INVITE-ONLY MEMBERSHIP • LIMITED CAPACITY
Athlete Venture Club
Real deals. Structured thinking. A high-trust room.
Not a pitch room. A film room.
Most professional athletes see private deals. Few are taught how to evaluate them.
Venture investing is a craft. Like film study, it requires structure, repetition, and honest pressure-testing.
Athlete Venture Club is where you study the game and build the instincts to play it well.
How It Works
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Review a Real Deal
Members receive a live investment memo used by Alumni Ventures. - Home
Study Film. Build a Plan.
Before the session, prepare your thesis: "What must be true for this to win?" - Home
Pressure-Test It as a Team
Live discussion with experienced investors. Stress-test assumptions. Refine the angle. - Home
Expand Your Framework
Each session layers core venture concepts — ownership, risk, portfolio math, founder evaluation — so your thinking compounds over time.
Discuss live with experienced investors, stress-test with the team, and refine your narrative.
Sophisticated investors aren’t lucky.
They’re disciplined.
Agency comes from understanding risk. Confidence comes from pattern recognition. Strength comes from repetition.
Athlete Venture Club helps professional athletes become long-term capital allocators
Not reacting to opportunities, but evaluating them with clarity.
Who It’s For
Built for professional athletes
At every stage of the game.
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Young Pros
College and early-career professionals who want to start building private market fluency early — with structure and guidance. - Home
Veterans
Late-career players laying the foundation for life beyond sport — developing the judgment to allocate capital with intention. - Home
Former Pros
Athletes in retirement expanding their professional identity and strengthening their long-term investing discipline.
All three share the same mindset: Smart. Curious. Thinking long-term.
AV Portfolio Examples
Institutional-quality deal flow — inside a private room
Illustrative portfolio examples.
Example investments shown for illustrative purposes only, are not necessarily indicative of outcomes experienced by any AV fund or investor, and are not available to future investors except potentially in the case of follow-on investments.
The Standard
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Applied reps
Every session revolves around a real decision. - Home
Scoreboard thinking
Upside, downside, ownership, and portfolio math. - Home
Venture as a team sport
Sharp thinking gets sharper in the right room. - Home
High-trust membership
Curated for commitment, not status. - Home
Confidential by design
Capital amounts stay private.
How It Works
One Simple Rhythm
- HomeOne 60-minute live session per month
- HomeReal investment memo + focused pre-read
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- HomeAnnual in-person gatherings designed to deepen relationships and sharpen thinking
The Commitment
What We Expect
- HomeShow up prepared
- HomeCompete with ideas, not ego
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What You Get
- HomeDirect exposure to experienced venture investors
- HomeStructured decision frameworks
- HomeReal deal evaluation experience
- HomeThe ability to participate with personal capital (optional)
About Alumni Ventures
Alumni Ventures is one of the world’s most active venture firms, providing professionally managed, diversified access to early-stage innovation and curated opportunities traditionally difficult to reach. We partner with family offices and individual investors worldwide to build venture portfolios powered by disciplined processes, deep networks, and transparent engagement.
CB Insights Top 20 VCs in North America (2024) | TIME Top 20 VC (2025)
5,000+
Deals reviewed / year
~250
Investments / year
1,400+
Portfolio companies
$1.6B
Assets Raised
Frequently Asked Questions
FAQ
Most members spend about 2–4 hours per month.
This is built for meaningful venture allocators; there is no fixed investment quota.
No. The program is designed for both first-time and experienced investors.
No. While primarily for current and former professional athletes, cohorts also include sports industry leaders selected for fit and commitment.
You complete a pre-read, join one 60-minute live session, then submit an Invest/Pass decision and rationale.
Applications are reviewed, qualified candidates complete a short interview, and final decisions follow.
Twenty seats. Application-only.
If you’re ready to learn venture by doing it — with peers who understand the world you come from — apply now.
Applicants to The Locker Room must demonstrate accredited investor status before seeing live investment opportunities.
Refine your craft.Do it as part of a team.
f you’re a current or former professional athlete serious about developing disciplined venture judgment — and want to do it in the right room — request an invite.
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Alumni Ventures and its personnel provide advice only to affiliated venture capital funds. The Locker Room and related communications are not personalized advice to any participant or other person.