Webinar
Masterclass Live! How We Evaluate Healthtech Startups
Watch an on-demand presentation hosted by Healthtech Fund Managing Partners Ludwig Schulze and David Shapiro. In this session, you will discover the framework our team uses to evaluate promising startups, walk through the process, and learn how you, too, can invest in startups like this through the Healthtech Fund.
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Post Webinar Summary
Ludwig Schulzw and David Shapiro from Alumni Ventures hosted a webinar on evaluating healthcare and health tech startups. They introduced Alumni Ventures and its extensive experience in venture capital, highlighting their management of the Health Tech Fund, which benefits from a diverse and expansive network of investment professionals and external advisors. Ludwig emphasized the rigorous, data-driven process they use to evaluate investment opportunities, which includes multiple teams reviewing and scoring deals. David explained their co-investment model, focusing on the importance of having a lead investor and a term sheet before moving forward with a potential investment. The discussion also touched on the general principles of venture capital, the uncorrelated nature of venture investments compared to public markets, and how Alumni Ventures curates the best deals from a broad array of sources to populate their funds.
The Healthtech Fund is Alumni Ventures’ fund for healthtech & life sciences investments.
During this session, we discuss:
- HomeUnderstanding the time horizon of venture investments
- HomePerforming due diligence and reviewing the typical types of materials available in a deal
- HomeWeighing some of the challenges, key risks, and how to factor those into the ultimate decision
- HomeTracking companies after investment and the purpose of portfolio monitoring
- HomeMore details about the Healthtech Fund
About Alumni Ventures
Top 20 VC Investors in North America (2024)
#1 Most Active Venture Firm in the U.S. (2023)
#1 Most Active Venture Firm in the U.S. (2022)
World's Most Innovative Companies (2022)
Note: You must be accredited to invest in venture capital. Important disclosure information can be found at av-funds.com/disclosures.
About your presenters
Ludwig has been on all sides of venture — as an entrepreneur, corporate buyer of ventures, and venture capitalist. Before Alumni Ventures, he experienced the daily realities of entrepreneurship as Founder and CEO of a mobile payments venture that served over 12 million people. Earlier, at a Fortune 100 telecommunications manufacturer (Nokia), he held general manager and business development roles that included investing in and acquiring venture-backed businesses. His first experience in venture capital was with an $800 million global fund that focused on enterprise and mobile software both before and after the dot.com crash. Ludwig began his career as a strategy consultant with the Boston Consulting Group. He has a BA from Brown University and an MBA from Columbia. He lives in NYC with his wife and 2 teenagers.
David has over 25 years of experience as an investor, adviser, and board member, with expertise across early- and late-stage venture capital. Before joining Alumni Ventures, David was Senior VP of Corporate Development and Business Development for DataXu, a marketer-aligned data and analytics company. Prior to his time at DataXu, he was a Director with the global venture and private equity firm 3i, including board directorships with ten companies. He also worked in the private equity group at GE Asset Management where he specialized in late-stage venture and growth capital opportunities. David received his BA in History from Yale in 1991 and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth in 2000.