About
Fifteen years of building the builders.
The Global Venture Network is the private membership network for the people who run the world’s accelerators, venture studios, and innovation hubs.
We started in 2010 as the Global Accelerator Network, launched alongside the White House’s Startup America initiative, and grew into the networks we run today across six continents. A decade and a half later, the job hasn’t changed: put the people doing this work in rooms with their true peers, their real numbers, and the funders who back organizations like theirs.
Membership is three things, done seriously. Confidential peer forums. A perks platform your founders use from day one. And capital access through The Venture Summit’s two tracks, Catalytic and Growth.
Our job is to show this industry where it’s actually heading, with the only benchmark data that exists on it, and to fund the people building it.
THE GVN SUMMIT, DEVIL’S THUMB RANCH, COLORADO
PRINCIPLES
Honest peer relationships over transactional networking.
Great ventures come from everywhere, not just the famous hubs.
Leadership
Pat Riley
President & CEO
Pat was the CEO of the Global Accelerator Network, founded in 2010 through the White House Startup America Initiative, and founded the Global Venture Network shortly thereafter. He lives in Denver and spends much of the year with members around the world.
“I have spent fifteen years in rooms with the people who back founders. Almost nobody backs them. That is the whole reason this network exists.”