Investor Type | Firm |
Industries | IT (& TMT) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Advertising |
Stages | Seed |
Investing | United States |
Investment Range | $1,900,000 - $1,900,000 |
Founded in 2011, Venture for America is an accelerator/incubator and an organization that prepares college graduates for careers in the startup community. It provides with two-year fellowship program for recent grads who want to work at a startup and create jobs in American cities. Fellows learn important startup skills at our five-week Training Camp, apply for jobs within their vetted company network and work for two years as full-time, salaried employees in one of 18 cities. The firm's mission is to revitalize American cities and communities through entrepreneurship, to enable their best and brightest to create new opportunities for themselves and others and to restore the culture of achievement to include value-creation, risk and reward and the common good. VFA has the resources (like a crowdfunding competition, accelerator and seed fund) to help make startups and entrepreneurs.