How To Launch Your Post-MBA Career In Venture Capital
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How To Launch Your Post-MBA Career In Venture Capital
Venture capital is a popular career choice for those looking to combine entrepreneurial instinct with finance skills. Here’s how an MBA can help you launch your career in venture capital
Venture capital is a key part of the entrepreneurship program at Georgetown McDonough
Behind every great startup story, there are determined founders, skilled and creative teams, and of course, courageous investors and venture capitalists.
Venture capital funds invest in early-stage and emerging startups. Working in venture capital demands a strong understanding of numbers while also being able to identify potentially successful and impactful startups. In this sense, it’s a great career choice for MBA students.
Manchester investment firm launches Anti-Bias Fund
Alumni Venture Group seeks to address systemic biases
January 21, 2021
The Alumni Venture Group, Manchester, has launched the AVG Anti-Bias Fund, which it says will focus on deploying capital to support diverse founders, teams and business models addressing systemic biases.
Michael Collins, CEO of AVG, said the fund will compile a broad portfolio of 20 to 30 investments over the next 12 to 18 months. He added that the firm defines “diverse” as “not a white male.”
“There are numerous studies showing that companies with diverse leadership significantly outperform their all-white, all-male counterparts,” said Collins. “Yet most venture capitalists and VC-backed founders are still disproportionately white and male. The thesis for our new annual fund is primarily to back promising ventures that we think are good investments and that also fit our impact thesis. It’s a false dichotomy to say you can’t do well and do g