Founded in 1999, the Yale Entrepreneurial Society (YES) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship in the Yale community and at a national level.
Harvard Ventures (HV) is the largest student-run entrepreneurship and venture capital organization at Harvard. We serve those interested in startups and venture capital by acting as a hub for our members to connect, collaborate, and innovate.
General Partner
& Co-Founder
The Artemis Fund
Operating Partner
Overton VC
Limited Partner
Supernode Venture Fund I
Founder
Advantia Health & Yale Entrepreneurial Society
Founding Partner
Acceleprise VC
Investor
Boxgroup VC
Partner
Boxgroup VC
Head of Venture Growth & Partnerships
Republic VC
Investment Partner
The Community Fund
Co-Founder
Dataminr & Accelerate Yale
President
Easterly Investment Partners
The Yale x Harvard Pitch Competition will be run through OnePager. Please indicate interest as early as Sunday, March 28th at 12:00 am EST and as late as Monday, April 12th at 11:59 pm EST. After you indicate interest, we’ll help you in crafting the perfect OnePager by providing resources, support, and feedback. Final OnePagers are due by Monday, April 19th at 11:59 pm EST. Our judging period will take place between April 14th and April 28th, and selected finalists will be asked to pitch on Friday, May 7th at 7:30 pm EST.
Regardless of whether you are selected as a finalist, you may choose to share your OnePager with our network of Yale and Harvard alumni angel investors along with our venture capital community. This means that your start-up will be viewed by Yale and Harvard alumni irrespective of pitch competition outcomes—this grants you access to a friendly community of angels who are looking to connect and support your start-up.
OnePager is a tool for founders to consolidate and share their startup’s information. With OnePager, founders can bring together their company overview, team info, pitch deck, demo video, FAQs, and more under an easily shared URL with privacy settings and analytics built in. OnePagers are used by founders for sharing new projects, fundraising, sales, and recruiting. Currently, founders have to use static PDFs, limited smart link tools, or spend days building a new landing page to share important information with external stakeholders. Ultimately, OnePager is a storytelling tool for founders that enables them to better communicate who they are, what they're building, where they’re headed, and what they need.
Criteria • You have an idea and a team and are working towards a minimum viable product (MVP). You are dedicated, performing user interviews, building the first model of your product, and are building infrastructure in order to prepare for your launch.
Prizes & Benefits:
1. All team OnePagers shared with 50+ Yale & Harvard Angels and our VC Community
2. Top 3 teams will split a prize pool of $1500 (YSEA*)
3. Top 5 teams will receive $60k in notification credits from Courier and a personalized demo, onboarding & best practices walk through to drive user engagement
4. Companies that raise on Republic's platform will receive 3k in credits.
5. Top 5 teams will receive two premium Subscriptions to: Webflow, Airtable, Figma, Typeform and more.
. . . more to come!
*The YSEA prize pool will be required to go towards a Yale affiliated designee. In the case a Harvard team receives the YSEA reward, the team will receive exclusive access to the YES Internship Program network to recruit a Yale intern or team member.
Criteria • You have built your minimum viable product (MVP) and are working towards product-market fit. You are in the process of scaling your product and team.
Prizes & Benefits:
1. All team OnePagers shared with 50+ Yale & Harvard Angels and our VC Community
2. Top 3 Teams will split a prize pool of $3500 (YSEA*)
3. Top 5 teams will receive $60k in notification credits from Courier and a personalized demo, onboarding & best practices walk through to drive user engagement.
4. Companies that raise on Republic's platform will receive 3k in credits.
5. Top 5 teams will receive two premium Subscriptions to: Webflow, Airtable, Figma, Typeform and more.
. . . more to come!
*The YSEA prize pool will be required to go towards a Yale affiliated designee. In the case a Harvard team receives the YSEA reward, the team will receive exclusive access to the YES Internship Program network to recruit a Yale intern or team member.
Founded in 1914, YSEA is one of the oldest university alumni organizations in the world with a focus on issues in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Our mission is to connect alumni with students, the University, and each other to strengthen the Yale science and engineering community.
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