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Fellowship Details: Remote first ✦ Part-Time (+/- 10 hours per wk) ✦ Academic Credit Available

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Apply here by Monday, June 29th.

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Why AV, Why Now?

The Global Operating Environment has entered a phase transition. The assumptions that shaped the post-Cold War era—uncontested supply chains and predictable technology diffusion—have eroded. We now operate in a world defined by strategic competition and acute technological asymmetries.

At AV, we believe resilience is not a passive buffer against shocks. It is an active capability. We are investing in a sophisticated Ring of Resilience woven from intersecting technological vectors that allow for adaptation, reconfiguration, and sustainment of critical functions under stress.

In physics and engineering, a vector represents a force defined by both its magnitude and its specific direction. AV’s six investment vectors are designed to function like a high-frequency interference pattern, where the mesh of the force field is woven from diverse technological capabilities. By ensuring these vectors intersect, we create a defensive posture where the inherent gaps in any single capability are seamlessly covered by the magnitude of another, resulting in a protective shield that is far more durable than the sum of its individual parts.

The Ring of Resilience is comprised of six technology vectors that—when developed in parallel—form a mutually reinforcing mesh across industrial, physical, and informational domains. Where one capability encounters natural limits (physics, scale, latency), another compensates. The aggregate effect is a technology posture that is more robust, more maneuverable, and more sovereign than any single innovation alone.

We are opening our doors to technical experts to help us find, vet, and back the founders building this protective shield.

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Click on any card above to learn more about the vector.

🧠 Who You Are

We are looking for builders, researchers, and engineers who want to understand how capital accelerates frontier science.

You bring these:

• A specific technical focus. You have deep domain expertise or intense technical aptitude in at least one of our six investment vectors. See the section to the right to see what types of technologists might be most relevant to each vector. If you see a different angle around how your technical expertise applies to a particular vector, we encourage you to defend why.
• A unique vantage point. (Undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, and industry professionals are all welcome to apply).
• An eye for business. You have an innate curiosity about the business side of innovation and what separates a "science project" from a commercially viable company.

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🛠️ What You Will Do & What You Will Gain

The AV Tech Fellowship an immersive, get-what-you-put-in crash course in how deep-tech is commercialized. You will have the opportunity to operate across the entire lifecycle of a startup—and you will have the autonomy to shape your focus based on your specific technical expertise.

• Design a Self-Directed Project: Forget cookie-cutter assignments. You have the freedom to select a sub-sector within our six vectors, map the ecosystem, and ultimately present a formal investment thesis to the AV team.
• Shadow Frontline Deals: Actively participate in team deal reviews, initial screening calls, and partner meetings. Your primary output is raw translation: providing unfiltered technical takes on founder claims.