<aside> 👋🏽 Dear (hopefully) future Included VC Community Partners,
Niki and I would be thrilled to work with you to change the face of Venture Capital. At Included VC we are on a mission to help aspiring investors from underrepresented communities to break into VC.
Applications for Included VC’s cornerstone Global Venture Capital Fellowship are open and the deadline is on April 19th 2023. Can you help us spread the word?
We hope to see Fellows from your community on Included VC’s Fellowship!
Many thanks, Nikita Thakrar (Included VC co-founder & CEO) & Anu Panesar (Included VC Operations Manager)
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<aside> 👉🏽 The TL:DR
We welcome your application to become and official Included VC Community Partner. Official Included VC Community Partners will receive a Partnership logo to add to their website and be invited to an upcoming event connecting Community Partners with VCs from our Venture sponsors.
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<aside> 👉🏽 Think of it like a "unique fast-track MBA for venture capital" for extraordinary leaders. Included VC is the first of its kind global fully funded Fellowship for individuals from overlooked & diverse communities — something about representation in society
Mission: To diversify and change the face of the VC industry, dramatically increasing representation and maximising fund success by transforming networks, staff, deal flow and investments; creating effective multi-generational change.
Typically, the VC industry is a closed network for white, male, cis individuals (and we want to find those individuals that don’t always who don’t know we exist). We do this by working with 40+ Community Partners (diverse tech orgs: ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic, LGBTQ+, refugees, disability, etc) globally to spread the word & fulfil our larger mission: to dramatically increase diversity within VC.
Over 85% of those Fellows that were actively looking for a role have broken into the venture capital ecosystem globally – from Asia to Europe to North America.
Included VC is supported by an international consortium of venture capital partners and sponsors including: BITKRAFT Creandum, Daphni, European Investment Fund, KAYA VC, K Fund, HSBC Ventures, HV Capital, Mouro Capital, Mangrove Capital, M12 - Microsoft's venture fund, Notion Capital, Seedcamp and Wilson Sonsini.
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We Partner with over 40 organisations globally such as the Like Minded Females (LMF) Network, W Lounge, Black Valley, The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network (TERN) among others to help create awareness of paths to Venture Capital careers for underrepresented communities around the world.