Women’s Fund
Investing in women-founded and led startups
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- HomePerformance Data
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- HomeFund Policies
- HomeInvest in women entrepreneurial leaders bringing their talents and perspective to promising markets — from femtech to software, pharma, biotech, CPGs, and more
- Home~15-20 venture investments made over ~12-18 months — diversified by stage, sector, geography, lead investor
- HomeReserves ~20% to pursue follow-on opportunities in the most promising portfolio investments
- HomeInvestments sourced by a team of dedicated investing professionals, our network of handpicked Scouts, AV’s 750k+ supporters, and other AV funds
- HomePart of Alumni Ventures, America's Largest Venture Firm for Individuals and a "Top 20 Venture Firm" (CB Insights '24)
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Meet Laura Rippy
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Laura Rippy, Managing Partner at Alumni Ventures and one of Business Insider’s top early-stage investors, leads our mission to invest in exceptional women founders. From her journey as a female CEO to building one of the strongest VC networks, Laura shares insights on why supporting female-led startups isn’t just the right thing — it’s smart investing.
Explore how the Women’s Fund backs over 400 women-led startups and helps close the funding gap, empowering visionary entrepreneurs to change the world.
AV Co-Invests with Experienced Venture Firms
250+ investments with leading VCs and many with other top-quartile firms.
These leading venture firms have backed some of the most successful companies in the world.
Co-investors are shown for illustrative purposes only, do not represent all co-investors with which Alumni Ventures has invested, and are not necessarily indicative of future co-investors. The identity of a co-investor does not guarantee investment quality or performance.
20 ventures from the Alumni Ventures portfolio that we’re excited about for 2025
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The fundraise deadlines of current and upcoming fund vintages are published below to help our investors with their personal venture allocation planning strategies. Read more about our Loyalty Rewards, Performance, and Fees.
About Alumni Ventures
We are a venture capital firm that provides accredited investors & institutions with access to professionally-managed, diversified venture portfolios. Our network is among the largest and most well-connected in the industry.
- Home#1 most active venture firm in the U.S., #3 in the world (PitchBook '22 & '23)
- Home$1.3B+ capital raised since founding in 2014
- HomeDiversified historical portfolio of 1,400+ venture-backed companies, adding ~250 / year
- Home10,500 individual accredited investors already trust us with their venture investing
- HomeTop 20 Venture Firm (CB Insights '24)
- HomeTop-quartile performance*
- HomeNetwork of 850k+ investors, entrepreneurs, & community members
- Home5 national offices & ~40 full-time venture investors
2022 Pitchbook Global League Tables, 2023 Pitchbook Global League Tables
The Top 20 venture investors in North America
*Top-Quartile for AV Fund vintages 2016-2020 as of September 30, 2024. Top Quartile ranking against Cambridge Associates’ peer group for venture capital, according to the Distributions to Paid-in Capital (DPI) metric. Top-Quartile for 2016 vintage was .77 for Cambridge Associates peer group and .72 for Alumni Ventures funds. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
Women’s Fund News
Content at the intersection of entrepreneurship, venture capital, and specific industry sectors.
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- Fund Team
- Scouts
- AV Support Team
Sample AV Women's Fund Deals
These investments, from AV's existing portfolio, are examples of the Women's Fund investing strategy.*
Bluesky
Decentralized platform for creative communities
Kalder
Gamified loyalty programs with digital wallets
Concerto
Microbial combinations to restore communities
GC Therapeutics
AI-driven stem cell therapies for healing
Madison Reed
Women’s hair-coloring products and service
Knix
Re-inventing women‘s intimate apparel
Venus Aerospace
Hypersonic technology to improve global travel
Ellevest
Solutions to help women build wealth
Cala Health
Wearable for hand tremor relief in patients
Ethena
Reinvented corporate employee training
*For illustrative purposes only. No representation is intended that any AV fund or investor has or would experience outcomes similar to those described. Example investments are not available to future investors except potentially in the case of follow-on investments. Venture capital investing involves substantial risk, including risk of loss of all capital invested. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
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