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= Overview =

Currently, the Pipeline Fellowship operates in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C..  

For most of the Pipeline Fellows, this is their first angel investment. They are attracted by the program’s three components (education, mentoring, practice) and benefit from the diversity of each cohort. Pipeline Fellows are intergenerational (ranging from late twenties to 60+) and come from a variety of professional backgrounds.

The Pipeline Fellowship has seen the ripple effects of training women to become angels—in addition to continuing to invest in startups, Pipeline Fellowship alumnae have gone on to join later stage angel networks, as well as launch an accelerator and angel groups.

<span style="font-size:small;">Pipeline Fellows are looking to invest in women entrepreneurs building tomorrow’s The Body Shop, Honest Tea, method, Seventh Generation, Warby Parker, and Zipcar. Some of the women-led for-profit social ventures that secured funding from Pipeline Fellows after presenting at a Pipeline Fellowship Pitch Summit include:</span>

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[http://www.madebyvoz.com/ VOZ], meaning voice, is the first fair trade fashion brand to unite international designers with weavers to co-design elegant, ethnic garments. We empower indigenous women and their art forms. In February 2013, we&nbsp;[http://vimeo.com/60441847 debuted]&nbsp;at Elle’s New York Fashion Week event where we were the only ethical or ecological brand in their milieu. After providing design innovation training programs, our products stem from the artisans’ ideas, for which we award royalties, a system that we are scaling globally.</div>

The pipeline fellowship pitch summit is an opportunity for invited women entrepreneurs to present their for-profit social ventures for a chance to secure funding.

Pipeline Fellowship Founder & CEO Natalia Oberti Noguera is known for saying, “The numbers are low, but they're not zero.” In addition to its angel investing bootcamp for women, the Pipeline Fellowship increases visibility of more voices in the angel investing, venture capital, and entrepreneurship communities through a series of events.

The Pipeline Fellowship Conference is an all-day event on angel investing open to the public. Invited speakers range from serial entrepreneurs to seasoned angel investors and VCs.

Some of our past Conference speakers include representatives from: 500 Startups, Acumen Fund, Astia, Black Founders, Criterion Ventures, Echoing Green, Golden Seeds, Goodwin Procter, Illuminate Ventures, RSF Social Finance, StarVest Partners, SoftTech VC, TechStars, and Tiger 21.

Pipeline Fellowship's Changing the Face of Angel Investing interview series spotlights women and people of color influencers who are doing their part to increase diversity in the angel investing, impact investing, VC, and entrepreneurship ecosystems.

The Q&A with Pipeline Fellowship alumnae series is an opportunity to learn about a graduate’s journey into angel investing.

What makes the [http://www.pipelinefellowship.com Pipeline Fellowship]&nbsp;different from other fellowships is that it is an angel investing bootcamp with a specific focus towards women philanthropists with a goal of increasing diversity in the U.S. angel investing community and creating capital for women social entrepreneurs. Generally, when one considers an entrepreneurial fellowship, it caters towards the founders, this particualr fellowship is aimed at teaching female investors how to become Angel Investors through three core competencies:&nbsp;[http://www.pipelinefellowship.com/about/workshopspeakers/ education],&nbsp;[http://www.pipelinefellowship.com/about/mentors/ mentoring], and&nbsp;[http://www.pipelinefellowship.com/pitch-summit/ practice].

The Pipeline Fellowship Pitch Summit is an opportunity for invited women entrepreneurs to present their for-profit social ventures for a chance to secure funding.

The impact of such a program like Pipeline Fellowship is dual sided. On one end of the spectrum there is the&nbsp;Pipeline Fellowship’s angel investing bootcamp for women that could be used to introduce female college students to the world of investments, private equity, business evaluation, and financial modeling. On the other end of the spectrum there is the Pipeline Fellowship Pitch Summit that provides opportunitiies for eager entrepreneurs to seek capital for the ventures. Ultimately, the experiential learning that can transpire through this fellowship can be specifically tailored towards college students so they can witness both sides of the financing world. Students can learn how to evaluate businesses on the backend as well as have an opportunity to showcase their businesses and seek funding and mentorship to grow their companies. &nbsp;

To bring a program like Pipeline Fellowships to my college, we would need to first identify prospective students interested in being mentors and "investors". It would also help if we could get the university or some other entity to sponsor the investments. Then advertisements could be make around the campus to solicite student entrepreneurs to submit proposals for grant funding. Next, the mentors who can work with the prospective students need to be identified. From this point one, the system becomes more like a mentor-mentee relationship where the student learns about venture finance.

To learn more, go to: [http://pipelinefellowship.com http://pipelinefellowship.com] Questions? Email us: info@pipelinefellowship.com

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