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    Venture consistently outperforms the public markets, including the 5, 15, and 25-year time periods. (1)
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    Venture has been the highest-performing alternative asset class over the last decade. (2)
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    Venture returns are largely uncorrelated to the public markets. (3)

Over 21k Wisconsin alumni and friends have joined our community. Join us!

Bascom Ventures is a welcome solution for addressing a long term growth need in my portfolio. Disciplined analytics, high quality deals, vetted by top venture capital firms allow the rest of us to participate in funding companies our Wisconsin brethren are involved in. Great idea!
Tom Booker
Bascom Ventures Investor
Investing with Bascom Ventures and Alumni Ventures has allowed me to add a strong portfolio of early-stage investments and support fellow Badgers. The fund process makes it easy to get into deals that I would not have access to, nor the time to evaluate all of them.
Gretchen Gilbertson
Bascom Ventures Investor
Thanks to Alumni Ventures for creating Bascom Ventures! I have enjoyed being a part of successful early-stage initiatives from fellow alumni of the University of Wisconsin. Because of the scale and leverage of the AV group as a whole, the quality of the deals is superior.
Karen Monfre
Bascom Ventures Investor
Bascom Ventures is a welcome solution for addressing a long term growth need in my portfolio. Disciplined analytics, high quality deals, vetted by top venture capital firms allow the rest of us to participate in funding companies our Wisconsin brethren are involved in. Great idea!
Tom Booker
Bascom Ventures Investor
Investing with Bascom Ventures and Alumni Ventures has allowed me to add a strong portfolio of early-stage investments and support fellow Badgers. The fund process makes it easy to get into deals that I would not have access to, nor the time to evaluate all of them.
Gretchen Gilbertson
Bascom Ventures Investor

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Meet Our Managing Partner

Greg Baker, ’86

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).

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(1)  Cambridge Associates, Building Winning Portfolios through Private Investments, August 2021

(2) JP Morgan Asset Management, Guide to Alternatives, Q4 2022 Report

(3) Invesco Research, The Case For Venture Capital, 2016

About Alumni Ventures

For Investors: Alumni Ventures helps accredited individuals invest in portfolios of highly-competitive, venture-backed, early-stage startups and pre-IPO companies. We co-invest alongside well-known venture firms and provide access to those deals in a single fund investment or select multiple funds.

For Founders: Alumni Ventures provides smart, connected capital and access to our extended network of investors and experts. We are low-friction, transparent co-investors who seek to add value via our network and support services.

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Alumni Ventures is America’s largest VC firm for individual investors based on the combination of total capital raised, number of investments, and number of investors of leading VC firms as reported by Pitchbook and other publicly available information reviewed by AV.

(1) Internal Rate of Return (IRR) for AV Funds is net of management fees and incentive allocations applied to amounts distributed to investors, and gross of incentive allocations applicable to unrealized gains on investments held by AV Funds. IRR for AV Funds includes uninvested cash, unrealized investments, and amounts distributed to investors. The IRR shown for the Russell 2000 indices are gross of fees because indices are not managed investments, and it is not possible to invest directly in an index. For additional information see av-funds.com/disclosures. All investment involves risk, including risk of loss. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. For more information on AV Funds’ investment returns, please see here.

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