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Gen Z VCs
Gen Z VCs is a global collective founded in November 2020, comprising over 30,000 young investors, founders, and aspiring venture capitalists. It aims to elevate Gen Z voices in the venture capital ecosystem.
Overview
What Gen Z VCs does
What Gen Z VCs is
Gen Z VCs is a global collective founded in November 2020, comprising over 30,000 young investors, founders, and aspiring venture capitalists. It aims to elevate Gen Z voices in the venture capital ecosystem.
How it participates in the startup ecosystem
The current public profile supports community capabilities. Each capability below is shown separately so organization identity and role-specific information do not get conflated.
Operational profile
Organization status and context
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- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Community
- Founded
- Founded in 2020
- Approximate age
- About 6 years
- Structured capabilities
- Community
- Last reviewed
- March 5, 2026
Official channels
Find Gen Z VCs elsewhere
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Capability profile
Gen Z VCs as a community
Community overview
Gen Z VCs is a community founded in November 2020 by Meagan Loyst, comprising over 30,000 members including young venture capitalists, founders, angel investors, and aspiring VCs. The organization focuses on elevating the voices of Gen Z in the venture capital ecosystem and fostering collaboration and learning among its members. By connecting Gen Z founders with young investors, Gen Z VCs aims to make venture capital and entrepreneurship more accessible and transparent for the next generation.
Community focus
The organization focuses on making venture capital and entrepreneurship more accessible for young investors. It connects Gen Z founders with investors and provides resources to support their entrepreneurial journeys, including a curated marketplace offering discounts from various partners.
Member value
Members benefit from a supportive community that fosters collaboration and learning, as well as access to a marketplace featuring significant savings from various partners to assist founders in their startup endeavors.
Membership
- Recorded members
- 30,000
- Pricing models
- free
Format and cadence
- Modality
- online
- Schedule
- rolling-admissions
- Commitment
- light
Availability
- Membership state
- Accepting
Audience and fit
- Audience
- Founders · Investors · Students
- Benefits
- network-access
- Program types
- community
- Selection criteria
- open
- Regions
- Global
Community activity
Notable members
Meagan Loyst - Founder & CEO.
Common questions
What to know about Gen Z VCs
Upseed classifies Gen Z VCs under the Community organization type. Its current public profile includes community capabilities.
Source and update disclosure
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Source basis
Public organization and program material, official websites, and structured Upseed records.
Last reviewed
March 5, 2026
Known limits
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