Webinar
AVG’s Secret Recipe: How the Total Access Fund Portfolios are Built
Alumni Ventures’ Total Access Fund provides an incredibly unique option for investors seeking a highly-diversified venture capital portfolio.
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We’ll talk about how we access and evaluate deals and assemble a portfolio. Hear from the portfolio builders themselves, the Partners of Alumni Ventures’ Alumni Funds who oversee the full pipeline of investing activities from deal sourcing to portfolio monitoring. Join host and EVP of Community, Peter MacEwan for a round-table discussion with four of Alumni Ventures’ Partners. Our panel discussed the strategy and tactics of building the most uniquely and diversified venture capital portfolio on the market and covered such topics as:
- HomeHow does Alumni Ventures source and gain access to deals for its funds?
- HomeHow do Alumni Ventures’ investors think about diversification when constructing portfolios?
- HomeHow does Alumni Ventures sell their way into the most competitive deals?
- HomeWhat are the key steps in diligence and decision-making for deals?
* You must be accredited to invest in venture capital. Important disclosure information can be found at avg-funds.com/disclosures.
About your presenters
Before joining the Basecamp Fund, Catherine was a successful entrepreneur, product manager, and software engineer. She was Director of Product at NEA-backed DataVisor, an enterprise company offering an unsupervised machine learning fraud solution. Prior to hat, she co-founded the retail analytics company Fancy That (acq. acquired by Palantir in 2015). While at Stanford, she built an online platform used by thousands of students and instructors to streamline grading. Catherine graduated from Stanford with a BS and MS in Computer Science, focusing on AI.
For the past 15 years, Cainon has worked with startups as an entrepreneur, advisor, and investor. Prior to Castor, Cainon helped co-found five companies: Viafy, Human Design Medical (merged with Breas Medical of General Electric [NYSE:GE]), Triangle Research Labs (acquired by Lonza [SIX:LONN]), Revive Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Concordia Healthcare [TOR:CRX]), and University Laundry (acquired by a national operator, then Proctor & Gamble’s Tide [NYSE: PG]). Previously, he was an investor at PBM, a $500M healthcare-focused VC firm. Cainon also worked at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Goldman Sachs, and NASA. He has an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a BS from the University of Virginia in Systems and Information Engineering.
Laura Rippy (D’89 & P’26) is a Managing Partner and Board Member at Alumni Ventures. She runs the the Dartmouth-focused fund (Green D Ventures), the Women’s Fund at Alumni Ventures, and the Harvard-focused fund (The Yard Ventures).
Previously, Laura was a 3x CEO, Chairman, Board Member, Advisor, and Executive in high-technology companies. Her experience spans consumer to enterprise, mobile to fintech, SaaS to eCommerce, seed to Microsoft.
Business Insider ranked Laura in the top 100 Best Early Stage Investors of 2024-5
Laura Rippy holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an AB in Government from Dartmouth College.
Ludwig has been on all sides of venture — as an entrepreneur, corporate buyer of ventures, and venture capitalist. Before Alumni Ventures, he experienced the daily realities of entrepreneurship as Founder and CEO of a mobile payments venture that served over 12 million people. Earlier, at a Fortune 100 telecommunications manufacturer (Nokia), he held general manager and business development roles that included investing in and acquiring venture-backed businesses. His first experience in venture capital was with an $800 million global fund that focused on enterprise and mobile software both before and after the dot.com crash. Ludwig began his career as a strategy consultant with the Boston Consulting Group. He has a BA from Brown University and an MBA from Columbia. He lives in NYC with his wife and 2 teenagers.
Peter has startup experience in both the non-profit and business sectors, a BA from Wesleyan University and an MBA from The Wharton School. Peter developed expertise building teams and strategic planning in the San Francisco Bay Area, driving growth across multiple seed- and early-stage companies (with many nights spent as informal adviser to a network of entrepreneurs). Peter has a passion for social impact and loves working with people who love what they do and strive to get better at it.