Your Window Into the Innovation Economy

Learn how Alumni Ventures evaluates a company for our fund portfolios.

With our Deep Tech Fund, we’re aiming to source innovative, venture-backed companies that are changing society and offering compelling investment opportunities.

Alumni Ventures’ new Blockchain Fund will offer a portfolio of ~20-30 promising, venture-backed companies innovating in areas like decentralized finance (DeFi), Metaverse, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and more. The fund is actively managed by three experienced investment professionals, including Managing Partner Ray Wu and Principals Jack Statza and Sophia Zhao. In this video, our team introduces themselves and discusses how they source and evaluate blockchain opportunities.

It’s been a past criticism of some deep tech ventures that they’re a technology in search of a business model. However, Alumni Ventures carefully vets all companies in the portfolio for both size of opportunity and business model, as well as team, investors, and more. We highlight some innovative companies from our Deep Tech Fund portfolio that are offering practical solutions in their respective industries. Like our investors, we’re firmly focused on valuation and return potential, and believe these three ventures offer a compelling case.

CEO Notes are briefs created by members of our team and community on high-interest topics covering entrepreneurship and venture investing. We invite you to watch this installment about Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) — unique digital assets that are disrupting the concept of ownership — presented by Alumni Ventures team members Drew Wandzilak and Keiran Simunovic.