Being a CEO means making tough decisions — and accepting that you won’t get them all right. In this CEO Insights clip, Alumni Ventures CEO Mike Collins explains how staying grounded comes from humility, learning fast, and developing a bit of a callus along the way. Mistakes are inevitable, but how you respond defines your leadership. #AlumniVentures #CEOInsights #Leadership #Entrepreneurship #StartupLeadership #VentureCapital #Innovation
Alumni Ventures
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Manchester, NH 64,880 followers
Alumni Ventures is America's Largest Venture Capital Firm for Individual Investors.
About us
Alumni Ventures is America’s largest venture firm for individual investors. Founded in 2014, we are the venture investing partner to over 11,000 individuals and institutions. Our products include institutional-grade funds offering large diversified portfolios, and deal-by-deal investing alongside our funds through our Syndicates. Investment minimum is $10,000. • Top-Decile Investment Performance (Carta Benchmarks ‘25) • Top 20 Venture Firm (CB Insights '24) • Top 50 Unicorn VC (Stanford GSB Research ‘25) • Top 3 Most Active US VC Firm (PitchBook ‘18 - ‘24) • Most Founder Friendly Investor List (Inc. Magazine ‘24) • World's Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company '22) • #1 Most Active Venture Firm in the US (PitchBook '22 & '23) • Top 20 Venture Firm (CB Insights '24) • World's Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company '22) • Portfolio of 1,600+ current and historical venture-backed companies • 120+ full-time employees, including 40 full-time, experienced venture investors Investors receive high-quality venture portfolios of 20-30 companies for as little as $10,000. Founders receive access through our CEO Services to our large network of 850,000+ community members and 6,000+ member Expert Community. Offers of securities are made only to eligible investors through formal offering documents, which describe the risks, terms, and other important information that must be considered before investing. Example portfolio company investments shown for illustrative purposes only, do not necessarily reflect investment outcomes that were or would be obtained by any AV fund or investor, and are not available to future investors, except potentially in the case of follow-on investments. Venture capital investing involves substantial risk, including risk of loss of all capital invested. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
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- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Manchester, NH
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2014
- Specialties
- Venture Capital and Alumni Investing
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670 North Commercial Ave
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Manchester, NH 03101, US
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7 Post Office Square
Boston, MA 02109, US
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183 Madison Ave
New York, NY 10016, US
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121 West Wacker
Chicago, IL 60601, US
Employees at Alumni Ventures
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Lawrence Jen, CFA (任乐思)
Managing Partner @ Anderson Angels | Single Family Office Investment Leadership
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Brian Keil
Managing Partner at Alumni Ventures Group
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Brian Hughes
Public Company Board and Audit Committee Chair, Experienced Advisor to VC and PE-backed portfolio companies and Retired Partner KPMG
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David Shapiro
Founding Managing Partner at Blue Ivy Ventures, an Alumni Ventures fund
Updates
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This Thanksgiving, we’re grateful for our incredible investors, founders, and team members who make innovation possible every day. Your vision, dedication, and partnership drive the future of venture capital. Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! #AlumniVentures #Thanksgiving #Gratitude #VentureCapital
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SF is going to be buzzing on Dec 1st. We are backing two of our portfolio companies, Corgi and Eragon, for hosting the most exciting event of the year at the Chase Center featuring amazing speakers like Vinod Khosla, Jared Friedman, Shuo Wang, Immad Akhund, talking about the future of enterprise AI and autonomous companies It’s going to be a room of 1,000+ of the most ambitious builders and investors in SF. See you at the Chase Center! 👋 Josh Sirota Nico Laqua Emily Yuan Josh Jung Ray Wu Jack Statza, CFA Sophia Zhao 趙念菲 Shail Highbloom Mike Collins Matthew West Alumni Ventures AI First Fund (an Alumni Ventures Fund) Blockchain & Fintech Fund (an Alumni Ventures Fund)
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Why does portfolio diversification matter in venture capital? In this VC 101 episode, we explore how Alumni Ventures strategically balances risk and return across our funds. Learn why the power law is critical and how a well-diversified portfolio can help maximize potential returns for investors. Start investing with the AV Syndicate today: https://lnkd.in/eVMqyz6Z #AlumniVentures #VentureCapital #VC101 #PortfolioDiversification #StartupInvesting #Innovation #InvestingInsights
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Early-stage investing runs on optimism — but even the best ideas come with warning signs. 🚩 In our post, we break down 10 venture red flags that every investor should watch for and why being clear-eyed can make all the difference between a great return and a painful lesson. Because it’s not about whether red flags exist — it’s about whether the founder can overcome them. 🔗 Read now: https://lnkd.in/eaUrVCE8 #AlumniVentures #VentureCapital #StartupInvesting #Entrepreneurship #Innovation #InvestingInsights
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🌟 Employee Spotlight: Ron Levin, Managing Partner of the AV Seed Fund Meet Ron Levin, Managing Partner of the AV Seed Fund at Alumni Ventures. Ron leads investments in early-stage, high-potential startups shaping the future of frontier innovation. With a background spanning unicorn building, global operations, and values-driven investing, Ron brings a unique lens to early-stage venture. Before joining Alumni Ventures in 2019, Ron served on the Investment Committee at Yard Ventures and previously co-founded TravelPerk, launched the B2B division at Booking.com and held roles at McKinsey & Company, US Airways (now American Airlines), A.P. Moller - Maersk, and LYCOS. 🎓 A Babson alum with an MBA from Harvard Business School, Ron has visited over 140 countries and all 50 U.S. states, bringing global context to every discussion on innovation and impact. 🎥 Watch Ron in “VC in 33: Can Venture Capital Fight Inequality?” where he shares insights from his new book, Higher Purpose Venture Capital, highlighting founders tackling challenges in education, healthcare, housing, and economic mobility. 📚 Learn more and watch the full video: https://lnkd.in/eyytUYCA #AlumniVentures #AVSeedFund #VentureCapital #EmployeeSpotlight #StartupInvesting #Innovation #ImpactInvesting #HigherPurposeVC #Founders #SeedStage
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Think you have to be right out of college to start a company? Think again. 💡 In this CEO Insights clip, Alumni Ventures CEO Mike Collins shares why age is just a number — he launched Alumni Ventures at 49, proving that experience, vision, and determination matter more than your birthday. #AlumniVentures #CEOInsights #Entrepreneurship #StartupLeadership #Innovation #VentureCapital #LeadershipLessons
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People say “ ‘If we invented nuclear fission today, we would view it as the silver bullet that solves climate change,’ ” says Drew W., a principal at VC firm Alumni Ventures, which invested in X-energy, Aalo Atomics and Valar Atomics. “That’s how powerful it is.” https://lnkd.in/ezx6_MnQ
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Gemini 3.0 Pro Surpasses Radiology Trainees on Radiology's Last Exam "These results are significant, because for the first time in our evaluations, a generalist AI model has crossed radiology-trainee level performance on our benchmark (51% vs 45%). While still far from expert radiologist-level performance, the jump from previous models is noteworthy and demonstrates significant progress of generalist models." https://lnkd.in/eHrUGcz5
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Congratulations to Tanay Kothari and the entire Wispr Flow team on their successful Series A2 raise!
We’re thrilled to announce that Wispr Flow raised another $25M round after 10x'ing our revenue in just 5 months. This Series A2 brings our total funding to $81M, led by Hans Tung at Notable Capital, with Steven Bartlett joining as an investor and partner. We’re grateful for their conviction in what we’re building. But here's what matters more than the money: We cracked voice input. Not transcription - actual understanding. Our users hit "send" in under 0.5 seconds without checking. They trust it blindly. That's never existed before. Voice input was step one. Now, we’re building the assistant that actually gets things done. In a recent benchmark, Wispr came out as 3-4x more accurate than OpenAI, ElevenLabs, and Siri. We're hiring cracked engineers and growth marketers who want to build the future of human-computer interaction. The keyboard had a good 150-year run. Time to build what comes next. PS: like, repost, and comment "Wispr" to get Wispr Flow for free for 3 months ❤️