NEW YORK, Aug. 15, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Venture for America (VFA), a two-year fellowship program for recent college graduates interested in entrepreneurship and working in a fast-paced, innovative startup environment, announced the close of a fund—the VFA Seed Fund I—to invest in Fellow-founded companies. The fund is currently at $1M and includes investments from several high-profile investors.
Venture for America has a threefold mission of revitalizing American cities and communities through entrepreneurship, enabling our best and brightest to create new opportunities for themselves and others, and restoring the culture of achievement to include value creation, risk and reward, and the common good.