Founded in 2007, the Northeast Ohio Student Venture Fund (NEOSVF) offers experience for both startup founders and university students in the venture capital world.
This is an opportunity for NEO startup companies to receive early investment and to prepare for future investment opportunities. For university students, this is often their first experience making actual investment recommendations.
How it Works
- Each university chapter of NEOSVF meets internally at their own cadence. These chapters also assign one member as the Student Manager, who is responsible for correspondence with the Program Coordinator and attending weekly course content meetings.
- Students sort through all program applications and select their top choices to move forward through the due diligence process.
- The selected startups will be invited to pitch in front of the student participants in person at Bounce.
- Following the pitches, university chapters will be paired with a startup and will spend the next several weeks learning and implementing the investment due diligence process.
- To wrap up each cohort, university chapters will convene once more to present their findings to one another and to the NEOSVF board along with a final investment recommendation.
- The startup founders will be notified of the investment decision shortly after this meeting.
Questions? Email gbyrnes@bouncehub.org
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