Intensive: Investing in Innovation
The Investing in Innovation intensive introduces participants to the mindsets, frameworks, and practices that investors use to partner with high-potential innovative early-stage ventures.
The Investing in Innovation Intensive is a hands-on, project-based workshop series where students learn how to invest in innovative, early-stage ventures.
The Investing in Innovation Intensive is a cohort-based program that will gather 12-15 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students from across the University. They will participate in a program spanning the fall and spring terms.
Who this program is for:
- Students enrolled in Yale College or any of Yale’s graduate & professional schools.
- Students who want to gain hands-on experience in venture capital.
- Students who can commit to a program that spans the fall and spring terms.
The core program components include:
- Online lessons on venture capital fundamentals;
- Weekly in-person sessions featuring trainings, guest speaker conversations, and occasional student presentations;
- Real-life projects sourced from US VC firms that have partnered with Tsai CITY; and
- Opportunities to advise, mentor, and invest in ventures founded by Yale students.
By completing the intensive, students will:
- Develop marketable skills such as constructing and pitching an investment thesis, writing a persuasive investment memo, and advising entrepreneurs.
- Create a portfolio of project-based work they can use to demonstrate their knowledge of venture capital and communicate their investing lens.
- Learn from seasoned investors who will participate as occasional guest speakers.
- Receive mentorship from VC partners and Tsai CITY staff.
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