2025 Venture Partners Fellowship

Venture Partners was founded in 2021 when Himalaya Rao-Potlapally and Nathan Foos joined forces to flip the script on entrepreneurship and capital allocation in Oregon.

🌟Venture Partners was launched to reach everyday people at the intersection of cultural, socioeconomic, and geographic diversity, who are uniquely positioned to understand and subsequently craft solutions to our society's most pressing challenges.

🏋‍♂️Our flagship 7-month Fellowship program has trained 100+ diverse individuals to-date and helped them land their first role in venture capital or the broader capital allocation ecosystem. They are collective proof that *who* is calling the shots determines *where* money flows.

💲Because we care so deeply about removing traditional wealth and status barriers, our Fellowship has always been 100% free for our Fellows- and we are determined to keep it this way! We rely on individuals with assets who want to redistribute wealth and pay it forward to support the program.

❤️ Above, you can see the cost of our various phases as well as the total cost of putting a Fellow through the program. Please consider sponsoring a Fellow and helping to shape the future of venture capital and entrepreneurship in our communities! 

Your donation:

• Is 100% tax-deductible

• Tangibly supports one of the 20-30 Fellows we admit to our 2025 cohort 

• Strengthens our ability to grow the Fellowship program and engage more employer partners