Webinar
Masterclass Live! How We Evaluate Venture Deals
Join Alumni Ventures Managing Partners Ludwig Schulze and Rob Adams for a live masterclass exploring how our team evaluates venture deals across a range of sectors and stages.
This interactive session will walk through our end-to-end investment process—from sourcing high-potential startups to applying a rigorous diligence framework that prioritizes innovation, traction, and leadership. Ludwig and Rob will also highlight recent investments and explain why certain companies earned a “yes” in a competitive landscape.
Whether you’re an investor new to venture or looking to sharpen your understanding of our methodology, this is a great opportunity to go behind the scenes of how deals are assessed. There will also be time for audience Q&A to ensure your most pressing questions are addressed. Reserve your spot today to gain a deeper understanding of Alumni Ventures’ approach to smart venture investing.
Why Attend?
- HomeLearn how Alumni Ventures evaluates early-stage and growth-stage startup opportunities
- HomeGet a real-world look at the factors that separate promising startups from the rest
- HomeHear directly from Managing Partners Ludwig Schulze and Rob Adams about the decision-making process
Alumni Ventures is America’s largest venture capital firm for individual investors.
About your presenters
Ludwig has been on all sides of venture — as an entrepreneur, corporate buyer of ventures, and venture capitalist. Before Alumni Ventures, he experienced the daily realities of entrepreneurship as Founder and CEO of a mobile payments venture that served over 12 million people. Earlier, at a Fortune 100 telecommunications manufacturer (Nokia), he held general manager and business development roles that included investing in and acquiring venture-backed businesses. His first experience in venture capital was with an $800 million global fund that focused on enterprise and mobile software both before and after the dot.com crash. Ludwig began his career as a strategy consultant with the Boston Consulting Group. He has a BA from Brown University and an MBA from Columbia. He lives in NYC with his wife and 2 teenagers.
Rob is a former entrepreneur, institutional fund manager, and software executive. He has served on many corporate boards and has founded or financed more than 40 companies, raising capital in both public and private markets. He is an internationally recognized expert and speaker on innovation, commercialization, and entrepreneurship. Most recently, Rob was on the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin, where he taught entrepreneurship in the MBA program and was the Founder and Director of Texas Venture Labs. He was CEO and Founder of Business Matters, a venture-backed developer of financial modeling products that was acquired. He was also an executive with Pervasive Software, a company he helped take public. Rob holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Purdue, an MBA from Babson’s Olin School of Management, and a PhD in Management from Capella University.