Webinar
116 Street Ventures Presents: Venture Capital 101
Watch our on-demand, 45-minute Venture Capital 101 presentation covering key documents, stages, and the basic principles of venture capital investing.
The presentation will be led by 116 Street Ventures’ Managing Partner Ludwig Schulze, and is open to all alumni and friends of Columbia University. 116 Street Ventures is Alumni Ventures’ Columbia-focused venture capital fund. During the session, Ludwig discusses:
- HomeThe stages of venture capital
- HomeKey aspects of investing (theme-building, sourcing, and winning deals, etc.)
- HomeImportant documents involved in investing
- HomeExamples of what to look for when evaluating deals
Note: You must be accredited to invest in venture capital. Important disclosure information can be found at av-funds.com/disclosures.
About your presenter
Ludwig Pierre Schulze leads Alumni Ventures’ Office of Institutional Partnerships globally, serving corporate, sovereign, and family office investors with tailored strategies drawn from the firm’s 1,500+ portfolio companies. In his prior role, he managed multiple portfolios, with investments including Precision Neuroscience, HawkEye 360 (NYSE: HAWK), and Kapital.
Before Alumni Ventures, Ludwig founded an enterprise payments startup, weathering the highs and lows of building from zero to serve 12 million users in Asia. At Nokia, he was General Manager of the Digital Financial Services division and invested in startups while in Corporate Development. Ludwig began in venture capital at Groupe Arnault during the dot-com boom and bust. He started his career at The Boston Consulting Group.
Ludwig holds a BA from Brown University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He is based in New York City.