Webinar
Eyes on the Horizon: Navigating Venture Capital in 2025
Join us for “Eyes on the Horizon: Navigating Venture Capital in 2025,” a webinar presented by Spike Ventures. In this session, we’ll share our perspective on the shifting venture capital landscape, highlighting trends, opportunities, and strategies for the year ahead.
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Drawing on our experience and focus within Spike’s Stanford network, we’ll discuss how we identify sectors with growth potential and build diversified portfolios of venture investments. Whether you’re an experienced investor or exploring venture capital for the first time, this webinar offers Spike’s insights into the venture capital landscape as we enter 2025.
Why Attend:
- HomeGain Expert Insights: Understand the shifting venture capital landscape for 2025 with Spike Ventures’ unique perspective and in-depth analysis.
- HomeDiscover Growth Opportunities: Learn how Spike identifies high-potential sectors and builds diversified venture portfolios within the Stanford network.
- HomeStay Ahead of Trends: Explore emerging trends, investment strategies, and opportunities to navigate the evolving VC ecosystem.
About your presenter
Overview:
Todd McIntyre invests in transformative technologies that move markets and improve lives—where deep science, hardware innovation, and human health intersect. With 25+ years as both investor and operator, Todd has built, funded, and scaled companies from inception through exit. He focuses on opportunities where differentiated intellectual property and disciplined execution can create lasting value.
Before joining Alumni Ventures as Managing Partner of Spike Ventures (Stanford alumni fund), Todd co-founded Grey Sky Venture Partners, a healthtech venture capital fund that linked equity investment with fund-owned intellectual property. He sourced investments, guided portfolio companies as board member and mentor, and managed a 500+ patent portfolio. Earlier, as Vice President of Business Development at Invention Science Fund, he helped incubate and fund several landmark deep-tech startups, including TerraPower, Kymeta, Evolv Technologies, Echodyne, and Pivotal Commware.
Todd also played a leading role in growing Microvision from a three-person startup to a publicly traded innovator in display and imaging, and founded Lumera Corporation, a spinout focused on optical and biotech device technologies.
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Investment Lens:
Across healthcare, hardware, and deep tech, Todd backs founders who bring breakthrough ideas into reality. He looks for entrepreneurs who don’t just imagine the future—they engineer it, protect it, and scale it.
Todd’s investment lens emphasizes diversified venture portfolios: sector, stage, geography, and vintage. He has extensive experience negotiating and closing deals across the capital structure—from seed and early-stage ventures to M\&A and public financings. His track record spans pioneering work in healthtech, complex patent licensing transactions, and syndicating deals alongside top-tier venture firms.
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