Kickstarting our European ambitions with Germany
Less than 30 months after having launched our first bootcamp, the whole baby vc team is thrilled to announce the launch of a first German bootcamp starting this October. 🇩🇪
The launch of this German bootcamp acts as a first step in the team’s strategy to shift baby vc from an initiative initially focused on the French Tech ecosystem to one that will now target the broader European ecosystem. Indeed, the team got increasingly convinced that, as a student initiative, baby vc has a strategic part to play in building a common European tech ecosystem from a cultural standpoint. One of baby vc’s accomplishments has been to build a community of already 150+ fellows who share a deep passion for tech and innovation. The next step will be to replicate this success, but on a European scale, thereby participating in the creation of one single community of young people who are enthusiastic about what technology has to offer. And as taking on such a challenge requires a starting point, the team decided that Germany was the perfect place to start. 🚀
“I am thrilled to watch baby vc expanding to Germany this year. This is the next step in our development after 3 years of building the program in France. This expansion reflects our willingness to build stronger ties between our European tech ecosystems. baby vc is our commitment to improving the education, access, and awareness of the venture capital industry for the next generations. I am looking forward to welcoming the new German team and new fellows into the community, alongside our 150 French alumni.”
– Mehdi Benjelloun, co-founder of baby vc
The bootcamp, which will be in German and will last for 9 weeks, will have the objective to replicate in Germany what baby vc has built in France: a program tailored for junior people who share a curiosity for venture capital and technology, and who are willing to learn the nitty-gritty from leading investors. The German bootcamp and operations will be led by a team of 9 people who has been appointed last spring and will be led by Josefine Stippl.
As for applications, they are already opened and accessible just below. 👇
And we can already announce that Tim Rehder, partner at Earlybird is among the top-notch investors we will have the chance to welcome throughout the bootcamp. Additional information will be shared on baby vc’s LinkedIn account in the upcoming weeks. So stay tuned. 😉
The rationale behind the team’s decision to keep bootcamps separated across countries lies in the conviction that doing so will provide students and young professionals with privileged access to leading investors who are located near them geographically – while offering them the opportunity to join a larger community of peers based across Europe. 🔥
The team genuinely believes we need now more than ever young people across the continent who share a passion for innovation and technology, and who either aspire to build things themselves or to support peers in doing so. And this not only in order to enable the European ecosystem to be as competitive as other ecosystems, but also to provide answers to an increasing amount of pressing issues.
Working on building that vibrant community of passionate European twenty-somethings is the part the team decided to play in this daring challenge. 🚀
We sincerely hope you’re as excited as we are! :)
Take care,
The whole baby vc crew