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Glenn Borok

Principal, Alumni Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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Glenn Borok focuses on pre-seed and seed-stage investments across application-layer AI, fintech, and vertical SaaS at Alumni Ventures. He also founded inVest Ventures, a community microfund backed by LinkedIn alumni, following earlier roles at Jump Capital and LinkedIn.

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Assertion Supported
Borok: Startups Juicebox and Happenstance are building AI-driven search tools
“I think there's a lot of really great startups like Juicebox and Happenstance that are creating new AI driven search functionalities.”
Glenn Borok Jun 23, 2026 ▶ 31:04 Navigating Venture Ecosystems and Community Investing with Glenn Borok of Alumni Ventures | The Innovators & Investors Podcast

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Disclosure
Borok: Alumni Ventures seed strategy prioritizes cap table access over valuation
“As a fund, I think our hypothesis is that you want to be in the best in class companies in any capacity. So, you know, we're obviously a tip of spear approach on the seed fund. So we're trying to Start to build that relationship over time and we want to get on…”
Glenn Borok Jun 23, 2026 ▶ 4:54 Navigating Venture Ecosystems and Community Investing with Glenn Borok of Alumni Ventures | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Borok: Many tech workers who moved to Austin and Miami returned to the Bay Area
“I think a lot of folks who went to Miami, who went to Austin, at least this is anecdotally my experience, have moved back to the Bay, and it seems like, yeah, this new wave of excitement around Yeah, kind of this platform shift is, is kind of bringing people b…”
Glenn Borok Jun 23, 2026 ▶ 9:04 Navigating Venture Ecosystems and Community Investing with Glenn Borok of Alumni Ventures | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
Assertion Supported
Borok: Startups Juicebox and Happenstance are building AI-driven search tools
“I think there's a lot of really great startups like Juicebox and Happenstance that are creating new AI driven search functionalities.”
Glenn Borok Jun 23, 2026 ▶ 31:04 Navigating Venture Ecosystems and Community Investing with Glenn Borok of Alumni Ventures | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
Disclosure
Borok: Alumni Ventures Seed Fund writes $50K–$300K co-investment checks
“And so they brought me on board to help build out their seed fund strategy, which is geo agnostic sector agnostic, but stage specific. So we're writing, you know, generally anywhere from 50 to 300 K checks into early stage companies and co-investing, not leadi…”
Glenn Borok Jun 23, 2026 ▶ 3:21 Navigating Venture Ecosystems and Community Investing with Glenn Borok of Alumni Ventures | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
Assertion Partly supported
Borok: Alumni Ventures has an LP network of over 15,000 people
“Our large network of over 15,000 folks that, that are involved from an LP perspective.”
Glenn Borok Jun 23, 2026 ▶ 5:12 Navigating Venture Ecosystems and Community Investing with Glenn Borok of Alumni Ventures | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
Disclosure
Borok: Invest Ventures raised $2M microfund backed by former LinkedIn CEO
“About a year and a half ago, I founded Invest Ventures, which is a small micro fund. We raised about two million dollars for folks like Jeff Wiener, who's a former CEO, as well as executives from Cricket Health, Figma, Confluence, Superhuman a whole host of re…”
Glenn Borok Jun 23, 2026 ▶ 10:23 Navigating Venture Ecosystems and Community Investing with Glenn Borok of Alumni Ventures | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
Disclosure
Borok: Alumni Ventures operates all funds on annual 12-month deployment cycles
“All of our funds are annual. So they're raising and deploying within the following 12 months.”
Glenn Borok Jun 23, 2026 ▶ 23:19 Navigating Venture Ecosystems and Community Investing with Glenn Borok of Alumni Ventures | The Innovators & Investors Podcast

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Navigating Venture Ecosystems and Community Investing with Glenn Borok of Alumni Ventures Jun 23, 2026 26m
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