Bascom Ventures
Network-powered venture capital with fellow Wisconsin alums.
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350+
alumni investors
85+
portfolio companies
AV Co-Invests with Experienced Venture Firms
250+ investments with leading VCs and many with other top-quartile firms.
These leading venture firms have backed some of the most successful companies in the world.
Co-investors are shown for illustrative purposes only, do not represent all co-investors with which Alumni Ventures as invested, and are not necessarily indicative of future co-investors. The identity of a co-investor does not guarantee investment quality or performance.
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Your classmates and community members who wake up everyday to assemble a great venture portfolio.
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Bascom Ventures is a welcome solution for addressing a long term growth need in my portfolio. Disciplined analytics, high quality deals, vetted by top venture capital firms allow the rest of us to participate in funding companies our Wisconsin brethren are involved in. Great idea!
Working with the team at Bascom Ventures has been a real pleasure. From the first interaction it was clear that they have a wealth of knowledge and a tremendous network that was always very attractive for us. We are looking forward to working with the team and their diverse network to help the business grow.
In my opinion AV/Bascom are the best kept secret for founders and are an incredible value add group. The community and its aptitude to drive momentum is amazing.
What Bascom has and AV more broadly, is a great model. It is very unique and I have not seen many other funds do this. Ideally you want somebody with something other than just money. Network connections are very, very important.
Investing with Bascom Ventures and Alumni Ventures has allowed me to add a strong portfolio of early-stage investments and support fellow Badgers. The fund process makes it easy to get into deals that I would not have access to, nor the time to evaluate all of them.
For the average investor, which I had been for a long time, it is hard to get into the club. The money and the deals flow from a small amount of people. It's really kind of democratizing for the little guy - an opportunity to look at the deals big venture firms are involved with.
Thanks to Alumni Ventures for creating Bascom Ventures! I have enjoyed being a part of successful early-stage initiatives from fellow alumni of the University of Wisconsin. Because of the scale and leverage of the AV group as a whole, the quality of the deals is superior.
Bascom Ventures is a welcome solution for addressing a long term growth need in my portfolio. Disciplined analytics, high quality deals, vetted by top venture capital firms allow the rest of us to participate in funding companies our Wisconsin brethren are involved in. Great idea!
Working with the team at Bascom Ventures has been a real pleasure. From the first interaction it was clear that they have a wealth of knowledge and a tremendous network that was always very attractive for us. We are looking forward to working with the team and their diverse network to help the business grow.
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Bascom Ventures Portfolio
We invest alongside other established venture firms in a broad range of ventures to help build you a diversified venture portfolio.
- 44.01
- Alto Experience
- Alvee
- American Gene Technologies
- Anzen Insurance
- Appify
- Arrows
- Atmoslabs
- Axiom Space
- Azumo
- Bacon
- Baseball United
- Battleface
- Benny
- Boldin
- Brave Health
- Canela Media
- Centaur Health Holdings
- Circle
- Compass
- Conversa
- Cultured Decadence
- Deserve
- Dog Spot
- Earth Funeral
- Enable
- Endless West
- Ethena
- Expo
- FinLocker
- Frens
- Gallant
- Global Predictions
- GrubMarket
- H3X Technologies
- Harbor MedTech
- Heal
- HealthMyne
- HelixNano
- Hello Alfred
- Hercules AI
- Highly
- Honcho
- Hopscotch Health
- HopSkipDrive
- Innoblative
- Intrinio
- Juvena Therapeutics
- Kalderos
- Kindbridge
- LARQ
- Layer
- Light Field Lab
- Lightship
- Live Undiscovered Music
- LoveLocal
- Lumanu
- Lunar Energy
- Lyla
- Mai
- Mighty
- Mission Bio
- MUD / WTR
- Mycocycle
- Mythic
- Mythical Games
- NeuraLight
- Nimble Collective
- Oobli
- OpenComp
- Options MD
- Outlogic
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