venture.universityReviews of venture.university

Venture University is an excellent program for sharpening how you evaluate opportunities and make decisions as an investor, while also building valuable connections across Silicon Valley. We sourced companies, conducted diligence, evaluated investments, and defended our thinking in partner meetings with experienced investors. The mentorship and direct feedback were especially valuable, and my partner and I are now applying many of those lessons as we raise our own fund. If you want to deepen your VC judgment, learn best practices, and build relationships with people actively working in the ecosystem, I highly recommend the program. I am happy to share my experience with anyone considering it.

Output > Input The opportunity to conduct due diligence across different stages has been very valuable. For someone who is proactive, curious, and open to being challenged, VU provides an excellent platform to build a career in VC.

I'm a scientist by training with zero experience in investments and I was curious to learn about investment process. I should thank Jenna to provide me this opportunity to be part of this program. Sky has a very easy conversational style to share investment experiences. Andrew simply teaches concepts in deal flow meetings. Both of them critically analyze the company profile. And Aakash is always available to answer your questions. The good thing is that as a cohort, you are part of a supportive team with diverse backgrounds, which helps with analyzing the company better with different perspectives. Not only that, you also get to network in the space. Basically, you can enjoy the learning experience fully.

Excellent, comprehensive, invigorating, joyful, authentic, valuable. These are words that come to mind to describe my experience with Venture University. I write reviews when something is exceptional or on the complete opposite end. If you are able to participate in VU, go for it! Participation has offered learning and insight that will be hard to garner any other way. Networking, connecting and participating in active outreach, deal flow, due diligence, investor committee, syndicate and much more. The culture is conducive to learning, collaborating, diversity, team work and independence. Sky Fernandes, Andrew Zalasin, Jenna Fernandes, Aakash Jain - a superb team. You’ll have a chance to gain insight from others and contribute in a tangible way yourself. I highly recommend this opportunity and encourage you to apply without hesitation. -Toni

Venture University is an amazing opportunity to kick-start your venture capital career. It provides great, hands-on experience in all parts of VC, from deal sourcing and due diligence to finally investing in a company. I learned the mechanics of VC while collaborating with an exceptional group of people with diverse backgrounds in healthcare, aerospace, and logistics. This was all under the guidance of successful, experienced general partners who have exited companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Palantir. It is also an incredible networking opportunity. You get to create lasting relationships with current and future VC investors, which is a huge help if you want to start your own syndicate or venture fund down the line. Overall, this was the ultimate learning experience in venture capital, delivered by the practitioners who shaped how we work and live. I strongly recommend the course to everyone who wants to learn how real VC functions, the Silicon Valley way, and to raise the bar of their investment decisions.

I thought this experience was great! It taught me a lot about venture capital, especially as an undergrad. I learned how to evaluate startups, think through investment decisions, and gained exposure to the VC industry that I wouldn’t have gotten in a classroom. Overall, it was a really valuable experience and made me even more interested in the field.

Up to this point, those eager to enter the venture capital world had two mutually exclusive options: enter an academic institution to learn the theory, or find an apprenticeship opportunity to learn by doing. Venture University has put an end to this binary option: you learn the theory in an optimum way, while gaining hands-on experience working with esteemed practitioners who have ultra-successful track record investing in startups. Cherry on the cake? Unlimited networking opportunity on a global scale. You will do yourself a big service joining this program!

I participated in Venture University’s Venture Capital Investor Accelerator, where I gained hands-on experience in deal sourcing, market research, and investment evaluation across early-stage startups. I worked with the investment team to review companies, conduct due diligence, and analyze market opportunities. I also participated in weekly partner meetings to discuss potential investments and contributed insights on promising opportunities. This experience strengthened my ability to think strategically and evaluate startups from an investor’s perspective.