What Is Venture University?

- VU is a hands-on investor accelerator and apprenticeship program that trains the next generation of capital allocators—individuals who want to think, act, and invest like world-class venture capitalists and angels.

- VU disrupts the traditional education and training model by running both an educational program and a venture capital fund in-house.

- VU's unique flywheel model that compounds over time enables students to learn the theory and practice of venture capital in real time and provides the infrastructure for VU Venture Partners to operate like a fund 10x its size.

- VU deepening its ties with Israel: VU Venture Partners was an investor in Touchcast, the AI startup founded by Israeli entrepreneur Edo Segal. The VU team worked closely with him until it was recently acquired for $500M.

VU Venture Partners Asset Management:

- Full Spectrum: Venture Capital, PE, & Real Estate

- Funds: $65M+ AUM (Committed Funds + VC/PE Syndicate)

- Portfolio: 100+ Portfolio Companies across 6 verticals: Consumer, Enterprise, FinTech, Frontier, Healthcare, & PropTech

- Experienced Team: 100+ Years doing VC/PE, $9B+ Invested, Across VC ($2B+) and PE ($7B+)

- Top Performance: Top Decile (4x+ Net Realized Return), Investor In 25+ Unicorns, 20+ $1B+ Exits

J. Skyler Fernandes, Co-Founder and General Partner, Venture University

• Ranked Top 100 Powerlist VC

• ~15 years of VC/PE Investing, 150+ Portfolio Companies

• Select Prior Portfolio Companies: Beyond Meat (IPO'd, $14B), Sensity (Acquired by Verizon, $300M+), ShopKick (Acquired by SK Telecom, $200M), Made In Space (Acquired by AE Industrial Partners, FabFitFun ($1B+), Spyce (Acquired by sweetgreen), Bear Flags Robotics (Acquired by John Deere, $250M)

• Former Managing Director of Investments at Cleveland Avenue (VC/PE Fund co-founded by Former CEO & President of McDonalds), focusing on food and beverage brands, food related technologies, and new restaurant concepts

• Founder, Head, & Former Managing Director of Simon Venture Group (Corporate investment arm of Simon Property Group, S&P 100, largest retail real estate company in the world), grew to top 5 corporate VC focused on commerce alongside Google Ventures, Intel Capital, and Comcast Ventures

• Adjunct Professor at New York University teaching Venture Capital Intensive