Foundation Fund
Our broadest, most-diversified fund. May be especially appealing to new venture investors.
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Let our expert team handle it for you.
Our award-winning venture investing professionals will build a diversified portfolio of venture-backed companies for you.
- 20ā30 venture-backed companies per fund vintage
- Minimum investment: $10K ($300-$500 per startup)
- Exclusive webinars, deal discussions, and events
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Invest Deal-by-Deal
You select individual companies to invest in.
Join our Foundation Fund Syndicate to review deals one at a time. Weāll share diligence materials so you can make informed decisions.
- 5ā10 venture-backed deals sent to you to review per year
- Invest in single companies starting at $10K
- Free to join; requires quick accreditation process
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- Home~20-30 investments diversified by stage, sector, geography, and lead investor. Deployed over 12-18 months.
- HomeInvestments sourced by our entire team of ~40 full-time venture investment professionals
- HomeCo-investing alongside other established venture firms
- HomePortfolio constructed algorithmically with oversight from the Office of the CIO, with 20% reserved for follow-ons
- HomeIncludes access to deal Syndications and engagement opportunities with other investors
- HomePart of Alumni Ventures, America's Largest Venture Firm for Individuals and a "Top 20 Venture Firm" (CB Insights '24)
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AV Co-Invests with Experienced Venture Firms
250+ investments with leading VCs and many with other top-quartile firms.
These leading venture firms have backed some of the most successful companies in the world.
Co-investors are shown for illustrative purposes only, do not represent all co-investors with which Alumni Ventures as invested, and are not necessarily indicative of future co-investors. The identity of a co-investor does not guarantee investment quality or performance.
50 ventures from the Alumni Ventures portfolio that weāre excited about for 2025
Invest in Startups Like the Apex 50
Accredited investors can invest in startups like the Apex 50 with Alumni Ventures.Ā Talk with a Senior Partner about our portfolio of over 1,400 companies from Bluesky to Groq to Goodles to learn more about becoming an investor.
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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.
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About Alumni Ventures
We are a venture capital firm that provides accredited investors & institutions with access to professionally-managed, diversified venture portfolios. Our network is among the largest and most well-connected in the industry.
- Home#1 most active venture firm in the U.S., #3 in the world (PitchBook '22 & '23)
- Home$1.3B+ capital raised since founding in 2014
- HomeDiversified historical portfolio of 1,400+ venture-backed companies, adding ~250 / year
- Home10,500 individual accredited investors already trust us with their venture investing
- HomeTop 20 Venture Firm (CB Insights '24)
- HomeTop-quartile performance*
- HomeNetwork of 850k+ investors, entrepreneurs, & community members
- Home5 national offices & ~40 full-time venture investors
2022 Pitchbook Global League Tables, 2023 Pitchbook Global League Tables Ā
The Top 20 venture investors in North America
*Top-Quartile for AV Fund vintages 2016-2020 as of September 30, 2024. Top Quartile ranking against Cambridge Associates’ peer group for venture capital, according to the Distributions to Paid-in Capital (DPI) metric. Top-Quartile for 2016 vintage was .77 for Cambridge Associates peer group and .72 for Alumni Ventures funds. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
AV Foundation Fund News
Content at the intersection of entrepreneurship, venture capital, and innovation.
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Your fund managers and community members who wake up everyday to assemble a great venture portfolio.
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Sample AV Foundation Fund Deals
These investments, from AV's existing portfolio, are examples of the AV Foundation Fund's investing strategy. *
Oura
Smart ring delivering personal health data
Sondermind
Online virtual and in-person therapy service
Upstart
Leading AI lending marketplace
Enable
Collaborative rebate management platform
Axiom Space
Private spaceflight services & infrastructure
Enfabrica
Designer of tech for AI workloads
StatusPRO
Sports video games with 3D, VR player simulations
Lambda
Hybrid AI cloud infrastructure provider
*For illustrative purposes only. No representation is intended that any AV fund or investor has or would experience outcomes similar to those described. Example investments are not available to future investors except potentially in the case of follow-on investments. Venture capital investing involves substantial risk, including risk of loss of all capital invested. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
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