Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 11, 2016

According to USCIS, the federal agency responsible for handling work visas, in 2015 U.S.-based YesWeCode, founded in December 2014 in Oakland, CA, is a national initiative to turn 100,000 low opportunity youth into 100,000 high-skilled – and high income – software developers. And it isn’t merely a local or regional issue.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

In addition to a fund, the overall Capacity organization provides direct mentorship, consulting and connects founders to a broad network of talent, diverse forms of capital, and existing resources focused on the post-startup stage of growth. In 2015, they invested $1m (out of OATV Fund III) in 8 companie s as a pilot.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

In addition to a fund, the overall Capacity organization provides direct mentorship, consulting and connects founders to a broad network of talent, diverse forms of capital, and existing resources focused on the post-startup stage of growth. In 2015, they invested $1m (out of OATV Fund III) in 8 companie s as a pilot.

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investing investment VC SaaS 40

Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

I’m excited to have Vidit Aatrey, CEO and co-founder of Meesho, which was founded in 2015, and you went through YC in 2016. These are educated women but handicapped so no one ever gave them jobs. But what happened back in 2015, like the year out of college, I was working within MobiHerd, Sanjeev was working with Sony in Japan.

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