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48 lists of VC fellowships and scout programs by sector, region and who they are for, plus the routes people took into venture.

Paths into venture

  • Build the audience first5 cases

    People who published in public until founders and investors came to them, then turned the audience into deal flow and a fund. The fastest route in the set, and the one that asks for the most patience up front.

  • Claim the coverage nobody wants7 cases

    People who took the geography, stage or demographic established firms had collectively ignored, and became the name in it. The hardest route, and the one carrying the most caveats.

  • Go deep, then angel from inside3 cases

    People who were senior at one company that became a network hub, wrote personal checks from inside it, and scaled those checks into a fund.

  • How firms build scout programs3 cases

    Case studies of the access mechanisms themselves: what a firm actually builds when it wants deal flow from people who do not work there, and what those programs produced.

  • Invest someone else's money first4 cases

    People who built a real investing record with none of their own capital, through a scout allowance or a syndicate, and then raised on that record.

  • Let original work be the credential2 cases

    People whose original written analysis was the application. The rarest route here, and the only one where writing alone carried the entry.

  • Own the room founders pass through4 cases

    People who built or ran the thing founders touch before they raise, so that sourcing stopped being a problem they had to solve.

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