The World's Leading Investor Accelerator For Venture Capital, Private Equity, & Angel Investing

Venture University is the world's leading investor accelerator and trade school for venture capital, private equity, and angel investing. VU accepts <2% of the applications it receives, making it more competitive to get into than the top Ivy League schools and MBA programs.

VU's mission is to curate and develop top diverse investor talent for the benefit of the venture capital and private equity ecosystem and to generate consistent and superior financial returns by powering VU Venture Partners, the most scalable venture capital fund in the world.

VU offers three core investor tracks:

• The Angel Immersion Track
• The VC/PE Investment Apprenticeship Track
• The Global VC/PE Investment Apprenticeship Track  

Each investor track can be customized and you can also create your own track by selecting one or more programs that best fits your backgrounds, goals, and schedule.

VU's Investor Accelerator

Venture University is part "venture fund" and part "university", and is redefining the value of both of them. VU is redefining the value of a "university" by combining aspects of a trade school with an accelerator program. VU's "learning by doing" approach creates value that goes far beyond what a traditional education experience can provide, and provides greater financial and career benefits.

VU's offers both immersive hands-on Executive Education Programs and a VC/PE Investment Apprenticeship Program.

Executive Education Programs: 

• The Angel Masterclass
• The VC/PE Masterclass
• Advanced VC/PE Modules
• Global Market Modules
• The VC Cross-Border Trip

Learn more about VU's Executive Education Programs

VC/PE Investment Apprenticeship Program: 

• Join the investment team of VU Venture Partners for 3-12 months (1-4 quarters) in VU's San Francisco and/or NYC office, or virtually from any location, and gain quality investment experience
• Work alongside and learn from top performing General Partners who have 35+yrs of VC experience, investing $1.8B+ in 250+ companies, and have a 4-5x net cash on cash return
• Focus on deal sourcing investment opportunities across Consumer, Enterprise, Fintech, Healthcare, and Frontier Tech 
• Conduct deep due diligence and investment evaluation
• Present top deal flow at weekly Partner Meetings
• Make investment recommendations and participate on the Investment Committee
• Make ~3-6 investments per quarter, co-invest with top tier investors, and start building your investment track record
• Share in the financial upside from the investments made
• Present investments at VU's REVERSE DEMO DAY
• Build a career strategy for breaking into the VC/PE industry as an analyst, associate, principal, partner, angel, family office, or emerging fund manager
• Create a deep network within the startup and VC/PE ecosystem
• Join and get access to VU's tight-knit family of VU alumni investors working at Seed/VC/PE funds, accelerators, and family offices, which provides proprietary deal flow, a powerful network you can leverage, and career opportunities

VU's Investment Fund

Venture University is also redefining and creating greater value of an "investment fund" for its investors and portfolio companies. Venture University is the proprietary engine that powers VU's investment fund, VU Venture Partners, creating an unfair and sustainable competitive advantage to generate consistent and superior returns.

VU Venture Partners has a much larger investment team that is capable of covering markets broader, deeper, faster, and smarter than a typical fund, providing a significantly more powerful network that can better support portfolio companies, and offering greater value to LPs.

VU Venture Partners is a multi-stage industry agnostic investment fund, investing in seed through growth stage companies, initially investing up to $1M per company, and up to $10M in follow-on rounds, and invests across Consumer, Enterprise, Fintech, Healthcare, and Frontier Tech.