

Bascom Venture Fund and Syndicate
Venture Investing With Fellow Wisconsin Alums
What It Is
A private investing community for Wisconsin alums, featuring both a diversified venture fund and deal-by-deal syndications. Bascom invests in cutting-edge ventures—by co-investing alongside top-tier venture capital firms. Members have access to ventures and venture deals where we co-invest alongside tier-one VCs, with low minimums and due diligence sharing on each deal. Bascom is built on the premise that we do better together.
Who It’s For
Accredited Wisconsin alumni who want strategic exposure to venture capital. Ideal if you believe in innovation, technology and entrepreneurship—and you value investing with fellow alums (alongside top-tier venture capitalists).
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
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.
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
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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.
See video policy below.
Meet the Team
Your classmates and community members who wake up everyday to assemble a great venture portfolio.
- Investment Team
- Investment Committee
- Venture Fellows
- AV Support Team
Bascom Ventures Content & News
Content at the intersection of entrepreneurship, venture capital, and our shared alma mater.
Bascom Ventures Portfolio
We invest alongside other established venture firms in a broad range of ventures to help build you a diversified venture portfolio.
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- Alto Experience
- Alvee
- American Gene Technologies
- Anzen Insurance
- Appify
- Arrows
- Atmoslabs
- Axiom Space
- Azumo
- Bacon
- Baseball United
- Battleface
- Benny
- Boldin
- Brave Health
- Cache
- Canela Media
- Centaur Health Holdings
- Circle
- Compass
- Conversa
- Cultured Decadence
- Deserve
- Dog Spot
- dub
- Earth Funeral
- Enable
- Endless West
- Ethena
- Expo
- Fanstake
- FinLocker
- Frens
- Gallant
- Global Predictions
- GrubMarket
- H3X Technologies
- Harbor MedTech
- Heal
- HealthMyne
- HelixNano
- Hello Alfred
- Hercules AI
- Highly
- Honcho
- Hopscotch Health
- HopSkipDrive
- Impart Security
- Innoblative
- Intrinio
- Juvena Therapeutics
- Kalderos
- Kindbridge
- LARQ
- Layer
- Light Field Lab
- Lightship
- Live Undiscovered Music
- LoveLocal
- Lumanu
- Lunar Energy
- Lyla
- Mai
- Mighty
- Mission Bio
- MUD / WTR
- Mycocycle
- Mythic
- Mythical Games
- NeuraLight
- Nimble Collective
Join Us (For Free)
Start Investing With the Wisconsin Alumni Community Today.
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Easy Sign-Up
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High-Quality Deals
Typically unavailable to individual investors. - Home
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.