Hi Reader,
This Friday (26.09.25) we’re hosting our Reverse Demo Day (ONLINE EDITION), and you’re invited:
Unlike a traditional demo day where startups pitch investors, at our Reverse Demo Day it’s our Venture Partners, participants in the Investor Accelerator, who pitch the companies they’ve just selected for investment through our Investment Committee.
- 📅 Date: Friday, Sept 26, 2025
- 🕒 Time: 10am–12pm PT / 1pm–3pm ET / 7pm–9pm CEST
- 📍 Online Event (Zoom Webinar)
From +5,000 sourced opportunities, only 11 companies (~0.2% selectivity) made it into our portfolio this quarter.
The Selected Companies (Names To Be Revealed At REVERSE DEMO DAY) Include:
New Portfolio Company Investments:
- SpaceTech: Data Centers in Space
- SpaceTech: Power Grid for Space
- Robotics: Humanoid Robots That Seamlessly Integrate Into Our Daily Lives At Home
- Robotics: Operating System For Robotic
- Enterprise / Computing: Next-generation photonic chips that combine optics and electronics to transform connectivity, AI, and data infrastructure
- FinTech: Crypto-Native Digital Bank
- Longevity & Fertility: Lab Growing Human Eggs Increasing Longevity For Fertility
- Longevity: Cloned Animal & Human Bodies With No Brains For Drug Discovery, Organ Harvesting, & Full-Body Replacement
- Healthcare / Cancer: A Cancer Killing & Cancer Preventive Drug
- Healthcare / Endometriosis: Fast and highly accurate diagnosis of endometriosis
- Healthcare / Neurons: Growing new neurons in the colon of infants, restoring gut-nerve function
Follow-on Investments:
- Frontier / Transportation: Large innovative plane design for cargo and passengers at 60%+ price reduction and lower environmental impact
- SpaceTech: Building high volume and low cost real estate in space
Thinking About Joining Venture University?
Our next cohort (Cohort 50!) starts Monday, Sept 29. If you’ve been considering stepping into Venture Capital, whether to professionalize as an angel, prepare to raise a fund, or build a real track record, this is your moment.
We’re also running a special opportunity for final female applicants right now. If that’s relevant for you, or someone you know, we’d love to hear from you.
Looking forward to seeing you on Friday,
Andy & Remy Goldstein + the VU Team