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Looking Back on My Journey with Defense Ventures
- Defense Ventures is an excellent model for providing top notch diverse career experiences to hungry and aspiring leaders in the defense realm who have an interest in entrepreneurship.
- Its popularity was in full swing and the team at Shift.org was on cohort 14.
- The program admitted and placed both civilian and military individuals from the DoD.
- The board room described above belongs to none other than Insight Partners.
- I was able to work with and advise multiple dual use and defense portfolio companies (portcos) that Insight Partners invested in.
- Defense Ventures was managing multiple cohorts of fellows like me per year with a wide variety of defense-minded startups and VC firms.
- This was just one memorable day in an 8-week span of my fellowship.
- The third and most important development that occurred was this year’s unfortunate cancellation of the Defense Ventures program, after more than 20 successful cohorts.
- Regardless of whether we choose to follow our own well thought out policies, I think there is still value in the Defense Ventures program to advance collaboration and innovation in our DoD acquisition workforce.
- It was more than just a professional development opportunity.
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