Waterman Ventures

Waterman Ventures is a community of Brown University alumni: investors, entrepreneurs, and innovation enthusiasts. The Waterman Ventures fund enables accredited and qualified investors to directly participate in the next great Brown-affiliated businesses. Contribute to and benefit from the success of fellow Brunonians through Waterman Ventures.

How it works: Alumni invest between several million and fifty-thousand dollars each for long-term capital appreciation, retirement, or estate purposes. Each Waterman fund enables a limited number of investors access to a portfolio of ~25 revenue-generating, growth companies in diverse sectors and geography.

Waterman Ventures and Alumni Ventures Group enables smart, simple venture investing for individual investors and family offices through alumni affiliation and to focused funds such as: Blockchain, First-Check, Social Impact, Total Access and the Women’s Fund.

As one of Alumni Ventures Group funds, and one of the most active venture capital groups globally (PitchBook), Waterman exclusively invests alongside traditional venture capital experts such as Accel, a16z, Benchmark, KPCB, NEA, and Sequoia.

Entrepreneurs, note that Waterman provides connections to a network of alumni entrepreneurs and investors and does not take a board seat or lead rounds.

Waterman Ventures is private, for-profit, and friendly but not affiliated with or sanctioned by Brown University.