VU Venture Partners

Congrats to @Rain on their $75M Series B to help employees get early access to earned income when they need it (e.g. receive 50% of earned wages before the next paycheck!). A well deserved financing round to support the strong momentum of >2xing revenues over the last twelve months! @VU Venture Partners doubled down on our participation in this follow-on round as an early investor in Rain! https://lnkd.in/gmnApXXm

San Francisco Investor Dinner Invitation: LP Investor Dinner, Thursday, April 3rd, 2025 | 6:30 - 9:00 PM, RSVP Here: https://lu.ma/v3ao1nen. We would like to invite you to join us for an upcoming private LP Investor dinner to learn more about VU Venture Partners, a global deep tech VC fund and an investor in 25+ unicorns and 20+ multi-billion exits, including SpaceX, OpenAI, Figure AI, FLYR Labs, Wayflyer, Tyme Group, etc. Based on our current portfolio, VUVP Fund I is ranked at a top 2% perfoming VC fund and is positioned to be a 4x - 8x+ fund.  Come learn about investing in the VC asset class and case studies on our innovative companies that are changing the world, from SpaceTech, AI, Robotics, and BioTech. Featured Speaker: J. Skyler Fernandes (Top 100 Powerlist VC), General Partner at VU Venture Partners. 🍽️ LP Investor Dinner: San Francisco, CA – Thursday, April 3rd, 2025 | 6:30 - 9:00 PM, RSVP Here: https://lu.ma/v3ao1nen. Note: Seats are limited for each dinner, so please RSVP soon. Only RSVP if you are an investor looking to invest into VC funds. Please share this invite with other investors in your network that would be interested in learning about the venture capital asset class and our fund. Thanks!

Invitation: Two Upcoming San Francisco LP Investor Dinners & Webinar (Wed, March 26th & Thu, April 3rd). Join us for an upcoming private LP Investor dinner and webinar to learn more about VU Venture Partners, a top 2% performing global deep tech VC fund and an investor in 25+ unicorns and 20+ multi-billion exits, including SpaceX, OpenAI, Figure AI, FLYR Labs, Wayflyer, Tyme Group, etc. Come learn about investing in the VC asset class and case studies on our innovative companies that are changing the world, from SpaceTech, AI, Robotics, and BioTech. Featured Speaker: J. Skyler Fernandes (Top 100 Powerlist VC), General Partner at VU Venture Partners. 📆 LP Investor Webinar: Wednesday, March 26th, 2025, 2:00 - 3:00 PM. RSVP Here: https://lnkd.in/gZ2wMdwR. 🍽️ LP Investor Dinner: San Francisco, CA – Wednesday, March 26th, 2025, 6:30 - 9:00 PM. RSVP Here: https://lu.ma/onc9wsk9. 🍽️ LP Investor Dinner: San Francisco, CA – Thursday, April 3rd, 2025 | 6:30 - 9:00 PM, RSVP Here: https://lu.ma/v3ao1nen. Note: Seats are limited for each dinner, so please RSVP soon. Please share this invite with other investors in your network that would be interested in learning about the venture capital asset class and our fund. Thanks!

Event Invitation: Join us at the AI Film Festival during SXSW in Austin, TX on Friday, March 14th and Saturday, March 15th. Don't miss out on this exciting event where industry experts will delve into the world of AI in film. RSVP & Discount Code: Event link: https://lnkd.in/gU4a46KH and use discount code "COMMUNITY25" to get 25% off. Join VUVP at our VIP table at the festival. VUVP Will Be Speaking: Join J. Skyler Fernandes, General Partner at VUVP, as he takes the stage on Friday, March 14th, 2025, at 3:15 PM to discuss Distribution & Monetization. See you there! #SXSW #AIFILMFESTIVAL #VUVP #VUVenturePartners #AIFILM

Invitation: Join us for an upcoming private LP Investor dinner to discuss VU Venture Partners, a global deep tech VC fund. Featured Speaker: J. Skyler Fernandes (Top 100 Powerlist VC, General Partner), sharing insights on VUVP's track record as a top 2% VC Fund, investor in 100+ portfolio companies, 25+ unicorns, 20+ multi-billion exits, including SpaceX, OpenAI, Figure AI, Flyr Labs, Wayflyer, Tyme Group, etc. 🍽️ Austin, TX – Friday, March 14 | 7:00–10:00 PM - RSVP Here: https://lu.ma/j3hw9dn6. Note: Seats are limited for each dinner, so please RSVP soon.  If you're unable to attend one of the dinners, but have investors in your network that would be interested, please share this email with them.

Invitation: Join us for a private LP Investor dinner to discuss VU Venture Partners, a global deep tech VC. 🍽️ Miami, FL – Wednesday, March 5 | 6:00–8:30 PM - RSVP Here: https://lu.ma/didci3s3. 🍽️ San Francisco, CA – Wednesday, March 26 | 6:30–9:00 PM - RSVP Here: https://lu.ma/onc9wsk9/. Note: Seats are limited for each dinner, so please RSVP soon.  If you're unable to attend one of the dinners, but have investors in your network that would be interested, please share this email with them.

Excited to share VU Venture Partners investment in OpenAI, a category leader in providing research and development for artificial intelligence and a core infrastructure platform for the AI industry. This investment marks VUVP's 100th investment! Also, this was our first co-investment with Futurum Capital, our investment partner in Brazil, who is partnering with us to launch VU Brazil, bringing Venture University's Investor Accelerator Program to Brazil! VU Brazil is Headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil at Futurum's office. The video attached is a presentation of the digital twin of J. Skyler Fernandes, CEO of Venture University and General Partner of VU Venture Partners, created by Touchcast, a generative AI content and web infrastructure platform, and a VUVP portfolio company. Microsoft and OpenAI are being built on top of Touchcast's generative AI infrastructure to reduce cost by up to 50% and increase speed by up to 100x for the Generative AI Web. Note: While the Digital Twin is not perfect (designed imperfect somewhat intentionally), it will only get better from here, and be harder to distinguish a digital twin from the "real" person. On the topic of ethical AI, we may want it to be clear that a digital twin is presenting and not the actual person presenting. Food for thought! Watch full video: https://lnkd.in/gPXWCrdS. Read more here about the launch of VU Brazil: https://lnkd.in/gyRKVh6k. Read more about Touchcast's partnership with Microsoft to provide a Generative AI Web Infrastructure for the world: https://lnkd.in/gwkDxTFX. #VentureUniversity #FuturumCapital #VUBrazil #VUVenturePartners #OpenAI #Artificialntelligence #AI #Brazil #SãoPaulo #VC #VentureCapital

Congrats to EarthGrid PBC on winning the Startup World Cup. EarthGrid is using plasma to dig tunnels 100x faster and 1/10th the cost. VU Venture Partners is proud to be an early investor in EarthGrid, going after one of the biggest market opportunities in the world for creating the underground infrastructure for water, electricity, data, and transportation.

🚀 Exciting News: Wegrow has raised €7M 🚀 I’m thrilled to share that Wegrow has secured €7 million in Series A Funding, led by Nauta with support from Wille Finance and our fantastic investors at Shapr Ventures, ScaleFund, VU Venture Partners & she1K. After moving from the corporate world to the start-up scene, I’m proud of how the Wegrow platform is reshaping the way leaders like Mondelēz International, Bayer, Campari Group, HP, Kraft Heinz, Nestlé, and Henkel share and scale best practices. With this funding, Wegrow will focus on: - AI-Powered Efficiency: Sharing best practices in under a minute! - Boosting ROI: Elevating client ROI from 10x to 30x! - Expanding Horizons: New developments for finance, tech, and more! If you’d like to learn more about how Wegrow is revolutionising best practice sharing, I’ll be in Japan on 17 October 2024 and Singapore on 23 October 2024. Let’s grab a coffee! ☕️ Thanks for being part of this journey! #Wegrow #Productivity #ScaleSmart #BestPractices

🚀 Looking for New Startup Investment Opportunities: Q4 Kickoff! 🚀 We're looking to invest in 2-4 companies this quarter, from Pre-Seed to Series B stage companies, across verticals and geographies. If you're a startup founder and meet the below criteria, we want to hear from you! Apply Here: https://lnkd.in/gz2XU4hS Learn more about our Global VC Fund, VU Venture Partners: https://lnkd.in/gABScqde ✅ Honest SAM Calculations: Bigger the better! Our average portfolio company has a SAM of ~$60B-$70B, but smaller SAMs are OK too— but only if you have a strategy to achieve mass market penetration. SAM = # Potential Customers x Avg. Revenue Per Customer. ✅ Unique Approach: Show us how you do things differently, such as how (not what) you provide the solution, unique business model, unique channel strategy, unique value prop of the solution, etc. ✅ Fast Mass Market Adoption: Do you have a clear method to achieve mass market growth in a short period of time? We’re looking for companies with strategies that scale fast and large. ✅ Multiple Unfair & Sustainable Competitive Advantages: What you got? First to market...first mover advantage...no thanks. Fast follower...with enlightened approach...yes please! ✅ Magnitude of Improvement: Are you solving problems in a way that’s significantly better than the status quo? Quantify it: Zero to 1? or 10x-100x+ better, faster, cheaper, or all three! Whether you're pre-Product/pre-Revenue (nothing is too early for us) or already in Growth Mode (nothing has too much traction for us to consider investing), we’re here to help you scale your company 20x - 100x+ (fyi - That's also our target return). 💼 If this sounds like you, submit your pitch on our website and let's get started! We're gearing up for our Q4 startup meetings and can't wait to hear your story. 🌱💡