Webinar

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 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’ Keaton Nankivil for a deep dive into Bascom Ventures — the firm’s University of Wisconsin–Madison 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 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 Matt Caspari, Managing Partner of Alumni Ventures’ Deep Tech Fund, for a sharp look at why deep tech has moved from venture’s hardest, slowest-moving corner to the category quietly powering its biggest outcomes — and why the next decade of venture returns will be defined by the companies solving civilization-scale technical problems.

Join Ray Wu, Managing Partner of Alumni Ventures’ AI First Syndicate, alongside Senior Principals Jack Statza, Sophia Zhao and Bryan Liu, as they share a current look at the AI First portfolio — what’s been added, what’s breaking out, and where the team sees the most compelling AI venture opportunities forming next.

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 Luca Giani, Senior Principal at Alumni Ventures — biotech founder, Blavatnik Fellow, and former M&A and strategy professional — for a contrarian look at why early-stage biotech is one of the most structurally mispriced corners of venture today, and why the window to capture that arbitrage may be narrower than most investors realize.

Join Sophia Zhao, Senior Principal at Alumni Ventures, for a session on the rise of autonomous AI agents — the open-source revolution quietly reshaping how people work every day, and what it means for investors who want to be on the right side of it.

Join Greg Baker, Executive Partner of the Foundation Fund, for an introduction to Alumni Ventures’ flagship diversified venture fund — and a clear-eyed look at how the Foundation Fund gives accredited investors a single, professionally managed vehicle to access institutional-quality venture across sectors, stages, and the broader Alumni Ventures platform.

Join Laura Rippy, Managing Partner of Alumni Ventures’ Women’s Fund, alongside Senior Partner Stacey Tsai, Senior Principals Meera Oak and Sophia Zhao, Principal Evy Chen, and Senior Associate Charlotte Jenkins, for a final opportunity to learn about the Women’s Fund before it closes — and hear directly from the team on the thesis, the portfolio, and where they see the highest-conviction opportunities forming next.

Jack Statza, Senior Principal at Alumni Ventures, and Investor Bryan Liu led a candid look at where venture capital is actually deploying inside the next generation of financial infrastructure — the marketplaces, identity layers, and digital asset rails being built today that most investors haven’t yet put on their radar.