2025 VC Include Fellowship for Impact Fund I Managers

2025 Fellowship: Directory of Resources

2025 Fellowship Program Curriculum & Schedule

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2025 Fellows Lookbook

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2025 Fellows Lookbook

2025 Fellowship Speakers

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2025 Speakers

2025 Fellowship Mentors

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2025 Mentors

Fellow Expectations

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Expectations

Course Curriculum Quick View

1. Submit your Pitch Video HERE
1. Start Here!
1. 1. PREPARATION: Welcome Session
2. 2. ZOOM: Welcome Session
3. 3. SESSION RECORDING: Welcome Session
1. 1. PREPARATION: 2025 Fellowship Orientation Session
2. 2. ZOOM: Orientation
3. 3. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Orientation
4. 4. SESSION RECORDING: Orientation
1. 1. PREPARATION: Running a VC Fund
2. 2. ZOOM: Running a VC Fund
3. 3. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Running a VC Fund
4. 4. SESSION RECORDING: Running a VC Fund
1. 1. PREPARATION: What's Your Story?
2. 2. ZOOM: What's Your Story?
3. 3. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: What's Your Story?
4. 4. SESSION RECORDING: What's Your Story?
1. 1. PREPARATION: Storytelling to Engage LPs
2. 2. ZOOM: Storytelling to Engage LPs
3. 3. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Deck Refining
4. 4. SESSION RECORDING: Storytelling to Engage LPs
1. 1. PREPARATION: Refining Your Deck
2. 2. ZOOM: Transform Your Deck, Transform Your Fund
3. 3. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Transform Your Deck, Transform Your Fund
4. 4. SESSION RECORDING: Transform Your Deck, Transform Your Fund
5. 5. HOMEWORK
1. 1. PREPARATION: CtC with Apis & Heritage
2. 2. ZOOM: CtC with Apis & Heritage
3. 3. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: CtC with Apis & Heritage
1. 1. PREPARATION: Art of the Pitch
2. 2. ZOOM: Art of the Pitch
3. 3. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Art of the Pitch
4. 4. SESSION RECORDING: Art of the Pitch
1. 1. PREPARATION: What LPs Want
2. 2. ZOOM: What LPs Want
3. 3. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: What LPs Want
1. 1. PREPARATION: Legal
2. 2. ZOOM: Legal
3. 3. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Legal
4. 4. SESSION RECORDING: Legal
5. 5. HOMEWORK - Key Terms & Budget
1. 1. PREPARATION: Back Office
2. 2. ZOOM: Back Office
3. 3. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Back Office
4. 4. SESSION RECORDING: Back Office
1. 1. PREPARATION: Fund Modeling
2. 2. ZOOM: Fund Modeling
3. 3. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Fund Modeling
4. 4. SESSION RECORDING: Fund Modeling
1. 1. PREPARATION: Institutional Grade Due Diligence
2. 2. ZOOM: Institutional Grade Due Diligence
3. 3. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Institutional Grade Due Diligence
4. 4. SESSION RECORDING: Institutional Grade Due Diligence
1. 1. PREPARATION: Mentor Kickoff
2. 2. ZOOM: Mentor Kickoff
3. 3. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Mentor Kickoff
1. 1. PREPARATION: Finding LPs
2. 2. ZOOM: Finding LPs
3. 3. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Finding LPs
4. 4. SESSION RECORDING: Finding LPs
1. 1. PREPARATION: Creative Capital
2. 2. ZOOM: Creative Capital
3. 3. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Creative Capital
4. 4. SESSION RECORDING: Creative Capital
1. 1. PREPARATION: Fellows Connect
2. 2. ZOOM: Fellows Connect
1. 1. PREPARATION: CtC with 100KM
2. 2. ZOOM: CtC with 100KM
3. 3. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: CtC with 100KM
1. 1. PREPARATION: Responsible Investing
2. 2. ZOOM: Impact & ESG
3. 3. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Impact & ESG
4. 4. SESSION RECORDING: Responsible Investing
1. 1. PREPARATION: Mapping your Network & Managing LP Lifecycle
2. 2. ZOOM: Mapping your Network & Managing LP Lifecycle
3. 3. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Mapping your Network & Managing LP Lifecycle
4. 4. SESSION RECORDING: Mapping your Network & Managing LP Lifecycle
5. Network Mapping Template
1. 1. PREPARATION: AI & Cybersecurity
2. 2. ZOOM: AI & Cybersecurity
3. 3. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: AI & Cybersecurity
1. 1. PREPARATION: CtC with Serac & HSEP
2. 2. ZOOM: CtC with Serac & HSEP
3. 3. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: CtC with Serac & HSEP
1. 1. PREPARATION: Resilience in the Face of Rejection
2. 2. ZOOM: Resilience in the Face of Rejection
3. 3. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Resilience in the Face of Rejection
4. 4. SESSION RECORDING: Resilience in the Face of Rejection
1. 1. PREPARATION: Pitch Practice!
2. 2. ZOOM: Pitch Practice!
3. 3. SESSION RECORDING: Pitch Practice!
1. 1. PREPARATION: How to Show Up
2. 2. ZOOM: How to Show Up
3. 3. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: How to Show Up
4. 4. SESSION RECORDING: How to Show Up
1. 1. PREPARATION: Final Session / Wrap Up
2. 2. ZOOM: Final Session / Wrap Up
3. 3. SESSION RECORDING: Final Session / Wrap Up
1. 1. PREPARATION: Fellows Connect - pt 2
2. Fellows Connect - Part 2

About this course

Free
100 lessons
30.5 hours of video content

2025 Fellowship: Directory of Resources

2025 Fellowship Program Curriculum & Schedule

2025 Fellows Lookbook

2025 Fellowship Speakers

2025 Fellowship Mentors

Fellow Expectations

Course Curriculum Quick View

Submit your Pitch Video HERE

Let's Get Started!

Welcome to the 2025 VC Include Fellowship for Impact Fund I Managers

2025 VCI Fellowship Orientation

Back to the Future: Key Lessons for Running a VC Fund

What's Your Story? Why Storytelling & Branding are Critical for Fundraising

How Investors Think, and the Mistakes that Kill Your Deck (1 of 2)

Transform Your Deck, Transform Your Fund (2 or 2)

Conversations that Count with VCI Alumni: Apis & Heritage

Art of the Pitch

What LPs Want

Legal Considerations for Emerging Managers

Back Office, Front & Center

Fund Modeling for Success

Institutional Grade Due Diligence

Time to Meet Your Mentors!

It’s who you know: Finding, Qualifying, & Closing LPs

Creative Capital: Raising Catalytic Capital and Non-Traditional Funds

Fellows Connect - Part 1

Conversations that Count with VCI Alumni: 100KM Ventures

Responsible Investing: Impact in Action

Mapping your Network & Managing LP Lifecycle

Cybersecurity & AI Readiness for Fund Managers

Conversations that Count with VCI Alumni: Serac Ventures & High Street Equity Partners

Resilience in the Face of Rejection

Pitch Practice!

How to Show Up

Final Session / Wrap Up

Fellows Connect - Part 2

About this course