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VENTURE INVESTMENT ASSOCIATES (VIA) is an employee-owned manager of private equity funds of funds in venture capital, growth equity and buyouts, with total capital of $1 billion. Our funds offer a limited number of select investors the opportunity to realize significant long-term appreciation through diversified portfolio investments in some of the most desirable private equity partnerships. In general, many of these partnerships are not available to new investors and have high minimum investment requirements.

VIA’s founder and president was one of the earliest investors in private equity funds. He founded VIA in 1993 with the acquisition of the private equity portfolio of the American Express Company, a portfolio he developed over 20 years while employed by American Express. VIA’s investors include endowments, foundations, high net-worth families, and a limited number of financial institutions.

VIA’s funds are diversified across multiple vintage years, committed to approximately 20 managers each, who specialize in different segments of private equity, and employ varied strategies. In general, each fund holds investments in 500 to 600 companies, across many industries and geographies.
History: 

Venture Investment Associates’ heritage places it as one of the oldest and most successful private equity fund investors.

VIA’s first fund was capitalized at $180 million in 1993 when Stathis Andris organized it to acquire AVA Partners, the American Express private equity portfolio of investments. At the time, AVA’s purchase was the largest secondary acquisition of a private equity portfolio.

AVA was a pioneering venture capital investor in the late 1960’s, when the famed Reid Dennis, an employee of American Express, began investing in startup companies in what came to be known as Silicon Valley. Stathis led AVA’s first venture capital fund commitment in 1974 in IVA (Reid’s first independent fund), and in its first buyout fund commitment in KKR in 1976.

In 1981 Mr. Andris became the President of AVA and has since been instrumental in the formation of some of the most successful private equity funds. With the encouragement of a number of these managers as they raised new funds, Mr. Andris moved VIA’s focus to a fund of funds investment model, so as to continue to invest with some of the best firms in private equity. To-date, VIA has raised six funds with $1 billion under management, including VIA VI, which closed in 2007 with commitments of $230MM.


 
 
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