With no class to take on venture capital investing, some University of Minnesota students decided to start doing deals instead.
About two years ago, a group of business students quietly launched what became Atland Ventures, a VC fund with about $150,000 in capital under management. An alumnus who wished to remain anonymous provided the group with its original pool of capital, and the fund has already invested in two Twin Cities companies: St. Paul-based Structural, which makes human-resources software,…
