The Global Venture Network™
The network for the people behind startups.
A private membership network for the leaders of the world’s accelerators, venture studios, and innovation hubs. 850+ members. 50+ countries. 15 years.
Home to leaders from 300+ organizations, including
The job
You spend your days backing everyone else.
No one sits where you sit.
You make high-stakes calls for founders, funders, and your team. Almost no one around you has held the same seat.
Founders expect real value.
Tools, credits, savings. Operators negotiate each deal alone, then spend real staff time managing every perk and partner.
Your organization needs capital too.
Accelerators, studios, and hubs need funding for operations and growth. Few funders understand the model.
Every benchmark is a guess.
Follow-on rates, equity terms, staff ratios, deal terms. There is no public data, so key decisions get made blind.
What membership is
Three things, done seriously.
A personal board of advisors.
Five to eight leaders who run organizations like yours, meeting every month under strict confidentiality. They see your real problems and opportunities and you see theirs. When the decision is too big to make alone, your Forum is the room you bring it to.
5 to 8 peers · 12 months · 2.5 hrs/month
COMMITTED · CANDID · CONFIDENTIAL
One seat is yours.
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per founder, in perks
A founder perks platform.
Every founder you work with gets over $1.7M in curated perks through Launchbook from day one. They redeem on your perks site, and the network keeps the catalog current, so the value keeps showing up without you managing it.
$1.7M+ per founder · 129 Partner Perks · 35,000+ founders
Capital access for your organization.
Hear directly from funders during live virtual Funder Talks. After each talk, GVN arranges matched funder meetings for Principal and Keystone members, with a one-page brief before every meeting and the introduction made for you. In-person Venture Summits bring catalytic capital members and funders together in Washington, D.C. in April, and growth capital members and funders in Miami in May.
Matched funder meetings for Your Organization
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THE VENTURE SUMMIT
The Venture Summits.
Two in-person Summits where funders meet the people who run accelerators, studios, and hubs. One for each way this work gets funded.
Catalytic Capital
Washington, D.C. · April 2027
Foundations, government, and mission driven capital, in person with the people who run non-profit accelerators, hubs, and studios.
Growth Capital
Miami · May 2027
Family offices, corporates, and institutional investors, in person with the people running for-profit studios, builders, and accelerators.
Before the Summits, members hear directly from funders in live virtual Funder Talks from November through January. GVN then arranges matched meetings for Principal and Keystone members.
FOR CLARITY
What GVN is not.
GVN is for the people who run accelerators, studios, and hubs. Not the startups inside them.
Funders in our rooms are vetted, and nobody buys access to our members. Ever.
The value here is the people and the data, not a queue of videos you will never open.
Membership is reviewed. That is what keeps the room worth being in.
Network intelligence
Stop guessing. Start benchmarking.
Monthly Ecosystem Pulse
Five questions each month, answered across the network and published back to every member.
Annual Benchmark Report
The only dataset comparing operating metrics across 300+ ecosystem builders worldwide: staff ratios, cohort fees, follow-on rates, mentor compensation, demo day outcomes.
Individual members
Member organizations
Countries
Ventures created
Collective valuation
Years
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MEMBER VOICES
“I wouldn’t be where I am today, or as connected as I am, without GVN.”
“Your team brings the Network’s culture to these events in so many ways and fosters such a genuine atmosphere of engagement, reflection, vulnerability and of course fun.”
Zaki Raheem, Director, DAI
“Every part of this was a learning experience: the people were all fountains of knowledge and passion, and even the structure itself was an example of how to run effective workshops at our programs. Plus, it was just really fun.”
Caroline Hatfield, Program Manager, Venture for America
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Membership
What it costs.
Pricing is public because you are busy. Membership starts at $3,500 per year. Every tier starts with a conversation, not a checkout.