Webinar
Meet the Waterman Ventures Team
Watch our on-demand, 45-minute webinar to learn about Waterman Ventures, Alumni Ventures’ Brown-focused venture capital fund, and meet the investment team responsible for building the portfolio.
This is an excellent opportunity to meet the Waterman Ventures team and to hear about their approach to investing in private-stage companies. This presentation is led by Waterman Ventures’ Managing Partner Ludwig Schulze and Senior Principal Dave Fan. This presentation is open to all alumni and friends of Brown.
During the session, we will cover:
- HomeThe goal and structure of the fund
- HomeThe team and management behind the fund
- HomeThe Waterman and Alumni Ventures approach to investing
- HomeExamples of current portfolio companies
- HomeThe benefits of diversifying into venture capital
Note: You must be accredited to invest in venture capital. Important disclosure information can be found at av-funds.com/disclosures.
The webinar recording does not feature our live Q&A, please make sure to join webinars live to participate in the discussion.
About your presenters
Ludwig Pierre Schulze leads Alumni Ventures’ Office of Institutional Partnerships globally, serving corporate, sovereign, and family office investors with tailored strategies drawn from the firm’s 1,500+ portfolio companies. In his prior role, he managed multiple portfolios, with investments including Precision Neuroscience, HawkEye 360 (NYSE: HAWK), and Kapital.
Before Alumni Ventures, Ludwig founded an enterprise payments startup, weathering the highs and lows of building from zero to serve 12 million users in Asia. At Nokia, he was General Manager of the Digital Financial Services division and invested in startups while in Corporate Development. Ludwig began in venture capital at Groupe Arnault during the dot-com boom and bust. He started his career at The Boston Consulting Group.
Ludwig holds a BA from Brown University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He is based in New York City.
Dave helped scale sales and business development at 2 venture-backed companies focused on digital health (Zocdoc) and enterprise cloud software (Shibumi). He has also invested as a Venture Partner at NextGen and an LP at CRE Venture Capital. Dave began his career in investment banking and corporate strategy at Deutsche Bank. He has a BA in Economics from Brown. As the black sheep in a family of doctors and scientists, he is particularly interested in the intersection of health, education, and the environment. In his free time he enjoys tennis, travel, and piano.