Partnering with student founders to build the future now.
Students helping students succeed on their entrepreneurial journeys.
We are Stanford’s premier student-founder community. Cardinal Ventures brings together Stanford’s best student founders, fostering a robust community of entrepreneurs by connecting our global network of mentors, investors, and industry experts — all without taking equity. Our initiatives include a startup accelerator program, a deeptech fellowship, and the College Ventures Network.
In the past 7 years we’ve graduated over 150 companies.
Our companies have raised over $1 billion from:
We’re backed by the best.