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Alumni Ventures is a venture capital firm.
About Alumni Ventures
Founded in 2014, Alumni Ventures democratizes access to venture capital by sourcing and rigorously vetting startup investments, then offering diversified funds and deal-by-deal syndicates to accredited investors and institutions. Its platform spans multiple sectors, stages, geographies, and investment themes, including AI, healthcare, deep tech, fintech, blockchain, and digital assets. AV also operates investing clubs and AV Academy, and supports portfolio companies through co-investment, founder networking, recruiting, customer introductions, events, and other platform services.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will source and evaluate venture investments, lead diligence, prepare investment recommendations, and help execute approved deals. You will build relationships across the startup ecosystem, support portfolio companies, maintain investment records, and contribute to fundraising, investor relations, events, and thought leadership.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional experience in venture capital, private equity, investment banking, consulting, startups, or a related field
- Approximately 1–3 or more years of direct venture capital experience
- Experience with sourcing, diligence, investment decision-making, and portfolio support
- Bachelor's degree in business, economics, engineering, computer science, or a relevant field
- Understanding of venture capital deal structures, financing terms, investment processes, and industry practices
- Familiarity with AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or similar platforms
Responsibilities
- Source investment opportunities aligned with the Blue Team's strategy
- Build and maintain a pipeline of prospective investments
- Develop relationships with founders, investors, entrepreneurs, incubators, accelerators, universities, and ecosystem participants
- Lead initial diligence on potential investments
- Evaluate teams, business models, markets, competition, traction, financing terms, and investment risks
- Develop investment memos and present recommendations to the Investment Committee
- Build and maintain market, company, and deal intelligence
- Support the execution and closing of approved investments
- Maintain deal activity, diligence findings, and investment information in firm systems
- Grow a network that generates differentiated deal flow
- Support portfolio companies through strategic and operational priorities
- Monitor company and portfolio performance
- Support fundraising, investor relations, community engagement, events, webinars, written content, and thought leadership
Benefits
- Comprehensive health coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- HSA contributions
- FSA
- Commuter benefits
- 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting
- Company-paid life insurance
- Company-paid disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Health advocacy and wellness resources
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave
- 11 company holidays
- Equity
- Carry potential
- Corporate bonus
