Clay Maxwell

Duke Capital Partners, Duke Universitys official early-stage venture investment arm, provides capital and expertise to help Duke startups, and features one of Duke’s most innovative experiential learning opportunities for students. As one of the largest and oldest university investment entities of its kind, Duke Capital Partners consistently places among the top five in North America. Our mission is to support the global Duke entrepreneurial community with an angel investing platform and co-investment fund (the Duke Innovation Fund) that engage and leverage the unparalleled Duke network.

VU Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital fund focusing on Consumer, Enterprise, FinTech, Frontier, Healthcare, and PropTech

Our venture studio, PX, develops your new venture at startup speed, while insulating your Core Business from any distractions. We put experienced entrepreneurs in charge, and tap a core team that does this all day, every day. Our PX unit has all the necessary startup infrastructure partnerships, from legal counsel to digital prototyping. We provide full transparency, and are experienced at every hurdle from running beta tests, to filing provisional patents, to briefing corporate boards. PX helps large enterprises disrupt the status quo, and earn a proper ROI. Our industrial grade entrepreneurship moves big ideas downstream quickly from concept to first revenues to scale-up. This approach has built twelve multi-million dollar businesses in diverse market sectors, since 2012, in addition to more than 40 new products/services/experiences. https://www.pxventurestud.io/

Duke Capital Partners, Duke Universitys official early-stage venture investment arm, provides capital and expertise to help Duke startups, and features one of Duke’s most innovative experiential learning opportunities for students. As one of the largest and oldest university investment entities of its kind, Duke Capital Partners consistently places among the top five in North America. Our mission is to support the global Duke entrepreneurial community with an angel investing platform and co-investment fund (the Duke Innovation Fund) that engage and leverage the unparalleled Duke network.