Cardinal Ventures

11/30/2020

Demo Day is this week! 🥳🎉 Thursday at 4 PST our incredible cohort companies will be pitching you on the future. Sound good? Join us here 💌
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cardinal-ventures-fall-2020-demo-day-tickets-95660486089?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch

03/14/2019

"As a founder, you have no choice: you’re a salesperson, no matter what industry you are in." Learn more about how the Art of Sales from Annie Stancliffe!

Annie from HighFive

02/04/2019

Meet Isabella Garcia Camargo: Our newest CV member!

Isabella Garcia

02/01/2019

Apply to the Cardinal Ventures Spring Cohort! 🚀🚀🚀

At Cardinal Ventures, we’re passionate about supporting student founders with disruptive ideas. We provide our founders with mentorship, access to resources, and a network of diverse investors and over 200 alumni founders. Since 2015, we’ve graduated over 90 companies who have raised $80M+ in funding from top tier Venture Capital firms like Sequoia, angels like Marissa Mayer, and have gone on to join accelerators like Y-Combinator. Our founders represent Stanford’s immense talent at all levels – undergraduate, graduate, post-doc and alumni. We are looking for passionate founders to join our community this spring.

Applications are due Wednesday, February 14th.

http://bit.ly/cvs19app

Learn more about Cardinal Ventures: http://www.cardinalventures.org/

12/27/2018

Congrats to Trevor Martin, founder of Mammoth Biosciences, for being featured in Forbes 30 Under 30!

Trevor Martin and his cofounders found their niche in the healthcare industry by making diagnostic results more readily available to those without access to ...

10/20/2018

Congrats to Cardinal Ventures alumn Oh My Green for raising $20M!

Oh My Green, a concierge-style provider of healthy food and wellness services, today announced a $20 million seed funding round.

10/14/2018

Cardinal Ventures is Hiring 💫

The CV Management team is expanding! We are looking for students to help run our program as we scale quickly. Joining the team is a great opportunity to delve into the startup ecosystem, learn about how companies develop, get experience evaluating companies, and network with VCs, entrepreneurs and angel investors.

Apply Here by Monday, October 22nd:
https://tinyurl.com/cvapp2018

We are looking for highly committed and motivated students who are excited about joining a close-knit, startup obsessed team. The role will most likely be 10-15 hours/week. More information about roles we are hiring for is available upon request.

Who are we? Cardinal Ventures is the premier non-profit startup accelerator on the Stanford campus run by students, for students. The program was created in spring 2015 by Justine and Olivia Moore as a proud division of Stanford Student Enterprises. We run two 10-week long programs of 13-19 teams every year with the goal of helping support student entrepreneurs at the earliest stage. By connecting founders to the greater Silicon Valley ecosystem, educating them on entrepreneurship and supporting them through their journey to create disruptive businesses at Stanford and beyond, Cardinal Ventures has grown into the home for student founders.

08/20/2018

Congrats to Cardinal Ventures alum Alexandra Botez and Ruben Mayer, cofounders of FameGame, for completing YC and launching!

The pre-social media phenomenon that was early 2000s American Idol might be a weird place to spend a lot of focus when it comes to thinking about the future. But it’s also worth noting how little these types of shows adapted to build themselves into the fabric of live social commentary. Twitt…

08/12/2018

Congrats to Cardinal Ventures alum Mammoth Biosciences for raising $23 million for its CRISPR-based disease detection engine! Investors include Apple’s Tim Cook and Jeff Huber, former CEO of early cancer screening company Grail.

Mammoth Biosciences, the biotech company that grew out of a close relationship with CRISPR legend Jennifer Doudna, has raised $23 million in a sturdy Series A. Mammoth previously raised $120,000 from NFX and the company continued quietly picking up funding as it built toward its exit from stealth m....

08/07/2018

One more week left to apply!!

Build your company with Cardinal Ventures. 🚀🚀🚀

At Cardinal Ventures, we’re passionate about supporting student founders with disruptive ideas. We provide our founders with mentorship, access to resources, and a network of diverse investors and 200+ Cardinal Ventures alumni founders. Since 2015, we’ve graduated over 90 companies who have raised $25M+ in funding from top tier VCs like Sequoia, angels like Marissa Mayer, and have gone on to join accelerators like YCombinator. Our founders represent Stanford’s immense talent at all levels – undergraduate, graduate, post-doc and alumni. We
are looking for passionate founders to join our community this fall!

Interested in joining us?
Apply Here by August 12th 11:59pm: http://bit.ly/f18cardinalventures

Have any more questions? Email us at [email protected]

http://www.cardinalventures.org/

07/13/2018

Huge congrats to Cardinal Ventures alum Akshay Ramaswamy and Chetan Rane, founders of Alma Campus, for raising a $1 million seed round led by Norwest Venture Partners, with participation from Felicis Ventures and former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer.

Alma Campus, a new social networking startup created by two Stanford University students, announced today that it has raised a $1 million seed round, led by Norwest Venture Partners. Felicis Ventur…

06/27/2018

Interview with Cardinal Ventures alum Mon Ami: Bringing play to dementia care

Winners of the inaugural AirDev Launch Challenge connect student ‘activity companions’ with loved ones suffering from isolating conditions