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 34 fellows, including 26 women, 20 BIPOC persons, 3 military veterans, and 2 startup founders.
f7 Fellows

Somya Gupta

Somya has spent time at Bain as a pricing analyst, as well as at Agoda at a customer marketing analyst. She helped found a company called The Inside Wire, which helped students connect and prepare for employment at prestigious companies. She is a Delhi Technological University grad and also a certified pianist from Trinity.

Tejas Niphadkar

Tejas previously worked as an applications engineer at Oracle and was the founding product manager at Auctm/Squadstack, a b2b SAAS SalesTech web app focused on US real estate (acquired in 2022). He also worked at Khoros as a senior PM and recently completed a pre-MBA PM internship at Amazon, where he helped drive a team launching quick commerce opportunities in India. He studied at NIT Warangal.
f7 Fellowship Alumni

Mahim Goyal


Clarissa Cheng


Smita Balaji


Surbhi Bagri


Annie Pyle


Taarini Dang


Keira Harder


Victor Liu


Kate Connaughton


Liz Wu


Rahul Srivathsa


Mark Liao


Anais Engel


Payal Agarwal


Jodi Leah Kraushar


Nancy Cai


Maddy Landon


Hannah Adelsberg


Dan Parsons


Ashna Bhatia


Deanna Mostowfi


Upashruti Agrawal


Janani Hariharan


JD Ganguly


Cat Knoerr


Simona Kovatcheva


Grace Fish


Paige Decker


Shobhit Kudesia


Maya Ioschpe


Emily Brannon


Emily Bauman

