Next Gen Leaders & Wealth Owners: Optimizing Investment in VC and Alternative Assets
**Please note that this is a small event, but we have a few spots open we wanted to share with additional people to expand the impact. If approved to attend the event, you will be notified.***
Join us during Houston Energy Week 2025 for an exclusive gathering of business leaders, family office professionals, and sophisticated investors to connect over explorations of strategic approaches to wealth optimization through venture capital and alternative investments in the innovation economy.
This networking and educational event is designed for next-generation wealth inheritors, professionally-employed investors, and business leaders / CEOs seeking to understand how to effectively deploy capital into startups, emerging technologies, and the future of energy via investments into the private, alternative markets (e.g., VC PE).
Through in-person connections with like-minded investors who understand the complexities of building wealth through innovation investing, we aim to provide space to share experiences, discuss deal flow, and build relationships with others navigating similar investment journeys in a confidential, professional setting.
Our hosts bring firsthand experience as both personal and professional investors in venture capital, providing authentic insights into building diversified portfolios that capture innovation-driven financial and social return.
Who Should Attend:
Business leaders and C-suite executives
Family office professionals and wealth managers
Next-generation wealth inheritors
Professionally-employed investors
High-net-worth individuals exploring VC and alternatives
Hosts
Alita Carbone, Impact Science Ventures (ISV) & AGCventures: Alita Carbone is a VC investor at Impact Science Ventures and multi-asset investor / philanthropist at AGCventures. ISV is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in revolutionary technologies and companies driving industrial innovation in rapidly transforming trillion-dollar global markets including energy, manufacturing, materials, and agriculture. An emerging manager with founding roots at Activate, the nation's premier deep tech accelerator funded by the US DOE, ISV has invested in market leaders such as Antora (low-cost, zero-emissions industrial heat and power that raised $150M led by BlackRock), Brimstone (decarbonized and on-shored production of industry-certified Ordinary Portland Cement, SCM, and smelter grade alumina from domestically-sourced feedstocks), and Fervo (next-gen geothermal energy systems for 24/7 clean power with record setting geothermal PPA).
Anthony Del Porto, BetterWay: Anthony Del Porto, founding GP of BetterWay, started as a mechanical engineer with a background in both product design as well as industrial processing and later went on to be a startup operator. He has since created BetterWay, investing in early-stage companies with hard-tech industrial sustainability solutions. They're focused on startups with new technology for legacy industries in areas such as materials, processes, efficiency, and circularity that can reduce negative environmental impacts while also being the better business decision.