying to solve the world’s biggest problems, and we can be there to help support them and also achieve remarkable returns on that investment.
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