Camelback Fellowship 2026 for Entrepreneurs (up to $40,000) – YOA

Deadline: September 10, 2025

Applications are open for the Camelback Fellowship 2026. Camelback Ventures is dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs to create impactful options that tackle systemic inequities in Education and Conscious Technology. They provide a rigorous accelerator, the Camelback Fellowship, for progressive, pushed entrepreneurs.

They assist early-stage entrepreneurs whose ventures’ tackle inequities, significantly those that are carefully linked to the issues they goal to remedy and the communities they serve. They prioritize entrepreneurs who’ve demonstrated a dedication to creating options for marginalized populations.

Benefits

The Camelback Fellowship presents assist by:

• Coaching – 1:1 relationship with a coach who creates a street map particularly targeted to assist you to attain established objectives.
• Capital – Camelback invests in every group they assist, and tailors funding ranges for the totally different phases of acceptance for every observe. Ventures are in a “startup” section and obtain $40,000 within the “friends and family” spherical. For-profits and hybrids obtain as a SAFE be aware or another different funding car; nonprofits and faculties obtain as grants.
• Connections – conferences with buyers, potential companions and prospects, and content material consultants.
• Community – tight-knit expertise by all the cohort and inside tracks, in addition to prolonged Camelback household (together with previous and current Fellows and Startup Coaches, in addition to associates who can’t wait to assist new Fellows).
• Curriculum – an intense program they’ve created to empower undervalued entrepreneurs. 

Eligibility

The Camelback Fellowship helps early-stage entrepreneurs devoted to addressing inequities within the schooling and expertise sectors. They prioritize founders who’ve a deep, private connection to the problems they goal to remedy and who’re dedicated to serving underneath-resourced communities. Eligible candidates should:

• Be over the age of 18.
• Be in a position to commit roughly 10 hours per week for 16 weeks to Fellowship actions.
• Hold a management position (Founder, Co-founder, CEO, or Executive Director) in your enterprise.
• Reside within the United States or a U.S. Territory.
• Have proficiency in English.

Fellows should not required to relocate; they imagine the best impression comes from staying and serving your group.

Specific Requirements

They are trying for ventures that goal to remodel schooling and enhance outcomes for communities which can be underneath-resourced. This contains ventures that:

• Innovate in early childhood, Okay-12, greater schooling, grownup studying, and different schooling pathways.
• Develop faculties, applications, or merchandise that tackle gaps in entry, fairness, and high quality of schooling, particularly people who instantly profit college students and households in underneath-resourced communities.
• Implement options that empower educators, improve studying experiences, and make schooling extra accessible.

They assist tech-pushed ventures that harness innovation to tackle inequities and promote social good. This contains ventures that:

• Utilize expertise to improve group effectively-being, equivalent to enhancing entry to healthcare, rising financial alternatives, and fostering group growth.
• Focus on areas like well being & wellness, coverage & advocacy, workforce readiness, and different sectors the place expertise is usually a software for fairness and empowerment.
• Design tech options that prioritize moral concerns and group impression, making certain that expertise serves as a drive for constructive change.

Ventures ought to have greater than 50% of their prospects or beneficiaries dwelling within the United States. They must be the unique thought of the founder and/or founding group. Ventures that function underneath an umbrella group or are related to a longtime entity (e.g., beginning a faculty inside an present community of faculties) should not eligible for the Fellowship.

Application

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For extra data, go to CamelBack Fellowship.