Webinar
Access the Innovation Edge: Inside Spike Ventures
Join our presentation to learn about Spike Ventures. This is an excellent opportunity to meet the team and hear about their approach to investing in private-stage companies. This presentation is led by Managing Partner Todd McIntyre.
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Post Webinar Summary
In the Spike Ventures Fund 8 webinar, managing partner Todd McIntyre introduces the fund’s focus on providing venture capital opportunities to Stanford alumni and their network. The session highlights how Spike Ventures builds diversified portfolios, investing across stages, sectors, and geographies. Emphasizing the benefits of venture capital—such as high returns, low correlation with public markets, and access to private markets—the presentation outlines the fund’s collaborative strategy of co-investing with top-tier venture firms like Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners. Spike Ventures offers individual investors the chance to participate with investments starting at $25,000, with an October 31st deadline offering a fee reduction incentive. The fund aims to foster long-term wealth building through consistent annual investments, leveraging the Stanford alumni network to source deals and provide value to portfolio companies.
During this session, we will cover:
- HomeThe goal and structure of the fund
- HomeSpike and Alumni Ventures approach to investing
- HomeSome examples of current portfolio companies
- HomeThe benefits of diversifying into venture capital
- HomeThe minimum requirements needed to invest in the fund
Note: You must be accredited to invest in venture capital. Important disclosure information can be found at av-funds.com/disclosures.
About your presenter
Todd has more than 20 years of experience as a venture capital investor, entrepreneur, and senior technology operating executive, as well as deep knowledge of intellectual property and IP licensing. He has worked with capital structures ranging from seed stage investments to public offerings and has experience in many sectors, including consumer media and web, optoelectronics, telecoms, cleantech, and healthcare. Most recently, he was founding Managing Partner of Grey Sky Venture Partners, a life sciences and digital health fund that pioneered a venture finance model combining early-stage capital with fund-owned intellectual property. He also served as a senior business leader in a technology incubator fund, where he led efforts to build, fund, and spin out several new deep tech businesses. Todd received his BA from Hendrix College and holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.