To Whom this May Concern,
As per Elana's suggestion, I wanted to share with you an exciting opportunity for UWaterloo students.
My name is Emily Luk and I'm currently a student at the University of Toronto and the Toronto Director of the Founder Project.
I'm reaching out to you now because I have an exciting opportunity for VeloCity students. We are currently hiring student VC's to join our team.
The Founder Project is a student run VC fund investing and empowering student entrepreneurs and recently had a successful launch in Toronto. Both the National Post and TechVibes covered our launch to Toronto and we're rapidly gaining traction. After our Montreal competition (which led to the creation of 160 startups) one of our top startups was featured in the National Post (article below) and is currently in negotiations for $500k in seed funding. They are just one of numerous startups in negotiations for over $400k in funding each, all of which were found through our competition.
We were hoping that you would aid us in extending this opportunity to your students through notifying students on your mailing list. Would this be possible? The email we are hoping to have sent is below.
Thank you very much for your assistance.
Sincerely, Emily Luk Toronto Director Founder Project
----------------------------------------------------------- The email would be as follows:
Do you want to join a team of passionate individuals who want to fuel Canadian entrepreneurship?
Are you interested in the world of *startups*? Do you have* entrepreneurial experience*, or are you an aspiring entrepreneur? Are you a *designer *or a *developer*? Do you know what it means to *hustle*?
*We’re out to change student entrepreneurship on a global scale.* Our mission is to establish a vibrant student startup ecosystem amongst the student body.
The Founder Project is a student run VC fund investing and empowering student entrepreneurs. After our Montreal competition, numerous of our startups in negotiations for over $400k in funding each, all of which were found through our competition.
*We are at the heart of the Canadian entrepreneurship ecosystem*.
Over the last eight months we’ve contributed to the creation of over 160 student companies. A handful of those companies have received venture financing from major Canadian venture capital firms, and we’ve seen students take positions at high-growth startups.
Things are heating up here at TheFounderProject and we are taking things to the next level.
If you would like to join us, we are currently hiring.
*Apply here: http://tinyurl.com/ozlanpv* * * *Applications are due at midnight on October 18th.*
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Elana Hashman ehashman@uwaterloo.ca Date: Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 6:58 PM Subject: Re: Exciting Opportunity for UWaterloo Students To: Emily Luk emily@thefounderproject.com Cc: exec@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Hi Emily,
Please send this message to csc-industry@csclub.uwaterloo.**cacsc-industry@csclub.uwaterloo.ca. It is our moderated mailing list for posts like this. (For more information, you can visit wiki.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/csc-**industryhttp://wiki.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/csc-industry )
-- Elana Hashman President Computer Science Club University of Waterloo ehashman@uwaterloo.ca
On 2013-10-08 16:20, Emily Luk wrote:
To Elana,
My name is Emily Luk and I'm currently the Toronto Director of the Founder Project.
I'm reaching out to you now because I have an exciting opportunity for UWaterloo Computer Science students. We are currently hiring student VC's to join our team.
The Founder Project is a student run VC fund investing and empowering student entrepreneurs and recently had a successful launch in Toronto. Both the National Post and TechVibes covered our launch to Toronto and we're rapidly gaining traction. After our Montreal competition (which led to the creation of 160 startups) one of our top startups was featured in the National Post (article below) and is currently in negotiations for $500k in seed funding. They are just one of numerous startups in negotiations for over $400k in funding each, all of which were found through our competition.
National Post Expansion Article:
roundup-thefounderprojects-**student-investment-fund-comes-**to-toronto/http://business.financialpost.com/2013/06/07/startup-roundup-thefounderprojects-student-investment-fund-comes-to-toronto/
[1] Tech Vibes Expansion
founder-project-to-name-**toronto-as-new-chapter-2013-**06-11http://www.techvibes.com/blog/montreals-the-founder-project-to-name-toronto-as-new-chapter-2013-06-11
[2]
National Post - Startup Feature:
student-expelled-after-**finding-security-flaw-now-** leading-new-startup-outpost-**travel/?__lsa=f4cf-267dhttp://business.financialpost.com/2013/07/17/montreal-student-expelled-after-finding-security-flaw-now-leading-new-startup-outpost-travel/?__lsa=f4cf-267d
[3]
We were hoping that you would aid us in extending this opportunity to your students through notifying students on your mailing list. Would this be possible? The email we are hoping to have sent is below.
Thank you very much for your assistance.
Sincerely, Emily Luk Toronto Director Founder Project
------------------------------**----------------------------- The email would be as follows:
Do you want to join a team of passionate individuals who want to fuel Canadian entrepreneurship?
Are you interested in the world of STARTUPS? Do you have ENTREPRENEURIAL EXPERIENCE, or are you an aspiring entrepreneur? Are you a DESIGNER or a DEVELOPER? Do you know what it means to HUSTLE?
WE'RE OUT TO CHANGE STUDENT ENTREPRENEURSHIP ON A GLOBAL SCALE.
Our mission is to establish a vibrant student startup ecosystem amongst the student body.
The Founder Project is a student run VC fund investing and empowering student entrepreneurs. After our Montreal competition, numerous of our startups in negotiations for over $400k in funding each, all of which were found through our competition.
WE ARE AT THE HEART OF THE CANADIAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP ECOSYSTEM.
Over the last eight months we've contributed to the creation of over 160 student companies. A handful of those companies have received venture financing from major Canadian venture capital firms, and we've seen students take positions at high-growth startups.
Things are heating up here at TheFounderProject and we are taking things to the next level.
If you would like to join us, we are currently hiring.
_APPLY HERE: _
APPLICATIONS ARE DUE AT MIDNIGHT ON OCTOBER 18TH.
Links: ------ [1] http://business.financialpost.**com/2013/06/07/startup-** roundup-thefounderprojects-**student-investment-fund-comes-**to-toronto/http://business.financialpost.com/2013/06/07/startup-roundup-thefounderprojects-student-investment-fund-comes-to-toronto/ [2] http://www.techvibes.com/blog/**montreals-the-founder-project-** to-name-toronto-as-new-**chapter-2013-06-11http://www.techvibes.com/blog/montreals-the-founder-project-to-name-toronto-as-new-chapter-2013-06-11 [3] http://business.financialpost.**com/2013/07/17/montreal-** student-expelled-after-**finding-security-flaw-now-** leading-new-startup-outpost-**travel/?__lsa=f4cf-267dhttp://business.financialpost.com/2013/07/17/montreal-student-expelled-after-finding-security-flaw-now-leading-new-startup-outpost-travel/?__lsa=f4cf-267d