Community

At 8VC, we’re committed to building and contributing to a positive sum community.

Campus Engagement

Fellowship Program

The 8VC Fellowship is an immersive 3-month internship program that places undergraduate students into the world’s most innovative startups.

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Social Innovator’s Cup

The 8VC Social Innovator’s cup highlights high-impact contrarian projects inspired by a sense of civic duty and oriented towards underprivileged communities.

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Across Our Portfolio

Design Accelerator

Design is a bridge between man and machine, transitioning analog experiences to digital ones. Exceptional design and engineering will produce compelling products and ultimately, successful companies.

8VC fosters a vibrant design community across our portfolio, mentoring and guiding our companies to build design teams.

Data Science

We view data science as a powerful tool for making decisions. Data gives us the ability to harness past experiences and knowledge to understand and predict future events.

With enough data – such as the microbiome of thousands of people or flight data from electric VTOL aircraft – we can quickly develop new and crucial answers to give our companies an edge in moving quickly in the right direction.

EXTERNAL INITIATIVES

Thorn

Thorn joins forces with the sharpest minds from tech, non-profit, government and law enforcement. They work to stop the spread of child sexual abuse material and stand up to child traffickers. They’re also uncovering new kinds of abuse, and fighting those too.

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IGI

The Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) develops and deploys genome engineering to cure disease, ensure food security, and sustain the environment for current and future generations.

They are an academic partnership between UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco that supports collaborative research projects across the Bay Area.

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ONEHOPE

ONEHOPE was founded by eight friends with a lofty vision: to create exceptional products that inspire people to indulge while doing good. Their commitment to quality wine is as important as their commitment to the causes they support. To date they have made more than $3 million in donations, provided 46,000 people with global health care, 49,000 forever homes for shelter animals, 1.8 million meals for children, 163,000 life-saving vaccines and much more.

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THE CICERO INSTITUTE

The Cicero Institute works on federal, state, and local policy issues including healthcare, regulatory reform, criminal justice, and housing policy. Our group is interested in encouraging non-partisan frameworks that spur entrepreneurial innovation and allow the best ideas to win. We focus on reforms that create opportunity and reduce the cost of living for all Americans, especially the least well off members of our society.

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