Hello fellow readers,
We hope your summer has been going well (that your break is not yet fully over), and that you’re now ready for another year very exciting year by our side. We’ve got many new content and exciting projects coming up, which we are eager to share with you 😉.
This first end-of-summer newsletter is a bit unique as we really wanted to share with you our latest updates and achievements, as well as to take the time to get your feedback on the weekly content shared in the newsletter. Thus, in case you’re still on vacation: enjoy the sun and the pool as much as you can, and definitely have a toast for us and everything we have achieved so far! 🍸🏖
PS: stick with us - this edition will be shorter and we really want to hear from you through the poll! 🤓
But first, some crunchy updates…☀️
A lot of changes have been happening over the past months, with a new board committee and new ambitions for the future of baby vc. So have your toasts ready, because there is a lot to celebrate!
😎 Nuevo bootcamp babyyyy!
Guess what? IBERIA (Spain & Portugal), we are coming to you in March 2024! We are so excited to expand to Iberia after having launched our 1st bootcamp in the UK last year, our 2nd in DACH (Germany, Austria & Switzerland), and our 7th in France… for a total of 10 bootcamps already ran! Vamos!
🤝 New mentorship program!!!
We are super excited to announce for all the upcoming bootcamps our newest mentorship program, which will allow fellows to be mentored by fulltime talent from our partner VCs! Over 30 top VC contacts have already confirmed themselves as future mentors across our 3 geographies, from Creandum, Speedinvest, but also Eurazeo and Playfair Capital funds. This will be a unique opportunity for fellows to connect with people working in the VC industry, to grow their network, and to be supported and advised in their professional endeavors.
🥳 10K followers passed on LinkedIn!!!
We cannot believe how lucky we are to have such an engaged, motivated and curious community. Thank you to all of the Tech & VC-enthusiasts who encourage us every day, as well as to our 5K+ subscribers to our weekly newsletter. This one is for you…
👉 Our 10K LinkedIn post celebration !!!!
👏 A big THANK YOU to our fantastic sponsor and partner last semester, OneRagtime
Thank you to the OneRagtime team for their trust, their collaboration and their engagement by our side. This partnership has been essential to keep our bootcamp free of charge and accessible to all.
✍️ THANK YOU as well to Sharpstone Capital & Eldorado - our brilliant content partners
Thank you to Eldorado for being a key partner for the past year in terms of sharing exclusive VC-related content in our weekly newsletter, as well as for hosting a baby vc event. We are now very excited to be working with the Sharpstone Capital team, who’s been preparing a lot of very insightful content for our community (read the first one in our NL #144 here). Spoiler alert: find their next content in September on the VC jungle ecosystem…
🔥 Upcoming bootcamp key dates…
Last, but not least, we are very excited to share with you the dates to carefully note for our next bootcamps!
4th of September until the 15th midnight: applications are open
26th September: official selection results are shared
4th of October: global welcome session online
11th of October: bootcamps start!!
We cannot wait to see your applications and kick-off these new batches!
Now, let’s talk about YOU!👀
As you may have seen, baby vc has kept evolving over these 145 editions of the newsletter - may that be in terms of branding, of value proposition, of content and resources produced, of countries present in,…
This is why we have decided to include in this NL’s edition a very quick poll (not even a minute, we promise! 😏) to get to know you a bit better and gather some feedback on the topics you would like to see (more) addressed, the sections you prefer or find the most valuable, and how we could improve on our newsletter content strategy. We would really appreciate if you could take the next 60 seconds to answer these 👇🥰
PS: we will leave the poll open for the next week!
And that is it! ✅
A big and warm thank you to all of you who have kindly taken the time to answer the poll and read our updates. We are very excited to keep exposing and demystifying the VC & Tech environment by your side for another year, in the format that best suits you. 🫶
See you next week for our traditional ‘back-to-school’ NL with the Tech Summer Recap’, and good luck to those of you who are already on their way back to work/school! 🤩
Justine, Ghita, and the whole baby vc crew
Can’t wait for the next bootcamp. 🖖