Thrive Capital Fellowship Program 2025 ($40,000 grant)

Deadline: January 10, 2025

Applications are open for the Thrive Capital Fellowship Program 2025. The Summer Fellowship offers a choose group of rising school juniors with a 10-week paid internship, stipend to offset training prices, and an OPPORTUNITY to work intently with  the Thrive workforce and portfolio corporations. Over the course of the internship, Thrive Summer Fellows are paired with a Thrive mentor, attend particular occasions geared toward growing entrepreneurial acumen, and work on initiatives in partnership with Thrive’s Investment and Impact groups in-person at their New York City headquarters.

Benefits

• $40,000 grant to assist offset junior 12 months training prices.
• Paid internship, annualized at $100,000 wage, starting on June 2, 2025 and ending on August 8, 2025 (pending college schedule).
• Mentorship from the Thrive workforce in the course of the internship.

Eligibility

• Open to present sophomore at an accredited, four-year US college (graduating in 2027).
• Interested in startups, founding an organization, or investing. Motivated to grasp what it takes to construct a long-lasting enterprise. Expressed curiosity in how invention and know-how can positively impression the world. Has a future orientation and worldview.
• Ability to grasp and analyze companies. Able to develop analyses to realize insights and reply key enterprise questions. Structured and rigorous. Quantitative or technical background is a plus.
• Ability to interact and clearly talk with a spread of inner and exterior stakeholders and personalities. High diploma of emotional intelligence. Capable of creating a constructive lasting impression with the Thrive workforce and our portfolio corporations.
• Demonstrates respect for others. Ethical and trustworthy. Earns belief and maintains confidence over time. Does what is true, not what’s personally or politically expedient.

Application

A whole utility should embody the next:

• Completion of the Fellowship Application Form. Applications should be obtained by 11:59pm EST on January 10, 2025 with the intention to be thought of.
• Submission of an unofficial transcript for the present educational semester (PDF).
• Submission of a present resume or CV (to not exceed one web page) (PDF).
• Completion of the next essay questions, not more than 500 phrases every (submit a separate PDF for every essay query):
  • They have listed Thrive’s 8 values on the applying. Tell them a few time you will have embodied one among these values to beat a problem in your skilled or private life.
  • Describe a enterprise or product concept that you simply imagine may remedy a urgent situation in society or business. Please clarify your thought course of for figuring out this want, the answer you envision, and the way you’ll strategy launching or scaling it if given the OPPORTUNITY.
  • Describe a time once you used information to unravel a difficult drawback or make a tough determination. How did you construction your strategy, how did you execute your concept, and what was the impression of your answer?
• Video (restrict of 90 seconds) explaining (MP4, add to YouTube as an unlisted video)
  • How have your educational, skilled, and/or private experiences formed who you might be at present?
• Submission of 1 letter of advice. This might be from a former or present supervisor, a colleague, a professor or educational mentor, or somebody you collaborate on an exercise outdoors of faculty (e.g., membership, on or off campus group, non secular group). Direct your letter of advice author to this hyperlink to individually submit their advice letter in PDF format (to not exceed one web page). It is important your LoR author submits the identical full authorized title that you’ve written down in your utility.

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For extra data, go to Thrive Capital Fellowship.