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The Soma Scouts are a group of up-and-coming college students who are interested in exploring the path to becoming a founder, working at a startup, or becoming an investor. You’ll have the opportunity to participate in company diligence, join calls with the founders, scout for the top seed fund in the country, and be part of a community of other scouts from colleges everywhere. ****Program graduates will have the support of Soma in sourcing their next role at a portfolio company or other VC fund, and have the opportunity to intern at Soma directly over the summer.
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Our mission is building the #1 seed fund in the world, and being there day 1 with superhuman generational company builders.
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Aneel Ranadive has been in the Silicon Valley his whole life and saw day 1 as his dad Vivek Ranadive, a come from nothing immigrant from India, built Tibco (4.3b exit to Vista) which “digitized wall street in the 90’s” and powered 80% of Fortune 500 companies competing against Oracle. Vivek seeded and mentored Google, Yahoo, Salesforce, eBay, to Steve Jobs personally. Tibco even powered gov and city services, giving us close friendships with presidents of nations. Vivek has also gotten in to sports buying multiple teams, [from the Golden State Warriors to the Sacramento Kings](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/vivek-ranadive-snatched-major-league-124552500.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAG49Xgjv0Dr0vjt7dG-wWbiC6iPyjdJMOcIAHiEV09PAGwk_xcVV4tdFybq8OoLxLcn1xy28yRNYWD2B-Q8db_NruFNf9lrZCuSR9kySDvQzVFMnCjfJZiKzpQPWt1bg7JeaouT7yTn9ZDyhxq1WgpPDJcruJFgHz1h1uqK7s2cF#:~:text=Since his girls didn't,and went to the championship.). Here are second to none connections we’ve made to portfolio co’s
Aneel Ranadive spent a lifetime learning from all these experiences seeing trillions in value creation starting from ground zero, then spent over a decade building startups and creating relationships day 1 among peer “millennial” cofounders of startups like FB, Dropbox, Box, Twitch, Uber, Reddit, among others. 8 years ago upon starting Soma, we set out to combine a lifetime of all these learnings to go build the #1 seed fund in the world which we would have wanted ourselves as founders.
Our goal is to be your most uniquely connected, hardest husting ally on the cap table from 0 to IPO and pour fuel on the fire along the entire trajectory.
Soma Cap has now invested early in +20 unicorns like Deel, Rippling, Ramp, Ironclad, Lattice, Human Interest, Cruise, among others, totaling over +$100 billion combined value of all our founders. We have a portfolio of close to 1,000 brilliant founders across multiple sectors and geographies. We’re usually one of the first checks, and we accelerate our value adds along the entire path.
Our all time “unicorn” breakout founders say things like “Soma changed our life” (Ramp) and “Soma helped us get our first 100 customers” (Deel) see testimonials here
What is the Soma Scouts program
The next generational company builders creating products for billions of people, lifting up humanity on to their shoulders and pushing civilization forward are starting now - and we need your help finding them. We aim to find a ninja swat team of brilliant, intuitive builders who will attract other builders, and keep their finger on the pulse of top world class talent for us.
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