At f7, we believe deeply that the future of innovation is accelerated by creating an equal starting line for bold founders and funders to build the next world changing companies.
Our program aims to share knowledge with emerging managers and expand f7’s network of investors and operators to the next generation. Since 2021, we’ve hosted 30 fellows to date, including 25 women, 16 BIPOC persons, 3 military veterans, and one startup founder.
f7 Fellows
Smita Balaji
Smita is a senior Deloitte consultant who has worked on responsible AI and data strategy across Healthcare. She interned at REDF this summer, an impact investing fund that focused on getting people jobs. She is a current MBA candidate at Kellogg.
Surbhi Bagri
Surbhi is coming from investing at a variety through a variety of platforms in India – primarily from Series A to C focusing on CPG, EVs, among others. She is a current MBA candidate at Kellogg.
Annie Pyle
Annie is an experienced product / UX designer completing her MBA + Design Innovation degrees at Kellogg. She spent this summer building as CMO of nLab – they just made their first enterprise sale! nLab is making electrical engineering education more accessible.
f7 Fellowship Alumni
Taarini Dang
Taarini Kaur Dang is a young venture capitalist, a Forbes Writer, TEDx Speaker, and Diversity Empowerment champion. She is the founder and Managing Partner of a VC firm called Brave14 Capital for which she raised $870k in funding during her high school years from top VCs and institutional investors in the US. She has been featured by BBC, Nasdaq, Bloomberg TV, Mercury News, etc. In 2019, she was ranked in the Top 100 Women in Finance in India.
Keira Harder
Keira Harder is a two sport student athlete at Williams College. She previously worked on an argument mapping curriculum project for grades 6-12 through a nonprofit spun out of the Harvard University Department of Philosophy.
Victor Liu
Victor Liu is a current MBA candidate at Kellogg School of Management. He has a strategic finance background across investment banking, corporate development, and M&A, and an undergraduate degree from UCLA.
Kate Connaughton
Kate is an MBA candidate at the Kellogg School of Management. She previously worked as a Legislative Aide in Technology, Economic, and Environmental Policy for the US Senate. Kate has a strong focus at the intersection of economic development and environmental policy, having interned at Coreshell to develop their environmental policy and strategy, plus working at the Chilean Economic Development Agency (CORFO).
Liz Wu
Liz Wu is an MBA candidate at Kellogg School of Management. She has a wide range of experience, drawing from her technical expertise, ranging from IT specialist work at McGill University, to leading the Enterprise Marketing Team at Munvo, and interning as a Technical Senior Product Manager at Amazon. She is also a Forte Fellow, a prestigious program for women to pursue high level roles in business.
Rahul Srivathsa
Rahul Srivathsa is a product leader who is passionate about building and scaling businesses. He was a founding product manager on Tripadvisor’s restaurants team and played an integral role in building a $100M business in four years. He recently earned a dual MBA from Kellogg School of Management and MS in Design Innovation from the McCormick School of Engineering. While at Kellogg, Rahul co-founded Borrough, a rental marketplace for household items in large apartment buildings, which is currently live in two apartment communities in Chicago. Rahul is the Head of Growth at iAsk.ai.
Mark Liao
Hailing from Taiwan, Mark has built a career that includes a stint as a Product Manager Technical intern at Amazon Web Services during the summer, and as a product manager at Shopee, Southeast Asia’s leading e-commerce platform, based in Singapore. Beyond these roles, Mark has a passion for startups and has interned in several product and marketing roles at multiple SaaS startups. Mark is currently a second year MBA Candidate at the Kellogg School of Management.
Anais Engel
Prior to Kellogg, she worked as a sustainability consultant for architecture and construction, advising new construction projects on meeting aggressive sustainability targets. Anais began her career at the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator where she helped manage a 60,000 sf coworking facility which housed an ecosystem of LA climate professionals. She holds a BS in Environmental Science from the UCLA Institute of the Environment. Anais is currently a second year MBA Candidate at the Kellogg School of Management.
Payal Agarwal
Payal is currently a full-time student at Kellogg School of Management. Prior to this, she was working in technology, particularly in machine learning and cloud services. She also successfully ran her own startup in food delivery in India. She is passionate about empowering people and startups with access to capital and mentorship. She is a wellness and inclusion enthusiast and loves being outdoors in her free time.
Jodi Leah Kraushar
Jodi Kraushar is currently a first year student at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Prior to attending Kellogg, Jodi was a Senior Producer at Psyop, a video production company specializing in animation and design. She is passionate about all things media and technology, and is obsessed with innovative thinking and operations. When not on Slack, you can find Jodi trying a new recipe or catching up on Succession.
Nancy Cai
Maddy Landon
Maddy is a data-analyst-turned-product-
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