Too many students are funneled toward careers with limited meaning. Ambitious students shouldn’t have to settle. Critical's Investment Partners spend their time on campus finding and supporting student founders building a better future, at scale.
In < 3 years, alumni have built companies and joined firms like Insight, Bessemer, and Founders Fund. But we’ve designed this year’s program to tend towards founders.
We select a small cohort of elite student builders to become part-time partners at our firm for 1 year. It's a selective, intense, and personalized experience. Junior partners own founder relationships, investment committees, upside in investments, budgets, semester retreats, 1:1 with GPs.
The thesis is that giving builders a checkbook & high feedback volume on pitches will accelerate their search for cofounders & the right problem area. Welcome to the partnership.