Ale Breuer

Ale Breuer serves as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where she teaches "Building the New Venture" for Spring and Summer quarters through 2026. Concurrently, she is a Founder Partner at LongJump Ventures, actively investing in and advising startups with a specialized focus on supporting underrepresented founders and advancing inclusivity in venture capital ecosystems.

Her research and teaching emphasize practical, operator-level insights into early-stage entrepreneurship, particularly the critical first 18 months of venture development. She specializes in product-market fit validation, fundraising strategies, and founder storytelling, drawing directly from her experience as a venture-backed founder of Ezza Nails during her Chicago Booth MBA. Her work integrates conscious capitalism principles and addresses systemic barriers for diverse entrepreneurs through hands-on curriculum design and mentorship.

Professor Breuer is deeply embedded in Booth's entrepreneurial infrastructure through leadership in the New Venture Challenge (NVC) and College New Venture Challenge (CNVC) programs, where she cultivates long-term advisory relationships with student founders beyond classroom engagement. Her industry connections through LongJump Ventures and board position with the Chicago Chapter of Conscious Capitalism provide students access to real-world investment networks and impact-driven business frameworks.

She actively shapes Chicago's startup landscape through the Conscious Capitalism board, which mobilizes executives to leverage business as a force for social good. Her integration of NVC/CNVC programs with LongJump Ventures creates a pipeline from academic entrepreneurship to funded ventures, emphasizing scalable impact and inclusive growth within Booth's collaborative ecosystem.