Are you fresh out of business school and looking for your next jump up the career ladder?

Consider this: You can become a CEO through raising a search fund.

On May 10, 2016, to help the MBA class at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School understand the search fund model, the Johns Hopkins Private Equity and Venture Capital Club invited Joshua Klatzkin, Partner at Goodwin Procter, and Andy Lock, Associate at Goodwin Procter, to share more about the topic.

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Baltimore is changing rapidly and one of the key actors in changing the narrative of the city is Sagamore Ventures, a division under Plank Industries—the family investment arm of Kevin Plank, Chairman and CEO of Under Armour.

The Johns Hopkins Private Equity and Venture Capital Club hosted Demian Costa, Managing Partner of Sagamore Ventures on Apr 13, 2016 at the Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus. This marked the first time that the Club has held an event at the Homewood campus to encourage greater participation from JHU undergraduates and graduates from other schools.

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Getting access to top tier venture capital firms can be challenging as most of the fund allocations are dominated by large established institutional limited partners. Venture capital firms are also subject to macroeconomic trends in the market which may affect the various stages of their investment cycle that includes: fundraising, deal structuring and negotiation, valuation, portfolio management and exit.

Many venture capital firms have shut down as they struggle to grapple with the macroeconomic conditions, failed or mistimed investments and underperformance of their investment returns. To this end, the Johns Hopkins Private Equity & Venture Capital hosted John Avirett, Partner at Greenspring Associates (“Greenspring”) at the Carey Business School on Apr 21, 2016 for a session on “Building a Sustainable Platform for Venture Capital” to understand what it takes to become successful venture capital firm.

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The Johns Hopkins Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) was held on Nov 21 at the Carey Business School and was organized by the Innovation Factory and the Johns Hopkins Private Equity and Venture Capital Club. A strong turnout featured a total of 8 Venture Capital Student (VCS) teams (5 members each), 6 Startups and 7 Judges. VCIC is the world’s largest venture capital competition among top graduate students from 70+ prestigious business schools from all around the world. Unlike most competitions in which student-entrepreneurs pitch to VCs, in this competition, the graduate students are the VCs.

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The Johns Hopkins Private Equity & Venture Capital Club kicked off the programming season with Dave Greenwald, Director of Business Development and Corporate Partnerships at the Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures (JHTV) on March 3, 2016 at the Carey Business School. The topic was “Entrepreneurship and the Commercialization of Technology.”

The Johns Hopkins University has a renewed commitment to nurturing the entrepreneur and innovation ecosystem within the Hopkins community and to Baltimore. To this end, JHTV plays an integral role in the university’s vision to commercialize the groundbreaking research. In FY2015, JHTV has made significant progress as it supported the development of new startup companies and facilitated new patent issuance.

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The Private Equity and Venture Capital Club (PEVC) at Johns Hopkins held its kick-off meeting of the 2015-2016 academic year on Oct 19, 2015. Students and faculty members alike eagerly attended Monday’s meeting to learn more about the club’s future as well as the private equity industry as a whole. PEVC aims to create industry exposure among wide array of students through professional development, education, and experiential learning. PEVC is working hard to secure a compelling speaker series that features industry leaders that carry a breadth of knowledge and experience to share. Chris Hoehn-Saric of Sterling Partners and Shane Kim of Camden Partners are scheduled to speak in November. In addition to speaker series, the club plans to promote education through a variety of courses including financial modeling and leverage buyouts.

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