
Crescent Fund Scout Program
Empowering student founders through venture capital experience.

Empowering student founders through venture capital experience.
Crescent Fund focuses on growing the student startup ecosystem by deploying capital from student-run fund structures. The organization taps into Southern California's concentration of top engineering and liberal arts colleges, creating a pipeline of student founders and student investors. While formal fellowship documentation is limited, Crescent Fund offers practical venture capital experience through its operational structure and partner roles.
Crescent Fund aims to empower student founders by providing them with capital and resources to grow their startups. The fund focuses on startups with at least one student, dropout, or recent graduate founder from Southern California, fostering a vibrant ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship.
<p>Currently open to students at southern California colleges.</p>
Likely requirements include enrollment at a participating Southern California college or university, demonstrated interest in venture capital or startup operations, and application to the partner program.
Enrollment at a participating Southern California college or university and a demonstrated interest in venture capital or startup operations are likely required.
Participants gain hands-on investment experience, network building within the student founder ecosystem, professional development in venture operations, potential equity participation, and resume building through direct VC experience.
Alumni have progressed to roles in venture capital, startup operations, and founder paths, leveraging their experience at Crescent Fund.
Who can apply, how people get in and whether it is open right now.
Programs pick people whose work they can already point to. Put yours where it can be found.
The program has not published how to apply. Terms and dates change. Check the official page before you act.
It requested a project, idea, or product example; examples of a campus startup and a general-market startup; and a proposed contribution to Crescent. A personal website, GitHub, or portfolio URL was optional.

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In its historical 2023 application, Crescent reported an alumni company-building path at 222.
Source: Crescent Fund Application 2023Crescent's historical 2023 investor application resolves to a closed Google Form.
Source: Crescent Fund Application 2023The historical 2023 Crescent application now states that it is closed.
Source: Crescent Fund Application 2023In its historical 2023 application, Crescent reported alumni operating roles at Vial.
Source: Crescent Fund Application 2023In its historical 2023 application, Crescent reported alumni investment roles at NEA.
Source: Crescent Fund Application 2023The previously recorded Crescent jobs route returned HTTP 404 on inspection.
Source: Job - California Crescent FundSuperscout Pro
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