The U.S. Strategic Tech Syndicate
Review & Optionally Invest Alongside Alumni Ventures and Other Elite Venture Capital Firms.
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The U.S. Strategic Tech Syndicate
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Institutional-Grade Deal Access:
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Co-Invest with Elite Lead VCs:
Invest alongside AV and other firms like Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, Bessemer, Khosla, and Google. - Home
Exclusive Deal Information:
Review all diligence materials, and gain VIP access to live deal discussions with our investment teams. NDA required and enforced. - Home
Sector Focused:
All opportunities are aligned with U.S. national interest sectors—AI, aerospace, cybersecurity, and advanced manufacturing. - Home
Expert-Led:
Curated by the Alumni Ventures U.S. Strategic Tech Fund Investing Team, led by experienced VCs with backgrounds in defense, tech, and national policy.
What is the U.S. Strategic Tech Syndicate?
The U.S. Strategic Tech Fund is a powerful, mission-driven investment vehicle focused on advancing America’s leadership in critical technologies such as AI, aerospace, cybersecurity, and advanced manufacturing. The fund offers investors access to a deeply curated, future-defining portfolio of startups at the intersection of national interest and innovation.
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Investment Areas of Interest
Advanced Industry & Industrial Autonomy →
Built Here, Built to Win. Revitalizing the U.S. industrial base with automation, resilience, and reshoring.
Portfolio companies: Enfabrica, Foundation Alloy
Aerospace & Strategic Mobility →
Own the Skies, Control the Game. Building the next generation of high-speed, high-altitude transport.
Portfolio companies: Astro Mechanica, Impulse Space
Intelligent Systems & AI Infrastructure →
Code Is the New Command. Enabling machines to sense, decide, and act with strategic autonomy.
Portfolio companies: Picogrid, Edgescale AI
Energy Independence & Infrastructure →
Power That Can’t Be Outsourced. Modernizing how America powers itself — reliably, cleanly, and securely.
Portfolio companies: Radiant Nuclear, Pacific Fusion
National Resilience & Public Systems →
America’s Backbone, Reinforced. Backing the systems that must never fail — from farmland to frontlines.
Portfolio companies: Multitude Insights, Vultron, RapidSOS
Biosecurity & Human Performance →
Biology Is the New Battleground. Protecting and enhancing American health, from biothreats to battlefield readiness.
Portfolio companies: Acorn Genetics, Osmo
Sample of Recent Syndications
- Astro Mechanica | Jet engine engineered for subsonic and supersonic speeds | Co-Investor: a16z, Lowercarbon Capital
- Osmo | Giving computers a sense of smell | Co-Investor: Lux Capital, Two Sigma, GV
- Radiant Nuclear | Portable nuclear microreactor that replaces diesel generators | Co-Investor: a16z, DCVC, Founders Fund, Felicis
- Pacific Fusion | Building pulsed magnetic fusion systems | Co-Investor: General Catalyst, Lightspeed
- Trilobio | Robotics platform that automates the research process | Co-Investor: Caffeinated Capital
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Trusted Venture Partner to 10,500+ Individual Accredited Investors
20 U.S. Strategic Tech ventures from the Alumni Ventures portfolio we are excited about for 2025
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The U.S. Strategic Tech Syndicate
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Institutional-Grade Deal Access:
Get access to competitive deals typically not available to individuals. - Home
Co-Invest with Elite Lead VCs:
Invest alongside AV and other firms like Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, Bessemer, Khosla, and Google. - Home
Exclusive Deal Information:
Review all diligence materials, and gain VIP access to live deal discussions with our investment teams. NDA required and enforced. - Home
Sector Focused:
All opportunities are aligned with U.S. national interest sectors—AI, aerospace, cybersecurity, and advanced manufacturing. - Home
Expert-Led:
Curated by the Alumni Ventures U.S. Strategic Tech Fund Investing Team, led by experienced VCs with backgrounds in defense, tech, and national policy.
Prior Syndications
In these prior Syndications, investors put additional money to work alongside our AV funds and other elite lead VCs.(1)
SpaceTech
Axiom Space
A growth-stage investment led by C5 Capital
Robotics
Ghost Robotics
A seed-stage investment led by Motus Ventures
SpaceTech
Fleet Space Technologies
An early-stage investment led by Blackbird
RF Data Analytics
HawkEye 360
An early-stage investment led by funds of BlackRock
IoT & Advanced Manufacturing
Radiant
A growth-stage investment led by DCVC
SpaceTech
Impulse Space
An early-stage investment led by Founders Fund
Sign Up Below. Monthly Cohorts are Limited and Fill Up.
The U.S. Strategic Tech Syndicate
- Home
Institutional-Grade Deal Access:
Get access to competitive deals typically not available to individuals. - Home
Co-Invest with Elite Lead VCs:
Invest alongside AV and other firms like Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, Bessemer, Khosla, and Google. - Home
Exclusive Deal Information:
Review all diligence materials, and gain VIP access to live deal discussions with our investment teams. NDA required and enforced. - Home
Sector Focused:
All opportunities are aligned with U.S. national interest sectors—AI, aerospace, cybersecurity, and advanced manufacturing. - Home
Expert-Led:
Curated by the Alumni Ventures U.S. Strategic Tech Fund Investing Team, led by experienced VCs with backgrounds in defense, tech, and national policy.
Simple 3-Step Journey
First 200 Investors to Complete Steps 1 & 2 Will be Accepted.
2. Accreditation Application
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Take 5 minutes to submit necessary info to prove your status as an accredited investor.
3. Deal Access
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We’ll start sharing you on elite venture deal flow. Optionally invest in whichever deals most interest you. AV then provides all ongoing fund administration, including providing K-1s on or before March 31.
Benefits of Investing With Alumni Ventures
Performance
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AV recognized as a “Top 20 VC Firm” by CB Insights 2024
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AV recognized as a top-quartile performing venture firm(2)
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Team of ~40 investment professionals reviews thousands of deals per year, winnowing to ~250 total investments annually
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Meticulous diligence completed via our rigorous process which includes our own investment teams, AV’s Investment Committees and Office of Investment, and external lead venture investors. All diligence materials are provided to you for each investment opportunity
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Monitoring our growing list of 1,100+ portfolio companies so that we may make follow-on investments in our highest performers
Fund Organization & Administration
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Unlike other firms, no hidden or ongoing fees
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Quarterly financial fund reporting updates, exit memos, and fund distributions
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Semi-annual Fund Performance Reports
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Production of all required tax documentation via Schedule K-1s, delivered on or before 3/31 each year
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Personalized Portfolio News Feed
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24/7 online & secure Investor Portal
Education & Engagement
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Special opportunities to engage with Founders & other investors
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In-person events held at our 5 offices across the US
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Participate in live Deal Discussions with our investment teams
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Optional participation in our Expert Network
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Join any of our regular webinars designed to promote investor education on topics of venture investing
A Note From Alumni Ventures’ Founder & CEO
Mike Collins
Founder & CEO, Alumni Ventures
“Over the last 10 years, we have built one of the most valuable deal-sourcing and venture-investment engines in the world: network-powered venture investing at scale. Recognized for the quality and volume of our deal flow (‘Top 20 Venture Firm,’ CB Insights ’24, and ‘#1 Most Active VC Firm in the US,’ PitchBook ’22 & ’23), Alumni Ventures offers individual investor an unprecedented ability to access, review, and invest in world-class and highly competitive venture investments. Co-investing alongside some of the best venture firms(3) in the world, we are proud to continue to democratize the asset class and make this deal flow accessible to individual investors like you.”
Alumni Ventures has been a fantastic way for me to diversify into Venture Capital on both a Fund and Syndication basis. The Venture firms that Alumni Ventures co-invests with are top class and the firms that can be invested in through Alumni Ventures are firms solving real world problems on a large scale. I would highly recommend Alumni Ventures.
AVG and Spike Ventures have given me the opportunity to invest alongside the best venture capital firms in some of the most exciting technology companies. AVG is the most established and largest specialist firm focused on giving retail investors access to VC investments. I find the process to participate in both syndicate and fund investments quite seamless. AVG is a great option for anybody looking for a diversified approach to tech startup investing who can't clear the investment hurdle amounts of more traditional VC firms or doesn't want to deal with the hassle and lack of diversifiation of angel investing.
AVG is a very unique opportunity. Most investors do not have access to the venture capital ecosystem, and AVG provides that. Especially valuable to me has been their syndications of individual companies. Great learning and enjoyable also.
I'm an LP in a few great venture funds and a direct investor in over 30 companies. Alumni Ventures offers something more: a wide range of investment opportunities via funds and syndications, as well the ability to support my Northwestern alumni colleagues via Purple Arch Ventures. AV is a go-to platform for high quality venture investment opportunities.
Alumni Ventures has been a fantastic way for me to diversify into Venture Capital on both a Fund and Syndication basis. The Venture firms that Alumni Ventures co-invests with are top class and the firms that can be invested in through Alumni Ventures are firms solving real world problems on a large scale. I would highly recommend Alumni Ventures.
AVG and Spike Ventures have given me the opportunity to invest alongside the best venture capital firms in some of the most exciting technology companies. AVG is the most established and largest specialist firm focused on giving retail investors access to VC investments. I find the process to participate in both syndicate and fund investments quite seamless. AVG is a great option for anybody looking for a diversified approach to tech startup investing who can't clear the investment hurdle amounts of more traditional VC firms or doesn't want to deal with the hassle and lack of diversifiation of angel investing.
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Venture capital investing involves substantial risk. including risk of loss of all capital invested. Achievement of investment outcomes cannot be guaranteed. Investment in single-asset venture capital funds reduces investment diversification.
1. Example Syndication investments are shown for illustrative purposes only. No representation is intended that any investment shown is representative of any other AV fund or the outcomes experienced by any AV investor outside the Syndication fund that invested in the portfolio company shown. Example Syndication investments are not available to future investors, except potentially in the case of follow-on investment.
2. Top-quartile performance is for AV fund vintages 2016-2020 against the Cambridge Associates venture capital peer group, according to Distributions to Paid-in Capital, as of 6/30/24. AV 2016 DPI was .72, and Top-Quartile was .80. DPI for AV funds and Cambridge Associates Top Quartile are net of all fees and incentive allocations applied to amounts distributed to investors. For additional information, please see here.
3. Co-investors are shown for illustrative purposes only and do not reflect all co-investors with which AV invests, including via Syndication funds, and are not necessarily indicative of co-investors in future Syndications or other AV investments; there is no guarantee of who will be the co-investors. The identity of a co-investor is not a guarantee of investment quality or performance.