Top CEE VC Fellowship & Scout Programs

Top CEE VC Fellowship & Scout Programs

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In the News

Nigeria’s Microtraction launches Scout Initiative to search for more deals

Lagos-based early-stage investment platform Microtraction has launched a bid to source more deals and identify “high-trajectory” founders.

Venture Burn

Romanian investors are eyeing the ecosystem for Accel's scout program in Europe

Accel, the US venture capital (VC) giant, has launched a startup scouting program in Europe, building on the legacy of its US project. Scouts in the “Starters” program are allocated $200К each to find, invest in, and nurture European startups with growth potential.

The Recursive

VC review platform Landscape launches a scout programme

VC review platform Landscape thinks it's come up with the scout programme to rule them all: a "scout-as-a-service" marketplace.

Sifted

Exclusive: Student-run VC Dorm Room Fund spins out from First Round Capital, raises $12.5M fund from Marc Andreessen, Underscore VC, Insight Partners, others

It started as First Round Capital’s experiment. After all, founder Josh Kopelman had started his first company, Infonautics, while he was a student at the University of Pennsylvania. Partner Hayley Barna had started Birchbox while still at Harvard Business School.

Fortune

Sequoia’s scouts in Europe

The famed scout programme from US VC firm Sequoia has launched in Europe. We meet the scouts.

Sifted

How Silcon Valley Keeps Its ‘Secretive Ecosystem Of Cash’ On The Down-Low

Venture Capital firms, like Sequoia Capital, have been using a secretive network of so-called “scouts” to funnel money to promising start ups while avoiding the publicity that an investment from a big-name VC firm can bring, according to a report Friday in the Wall Street Journal.

Fortune

Secretive, Sprawling Network of ‘Scouts’ Spreads Money Through Silicon Valley

Sequoia Capital has funneled millions of dollars to scores of well-connected entrepreneurs and academics, who invest and look for ideas.

Wall Street Journal

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