The VU Experience & VU Family

 

 

 

 

Once you start at VU, you're now a Venture Capital / Private Equity Investor! Welcome to this side of the world! It's intellectually challenging & more fun!

 

Every Day You'll Be Taking On The Role Of A VC/PE Investor, which means your days will be filled with:

• Sourcing and evaluating venture capital or real estate investment opportunities
• Meeting with startup founders or real estate owners, & key industry players  
• Meeting with venture capital investors, angel investors, family offices, or real estate investors and institutional investors
• Weekly Partner Meetings, vertical focused Mangement Team Meetings, & Investment Committees
• VC/PE Networking Events
• Note: Many people come away saying, "this is the best experience that they have ever had", especially if they have a high level of intellectual curiosity, are dynamic thinkers, and have the stamina interest to see and review many opportunities.

 

No Busy Work! Get Real Investment Experience.

• VU's Investment Apprenticeship Program is not an internship, fellowship, or scout program. You will get signifcantly more experience and gain higher quality investment experience as VU's Investment Apprenticeship provides individuals with a more senior level role within a VC/PE fund.
• You will not be getting anyone coffee other than yourself (unless you want to be nice!) and you won't have late nights formatting and making edits to presentations or excel models (you will feel bad for your banker and consulting friends!). You control your on own schedule and work closely with the investment team.
• You get to decide what investment opportunities are presented at weekly Partner Meetings, which investment opportunities are brought to the Investment Committee, and you get to participate on all venture capital or real estate private equity Investment Committees.

 

Networking Is Your Job: Exponentially grow your network within the VC/PE industry by sourcing investment opportunities and building relationships that can lead to job offers.

 

Make Investments & Share In The Financial Upside:

• Make Real Investments With Real Capital: You're not equity research analyst (unlike other programs) drafting market landscapes and opportunity overviews. You'll actually be investing in companies and building an investment track record.
• VU Invests Out Of Two Types Of Entities:
• VU's Investor Syndicate - Bonded Capital: A network of 3,000+ angel investors and family offices, who invest on a deal-by-deal basis through SPVs VU creates. Investors can invest a minimum of $5,000 and need to be accredited investors or qualified purchasers.
• VU also invests out of its committed capital funds.
• Share In The Financial Upside: Each cohort member in VU's Investment Apprenticeship Programs receives a Profit Sharing Agreement to share in the financial upside from the investments their cohort selects.
• Co-Invest: If you're an accredited investor and you're part of VU's Investment Apprenticeship Program you'll have the opportunity co-invest alongside VU's investment funds and have the management fees and carried interest waived.