Galvanize Ventures is turning venture upside-down. Galvanize Ventures has access to Galvanize's 7 campuses across the country in San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Boulder, Austin, and Fort Collins. As a center of these startup ecosystems, talented entrepreneurs spend time working, mentoring, and networking on Galvanize's campuses. These entrepreneurs look to Galvanize as an early source of capital, giving us unique access to great early stage startups across the country.
We invest primarily in impressive founding teams that have proven their ability to build a working product. We invest $100,000 into their seed round, reserving the same amount for follow on. Our investment does not require them to work on our campuses.
Alongside our investment, we provide direct access to our pipeline of thousands of software developers and data scientists graduating from our schools. They also get access to our nationwide network of companies, faculty, and employees as potential partners and customers.
We invest in 20-30 companies a year, we are experimenting with AngelList as a tool to syndicate 5 or 6 of our best deals each year.