Webinar
An Introduction to Waterman Ventures
Watch our on-demand 45-minute presentation about Waterman Ventures, Alumni Ventures’ Brown-focused venture capital fund. The discussion is led by Waterman Ventures’ Managing Partner Ludwig Schulze and Senior Principal Dave Fan (BA ’09) and is open to all alumni and friends of Brown.
During the session, we discussed:
- HomeThe goal and structure of the fund
- HomeThe value of the Alumni Venture model
- HomeSome examples of current portfolio companies
- HomeThe benefits of diversifying into venture capital
- HomeThe minimum requirements needed to invest in the fund
Note: You must be accredited to invest in venture capital. Important disclosure information can be found at av-funds.com/disclosures.
About your presenters
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.
Dave helped scale sales and business development at 2 venture-backed companies focused on digital health (Zocdoc) and enterprise cloud software (Shibumi). He has also invested as a Venture Partner at NextGen and an LP at CRE Venture Capital. Dave began his career in investment banking and corporate strategy at Deutsche Bank. He has a BA in Economics from Brown. As the black sheep in a family of doctors and scientists, he is particularly interested in the intersection of health, education, and the environment. In his free time he enjoys tennis, travel, and piano.