Startup Beat

Venture University, a multi-stage investment fund and trade school for angel investing, venture capital and private equity, has successfully completed its first cohort and made its first investments.

Venture University is training the future leaders in venture capital and private equity. It offers both academic and hands-on training programs to help angels, family offices, new fund managers, undergraduate and graduate students, entrepreneurs, corporates, and experienced professionals, break into the industry of investing in higher risk/higher return private companies and become experts in the wild west world of finance, i.e. venture capital and private equity.

Venture University’s trade school, designed as an Investor Accelerator, includes a VC/PE Investment Apprenticeship and Academic Program and was launched earlier this year. Individuals are sourced from thousands of applications and <2% are accepted, making it more competitive to get into than an Ivy League school or top MBA program.

The first cohort sourced over 850+

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