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    2018 - 2019: Cohorts 1-6
    Jun 2018 - Dec 2019

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    Cohort 6
     
    Fall: Sept - Dec 2019

    San Francisco & NYC

     

     

     

     

  • Cohort 6 includes 30 investors (~0.5% accepted) that formed four deal sourcing teams: Consumer, Enterprise & Healthcare, Fintech, & Frontier Tech

    Cohort 6 Deal Sourcing Teams

    Consumer Team

    Derek Barnett

     

    After VU: Joined as a Venture Partner at VU Venture Partners

    Kenneth Paz

     

    After VU: Joined as a Director at BourkeHood, a Global Research and Development (R&D) Innovation Consultancy

    Rahul Brahmbhatt

     

    After VU: Founded Day One, an ecosystem to power the next generation of entrepreneurship

    Alberto Bertamino

     

    After VU: Joined as a Venture Partner at VU Venture Partners

    Clark Ricciardelli

     

    After VU: Joined as a Research Analyst at FT Partners

     

     

    Lisha Davis​

     

    After VU: Founded Arable Ventures, an innovation consulting & advisory practice with roots in venture building and investing, across corporate intrapreneurship and startup entrepreneurship

    Brija Johnson

     

    After VU: Joined as a Scholar in Residence at Zane Venture Fund

    Jason Wintery

     

    After VU: Joined as a Venture Partner at VU Venture Partners

     

     

    Jun "Julie" Li​

     

    After VU: Joined as an Investment Associate at Goldberg and Schiffman Capital Partners

    Enterprise & Healthcare Team

    Kusum Chanrai

     

    After VU: Joined as a Managing Partner at HazelRock Capital

     

    Shirin Ahmed​

     

    After VU: Joined as an investor at Global Health Impact Fund

     

     

     

    Eric Leander

     

    ​After VU: Joined as a Managing Principal at Square Peg Ventures

    Clay Maxwell

     

    After VU: Joined as a Managing Partner at PX Venture Studio

     

    Joanne Kim Greller​, PharmD, RPh

     

    After VU: Joined as the Head of Commercial Competitive Intelligence at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

    Roger Soares

     

    After VU: Continued his work in Public Accounting at Mitchell Titus LLP

    Arjun Vasan

     

    After VU: Went to finish his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at Houston University

    Thomas Grillo

     

    After VU: Joined as a PE Data Analyst at Chronograph

    Fintech & Blockchain Team

    Nick Markola

     

    After VU: Joined as a Chief Investment Officer at YourCapital, a digital investment advisor that provides unbiased advice

    Kip Lawrence

     

    After VU: Continued his work as an Associate Director at Athansios Capital Group LP

    Gaurab Oli

     

    After VU: Joined as a Business Development at SV Academy

     

     

    Todd Bertsch

     

    After VU: Joined as a Venture Partner at VU Venture Partners

    Christine Onyung

     

    After VU: Joined as a Portfolio Manager at University of California - Office of the Chief Investment Officer

    Eran Elhanani

     

    After VU: Continued his work as the CEO & President at Esquared Realty

    Frontier Tech Team

    Nora Alkadi

     

    After VU: Joined as a Partner at Graphene Ventures

     

    Steve Frenkel

     

    After VU: Joined as a Management Director at Covalent Solutions, advising early and growth-stage companies seeking Angel/Seed/Series A funding

     

    Maxwell Klafter

     

    After VU: Joined as a Venture Analyst at Plug & Play Tech Centre

    Desmond Fogg

     

    After VU: Joined as a Head of Business Development at A3Ventures

    Gino P. Greco

     

    After VU: Founded G.P. Greco & Co., an investment management company for innovators.

     

    Leonardo Fonseca

     

    After VU: Joined as a Principal at Graphene Ventures & Adjunct Partner at AgFunder

    Vaishnavi Paruchuri

     

    After VU: Joined as an Investor at Touchdown Ventures

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    Cohort 5
     
    Summer: Jun - Aug 2019
     
     

  • Cohort 5 includes 20 investors (~0.5% accepted) that formed four deal sourcing teams: Consumer, Enterprise & Healthcare, Fintech & Blockchain, & Frontier Tech

    Cohort 5 Deal Sourcing Teams

    Consumer Team

    Patrick Allen

     

    After VU: Joined Nextdoor doing Business Development

     

    Gilyana Saldusova

     

    After VU: Joined as a Deal Advisory Manager at KPMG

    J.P. Bowgen

     

    After VU: Joined as an Investment Associate at OCA Ventures

    Birju Trivedi​

     

    After VU: Joined as an Investment Banking Analyst at Auctus Capital Partner

    Daniil Chen

     

    After VU: Joined as an Investment Associate at Type 1 Ventures, a VC fund focused on frontier technology

    Enterprise & Healthcare Team

    Sterling Duggan

     

    After VU: Joined as an Account Manager at Kochava, industry leader for mobile app attribution and mobile app analytics

     

    Johan Richards​

     

    After VU: Raising capital for Synergos Venture Partners, a fund focused on investing across the African continent in partnership with VU Venture Partners

    Anna Tishchenko

     

    After VU: Founded Heed Capital, an impact venture fund that catalyzes sustainable innovations and aims for superior financial returns

     

    Pranavi Cheemakurti​

     

    After VU: Joined as an Investment Associate at Acceleprise

    Vidya Raman

     

    After VU: Joined as an Investment Principal at Sorenson Capital, investors in early-stage enterprise and security startups

    Fintech & Blockchain Team

    Ebube David-Osuagwu

     

    After VU: Founded Snippy, an early-stage startup looking to transform how, and where haircuts are conducted

     

    Henry Ngan

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    After VU: Continued working at HHN Capital, a financial advisory firm

    Tarek Waked

     

    After VU: Founded Type 1 Ventures, a VC fund focused on frontier technologies in partnership with VU Venture Partners

    Frontier Tech Team

    Samira Gholami

     

    After VU: Founded Green Data Ventures, providing Venture Building as a Services

    Benoit Foulon

     

    After VU: Joined as a Customer Success Manager at Sparted

     

    Daniel Grampa

     

    After VU: Launched his own startup studio fund, AMALGAM8 in partnership with VU

     

    Azim Ghafoori

     

    After VU: Joined as a Venture Partner at VU Venture Partners

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    Cohort 4
     
    Spring: Apr - Jun 2019
     
     

  • Cohort 4 includes 20 investors (~0.5% accepted) that formed four deal sourcing teams: Consumer, FinTech & Blockchain, Frontier Tech, and Healthcare.

    Cohort 4 Deal Sourcing Teams

    Consumer Team

    Taylor Bozarth

     

    After VU: Joined as a Venture Associate at The Company Lab

     

     

    Said Mia

     

    After VU: ​Founded Stormbreaker, an early-stage venture fund focused on investing in capital-efficient startups

    Brent Breslau

     

    After VU: Joined as a Revenue and Growth associate at Tonal, a leading startup in the fitness industry

    Alberta Tete-Lartey

     

    After VU: ​Founded Startup Founder, an advisory service committed to supporting founders, to navigate the business hurdles from idea to execution

    Grayson Helm

     

    After VU: Joined as a 1st hire to head sales & merchandising at Aura Bora

    FinTech Team

    Peter Arethas

     

    After VU: Joined as a VP at Lacrosse Investments 374, LLC.

    Michael Son

     

    After VU: Joined as a Senior Associate at Strategy&, the strategy consulting business unit of PricewaterhouseCoopers

    Juan Arias

     

    After VU: Received three job offers, one at a VC Fund and two at Hedge Funds, and joined Millennium, one of the world's largest hedge funds with $47B+ AUM.

    David Tsang

     

    After VU: Joined as New Product Development lead at Verkada

    Andrew Stockstill

     

    After VU: Joined as an Associate Director at Serent Capital

    Frontier Tech Team

    Sebastian Pulido

     

    After VU: Joined as a Vice President of Change Management at Goldman Sachs

    Tristan Jennings

     

    After VU: Joined as a Venture Analyst at Marubeni Ventures

    Benoit Foulon

     

    After VU: Joined as a Customer Success Manager at Sparted

    Dan Gonzales

     

    After VU: Joined as an Advisor / Head of Sales at BexMe while continuing his work with Flux Technology

    HealthTech Team

    Noreen Brar

     

    After VU: Joined as a Venture Analyst at Plug and Play Ventures, the largest accelerator in the world

     

    Brian Yen

     

    After VU: Joined as a Business Development Manager at BoxNearBy

    Jeanose Lexima

     

    After VU: Continued investing in teams/founders & companies in tech, health, fintech, femtech, education, transportation, food & water safety, real estate, females leadership globally

    Sherman Williams

     

    After VU: Joined as a Managing Partner at Academy Investor Network, an investment syndicate of U.S. Service Academy graduates that invest in venture-backed startups

     

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    Cohort 3
     
    Winter: Jan-Mar 2019
     
     
     

  • Cohort 3 includes 25 investors (~0.5% accepted) that formed five deal sourcing teams: Consumer, Enterprise, FinTech & Blockchain, Frontier Tech, and Healthcare.

    Cohort 3 Deal Sourcing Teams

    Consumer Team

    Allen Archuleta Jr

     

    After VU: Joined as a professor at Sacramento State College of Business Administration

     

    Helene Servillon

     

    After VU: Founded JourneyOne Ventures, a VC fund focused on investing in the cannabis industry

    Hoa (Danny) Duong​

     

    After VU: Joined as an Investor at Alphabeta Ventures 360

    Samala​

     

    After VU: Joined as an Investor at New Media Ventures, investing in activists & entrepreneurs moving democracy forward

    Enterprise & AI Team

    Adam Baker

     

    After VU: Joined Kobre & Kim doing litigation in Switzerland

     

     

     

     

    Conor Hayward

     

    After VU: Joined as a VC Analyst at Pegasus Tech Ventures

    Daniel Eidell

     

    After VU: Joined as a VC Associate at Lightbank, VC fund founded by Founders of Groupon, and then joined VC Associate at Supernode Ventures

    Thomas Devon Pence

     

    After VU: Joined as a Solutions Engineer Associate at Oracle

    Grant Weichang Ge

     

    After VU: Joined as an Investment Analyst at SOSV, HAX

    Fintech & Blockchain Team

    J.P. Keating

     

    After VU: Continued working at Allstate doing VC & Innovation

    Peter Arethas

     

    After VU: Continued his work as a VP at Lacrosse Investments 374, LLC.

     

     

     

    Corey Pigott

     

    After VU: Joined as a Senior Associate at M31 Capital, an alternative asset management firm focused exclusively on crypto assets and blockchain technology

    Jordan Jefferson

     

    After VU: Continued to work at Voleon Group, a hedge fund focused on the development and deployment of cutting-edge technologies in investment management

    Ricardo Roberts Jr

     

    After VU: Joined as a Strategy Consultant at Wells Fargo

    Frontier Tech Team

    Chris Draper

     

    After VU: Continued working on his startup Trokt

     

     

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    Felix Ruess

     

    After VU: Joined as a VC Analyst at Porsche Digital Venture Capital Fund

    Grant Kendall-Bell​

     

    After VU: Joined as an Associate at Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator where he works with startup founders build the next generation of space technology

    Michael Siegel

     

    After VU: Joined as a Strategy Analyst at Oracle for Startups

    Joshua Pineault

     

    After VU: Launched his VC fund, Jump Canon

    Healthcare Team

    Stefan Arteaga

     

    After VU: Joined as an Associate at LTX VC

     

    Camella Wilson​

     

    After VU: Joined as a VC Associate at OCV Partners

    Josh Rieders

     

    After VU: Joined as a Principal at Medstartr Direct

     

    Shuhan Zhou

     

    After VU: Joined as a VC Analyst at Strawberry Creek Ventures

    Zac Rowley

     

    After VU: Joined as a Partner at ETS*Z, a boutique Venture Development and Advisory firm

  •  
     
    Cohort 2
     
    Fall: Sept - Dec 2018
     
     
     
     

  • Cohort 2 included 23 investors (~0.5% accepted) that formed five deal sourcing teams: Consumer, FinTech, Healthcare, HighTech, and Impact.

    Cohort 2 Deal Sourcing Teams

    Consumer Team

    Aakash Jain

     

    After VU: Joined as an Investment Principal at VU Venture Partners

    Kiyoko Osone

     

    After VU: Currently a GP at Weclikd Cap and a Venture Partner at GX Ventures. Previously Managing Director of Cryptonite Ventures focusing on blockchain, fintech, e-sports, robotics, consumer, and healthcare

    Brian Kelley​

     

    After VU: Joined Alden Investment Group doing Private Equity Sales

    Karishma Patel​

     

    After VU: Joined Tim Draper's investment fund platform Draper Venture Network, managing multiple venture capital funds

    Wayne Lim​

     

    After VU: Continued as an advisor/mentor at Hanhai Investment

    FinTech Team

    Elias Can

     

    After VU: Joined as an Investment Analyst at Fenox Venture Capital

    Noubar Tedjirian​

     

    After VU: Joined as a Strategy and Operations Associate at Wavo.me

    Yan Mu

     

    After VU: Joined as a Data Science Fellow at NYC DSA

     

    Ben York

     

    After VU: Joined as an Investment Associate at Archview, the largest investment fund dedicated to the legal cannabis industry

    Jeff Piltch

     

    After VU: Joined as a Senior Venture Associate at Real Company, a real estate technology VC

    Healthcare Team

    JJ Fang

     

    After VU: Founded AVA, Angel to Venture Accelerator in Taiwan

    Margaret Quigley

     

    After VU: Continues to manage a personal investment portfolio, and joined as a Mortgage Advisor at All California Mortgage

    Joe Harris

     

    After VU: Formed a private investor syndicate focused on investing in SaaS and digital healthcare

    Vitor Lima​

     

    After VU: Joined as an Investor at Fortune Partners Group, focused on investing in tech, healthcare, & esports

    HighTech Team

    Lupo Benatti​

     

    After VU: Joined as a Transport Planning Senior Specialist at AB InBev

     

    Grant Kendall-Bell​

     

    After VU: Joined as a Business Development Associate at Orbit Fab, a portfolio company of VU Venture Partners

    Jagruti Bhikha​

     

    After VU: Continues to professionally invest as a super angel investor and looking to raise her own fund

    Ben Steven​

     

    After VU: Joined as Associate Partner at Momenta Ventures, leading the Connected Industry Fund

     

    Rohit Gupta​

     

    After VU: Joined as an Investment Analyst at Plug and Play's investment Fund, leading cybersecurity investments

    Impact Team

    Stefan Arteaga

     

    After VU: Joined Venture University for a 2nd Semester to join Cohort 3's Healthcare investment team & then joined as an Associate at LTX VC

    Alina Tioupikova

     

    After VU: Joined as a Director of Product Management at Techstars

    Yvonne Okafor

     

    After VU: Joined as an Investment Analyst at Alitheia Capital

    Christopher Tarika​

     

    After VU: Joined PitchBook Data as Sales Development Associate

  •  
     
    Cohort 1
     
    Summer: Jun - Aug 2018
     
     
     

  • Cohort 1 included 17 investors (~0.5% accepted) that formed five deal sourcing teams: Big Data, Consumer, Enterprise, Marketplaces, and Robotics.

    Cohort 1 Deal Sourcing Teams

    Big Data Team

    Taylor Hurst

     

    After VU: Joined as an Investment Associate @ Esports Venture Capital Fund - Konvoy

    Oluwaseyi Olaleye

     

    After VU: Went back to Stanford University to finish his undergrad

    Francis Vu

     

    After VU: Joined as an Investment Analyst at KingsCrowd, empowering individuals to invest in startups confidently through a platform-agnostic suite of products including research, recommendations, data analytics, and financial products

    Consumer Team

    James Frankel

     

    After VU: Joined Technology Sales group at Silicon Valley Bank

    Daniel Salzner

     

    After VU: Received admission into London Business School for his MBA and started working at TrueAI / TypeGenie, an AI powered writing platform, then worked at Balderton Capital (London's top VC firm)

    Ahmana Tarin

     

    After VU: Continued her work as a Technology Analyst at Accenture

    Enterprise Team

    Jitendra Kavathekar

     

    After VU: Launched his own fund, Horizon 3 Ventures (H3VC)

     

    Sonal Panda

     

    After VU: Went back to Wharton Business School to finish her MBA, and then joined as an Associate at DigitalDx Ventures

    Matthew Kol

     

    After VU: Joined Trilogy, a multi-billion dollar private equity buyout fund focused on enterprise software companies

    Jing Liu

     

    After VU: Joined Glen Prairie Capital, a large Private Equity Fund

    Marketplaces Team

    Sergio Marrero

     

    After VU: Founded LTX VC, and joined Stat Zero's investment team

    Andrew Van Nest

     

    After VU: Joined as an Investor at Blumberg Capital

    Michael Siegel

     

    After VU: Joined as a Strategy Analyst at Oracle

    Farshad Yousefi

     

    After VU: Joined as a Co-Founder & CMO at Visionful, a 500 Startups Portfolio Company,

    Robotics Team

    Kaylan Agarwal

     

    After VU: Went back to DePaul University to finish his undergrad

    Carter Boisfontaine

     

    After VU: Joined an an Investment Analyst at Pegasus Technology Ventures, a $1B+ VC fund

    Iris Mok

     

    After VU: Continues to angel invest & continued to work as an Assistant Director of Patent at Intel Corporation

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