Year Awarded 2023
Location Jacksonville, FL & Washington, D.C.
Matching Funders Kirchner Group, the Burroughs-Wellcome Fund and individual donors.
The Kirchner Fellowship HBCU cohort is part of a $1 million five-year collaboration between the Kirchner Impact Foundation and the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research to increase diversity within the venture capital industry by training HBCU students to become agriculture technology venture capitalists. Kirchner HBCU fellows invest capital in early-stage food and agriculture companies applying ground-breaking technologies to provide sustainable solutions to address global food challenges.