Alumni Ventures
Founded in 2014, we’re America’s largest venture firm for individual investors and VC investing partner to over 11,000 individuals and institutions. Offerings include institutional-grade funds with large diversified portfolios and deal-by-deal investing through our Syndicates. Investment minimum is $10,000. • Top-20 VC Firm (Time Magazine ’25) • Top-Decile Investment Performance (Carta Benchmarks ‘25) • Top 20 VC Firm (CB Insights '24) • Top 50 Unicorn VC (Stanford GSB Research ‘25) • Top 3 Most Active US VC Firm (PitchBook ‘18 - ‘24) • Most Founder Friendly Investor List (Inc. Magazine ‘24) • World's Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company '22) • #1 Most Active Venture Firm in the US (PitchBook '22 & '23) • Top 20 Venture Firm (CB Insights '24) • World's Most Innovative Companies (Fast Company '22) • Portfolio of 1,600+ current and historical companies • 40+ full-time VC investors • Founders get access to our community of 850,000+ members and 6,000+ Experts. Offers of securities made only to eligible investors by formal offering documents describing risks, terms, and other important information that must be considered before investing. Example portfolio companies shown for illustrative purposes only, do not necessarily reflect investment outcomes that were or would be obtained by any AV fund or investor, and are not available to future investors, except potentially in follow-on investments. Venture capital investing involves substantial risk, including risk of loss of all capital invested. Past performance does not guarantee future results. The content on this account is intended solely for persons located in the U.S. and is not directed at, and must not be acted upon, by any person in the United Kingdom. UK residents seeking information about AV should refer only to communications issued by Alumni Ventures UK LLP, which provides information solely on a non-promotional basis and only distributes Financial Promotions to eligible recipients in accordance with UK law.www.av.vc
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Sep 21, 2026
Drew WanzelikGUEST
Yeah.
Drew WanzelikGUEST
It's something we hear all the time at Alumni Ventures.
Drew WanzelikGUEST
You know, we have over 12,000 investors now really with this mission of, how do we provide access to this asset class that you spoke on-
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Mm
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For more on what's next, let's bring in our panel.
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Joining us today, Kyle Reedhead, the co-owner and head of research at Milk Road, and Laura Rippey, managing partner at Alumni Ventures.
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Great to have you both with us.
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Kyle, let's start with you.
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And Laura, sort of a multi-part question here.
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If Kyle is right, does that accelerate the broader space economy or is this a separate investment story that's SpaceX specific? And to add on to that, where do you see the biggest opportunity, the biggest beneficiaries in the space economy? Is it SpaceX? Is it the companies being built around SpaceX or something entirely different?
Laura RippeyGUEST
think it's the next generation of economies of companies so we invest in venture at alumni ventures we we invest in those companies that are going to benefit from the space economy unlocking and it is indeed companies like impulse space they just raised a series d at a four billion dollar valuation much more attractive than than the the trillions that uh that space is at in terms of future growth and opportunity.
Laura RippeyGUEST
We've invested in Northwood, which is doing the communications part of that, building the ground infrastructure for satellites, and additionally Axiom Space, which is building the International Space Center replacements.