Inside VU Venture Partners’ Healthcare Investment Strategy - Backing Health AI, Digital Health, BioTech, Longevity, & Fertility Startups
Inside Venture Investing with VU Venture Partners
Healthcare Insights During JPM Healthcare Conference Week
A behind-the-scenes look at how sophisticated investors gain exposure to some of the most compelling opportunities in healthcare and frontier technology.
Come join this hosted event in person (or virtually via Zoom) at the San Francisco headquarters of VU Venture Partners, this hybrid investor session is designed for LPs, family offices, angels, and professional allocators who want a practical understanding of how venture investing actually works, and how investors can participate alongside experienced fund managers.
Led by J. Skyler Fernandes, General Partner of VU Venture Partners and Founder of Venture University, the session will walk through how VUVP has built a global investment platform spanning committed funds, syndicates, and co-investments.
With JPM Healthcare Conference week bringing much of the healthcare investing world into San Francisco, this session will also highlight how we approach healthcare opportunities across AI healthtech, digital health, biotech, drug discovery, longevity, fertility, and life sciences, including how investors evaluate risk, timelines, and access in these categories.
Why Attend?
The Platform: VU Venture Partners (VUVP) is a top 2% performing early-stage global venture capital fund, focusing on the largest actionable market opportunities and solving humanity's biggest challenges. VUVP's managers have been early investors in 25+ unicorns and have had 20+ multi-billion-dollar exits.
Keynote Speaker: J. Skyler (Sky) Fernandes (Top 100 Powerlist VC, Co-Founder & General Partner at VU Venture Partners), sharing insights on VUVP's track record as a top-performing VC Fund. Sky has over 15+ years of venture capital experience and has invested in over 150+ portfolio companies, including 10+ unicorns.
Case Studies: Come learn about some of VUVP's 10+ unicorns, such as SpaceX, OpenAI, Figure AI, 1X, Neuralink, Anduril, Erebor, Wayflyer, Flyr Labs, and other successful exits, such as Beyond Meat (2xing entire fund), and Bear Flag Robotics (9x in 13 months).
Healthcare in Practice: Healthcare is 30%+ of VUVP's portfolio. Learn how VUVP evaluates and invests in healthcare innovation, with real-world examples from portfolio companies such as Healx, an AI drug discovery platform, X-Therma in organ preservation via cryogenic freezing, RetroBio building a portfolio of longevity therapies using epigenetic reprograming, Cellbricks lab growing organs, Conception Bio lab growing eggs, and Kangaroo creating artificial wombs, etc.
Curated Networking: Connect with high-calibre LPs, family offices, and experienced private investors in a focused, business-first setting.
Event Schedule:
7:00 - 7:30 pm: Arrival and networking.
7:30 - 9:00 pm: Keynote Presentation and discussion with VU Venture Partners. Zoom webinar will start at 7:30pm.
Light refreshments will be served.
📍 Location: VU Venture Partners office, located near Pier 31, San Francisco, CA (Address will be shared with confirmed attendees)
🎥 Virtual Attendance via Zoom: If you prefer to join online, please register on Zoom here: RSVP.
This is a non-solicitational, educational session, designed to share how we approach investing with transparency, discipline, and a global lens.
For investors, by investors.
If you are part of, or curious about, the LP, family office, or angel community, this session offers an opportunity to learn from active investors, exchange perspectives with peers, and better understand how VUVP invests with investors across the venture ecosystem.
Space is limited. RSVP required.