Webinar
Access the Innovation Edge: Inside Spike Ventures
Join our presentation to learn about Spike Ventures. This is an excellent opportunity to meet the team and hear about their approach to investing in private-stage companies. This presentation is led by Managing Partner Todd McIntyre.
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Post Webinar Summary
In the Spike Ventures Fund 8 webinar, managing partner Todd McIntyre introduces the fund’s focus on providing venture capital opportunities to Stanford alumni and their network. The session highlights how Spike Ventures builds diversified portfolios, investing across stages, sectors, and geographies. Emphasizing the benefits of venture capital—such as high returns, low correlation with public markets, and access to private markets—the presentation outlines the fund’s collaborative strategy of co-investing with top-tier venture firms like Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners. Spike Ventures offers individual investors the chance to participate with investments starting at $25,000, with an October 31st deadline offering a fee reduction incentive. The fund aims to foster long-term wealth building through consistent annual investments, leveraging the Stanford alumni network to source deals and provide value to portfolio companies.
During this session, we will cover:
- HomeThe goal and structure of the fund
- HomeSpike and Alumni Ventures approach to investing
- HomeSome examples of current portfolio companies
- HomeThe benefits of diversifying into venture capital
- HomeThe minimum requirements needed to invest in the fund
Note: You must be accredited to invest in venture capital. Important disclosure information can be found at av-funds.com/disclosures.
About your presenter
Overview:
Todd McIntyre invests in transformative technologies that move markets and improve lives—where deep science, hardware innovation, and human health intersect. With 25+ years as both investor and operator, Todd has built, funded, and scaled companies from inception through exit. He focuses on opportunities where differentiated intellectual property and disciplined execution can create lasting value.
Before joining Alumni Ventures as Managing Partner of Spike Ventures (Stanford alumni fund), Todd co-founded Grey Sky Venture Partners, a healthtech venture capital fund that linked equity investment with fund-owned intellectual property. He sourced investments, guided portfolio companies as board member and mentor, and managed a 500+ patent portfolio. Earlier, as Vice President of Business Development at Invention Science Fund, he helped incubate and fund several landmark deep-tech startups, including TerraPower, Kymeta, Evolv Technologies, Echodyne, and Pivotal Commware.
Todd also played a leading role in growing Microvision from a three-person startup to a publicly traded innovator in display and imaging, and founded Lumera Corporation, a spinout focused on optical and biotech device technologies.
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Investment Lens:
Across healthcare, hardware, and deep tech, Todd backs founders who bring breakthrough ideas into reality. He looks for entrepreneurs who don’t just imagine the future—they engineer it, protect it, and scale it.
Todd’s investment lens emphasizes diversified venture portfolios: sector, stage, geography, and vintage. He has extensive experience negotiating and closing deals across the capital structure—from seed and early-stage ventures to M\&A and public financings. His track record spans pioneering work in healthtech, complex patent licensing transactions, and syndicating deals alongside top-tier venture firms.
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