How Family Offices Can Regain Access To Venture Capital 

During Peter’s 25 years of VC experience he found white space (the white space being where certain FO’s can’t or don’t have the resources to participate in venture) between the intersection of VCs and Family Offices.   

How Family Offices can regain access to VC (more recently smaller to midsize FO’s have not been included into top-tier deals or having the option access deal by deal opportunities due to being crowded out by Institutions and endowments) 

Background on why and how Peter started PORTAL to cater to high-net worth individuals and Family Offices

How Family Offices can leverage the power of PORTAL’s Community

How to leverage QSBS to achieve $10 million in tax-free capital gains 

Benefits of using Tax Advantaged Accounts 

Peter Loukianoff Bio:

Peter is the founding partner of PORTAL, serving as its Managing Partner. He has over 25 years of experience as a business innovator, leader, and investor in Silicon Valley, Europe, and Asia. Previously, Mr. Loukianoff has been part of founding four successful venture capital firms, and raised funds for Alumni Ventures Group (AVG) – ranked by Pitchbook as the #3 most active VC firm in the US deploying over $250M per year in capital and managing a global portfolio of over 400 start-up companies (where he founded the UC Berkeley franchise Strawberry Creek Ventures); Black River Ventures, a US/European cross-border investment fund; 

Almaz Capital, one of the first technology funds focused on the Russian/CIS market; and Modern Venture Partners, a spin-off from AVG.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Loukianoff was a partner at Alloy Ventures and Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Co., where he worked on innovation strategies for multinational corporations. He has negotiated dozens of investment deals, served on numerous boards, and done business in 40+ countries around the world. He got his start in venture capital as an intern at Kleiner Perkins during business school. Notable start-ups that he and his funds have backed, include Qik (acq. by Skype), Yandex (Nasdaq: YNDX), Relayr (acq. by MunichRe), Marqeta (Nasdaq: MQ), Coursera (Nyse: COUR), LitRes (acq. by Ozon.ru), nScaled (acq. by Acronis), and Xactly (Nasdaq: XTLY). Formerly, Peter was a founding team member and senior operating executive with several start-ups, including Autonomy, a pioneer in unstructured data applications, and Silicon Valley Data Science (acq. by Apple).

As an internationally recognized expert in cross-border innovation, venture capital, and entrepreneurship, Mr. Loukianoff has advised several heads-of-state and world leaders on these subjects. Peter has also been a contributor to Forbes and the EastWest Institute, a guest commentator on television shows such as CNBC’s Street Signs, and has been covered by The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Bloomberg, et al. Mr. Loukianoff is a member of the Forbes Global CEO network and frequent speaker at industry conferences. He earned an MBA and BS in Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and is co-inventor on four mobile messaging patents.

About PORTAL:

PORTAL is a Community-first venture capital firm that brings together exceptional entrepreneurs and investors to build global technology startups that ascend the human experience. Want to learn more about PORTAL? Click here to join the Community.