Allison Baum Gates
General Partner, SemperVirens Venture Capital
Allison is a General Partner at SemperVirens, a venture fund investing in healthcare, fintech and enterprise SaaS. To date, Allison has raised hundreds of millions of dollars from LPs in the US, Europe, and Asia, and she has deployed capital into more than 70 companies, including nine unicorns, 24 exits and 10 board positions. She has been featured in major publications such as the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Techcrunch, taught hundreds of business school students. She is a Lecturer in Management at Stanford GSB, and is the author of Breaking into Venture (McGraw-Hill, 2023), a comprehensive guide for navigating the VC industry her second book “Beyond the Pitch: The Psychology of Raising VC Funding” will be released next year. She holds a B.A. in Economics with Honors from Harvard University and is fluent(ish) in three languages.
