The Alumni Ventures Model
Venture Capital Fundamentals (VC 401) | Class 1
This lesson is coming soon. In the meantime, here’s a preview of what you’ll learn about how we’ve reimagined the venture capital model — making professional-grade, diversified venture portfolios accessible to individual accredited investors.
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What Is This Lesson?
A look at how we’ve expanded access to venture capital — and why we believe it belongs in a modern portfolio. - Home
Who Is It For?
Anyone interested in going beyond traditional investments and exploring venture capital.
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About Your Instructors
Luke Antal
Co-Founder & Chief Community OfficerLuke is an experienced startup and tech executive who has built and continues to oversee many of the processes, systems, and teams that power Alumni Ventures’ fundraising initiatives. With a strong focus on marketing, sales operations, and customer experience, he has played a key role in scaling multiple startups, often as a founder or employee #1.
Mike Collins
CEOMike Collins is an experienced operator across nearly every facet of venturing—from angel investing and venture capital to new business and product launches, as well as innovation consulting. He is a serial entrepreneur who has founded multiple companies, including one partially owned by WPP, and began his career at the venture capital firm TA Associates.
Laura Rippy
Managing Partner, Green D, Yard & Women’s FundLaura serves as Managing Partner of the Green D, Yard, and Women’s Funds and is a member of the Alumni Ventures Board, leading multiple fund strategies across the firm. She brings extensive leadership experience as a serial CEO, Chairman, board member, and executive in high-tech companies, including Microsoft. Recognized for her impact in venture, she was ranked among Business Insider’s Best Early-Stage Investors in both 2024 and 2025.
Alumni Ventures and its personnel provide investment advice only to affiliated venture capital funds. AV Academy is not personalized advice for any participant.
This communication is from Alumni Ventures, a for-profit venture capital company that is not affiliated with or endorsed by any school. It is not personalized advice, and AV only provides advice to its client funds. This communication is neither an offer to sell, nor a solicitation of an offer to purchase, any security. Such offers are made only pursuant to the formal offering documents for the fund(s) concerned, and describe significant risks and other material information that should be carefully considered before investing. For additional information, please see here. Achievement of investment objectives, including any amount of investment return, cannot be guaranteed. Co-investors are shown for illustrative purposes only, do not reflect all organizations with which AV co-invests, and do not necessarily indicate future co-investors. Example portfolio companies shown 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. Diversification cannot prevent investment loss; it is a strategy to mitigate investment risk. This communication includes forward-looking statements, generally consisting of any statement pertaining to any issue other than historical fact, including without limitation predictions, financial projections, the anticipated results of the execution of any plan or strategy, the expectation or belief of the speaker, or other events or circumstances to exist in the future. Forward-looking statements are not representations of actual fact, depend on certain assumptions that may not be realized, and are not guaranteed to occur. Any forward-looking statements included in this communication speak only as of the date of the communication. AV and its affiliates disclaim any obligation to update, amend, or alter such forward-looking statements, whether due to subsequent events, new information, or otherwise.