NextGen Family Office Club (Alumni Ventures)

The NextGen Family Office Club is run by Alumni Ventures and describes itself in four words that capture the design: real deals, real capital, real decisions, with about twenty peers in the same seat as you. It is a cohort programme rather than an open network.

Who joins

The specification is unusually precise. Members are second through eighth generation family office members who are already allocating capital or being prepared to, from family offices typically in the US$500 million to US$2 billion range, and able to attend gatherings twice a year.

Naming a generation range and an asset band means a prospective member can tell immediately whether they fit, which is rare and useful. It also means the peers in the room are genuinely comparable, which is the entire value of a cohort of twenty.

How access works

Application is through a form on the Alumni Ventures site, and cohorts are limited to roughly twenty people.

No programme fee is published. What is published, and matters more, is the capital expectation: members are generally expected to invest six figures or more per year across the deals they take part in.

Treat that as the real cost of entry. This is not an education programme with an optional investing component. It is an investing programme where the education comes from putting your own money at risk, and a family should be clear it wants that before applying.

What members get

The monthly rhythm is the product, and it is specific. Each month the cohort takes one institutional-quality deal and works it properly: members review the packet, meaning the deck, the terms, the capitalisation table and the metrics; join an hour-long live discussion with an Alumni Ventures investor; pressure-test the thesis; vote to invest or pass; then submit a written rationale for their decision within seven days.

Over a year that comes to twelve or more deals evaluated end to end. Twice-yearly in-person gatherings sit alongside the virtual sessions.

The written rationale is the piece that makes this different from a syndicate. Being made to write down why you invested or passed, and then watching what happens, is how judgement actually develops. Most people investing family money never do it, and so never find out whether they were right for the reasons they thought.

For a family preparing the next generation to take investment responsibility, this is one of the most rigorously structured options in this directory. The six-figure annual expectation and the narrow asset band are what to check first.