Your Window Into the Innovation Economy

AVTV features Elevent, a curated marketplace that connects companies with experienced providers to deliver unique and memorable virtual and physical events. AVTV videos feature Alumni Ventures’ portfolio companies sharing their stories and asks with our community.

AVTV features Epicore, the developer of a skin-like, microfluidic sensing platform that analyzes sweat droplets to drive personalized hydration and health management. AVTV videos feature Alumni Ventures’ portfolio companies sharing their stories and asks with our community.

Venture capital has historically been a challenging asset class for individuals to access, but it is no longer only available to the ultra-high-net-worth investor. Today, venture capital is an asset class that any accredited investor can own. Such access requires strong compliance, leading the way for Chief Compliance Officer Michael Phillips to join Alumni Ventures in 2020.

Did you know that seven out of ten of the world’s largest companies, including Apple and Amazon, were venture capital-backed?1 In addition to the iPhone, venture capital financing has led to the electric car, mRNA vaccine, and the search engine. So, it’s not a hyperbolic claim that venture capital has transformed our day-to-day lives.

With 360 million square kilometers making up more than 70% of our planet’s surface, it is no wonder we have yet to discover everything in the sea. Still, there is a growing need among commercial and government customers for cost-effective, detailed capture and use of oceanographic data. Unfortunately, because data collection methods are too human-centric and cost-prohibitive to scale, only 5% of our oceans are mapped in high resolution.

Watch a video highlighting our AVTV program, an opportunity for our portfolio companies to broadcast their elevator pitch and most salient asks to our community.

AVTV features Unspun — a 3D weaving technology developer that can weave clothing at over 4x the rate of current methods allowing for made-to-order, customized clothing produced at scale. AVTV videos feature Alumni Ventures’ portfolio companies sharing their stories and asks with our community.

Investors and consumers alike turn to diverse teams from a wide variety of backgrounds to address some of the largest problems facing society. Historically, diverse founding teams have earned a 3.26x median return — 30% higher than homogenous teams. And even amid the pandemic, the majority of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) focused funds outperformed the S&P 500 in early 2021.