Understanding Your Investment Options
Venture Capital Fundamentals (VC 401) | Class 3
This lesson is coming soon. In the meantime, here’s a preview of what you’ll learn about how accredited investors can invest with us — including different ways to build a venture portfolio, from diversified funds to selecting individual deals.
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What Is This Lesson?
A look at the different ways you can participate in venture investing with us. - Home
Who Is It For?
Anyone exploring how to build a venture portfolio that fits their goals and level of involvement.
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About Your Instructors
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.
Hilary Ncala
SVP of Investor RelationsHilary is a senior leader in financial services with more than 15 years of experience working with investors across market cycles. Since joining Alumni Ventures in 2016, she has been instrumental in building and scaling the firm’s investor relations function, leading high-performing teams and partnering closely with investment, finance, legal, and operations groups to support investors throughout the lifecycle of their venture portfolios with rigor and transparency. Her background in retirement investment planning, including earlier Series 7 and 63 licensure, informs a disciplined perspective on portfolio construction, risk management, liquidity considerations, and long-term capital allocation. Hilary is known for her ability to bring clarity to complex investment topics and for upholding a thoughtful, investor-first experience. She graduated summa cum laude from Fisher College and is currently pursuing her MBA at Boston University.
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.