Venture University, The World’s Leading Investor Accelerator For Venture Capital, Private Equity, & Angel Investing, Celebrates Its Fifth Year Anniversary: Announcing New Funds, New Platforms, & New Initiatives

Highlights Include:

• Grown To 700+ Alumni Across VU’s Venture Capital & Real Estate Private Equity Investor Accelerator. Apply To An Upcoming VU Investor Accelerator Cohort or Education Program.
• Scaled To 2,500+ Investors Across Angel Investors, Family Offices, & Fund-of-Funds. Join Bonded — VU’s Investor Syndicate, to invest on a deal-by-deal basis across venture capital and real estate private equity opportunities.
• VU’s Community Expanded To 150,000+ People, With Over 30,000+ Followers On LinkedIn. Follow Here.
• Total AUM: $47M+ Across Bonded (VU’s Investor Syndicate Network), VU Venture Partners (VU’s Global Venture Capital Fund), & VU Capital Partners (VU’s Global Private Equity Fund).
• Total Venture Capital Portfolio Companies: 86 (View Portfolio)
• Total Real Estate Private Equity Portfolio Companies: 4 (View Portfolio)
• VU Has Graduated 36 Venture Capital Investor Accelerator Cohorts & The First Real Estate Private Equity Cohort. In 2023 VU graduated 8 Venture Capital Investor Accelerator Cohorts (View Cohorts 29–36) & VU’s 1st Real Estate Private Equity Investor Accelerator Cohort (REPE Cohort 1: North America). In Q4 2023 VU graduated VC West Cohort 35: North America, LatAm, & Europe, and VC East Cohort 36: Asia-Pacific, Middle East, & Africa.
• Graduated VU’s Largest VC Asia-Pacific Cohort of 40+ Individuals Across Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, etc. (Watch Graduation Video). The Malaysia cohort was done in partnership with Penjana Kapital (a leading Fund-of-Fund in Malaysia), the Malaysia Venture Capital Association, and MDEC. The REVERSE DEMO DAY was hosted at the Securities Commission of Malaysia (the SEC equivalent in the United States). VU’s Graduation Certificates were presented by The Deputy Minister Of Finance II of Malaysia.
• Launched VU’s Real Estate Private Equity & REIT Investor Accelerator Program, VU Capital Partners (VU’s Private Equity Fund), & VU’s Real Estate Private Equity & REIT Investment Team. VU’s Real Estate Private Equity Team has previously deployed over $7+ Billion across Residential, Commercial, & Industrial Real Estate.
• Launched VU’s 1 Year Fund Manager Mentorship Lab Program With ~10 Fund Managers. Designed for Emerging Fund Managers across Venture Capital, Real Estate, Private Equity, & Fund-of-Funds. Next Cohort Starts January 2025. E-mail VU if interested in joining the next cohort.
• Final Close of VU Venture Partners Fund II (VU’s 2nd Global Venture Capital Fund). VU will be launching VU Venture Partners Fund III in 2024.
• Launched LP Match: A Free Platform Matching LPs With Fund Managers Within The Alternative Asset Space.
• Launched Innovator’s Closet: Ecommerce Platform For Innovators, Founders, & Investors.
• Celebrated Finally Fund Admin’s 1 Year Anniversary. Finally is a Fund Admin Platform for creating and managing SPVs and Funds. Finally has grown to 100+ clients, $250M+ AUM, across Venture Funds, Real Estate Funds, Private Equity Funds, Fund-of-Funds, & Hedge Funds.

Venture University Stats:

• # of Cohorts: 36 VC Cohorts, 1 REPE Cohort, 1 Fund Manager Mentorship Lab Cohort.
• VU Alumni: 700+ graduates.
• Cohort Member Backgrounds: ~60% are individuals looking to join VC/PE funds for Analysts to Partner level roles, ~25% are Emerging Fund Managers, ~15% are Angels & Family Offices.
• Diversity Stats: ~35% Women (~2x Industry Average, VU Had Its First Cohort With >50% Women), ~25% Black and Hispanic (~10x Industry Average), a needle mover contributing to the volume of diversity within the VC/PE industry.
• Age Stats: Each cohort is diverse in age, experience, and expertise, with cohort members between the ages of ~20 to 50+ years old, and is ~20–25% for every ~10 years of age.

VU Venture Partner Stats:

• AUM: $45M+.
• # Investors: 2,500+ Angels, Family Offices, Fund-of-Funds, etc.
• Funds: Bonded - VU’s Investor Syndicate Across Venture Capital & Real Estate Private Equity (VUVP Fund I & VUCP Fund I), VUVP Fund II, and launching VUVP Fund III in 2024.
• Portfolio Companies: 86.
• 2023 New Portfolio Companies: 13.
• 2023 Follow-on Investments: 12.
• Deal Flow: Sourcing 20,000+ companies per year (10x more deal flow than a traditional VC fund) and a ~0.1% investment selectivity (10x more selective than a traditional VC fund).
• 6 Vertical Investment Teams: Consumer, Enterprise, Fintech, Frontier, Healthcare, & PropTech.
• VU’s Investment Team: 70+ investors (10x larger team than a traditional VC Fund), with two HQ offices (San Francisco & Hong Kong), and investors across North America, LatAm, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East, and Africa.
• Portfolio Geography: ~62% North America, ~19% Asia, ~11% Europe, ~4% LatAm, and ~4% Africa.

VU Capital Partner Stats:

• AUM: $2M+.
• Portfolio Companies: 4.
• 2023 New Real Estate Private Equity Investments: 4.
• Vertical Investment Teams: Residential Real Estate, Commercial Real Estate, Industrial Real Estate, & REITs.

About VU: VU is an investment platform that has 7 groups: Venture University (Investor Accelerator Platform For Venture Capital and Private Equity), VU Venture Partners (Global Venture Capital Fund), VU Capital Partners (Global Private Equity Fund), Bonded (VU’s Investor Syndicate For Investing On A Deal-by-Deal Basis), Finally Fund Admin (Fund Admin Platform To Create & Manage SPVs and Funds), LP Match (Free Platform Matching LPs With Fund Managers), & Innovator’s Closet (Ecommerce Platform For Innovator’s, Founders, & Investors).

VU’s investment management team has over 100+ years of investment experience (50+ years of venture capital and 50+ years of real estate private equity experience), having invested over $9+ Billion ($2+ Billion in venture capital and $7+ Billion in real estate), prior to and including VU’s portfolio have invested in over 300+ startups, including 20+ unicorns where they were some of earliest and largest investors, and have been some of the most senior leaders within the largest real estate private equity funds in the world, including leading Goldman Sach’s Global REIT Fund.