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Breakout Ventures Fellowship
Breakout Ventures Fellowship is Breakout Ventures' fellowship offering direct venture capital experience for PhD candidates and postdocs in biosciences.
- Application state
- Not published
Overview
What Breakout Ventures Fellowship offers
What Breakout Ventures Fellowship is
Breakout Ventures Fellowship is a two-year program at Breakout Ventures, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2016. The firm invests in creative biosciences companies where biology and chemistry converge with technology and tools of scale to create novel solutions in human health and sustainability. The fellowship program is designed to attract PhD candidates and postdocs interested in venture capital, entrepreneurship, and commercializing science. Breakout has been supporting graduate students since launching the fellowship program in 2015, before the firm's official founding. Through workshops, mentorship, and industry events, the Breakout team leverages fellows to pull back the curtain on venture capital while simultaneously keeping the firm plugged into local university innovation hubs. Breakout Fellows provide critical connectivity to research institutions and labs across the country, introduce promising deals to the investment team, and support due diligence with their scientific expertise.
Operational profile
Program status and context
Program status describes the program itself. Application availability and deadlines remain separate.
- Operational status
- Active
- Program type
- Fellowship
- Host organization
- Breakout Ventures
- Last reviewed
- May 26, 2026
Terms and economics
Published program terms
- Price
- Free
- Compensation
- Unknown
Focus and fit
Who the program is for
Eligibility
PhD candidates and postdocs with interests in venture capital, entrepreneurship, and commercializing scientific research. Typically in biotech, biosciences, or related life sciences fields.
- Stages
- Pre-seed · Seed
- Regions
- United States
- Audience
- Founders · Investors
- Career stage
- Student · Early Career
Format and cadence
How participation works
- Presence
- In Person
- Main location
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Duration
- 104 weeks
- Cohort size
- 8
- Cohorts per year
- 1
- Engagement
- Full Time
Availability and engagement
Application timing and route
- Application state
- Not published
- Admissions
- By Invitation
Value and support
What participation may provide
Publicly described support is context, not a guarantee of current delivery or future benefit.
What participants may receive
Direct venture capital experience, mentorship from experienced investors, workshops on commercialization and startup building, networking with leading universities and research labs, deal sourcing opportunities, and potential for post-fellowship investment roles at Breakout.
Common questions
Program details at a glance
Breakout Ventures Fellowship is published in Upseed as a fellowship program hosted by Breakout Ventures. Upseed treats the Program and its host Organization as separate records so each can have its own status and sources.
Source and update disclosure
Know what this page is based on
Source basis
Public organization and program material, official websites, and structured Upseed records.
Last reviewed
May 26, 2026
Known limits
Terms, deadlines, and application states can change. Confirm current details at the published destination before acting. Upseed does not yet classify every Program destination as official.
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