VC fellowship graduation

Congratulations to our Spring 2025 Cohort!

We’re thrilled to celebrate the graduation of 25+ talented Fellows from our fourth annual Venture Fellowship Program. A big shout-out to our partner David Gerster, who continues to lead this program with dedication and impact.

This year we received more than 700 applications—our most competitive pool yet—and selected a diverse cohort with broad expertise across technical, scientific, and quantitative fields. Designed to clarify the world of venture capital for working professionals and advanced students in technical domains, the Fellowship delivers a rigorous twelve-week curriculum covering deal sourcing and due diligence, how VC compares to other alternative investments, preferred stock and convertible notes, term sheet negotiation, and dilution dynamics from both founder and investor perspectives.

Beyond the classroom, the Fellowship functions as an apprenticeship with hands-on deal sourcing and screening. This practical experience remains one of the program’s most valued aspects—giving future investors the chance to learn by doing.

After months of hard work (and plenty of fun), please join us in congratulating the 2025 Fusion Fellows. We couldn’t be prouder of this cohort and look forward to the positive impact they’ll make across the startup ecosystem.

  • Allison Wang

    Databricks- Software Engineer

    Carnegie Mellon University

  • Azeezat Azeez

    Stanford University - Lab Manager

    Stanford University

  • Angelina You

    Meta- Data Scientist

    Stanford University

  • Jin Dai

    Zoox- Engineering Manager

    Carnegie Mellon University

  • Divy Menghani

    Databricks - Head of Product

    University of California- Berkeley

  • Viviktha Ramesh

    Roche- Medical Director

    Northwestern University

  • Christopher Chen

    Senior Software Engineer/Tech Lead at Google

    University of Virginia

  • Tianye Song

    Ansys-Machine Learning Production Engineer

    Carnegie Mellon University

  • Gomathy Krishnan

    University of Southern California- Research Engineer

    Portland State University

  • Jiaqi Zhang

    Google- Senior Machine Learning Engineer

    University of California- Berkeley

  • Lawrence Lao

    NVIDIA - Senior Product/Program Manager

    University of Southern California

  • Kevin Miao

    Apple- Senior Machine Learning Engineer

    University of California- Berkeley

  • Douglas Jia

    AMD - Principal AI Scientist

    Southern Methodist University

  • Lawrence Su

    Waymo- Product Manager

    UCLA

  • Jayanth Ramesh

    Google- Software Engineer

    Stanford University

  • Raymond Chong

    C3 AI - Software Engineer

    University of California- Berkeley

  • Maggie Chen

    Wired- Science Journalist

    Stanford University School of Medicine

  • Melody Na

    Apple- Software Product Manager

    Harvard Business School

  • Rosa Kaviani

    Galvanize Therapeutics - Staff Research Engineer

    The Wharton School

  • Shaneice Mitchell

    Stanford University- Research Instructor

    The Ohio State University

  • Sanjay Vishwakarma

    PsiQuantum- Senior Full Stack Developer

    Carnegie Mellon University

  • Yanqiao Wang

    Amazon - Principal Applied Scientist

    University of California- Berkeley

  • Andy Chen

    BillionToOne- Translational Research Intern

    Stanford University

  • Denise (Yu-Ju) Kuo

    Sanyou Biopharmaceuticals- Director of Business Development

    Stanford University School of Medicine

  • Jason (Zixian) Zang

    Applied Intuition - Robotics Engineer

    University of California - Berkeley

  • Yeen Chong

    Milken Institute- Communications Lead

    Minnesota State Moorhead

  • Reema Kaakarli

    NEPC LLC - Investment Analyst

    University of Michigan

  • Qingqing Zhao

    NVIDIA - Research Intern

    Stanford University

  • Rajdeep Bhowmik

    Cisco - Senior Technical Leader

    Binghamton University

 
 

  • “I want to express my sincere appreciation for the exceptional experience I've had during this fellowship. The insights gained have been invaluable.”

  • “I wanted to convey my gratitude for your leadership and guidance throughout the fellowship. In particular, your approachability invited each of us to ask questions and engage with the discussions freely.”

  • “I value how this fellowship joins professionals across an array of backgrounds and cultivates an open learning environment. Upon concluding this engagement, I feel more confident in my understanding of the VC history, ecosystem-wide approaches and nuances and in my ability to navigate a career transition into the field.”

  • “The course was well-structured and the mentors were amazing. As a practicing physician with limited business experience, this program was great to understand the basics of the tech startup and early-stage VC environment.”

  • “Thank you so much for an extremely informative series – this has been a fantastic fellowship experience.”

  • “The Fusion Fellowship is a cheat code for VC.”