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• Emerging VC Fellowship (Fall 2025 for college students)

  • Here is your chance to break into VC!

  • Offers real experience & real deals (recently Anthropic & SpaceX)

  • Click here to read more, apply, and support

Apply for Emerging VC Fellowship - Fall 2025

Most fellowships teach you about venture capital. This one throws you right into it.

Introducing the Emerging VC Fellowship, a hands-on program for SoCal students who want to see how venture capital actually works.

Not theory. Not simulations. Real work. Real founders. Real decisions.

Fellows work directly with me! (Brandon Hoffman)

I am General Partner at Sunset Ventures and founder of Emerging LA, the city’s most active startup community.

You can expect to:

• Learn the operations that power a fund, from deal sourcing and memos to portfolio updates and community building

• Hear from various successful founders & investors

• Help on real deals backed by the Emerging VC syndicate, recent ones include SpaceX, Cursor, Databricks, Epic Games, and Anthropic

This is an 8-week program designed for students who want more than just credentials.

It’s for the ones who build side projects at night, chase new ideas on weekends, and treat learning like a contact sport.

If that sounds like you, this is your moment!

Applications close Friday, October 10 at 11:59 PM PT.

Are you a student? Next steps if interested

• → Click here to read more

• → Find the application link at top comment

• → Leave a reply on the post to let us know you applied

Are you a local professional? I need your help to spread across all of SoCal

I am talking from down in San Diego up to Santa Barbara.

Let’s get coverage across Orange County, Inland Empire, San Gabriel & Fernando Valleys, South Bay/Long Beach, Eastside/DTLA, etc.

• Please engage with the LinkedIn post

• Tag a student who should see it

• Forward this email to anyone in the network, or who focuses on entrepreneurship/finance at our SoCal schools

Thank you,
Brandon

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