Women’s Venture Fund and Syndicate
Investing in women-founded and led startups
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It’s All About Access to Life-Changing Deals
You Get Access to Deals Led by Top VC Firms: Quality, Quantity, Diversification.
Designed for Retail Investors
Build a venture portfolio to fit your goals. Alumni Ventures invests across stages and geographies, co-investing with elite firms.
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Pre-seed to Later-Stage
We invest at a variety of stages, always evaluating upside vs. price. - Home
Diverse Geographies + Leads
We look for great deals everywhere and co-invest alongside a wide variety of strong lead VC firms. - Home
Due Diligence by Alumni Ventures
America's Largest Venture Firm for Individuals and an "America’s Top 20 Venture Capital Firm of 2025" (Time ‘25). - Home
You Decide
Invest in funds for maximum coverage. Invest deal-by-deal for maximum exposure.
Co-Invest With Elite VCs
The best ventures have their pick of lead investors — it only makes sense to invest alongside them. These firms have co-invested in many deals with Alumni Ventures:
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Andreessen Horowitz
51 investments with AV - Home
Sequoia
25 investments with AV - Home
Besemer Venture Partners
22 investments with AV - Home
Y Combinator
56 investments with AV - Home
Founders Fund
28 investments with AV - Home
Kleiner Perkins
23 investments with AV - Home
Khosla Ventures
56 investments with AV
Fund Overview
- 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.
Two Ways to Participate
How You Want to Partner With Us Is Up to You.
Our Fund
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Simplest Way to a Startup Portfolio
An annual fund of 20-30 high-quality diversified investments — offering you the most efficient way to build a large portfolio. - Home
Diversification Across Many Dimensions
Diversification across sector, stage, geography, and lead investor — mitigating risk while capturing the potential upside of breakthrough innovations. - Home
Leave It up to Us
Our team gets up every day to strategically deploy your capital over ~12-18 months, reserving ~20% to pursue follow-on opportunities in the most promising portfolio investments.
Our Syndicate
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Real-Time Deal Flow
You see deals as we see them - about a deal a month (it ebbs and flows). Deals move fast and sometimes fill up. - Home
Access to Our Diligence Portal
Access due diligence and view "Why We Are Investing" video briefs. - Home
Hands-On Capital Management
You decide which investment opportunities are right for you and how much to invest.
Access Curated Deals Led by Top VC Firms
These firms have co-invested in many deals with Alumni Ventures
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.
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About Alumni Ventures
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Top-Tier and Battle Tested
PitchBook names AV the #1 most active VC in the U.S. (’22–’23) and CB Insights slots us in its 2024 Top 20; our 2016-20 funds sit in Cambridge Associates’ top-quartile performance ranks. - Home
Diversification From Day One
$1.4B+ deployed across 1,400+ venture-backed companies, with ~250-300 new investments added annually; diversification spreads risk and upside across stage, sector, and geography. - Home
Co-Investing With the Best
AV routinely co-invests alongside leading venture firms such as Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, and NEA, giving you the benefits of their negotiated terms and their support to portco companies. - Home
Network You Can Lean On
11,000 accredited investors and an 850,000-strong alumni & entrepreneur community create proprietary deal flow, talent pipelines, and follow-on capital impossible to assemble alone. - Home
Dedicated, Nationwide Team
40 full-time venture professionals spread across five U.S. offices source 50-75 fresh opportunities each quarter, vet them rigorously, and present only the deals we commit to doing for our funds.
20 ventures from the Alumni Ventures portfolio that we’re excited about for 2025
Invest in Startups Like the Apex 20
Accredited investors can invest in startups like the Apex 20 with Alumni Ventures. Talk with a Senior Partner about our portfolio of over 1,400 companies to learn more about becoming an investor.
Or simply text us with your question for fast response
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Fundraise Timing & Loyalty Rewards
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.
Meet the Team
- 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
*Investments are shown for illustrative purposes only, are not necessarily representative of any other AV fund or AV investor experience, and are not accessible to future investors, except potentially in the case of follow-on investment.
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Co-Invest with Elite VCs
AV co-investors include VCs like Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, Khosla, Accel, and more. - Home
Exclusive Deal Information
Diligence materials, investor decks, company financials all provided. NDA required & enforced.