Webinar
Formula for Success: A Guide to Venture Capital Math
Join us for an on-demand presentation about the math behind venture capital, led by Towerview Ventures’ Managing Partner Greg Baker. Towerview Ventures is Alumni Ventures’ Duke-focused venture capital fund, and this webinar is open to all alumni and friends of Duke.
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Post Webinar Summary
Greg Baker, Managing Partner of Towerview Ventures, hosted a webinar to provide insights into venture capital (VC), its role in fostering innovation, and the approach of Towerview Ventures, part of Alumni Ventures. He explained VC’s potential for outsized returns, emphasizing its role in supporting early-stage companies that often disrupt industries and create transformative impact. While acknowledging the high risks and illiquid nature of VC, he highlighted its ability to diversify portfolios and generate returns over a long horizon, citing successful examples like Airbnb and Uber. Towerview Ventures, leveraging a network of 750,000 members and co-investing with top-tier firms like Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia, follows a diversified strategy across sectors, stages, and geographies. Alumni Ventures, the largest VC firm for individual investors in the U.S., has raised $1.3 billion and invested in over 1,400 companies since 2014. The webinar emphasized VC’s long-term potential and invited accredited investors to explore opportunities in Towerview’s portfolio.
Venture capital is the practice of investing in innovative, fast-growing private companies that are believed to have long-term equity appreciation potential. The work involves numerous calculations, from performing due diligence, calculating risks and returns, and bigger-picture calculations of the market.
During this session, we will discuss:
- HomeWhat is venture capital
- HomeThe benefits of investing in venture capital
- HomeWhat are the risks and potential returns of venture capital
- HomeHow the math of venture capital works
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 presenter
Greg has been a Managing Partner with Alumni Ventures since 2017. He is the Founder of Bascom Ventures and runs Towerview Ventures and has made more than 100 investments as a member of Alumni Ventures. These investments include: American Gene Technologies, SHINE Medical, Mission Bio, Axiom Space, Matchwell, and many others. Prior to joining AV, Greg was a highly accomplished executive with experience in corporate leadership, business development, startups, M&A, strategic planning, and more. He spent much of his career growing businesses in the electrical products, packaging, and chemical industries. Greg has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin (’86) and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University (’91).