Humans First Venture Syndicate
Investing in Enduring Human Behaviors
What It Is
A private community and investing syndicate that invests in companies at the intersection of culture, behavior, and technology; systems that make human experience scalable. Humans First backs companies across the pillars of movement, entertainment, community, growth, and leisure. Grounded in evolutionary biology and behavioral science, this syndicate targets enduring human behaviors that have defined every culture, in every era. Members gain diversified access to ventures and deal-by-deal syndications co-invested alongside leading VCs, with low minimums and shared diligence on every deal.
Who It Is For
Accredited investors seeking exposure to enduring cultural markets; categories that persist because they are rooted in timeless human behavior. A great fit if you believe lasting value is created by aligning innovation with human nature, regardless of current technology cycles. Humans First offers a disciplined, thematic entry point into ventures that elevate how we move, entertain, build community, grow, and find leisure — for investors who value long-term resilience, curated access, and shared participation alongside like-minded peers.
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It’s All About Access to Life-Changing Deals
You Get Access to Deals Led by Top VC Firms: Quality, Quantity, Diversification.
Designed for Retail Investors
Build a venture portfolio to fit your goals — deal by deal. Alumni Ventures invests across stages and geographies, co-investing with elite firms.
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Pre-seed to Later-Stage
We invest at a variety of stages, always evaluating upside vs. price. - Home
Diverse Geographies + Leads
We look for great deals everywhere and co-invest alongside a wide variety of strong lead VC firms. - Home
Due Diligence by Alumni Ventures
America's Largest Venture Firm for Individuals and an “America’s Top 20 Venture Capital Firm of 2025” (Time ’25). - Home
You Decide
Invest in only the deals you pick.
Co-Invest With Elite VCs
The best ventures have their pick of lead investors — it only makes sense to invest alongside them. These firms have co-invested in many deals with Alumni Ventures:
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Andreessen Horowitz
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Sequoia
25 investments with AV - Home
Bessemer Venture Partners
22 investments with AV - Home
Y Combinator
56 investments with AV - Home
Founders Fund
28 investments with AV - Home
Kleiner Perkins
23 investments with AV - Home
Khosla Ventures
56 investments with AV
How It Works
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Join the community and syndicate (it’s free)
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Receive ~1 deal per month with access to our due diligence
See our "Why We Are Investing" video briefs. Participation is opt in. - Home
Participate – as much or as little as you want
Read our blogs and white papers, attend zoom webinars, attend IRL events.
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About Alumni Ventures
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Top-Tier and Battle Tested
PitchBook names AV the #1 most active VC in the U.S. (’22–’23) and CB Insights slots us in its 2024 Top 20; our 2016-20 funds sit in Cambridge Associates’ top-quartile performance ranks. - Home
Diversification From Day One
$1.4B+ deployed across 1,400+ venture-backed companies, with ~250-300 new investments added annually; diversification spreads risk and upside across stage, sector, and geography. - Home
Co-Investing With the Best
AV routinely co-invests alongside leading venture firms such as Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, and NEA, giving you the benefits of their negotiated terms and their support to portco companies. - Home
Network You Can Lean On
11,000 accredited investors and an 850,000-strong alumni & entrepreneur community create proprietary deal flow, talent pipelines, and follow-on capital impossible to assemble alone. - Home
Dedicated, Nationwide Team
40 full-time venture professionals spread across five U.S. offices source 50-75 fresh opportunities each quarter, vet them rigorously, and present only the deals we commit to doing for our funds.
Meet the Team
- Fund Team
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- AV Support Team
Humans First Content
Content at the intersection of entrepreneurship, venture capital, and our shared interests.
Sample Deals
We invest alongside other established venture firms in a broad range of companies to help build you a diversified portfolio.
*Investments are shown for illustrative purposes only, are not necessarily representative of any other AV fund or AV investor experience, and are not accessible to future investors, except potentially in the case of follow-on investment.
Join Us (For Free)
Start Investing With the Humans First Community Today.
Complete your sign-up this month to receive a $100 credit to the AV Swag Store, full of high-end men’s and women’s apparel and accessories. You’ll also be eligible for this month’s $500 credit grand prize.
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Easy Sign-Up
Enroll in < 3 minutes. - Home
High-Quality Deals
Typically unavailable to individual investors. - Home
Co-Invest With Elite VCs
AV co-investors include VCs like Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, Khosla, Accel, and more. - Home
Exclusive Deal Information
Diligence materials, investor decks, company financials all provided. NDA required & enforced.