VC 101: Why VC for Diversification
VC can be a valuable addition to modern, diversified portfolios
AV Co-Founder Luke Antal’s VC 101 video series provides insights on venture capital essentials. In this episode, AV’s Chief Community Officer presents a video exploring how venture capital can provide valuable diversification to an investment portfolio.
This episode of VC 101 features key members from AV’s Office of Investment discussing how the venture capital asset class can play an important role in diversifying your portfolio. Compared to publicly traded assets, which can be prone to volatile swings, VC is a long-term asset class that has shown limited correlation to public markets.*
Alumni Ventures further diversifies investments by sector, geography, stage, and lead investor. Many AV customers also invest in a fund each year add “time” as an additional vector of diversification. This cornerstone of our strategy helps mitigate risk by ensuring capital isn’t deployed to any single investment while maintaining reserves for follow-on investments into companies with demonstrated traction. The result is an approach to venture capital investing designed to help minimize risks and geared to maximize opportunities for return.**
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Alumni Ventures provides access for accredited investors to venture capital in an unprecedented way. Once solely the domain of large institutions and ultra-high-net-worth individuals, AV has helped with democratizing access to the venture capital asset class. We help accredited investors build a portfolio of promising startups to tap into the high-potential value of private companies before they go public.
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Luke Antal
Co-Founder & Chief Community Officer, Alumni VenturesLuke Antal is a Co-Founder of Alumni Ventures and is an experienced startup and tech executive with a focus on marketing, sales operations, and customer experience. As the firm’s Chief Community Officer, Luke has built and oversees many of the processes, systems, and teams that contribute to the firm’s fundraising initiatives. He has scaled many startups as a founder or employee #1. He is the Founder of the AV Venture Fellow Program, which is a one-of-a-kind career accelerator and educational experience that is a groundbreaking on-ramp to a career in VC. Luke has an AB in Environmental Studies from Dartmouth College.
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*Julian Gary, “Does Private Equity Outperform Public Markets?,” The Economics Review, June 2022.
**Diversification is a strategy used to help mitigate risk but cannot ensure a profit or protect against loss in a declining market. Different types of investments involve varying degrees of risk, and this fund involves substantial risk of loss, including loss of all capital invested.
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