Bain Capital Ventures Introduces StartUp Academy
New initiative to identify top talent and provide college students with unique opportunity to gain entrepreneurial experience at Bain Capital Ventures' portfolio companies
PALO ALTO, Calif., July 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bain Capital Ventures, a leading venture capital and growth equity firm with over $2 billion in committed capital, today announced the launch of StartUp Academy, a newly created initiative to provide students with invaluable exposure to entrepreneurship and insights on how to build a business and work with innovative technologies.
Through the StartUp Academy program, Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) will seek elite technical talent from top-tier undergraduate, masters and PhD programs throughout the country, including: Duke, Harvard, MIT, University of Michigan, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, USC and University of Waterloo. The program seeks to place individuals who are looking make an impact at a startup by placing them in engineering and product management positions at startups funded by Bain Capital Ventures.
An inaugural 2012 StartUp Academy class was selected during a nine-month pilot of the program. BCV received 779 applicants of which 21 students, or less than 3% of the original applicants, were selected to participate. The participating
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