Meet the 2026 NFX Fellows

• NFX selects 21 fellows from 300+ applicants across 4 elite universities.
  • Stanford, Harvard, MIT, Berkeley; 65+ total fellows trained to date.
• Fellows embed on campus as early backers for classmate ventures.
  • Access to NFX investing and company-building playbooks.
• Cohort spans biotech, AI, climate, neurotechnology, and consumer tech.
• Standout backgrounds: Moderna cancer therapies, Apple Vision Pro, SpaceX data science.
  • Ismail El Hailouch: Chief of Staff at Turing AI ($1.1B); Teddy Sun: 7+ yrs Apple, Vision Pro PM.
• NFX reaches 321,000+ startup teams via newsletter — fellows extend that reach on campus.

Valerie Osband Mahoney & Anastasia Budinskaya — NFX · 2025-10-08 · Read on nfx.com