Luke Antal broke into venture capital without traditional credentials by cold-calling Alumni Ventures' CEO and offering to work for free, then used that experience to create the Alumni Ventures Venture Fellow Program, which has helped 600+ nontraditional candidates enter VC with 75% being non-male or non-white. As a co-founder of Alumni Ventures, he focuses on democratizing venture investing by giving individual accredited investors access to professional-grade venture portfolios that were historically only available to institutions, while serving as a public educator who explains VC concepts to non-experts through educational content series. Luke Antal broke into venture capital without traditional credentials by cold-calling Alumni Ventures' CEO and offering to work for free, then used that experience to create the Alumni Ventures Venture Fellow Program, which has helped 600+ nontraditional candidates enter VC with 75% being non-male or non-white. As a co-founder of Alumni Ventures, he focuses on democratizing venture investing by giving individual accredited investors access to professional-grade venture portfolios that were historically only available to institutions, while serving as a public educator who explains VC concepts to non-experts through educational content series.