Cohort 1 included 17 investors (~0.5% accepted) that formed five deal sourcing teams: Big Data, Consumer, Enterprise, Marketplaces, and Robotics. Cohort 1 sourced over 850+ companies and selected 4 companies to invest in.
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 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
Daniel Salzner
After VU: Joined Balderton Capital (London's top VC firm) an Analyst, and then joined Pi Labs (Europe's most active PropTech VC Fund) as an Investment Associate
Ahmana Tarin
After VU: Technology Analyst, Accenture
Enterprise Team
Jitendra Kavathekar
After VU: Launched his own fund, Horizon 3 Ventures (H3VC)
Sonal Panda
After VU: Joined as an VC Associate at DigitalDx Ventures, and then as an VC Associate at Tau Ventures
Angel investor in real estate tech and healthcare
Finishing MBA at Wharton, majoring in Health Care Management & Finance, where she was awarded the merit-based Kaiser Fellowship
Previously worked on multi-billion dollar global M&As for a $40B conglomerate in India
Matthew Kol
After VU: Joined Trilogy, a multi-billion dollar private equity buyout fund focused on enterprise software companies
Jing Liu
After VU: Joined Private Equity Fund, Glen Prairie Capital
Marketplaces Team
Sergio Marrero
After VU: Founded LTX VC, and joined Stat Zero's VC investment team
Andrew Van Nest
After VU: Joined as an Investment Associate at Blumberg Capital
Michael Siegel
After VU: Joined as Strategy Analyst, Oracle
Farshad Yousefi
After VU: Joined Visionful, a 500 Startups Portfolio Company, as a Co-Founder & CMO
Robotics Team
Kaylan Agarwal
After VU: Went on to undergrad at DePaul University
Carter Boisfontaine
After VU: Joined an an Investment Analyst at Pegasus Technology Ventures, a $1B+ VC fund
Studied Business & Digital Entrepreneurship at USC, where he co-founded two companies
Iris Mok
After VU: Continues to angel invest & joined as a Venture Fellow at Venture University