{
  "id": 18870,
  "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/08/12/forget-the-gala-these-silicon-valley-schools-run-their-own-venture-capital-funds",
  "title": "Forget the gala, these Silicon Valley schools run their own venture capital funds",
  "summary": "A handful of elite Bay Area schools have enlisted parent-donors from Sequoia, Lightspeed, and Battery to steer small pools of donated capital into early-stage startups. With massive IPOs back en vogue, schools are lining up for what could come next.",
  "authors": "Amanda Gerut",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "children-education,finance-investment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-12T07:02:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-13T05:10:37.786Z",
  "source_slug": "x-fortune-ai",
  "source_name": "Fortune AI",
  "source_homepage": "https://fortune.com/section/artificial-intelligence/",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/18870",
  "original_url": "https://fortune.com/2026/08/12/forget-the-gala-these-silicon-valley-schools-run-their-own-venture-capital-funds",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}