The Princeton Alumni Entrepreneurs Fund (AEF) was designed to build and maintain a dynamic community of young alumni entrepreneurs supported by a network of more experienced alumni. The Alumni Entrepreneurs Fund leveraged Princeton's strong alumni network to deliver meaningful support to early career founders via mentorship, access to capital, education and curated networking.
PEC administered the program and continues to manage the AEF portfolio. AEF’s 30 startups leveraged $2.2 million total investment from Princeton into nearly $160 million in outside investment as of 2022. AEF is closed to new investments.
AEF News
Meet our past speakers and mentors
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Jack is a Co-founder and CEO of Lattice, a people management software for growing companies, which has been funded over 24 million dollars to develop engaged, high-performing teams. Prior to starting Lattice, he was the VP of Business and Corporate Development at Teespring, and an angel investor in companies such as Opendoor and Pinterest.
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Brian is a partner at Venrock, a venture capital and private equity company focused primarily on healthcare and technology. He invests broadly across Enterprise and FinTech and currently serves on the Board of Directors of several companies such as 6Sense and Inrix.
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Nikhil is the managing director at Shasta Ventures, an early stage investor in enterprise, consumer, and emerging platform companies. He was a member of the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2015 for Venture Capital and serves on the board of four companies in the San Francisco and New York area.
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Louis is the founder of Earnest Inc. as well as SolidEnergy Systems, which is the world leader in Li-Metal technology. He believes we can fix the financial system by starting over with elegant software, smarter data, better design and focusing on the purpose of enabling people to realize their hopes and dreams.
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Peter is the principal and Co-Chairman of the board of directors of Fortress, a leading global investment management firm, which caters to both private and institutional investors and oversees assets in excess of $40 billion. He was previously a partner at Goldman Sachs, and also established the pilot funding program to assist recent Princeton University alumni entrepreneurs and their startup companies.
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Scott is the Co-founder of Troops.ai, a company building intelligent software to help millions of people automate key workflows, eliminate busy work, and deliver insights to make work easier. He was a member of Forbes 30 under list in 2017 for Enterprise Technology.
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Dennis is a Partner at Connective Advisors, which consults in media and business development. He has had an extensive career in media, entertainment and technology, and is an Emmy Award winning executive producer of the documentary “On Hallowed Ground: The Streetball Champions of Rucker Park.”
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Andrew is the CEO and Co-founder of Bungalow, which is rethinking the residential real estate market by providing renters with a more convenient, flexible, and communal living solution by creating a market between millennials who need a great home and baby boomers who own the existing housing supply. Previously, he worked at Medallia Inc. as a Customer Success Manager.
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John is a highly regarded speaker throughout the country as well as the co-author of two best selling books: Built for Growth: How Builder Personality Shapes Your Business, Your Team, and Your Ability to Win, and The Other ‘F’ Word: How Smart Leaders, Teams, and Entrepreneurs Put Failure to Work. He also advises Fortune 500 companies and startups in fields as diverse as healthcare, energy, finance, enterprise services, technology, and consumer products.
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Jean is the founder and CEO of Clarify Health Solutions, which provides the breakthrough technology and analytics platform to personalize and optimize patient care journeys. He has experience working in over 15 countries across North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa in healthcare management, strategy, operations, finance, and cultural change.
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Currently, Victoria provides independent consulting and advisory for businesses across strategic development, brand/product building and operational steering for companies such as Thousand Fell, YesPlz Inc., and FitSkin Inc.
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Cindy is a Partner and Co-Head of Startup Practice at Fenwick & West LLP, which provides comprehensive legal services to ground-breaking technology and life sciences companies and the investors that partner with them. The Legal 500 has singled Cindy out as one of the “leading names in Silicon Valley.” and she was honored as one of the top 10 most trusted corporate counselors by The Recorder.
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Laurence is the Head of Ventures at IEX Group, Inc., a technology company on a mission to build fairer markets in finance and beyond. Laurence has over 20 years of experience launching, growing and running businesses in technology, media, and telecommunications in the US, India, China, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Nigeria, Ghana, and South Africa. He is also the Chair of Princeton's Graduate Alumni Annual Giving.
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He is the founder and CEO of Skylight, which helps homeowners manage their renovation and construction projects to achieve their goals across cost, schedule and quality. Prior to Skylight, Jasper founded the local offers business Bloomspot that was sold to Chase in 2012, and previously he ran several business units at Yahoo!
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Amit is a Partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA). With more than $20 billion in committed capital, they’ve helped build nearly 600 successful businesses, resulting in more than 220 IPOs and 370 acquisitions, across sectors, stages and geographies. He was named to the 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30 in Venture Capital, and also serves on the board for a variety of companies such as Casper and Aquabyte. Prior to NEA, he controlled over 45 billion dollars' worth of transactions for JP Morgan.
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Gordon is the Founder and General Partner at Emergence Capital, who has invested in companies collectively worth $100B+. He was named to the Forbes’ Midas List of the top venture capital investors in 2007, 2012 and 2014 as well as the New York Times/CB Insights List of Top Venture Capitalists. He also sits on the board of eight companies.
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Brad is a Partner at DLA Piper US LLP, a Global law firm located in more than 40 countries. He focuses his practice on M&A, venture and angel investing, public offerings, and public company reporting and governance. Brad serves as lead counsel for the Princeton Alumni Angels network, while also providing counsel to corporations across various industries.
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Jeff is the Managing Director at Acadia Woods Partners, LLC, a New York based investment partnership that focuses primarily on early stage technology companies. He also serves as director for various other tech companies such as Quisk and Rain Dance Technologies and had previously held a number of high-technology management roles.
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Ellen is on the Board of Directors at Discovery Education, Shmoop, Solarwinds and Zynga. In 2005, she was one of eight industry professionals named “Master of Information” by Forbes magazine. She was also one of the founding executives of Yahoo!
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Will is an operations engineer for Block Renovation, a renovation platform that combines architect-grade design, construction labor, fixtures and materials into affordable renovation packages. He previously worked at Tesla as the market lead for charging infrastructure where he managed a team that handled site selection, contract negotiation, site design, utility planning, as well as state and local policy coordination.
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Geoff is the founding partner and managing director of Redpoint Ventures, which has backed over 465 companies with 140 IPOs and M+As, including 2U, HomeAway, Heroku, Netflix, and Android, and manages $4 billion across multiple funds. He is currently Chairman of the Alumni Advisory Board to Princeton Entrepreneurship Council. He also serves on the board of several other companies such AT&T, Franklin Templeton Investments, and Tastemade.
Any questions? Please contact Lauren Bender, AEF Program Manager at labender [at] princeton.edu.