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

Venture University is the world's leading investor accelerator for venture capital, private equity, and angel investing.

Venture University's investor accelerator offers individuals the opportunity to gain quality investment experience through a VC/PE Apprenticeship Program and a Angel Immersion Program, while also learning the critical skills of an investor through an Executive Education Program.

Venture University "VU" is the combination a "venture fund" with a "university / trade school". By combing these two concepts into one, Venture University is redefining the value of both of them, creating a greater return for the individuals that join the program, for the founder's we invest in, and for the capital our investors provide.

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 the top diverse investor talent for the venture capital, private equity, and angel 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 or you can create your own custom track by selecting one or more programs that best fit your backgrounds, goals, and schedule.

Venture University's Program Overview

Venture University uses a "learning by doing" approach, similar to a trade school, creating value for individuals that goes far beyond what a traditional academic education experience can provide by offering:

• The ability to gain high quality investment experience via:
  • An Angel Immersion Program: Angel Masterclass + Joining VU's Investor Syndicate
  • A VC/PE Investment Apprenticeship Program: VC/PE Masterclass + Advanced VC/PE Modules + Joining the investment team of VU Venture Partners as an apprentice
  • A Global VC/PE Investment Apprenticeship Program: VC/PE Masterclass + Advanced VC/PE Modules + Global Market Modules + Joining the investment team of VU Venture Partners as an apprentice + VC Cross-Border Trip
• Immersive hands-on Executive Education Programs taught by top practitioners within venture capital, private equity, and angel investing
• A greater financial benefit via a Profit Sharing Agreement tied to the success of the investments made during the program
• Increased ability to break into the VC/PE industry as an Analyst, Associate, Principal, and Partner, as well as career acceleration for first time fund managers

VC/PE Investment Apprenticeship Program Overview: 

• 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 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 Investment Committees
• Make ~3-6 investments per quarter, and co-invest with top tier investors, and start building your investment track record
• Share in the financial upside from the investments made via a Profit Sharing Agreement
• 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
• Become part of VU's tight-knit family of investor alumni working at Seed/VC/PE funds, accelerators, family offices, as well angels and fund managers, who have access to proprietary deal flow, a powerful network, and career opportunities

VU's Investment Fund

Venture University is also redefining and creating greater value of an "investment fund" for our investors and our 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.