Michael Beer founded and runs the invite-only 116 Street Venture Club for Columbia alumni, where he leads open discussions among peers instead of formal presentations, and before that he was the fastest person ever promoted from Associate to Principal at CPV. He came from Boston Consulting Group, where he worked on turning around struggling tech companies, holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a philosophy and economics degree from the University of Pennsylvania, writes a weekly blog on how AI is changing enterprise software, and is set to speak in a 2026 webinar on how robotics is starting to replace manual labor.
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Castor Ventures
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Generalist, AI, Deeptech / Hardware, Space, Web3 / Crypto
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Castor Ventures operates as an MIT-only alumni venture fund that requires investors to be MIT alumni and offers both a fully managed annual fund plus a live syndicate where individual alumni can opt into specific deals with access to internal diligence. The fund applies a strict co-invest-only model targeting 5-15% allocations alongside elite firms like Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia, while leveraging Alumni Ventures' 850,000+ person network and 1,300+ portfolio companies to provide portfolio support far beyond what typical small alumni funds can offer.
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Defense
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7
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$100K - $5M
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2
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$250K - $2M
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4
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$400K - $1.5M
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Fintech
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Devtools
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2
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$250K-$1M
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