Webinar

Fellow Program Alumni at AV: A Roundtable Discussion

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Hosted by Luke Antal, CCO & Venture Fellow Program Founder at Alumni Ventures Group

Watch Alumni Ventures’ Fellow Program (VFP) Founder and Alumni Ventures’ CCO Luke Antal for a roundtable discussion with VFP alumni currently working in venture at AV or one of our funds. Hear from former Fellows who stayed with AV for their next steps and learn how A impacted their career-paths in venture.

In this webinar we will cover:

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    Basic information about Alumni Ventures and the Venture Fellow Program
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    Typical background of Venture Fellows
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    How the Venture Fellow Program helps create access points for careers in venture

About your presenters

Luke Antal
Luke Antal

Co-Founder, CCO, & Director of Strategic Initiatives

Luke is a Co-Founder of Alumni Ventures and is an experienced startup and tech executive with a focus on marketing, sales operations, and customer experience. As the firm’s Chief Community Officer, Luke has built and oversees many of the processes, systems, and teams that contribute to the firm’s fundraising initiatives. He has scaled many startups as a founder or employee #1. He is the Founder of the AV Venture Fellow Program, which is a one-of-a-kind career accelerator and educational experience that is a groundbreaking on-ramp to a career in VC. Luke has an AB in Environmental Studies from Dartmouth College.

Krithika Kumar
Krithika Kumar

Krithika is a member of Strawberry Creek Ventures where she brings experience in venture capital, entrepreneurship, and scientific research to the team. Krithika has led diligence and sourced deals as a Venture Partner at Humboldt Fund and a Senior Venture Fellow at Castor Ventures. Prior to venture capital, she co-founded a cognitive fitness company to enhance brain performance across the age spectrum. She also served as the Director of Business Development at Prime Biologics where she established strategic partnerships in the US, EU, and emerging markets. Krithika did her postdoctoral research studying the gut microbiome at Cornell University and has a Ph.D. in biological sciences from Texas A&M University.

Catherine Lu
Catherine Lu

Managing Partner, Seed Fund

Before joining the Basecamp Fund, Catherine was a successful entrepreneur, product manager, and software engineer. She was Director of Product at NEA-backed DataVisor, an enterprise company offering an unsupervised machine learning fraud solution. Prior to that, she co-founded the retail analytics company Fancy That (acquired by Palantir in 2015). While at Stanford, she built an online platform used by thousands of students and instructors to streamline grading. Catherine graduated from Stanford with a BS and MS in Computer Science, focusing on AI.

Peter MacEwan
Peter MacEwan

Deputy Chief Community Officer

Peter has startup experience in both the non-profit and business sectors, a BA from Wesleyan University and an MBA from The Wharton School. Peter developed expertise building teams and strategic planning in the San Francisco Bay Area, driving growth across multiple seed- and early-stage companies (with many nights spent as informal adviser to a network of entrepreneurs). Peter has a passion for social impact and loves working with people who love what they do and strive to get better at it.

Keaton Nankivil
Keaton Nankivil

Senior Principal, Bascom Ventures

Keaton has spent his career focused on high-level teamwork. A proud Wisconsin Basketball alumnus, he started his career playing professional basketball in Europe. He played for and led teams in competitions across Europe, including stops in Germany, Spain, Latvia and Italy. When he returned from overseas, his career focus shifted to the entrepreneurial ecosystem. He has worked with both institutional and corporate venture teams and completed and MBA with a focus on entrepreneurship. He holds a BS in kinesiology from UW-Madison and an MBA from the Nicholas Center for Corporate Finance and Investment Banking from the Wisconsin School of Business.

Spandan Saha
Spandan Saha

Portfolio Services Manager

Spandan leads the Portfolio Impact team at Alumni Ventures. He is also a TechStars mentor and has served as a Fellow for Blue Ivy Ventures. Prior to earning his MBA from Yale, he worked for Accenture as a Consultant & Venture Associate, as well as for UNICEF, where his project won the United Nations Public Services Award in 2015. Spandan also founded his company Quadshotz that same year which he later sold it to EditFx in 2017 when he was only 26 years old, making Quadshotz the first-ever Indian drone start-up to be acquired. Spandan was also featured in the Economic Times Young Leaders list in 2017, regarded as the Indian equivalent of the Forbes 30 under 30.

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