Applications to join Rough Draft Ventures are open!

The year that followed was full of firsts.

We hosted our first nationwide pitch competition, with Johnny Boufarhat (the founder and CEO of Hopin) as our keynote speaker.

We organized our first community summit, RDV IRL, gathering the full power of the RDV and GC community in NYC.

And so much more!

It was a busy year… and we have so much more on the horizon! None of this could happen without the amazing fellows we recruit every year.

As always, all current students are encouraged to apply — no matter where you study, what you study, how old you are, or how you identify. We especially encourage diverse and traditionally underrepresented candidates to apply to the fellowship. If we want to support the best student founders across the country, we can start by making venture capital more accessible.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to jnavarro@roughdraft.vc!

Rough Draft Ventures (RDV) is a student-run venture firm, powered and backed by General Catalyst. Over the past decade, RDV has invested in 200+ student-led startups that have since gone on to raise over $2B+ in funding from leading investors and partners, including General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, NEA, Sequoia, Accel, and others.

At General Catalyst, we’ve always been focused on investing in powerful, positive change that endures. With innovation comes responsibility — we can no longer build businesses solely for profit or growth. We need to build companies the right way, and engineer them both for growth and good. That is responsible innovation, and it begins as early as in the college dorm room.

Campuses have quickly grown into leading hubs for innovation, and student founders everywhere are taking it into their own hands to build the world they want to see. As student entrepreneurs redefine, engineer, and scale technology, we believe it is our responsibility to support them and leave the world better than we found it. And no one is better equipped to identify and support these student founders than their own peers.

That’s why we backed Rough Draft Ventures in 2013. We’re excited to continue backing the student community and to foster responsible innovation at the earliest stages with next year’s class of venture fellows!

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