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Five African fellowship programs for aspiring VCs
If you are an African graduate, professional and entrepreneur trying to get into venture capital, here are five African VC fellowships you should consider joining.
The practice of venture scouting
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Reporting and analysis about scouts, scout programs, and how early startup discovery is changing.
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Sifted
10 European training programmes for wannabe VCs
Sifted found nine such programmes founded in Europe. They range from a few days to a few weeks, from free to thousands of euros.
finance.yahoo.com
Dorm Room Fund graduates out of First Round with $12.5M Fund IV
Because many of the world's most successful tech companies were conceived by college students, recent graduates or dropouts, VCs and their limited partners have long tried to find a way to tap into that youthful creativity as early as possible.
Fortune
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.
The Startup Oasis
Todo sobre los scouts en España
The Startup Oasis explains how venture scouts operate in Spain, using examples from Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, EQT Partners, Hedosophia, and SHL Capital and discussing incentives and founder signaling.
Maddyness
Scouting as a service, a profile of Landscape VC and OpenScout
Openscout is a “scout-as-a-service” platform that allows scouts to share their deals with a whole marketplace of VCs.
medium.com
Announcing The Second Annual VamosVentures Scout Program!
Through our Scout Program, we aim to grow the pipeline of Latinx and diverse venture capital investors. Our goal is to build and highlight the venture careers of diverse individuals by giving them ownership over deals and providing access to resources and training.
TechCrunch
Dorm Room Fund returns to campus with new $10.4 million fund
Dorm Room Fund, a venture capital operation that launched to invest in student-led startups, has raised a new $10.4 million fund, per SEC filings. The filing marks Dorm Room Fund’s largest fund to date, and its first that appears to include investors beyond First Round Capital, the firm that first launched the student-focused operation in 2012.
Sifted
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
European scout programmes: the complete list
Sifted compares known European scout and angel programs, including their investment allocations, cohort sizes, compensation structures, and debates about benefits for scouts and founders.
The Ken
In Southeast Asia, VC scouts are scouting while being scouted
Scout programmes, which develop and train investor talent to identify promising startups, have finally come to Southeast Asia—more than a decade after they first hit Silicon Valley. As more startups exit and founders cash out, more funds are expected to be channelled back into the ecosystem. But good scouts aren't easy to find in the region's fast-growing techscape
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