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August 5, 2026
Ukraine’s Tech Renaissance: How Innovation and Resilience Are Fueling a Global Startup Boom
Over the past decade, Ukraine has quietly emerged as a global force in technology, producing world-class engineers, scaling deep-tech innovations, and launching startups that are reshaping industries. Even amid the devastating backdrop of war, the country’s startup ecosystem has not only adapted but accelerated. From defense tech and AI to fintech and cybersecurity, Ukrainian founders are expanding globally, raising capital, and building the next generation of high-impact technology companies.
by Bozhena Kulchyckyj
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 Webinar - September 24th 2026
The Next Frontier: The Next Frontier: Blockchain, Fintech, and the Venture Capital Opportunity — A Conversation with Alumni Ventures and The Defiant
Join Sophia Zhao, Partner at Alumni Ventures, and Camila Russo, Founder of The Defiant, for a fireside conversation on the current state of blockchain, crypto, and fintech venture — where capital is deploying across the space, what the next generation of on-chain and financial infrastructure companies are actually building, and how accredited investors can gain structured exposure to one of the most active corners of private markets.
by Alumni Ventures
July 27, 2026
Distilling Oil: The Unseen Cost of the Strait Closure
Deal or no deal, diplomacy alone doesn’t fix the broken supply chain. Ships move slowly, and a barrel of crude oil is a whole lot more than gas at the pump — it’s the feedstock for everything from plastics to asphalt
by Ryan Musto
July 21, 2026
AI Scales Work. Trust Scales in Person.
Anthropic, the company building Claude and currently valued at roughly $1 trillion on private secondary markets, just posted a job for an Events Lead, Brand. Salary range: $320,000 to $400,000. They have 10 more event roles open behind it.
by Travis McKenzie
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 Webinar - August 27th 2026
The Dartmouth Flywheel: How a Small Ivy Plays in the Big Leagues of Venture
Join Laura Rippy, Managing Partner at Alumni Ventures, for a clear-eyed look at why investors are increasingly seeking access to Dartmouth’s entrepreneurial ecosystem — and how Green D Ventures gives accredited investors a structured way to back the founders emerging from one of the country’s most consequential — and most underappreciated — alumni networks.
by Alumni Ventures
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 Webinar - August 27th 2026
VC 401: How Working With Us Works
Join Rob Adams, Executive Partner at Alumni Ventures, and Hilary Ncala, SVP Investor Relations, for the fourth session in the AV Academy series — a practical walkthrough of how to actually participate in venture through Alumni Ventures, including the three equity markets shaping modern portfolios, the two ways to invest with AV, and how to build a venture allocation that matches your goals.
by Alumni Ventures
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 Webinar - August 27th 2026
Spike Ventures VC 101
Join Todd McIntyre, Partner at Alumni Ventures’ Spike Ventures, for an inside look at the firm’s Stanford alumni-affiliated venture fund — and a clear-eyed view of how accredited investors can gain structured exposure to the founders emerging from what is arguably the world’s most productive innovation ecosystem.
by Alumni Ventures
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 Webinar - August 27th 2026
Ukraine's Startup Ecosystem: A roundtable discussion
Join Ron Levin, Managing Partner of the AV Seed Fund, and Senior Associate Bozhena Kulchyckyj — alongside special guests Andriy Kolodyuk, Founding Partner of AVentures Capital; Ali Javaheri, Senior Research Analyst at PitchBook Data; and Deborah Fairlamb, Founding Partner of Green Flag Ventures — for a roundtable on why Ukraine’s startup landscape hasn’t just adapted through war but accelerated, producing world-class engineers, deep-tech unicorns, and one of the most consequential venture opportunities forming outside Silicon Valley today.
by Alumni Ventures
July 15, 2026
The Ghost in the Machine
Explore how modern defense manufacturing is facing a hidden crisis: the rapid retirement of skilled workers whose tacit, experience-based knowledge cannot be easily replaced or documented. Using historical examples like Roman concrete and Stradivarius violins, it shows how civilizations repeatedly lose critical know-how when it is not formally captured. It argues that the only durable solution is full-stack manufacturing systems that embed data collection on the factory floor, turning human expertise into lasting, machine-learnable intelligence before it disappears.
by Drew Wandzilak
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 Webinar - August 26th 2026
AV Healthtech Fund's Dream Portfolio
Join David Shapiro and Mike Peri, Managing Partners of Alumni Ventures’ Health Tech Fund, for an introduction to one of the most consequential venture theses of the decade — and how the Health Tech Fund gives accredited investors structured exposure to the companies rebuilding how healthcare is delivered, financed, and experienced across the U.S. and beyond.
by Alumni Ventures
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 Webinar - August 25th 2026
Deep Tech Fund launch
Join Matt Caspari, Managing Partner of Alumni Ventures’ Deep Tech Fund, for an introduction to one of the most consequential venture theses of the decade — and how the Deep Tech Fund gives accredited investors structured exposure to the companies solving civilization-scale technical problems across AI, biotech, space, fusion, advanced manufacturing, and the rebuild of U.S. industrial capacity.
by Alumni Ventures
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 Webinar - August 25th 2026
An Introduction to AV's Foundation Fund
Join Greg Baker, Executive Partner of the Foundation Fund, for an introduction to Alumni Ventures’ flagship diversified venture fund — and a clear-eyed look at how the Foundation Fund gives accredited investors a single, professionally managed vehicle to access institutional-quality venture across sectors, stages, and the broader Alumni Ventures platform.
by Alumni Ventures

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