VU Venture Partners

What is VU Venture Partners?

VU Venture Partners is a global venture capital fund that specializes in a transformative approach to investing across a wide range of industries and stages. They are not limited by geography and maintain headquarters in San Francisco with additional offices spanning North America, Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, and Latin America.

Their focus encompasses sectors such as Software, PropTech, Hospitality, Media, BioTech, AgroTech, Business Solutions, FinTech, Energy, Retail, Sales, IoT, CleanTech, A.I., HealthTech, Blockchain, Web Security, Gaming, Analytics, Cloud Services, Developer Tools, Future Of Work, Food & Beverage, GovTech, Human Resources, Impact, Insurance, Logistics, Medical Devices, Messaging, Payments, Robotics, Aerospace, Real Estate, DeepTech, Healthcare, Music, Mobility, Nanotechnology, Online Social, and Consumer Goods with a particular emphasis on supporting women-focused initiatives.

Their dedicated investment teams operate with expertise in Consumer, Enterprise, Fintech, Frontier, Healthcare, and Proptech. They leverage the experience of senior investment managers with over 50 years of combined VC experience, managing funds that have invested over $2 billion and realized significant returns.

VU Venture Partners stands out with its broad market coverage and in-depth domain expertise, deploying an investment style that's both expansive and discerning, sourcing approximately 20,000 deals per year and investing in about 0.1% of them. They provide initial investments ranging from $200K to $1M with the potential for follow-on investments up to $10M. Their strategic geographic locations, coupled with a substantial investment team, equip them to cover markets more broadly, deeply, and efficiently.

The firm's investment range includes a minimum of $100,000, a maximum of $5,000,000, and a 'sweet spot' of $1,500,000. They are actively participating in Series A through Series B stages, including Pre-Seed and Seed rounds, with a particular focus on Latin America. VU Venture Partners offers a robust support network to its portfolio companies, assisting in customer acquisition, partnerships, talent acquisition, and exit strategies, ensuring long-term capital partnership and success.

What they say:

VU Venture Partners is a global venture capital fund focused and is currently raising it's 2nd fund, VU Venture Partners Fund II, a $100M fund.  VU's previous fund, VU Venture Partners Fund I, is a 2018 vintage venture capital fund and has a ~72% IRR, benchmarked as a top decile performing VC fund.

What we look for: We invest in 7 vertical teams, including Consumer & Enterprise (two generalist teams) and five more vertical focused teams each with their industry expertise: FinTech (Financial Services, Crypto, & NFTs), Frontier (AI, Robotics, Advanced Materials, & SpaceTech), Healthcare (HealthTech, Medical Devices

How we help: VU Venture Partners leverages an innovative and disruptive venture capital fund model that provides the ability to outperform within the venture capital asset class. The investment team includes 70+ highly qualified professional investors with expertise in different fields, which provides the capability of sourcing and evaluating 20,000+ companies