Webinar
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Join Alumni Ventures’ Drew Wandzilak for an introduction to the U.S. Strategic Tech Fund, our fund focused on backing exceptional companies building the future of critical American technology and infrastructure.
In this session, Drew will provide a comprehensive overview of the U.S. Strategic Tech Fund’s investment strategy and how the fund identifies opportunities in sectors vital to national security, economic competitiveness, and technological leadership. He’ll discuss what makes strategic technology — including cybersecurity, defense tech, advanced manufacturing, semiconductors, and critical infrastructure — a compelling investment category in today’s geopolitical landscape.
The conversation will cover how the fund evaluates promising startups across strategic tech sectors, highlight portfolio companies addressing critical challenges, and explore why these investments represent both strong financial opportunities and strategic importance for America’s technological future. You’ll gain insight into the fund’s investment approach, market dynamics, and what separates companies positioned to become category leaders in strategic technology.
Whether you’re a current investor or exploring opportunities in venture capital, this webinar offers valuable perspective on one of the most important investment themes of our time. Reserve your seat today to learn how the U.S. Strategic Tech Fund backs leading companies building America’s technological edge.
Why Attend?
- HomeLearn about the U.S. Strategic Tech Fund's investment strategy in critical technology sectors
- HomeUnderstand how the fund evaluates and selects startups addressing national security and infrastructure challenges
- HomeDiscover why strategic technology represents a compelling investment opportunity in today's environment
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About your presenter
Overview:
Drew Wandzilak invests in breakthrough technologies that matter to the real world—systems that generate power, move hardware, secure nations, or decode biology. He focuses on companies operating in high-heat, high-speed, high-stakes environments where technical performance is existential and strategic value is measured in megawatts, meters per second, or mission success. Across aerospace, energy, and defense, Drew backs founders who don’t just pitch vision—they bend atoms, trajectories, and supply chains to make it real.
Funds actively worked on:
Yard Ventures
Green D Ventures
U.S. Strategic Tech Fund
Investment Areas of Focus:
His investment lens prioritizes platforms over point solutions, scale advantages rooted in physics or manufacturing, and mission alignment with long-term public interest. That includes nuclear reactors that deploy like data centers, orbital vehicles that reshape access to space, hypersonic systems built for rapid iteration, and genetic tools that bring diagnostics to the edge. These aren’t just technical moonshots—they’re foundational bets on how the next century will be powered, protected, and personalized.
Drew led Alumni Ventures’ investment in Impulse Space, which is building the in-space logistics layer for a high-frequency orbital economy. He backed Aalo Atomics, a small modular reactor company designing standardized, factory-built nuclear power for grid-scale deployment. He also invested in Astro Mechanica, which is reinventing hypersonic aerospace testing for the modern battlefield, and Acorn Genetics, which is miniaturizing genomics to enable low-cost, distributed DNA testing anywhere.
These companies reflect Drew’s broader strategy: to invest in enduring platforms that serve strategic industries and unlock decades of downstream innovation. He believes the next great venture outcomes will come not just from apps or algorithms, but from reengineering the physical world—and the infrastructure that underpins it.
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