406 Ventures Student Fellows Program

The .406 Ventures Student Fellows Program is a two-year fellowship for undergraduate, master's, PhD, and MD student entrepreneurs who are building, or actively preparing to build, companies. .406 says the program began in 2008 and gives fellows real-world entrepreneurial skills, venture exposure, a cohort of roughly 10 peers, and access to practitioners and alumni.

The fellowship is for student entrepreneurs broadly, but it is embedded in .406 Ventures' early-stage platform. .406's current focus areas are healthcare, data + AI, and cybersecurity, and the firm describes itself as backing early-stage companies at the seed and Series A stages.

Designed for Founders, Students. The program is hybrid. Participation is generally part time.

Applicants should be student entrepreneurs with at least two more years left in school at the undergraduate, master's, PhD, or MD level; the current page says nearly all fellows are already in the process of starting a company.

The official page links to a Google Forms application for Class XVIII and gives a July 17, 2026 close date. Current public pages do not disclose screening steps, interview format, or current form fields.

Fellows receive a structured peer network, educational modules on entrepreneurship and fundraising, two day-long Boston summits each year, and exposure to .406's investment process. The official page says fellows learn through the Student Fellows investment committee and diligence process, and the 2024 program deck adds access to pitches, diligence, offsite meetings, and portfolio-company internship opportunities.

2026-07: Applications close for Class XVIII, Fall 2026 start. 2025-03: .406 Ventures LinkedIn post said applications were open for a new Student Fellows class and referenced 130+ alumni. 2024-02: .406 announced Fund V and named Student Fellows as one of its established portfolio-support initiatives.