Your Window Into the Innovation Economy

Join Mike Collins, Founder & CEO of Alumni Ventures and Board Chair of PrePublic Equity Partners, alongside Gray Chynoweth, CEO of PrePublic Equity Partners, and Hans Stege, Head of Investment Research at PEP, for a live conversation on what could be the most consequential private-market year in history — as SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI take steps toward public listings that could introduce more than $3 trillion in new market value to public investors over a matter of months.

Join the Alumni Ventures team as they break down the fundamentals of venture capital from the ground up — because understanding how VC actually works is the first step to deciding whether it belongs in your portfolio.

Join Alumni Ventures’ Matt Caspari for an inside look at Strawberry Creek Ventures — the firm’s UC Berkeley alumni-affiliated fund — and how privileged access to one of the country’s most prolific research and innovation ecosystems translates into a differentiated venture portfolio for accredited investors.

Join Mark Edwards, Chief Investment Officer at Alumni Ventures, and Andy Ervin for a behind-the-scenes look at four Foundation Fund portfolio companies — the reasons they earned capital, what the team saw early, and what each one reveals about how Alumni Ventures actually builds a venture portfolio.

Join Alumni Ventures’ Chris Sklarin, Evy Chen, and Kody Amburgey for the launch of the next Castor Ventures fund — and a clear-eyed look at how accredited investors can gain structured exposure to the founders emerging from one of the world’s most powerful innovation ecosystems before this fund closes.

Join Drew Wandzilak, Managing Partner of Alumni Ventures’ U.S. Strategic Tech Fund, for a look at one of the most consequential — and most underfunded — venture opportunities of the decade: capturing the tribal knowledge inside America’s defense industrial base before an entire generation of skilled workers retires, and building the AI-native manufacturers positioned to own what comes next.

Join Brian Keil, Managing Partner at Alumni Ventures, for an introduction to Triphammer Ventures — the firm’s Cornell alumni-affiliated venture fund — and a clear-eyed look at how accredited investors can gain structured exposure to the founders emerging from one of the country’s most prolific research and innovation ecosystems.

Join Rob Adams, Executive Partner at Alumni Ventures, and Hilary Ncala, EVP Investor Relations, for a deep look inside how venture capitalists actually evaluate a deal — the scorecards, signals, and screens that turn 500+ monthly opportunities into a small handful of investments worth backing.

Join Ryan Musto, Senior Associate at Alumni Ventures, for a clear-eyed look at the U.S. Strategic Tech Fund thesis — and why the rebuild of American defense, energy, advanced manufacturing, AI infrastructure, and critical minerals is shaping up to be one of the most consequential venture opportunities of the decade.

Join Charlotte Jenkins and Bozhena Kulchyckyj, Senior Associates at Alumni Ventures, for a fast-moving look at the four AI consumer trends reshaping daily life — agentic commerce, ambient home AI, hyper-personalized health, and AI-powered learning — and the markets each one is set to define by 2030.

Join a cross-firm panel of early-stage venture investors — Glenn Borok and Ron Levin of Alumni Ventures’ Seed Fund, John Harthorne, Founder & Managing Partner of Two Lanterns Venture Partners, Gregory Raiz, General Partner at FoundersEdge, and Catherine Ouellet-Dupuis, General Partner at White Star Capital — for a sharp, contrarian look at one of the most consequential debates in venture today: as AI rewrites how software gets built, sold, and used, is the B2B SaaS model that has defined a generation of returns actually heading toward extinction — or evolving into something new?

Join Laura Rippy, Managing Partner at Alumni Ventures, alongside Senior Partner Stacey Tsai, Senior Principal Luca Giani, Senior Associate Charlotte Jenkins, and Drew Wandzilak, Managing Partner, for an inside look at Yard Ventures — Alumni Ventures’ Harvard-affiliated venture fund — and how the team is investing across the Harvard ecosystem today.