The Activus Fellowship

The Activus Fellowship is a semester-long program for a select group of outstanding business students seeking hands-on experience in private equity investing.

The program is focused around the art and science of evaluating investment opportunities in the lower middle market and consists of three main components:

We received over 1500 applicants for our 2020 programs and past Fellows include students from Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, UT Austin, Duke, Berkley, Georgetown, and Yale.

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About Activus Capital Partners

Activus Capital Partners is a network-driven fund focused on buying and operating small businesses with $4 million to $50 million in revenue.

We are entrepreneurial investors and our extensive advisor network encompasses entrepreneurs, professional NFL athletes, and executives in private equity, tech, and venture capital. Learn more about our managing partners here.

Meet the Fellowship Alumni

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Dhilan Patel

Texas

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Vivek Vadali

U of H
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Sean Stallings

Texas

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Raj Bajwa

Texas

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Louis Ortiz

Texas

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Jessica Zhang

Texas

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Sai Gurijala

Texas

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Matthew Landon

Texas

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Kathryn Zhao

MIT
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Mark Brown

CU Boulder

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Anea Ferrario

Brown
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Matt Erickson

Yale

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Miryam Rudolph

Duke

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Maxx Cummings

Brown

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Cherie Rahardja

Texas

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Emmie Kiely

Brown

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Rishik Lad

UC Irvine

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Quincy Lee Chi Qin

Texas

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Britney Zhang

Cal Berkley

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Sonia Gadkari

Texas

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Julia Minkowitz

Texas

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Anna Aymar

Georgetown

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Haley Samuelsen

MIT

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Cat Hyeon

Harvard

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Sajil Ismail

Texas

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Emily Wang

MIT

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Charlotte Wall

Brown
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Cain Yepez

Brown

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Rachel Wong

Texas

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Grace Cen

Harvard

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Alexa Tsay

Yale

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Anna Ortega

Columbia

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Nathan Elbaum

Brown

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Zain Mahmood

Texas

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Jerry Chen

Brown

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Rachel Eason

Harvard
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Brittany Remark

Columbia

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Moshan Guo

Columbia

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Denver Yu

USC
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Sunita Hu

Columbia

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Gauri Jaswal

Yale

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Diego Pizano

Chicago

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Deeba Ghasemi

UC Irvine

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Parnika Anand

Rutgers
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Valerie Dellisanti

Brown
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Hardik Patil

Stanford
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Qiaochu Li

Texas

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Jack McClelland

Boston College

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Amina Shindy

Columbia
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Nicolas Herrerias

UPenn
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Lauren Stover

Texas

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Yuelin Dang

UPenn
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J.J. Shaw

Columbia

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Kim Tran

Princeton

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Juliana Yu

Texas

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Juliette Duguid

Harvard

Program Details

Three month training program

Activus Fellows perform real deal work, not busy work. You’ll work side-by-side with other Fellows, the Fellowship Directors, our managing partners where you’ll be trained to think like an investor.

The program teaches the art and science of evaluating investment opportunities in the lower middle market and consists of three main components:

  1.  Education & Training
  2.  Pitching Investment Opportunities
  3.  Community & Coaching

Education & Training

Our Fellowship training is taught through an online blended learning approach — online lessons and live workshops.

The goal of our program is to teach Fellows how to identify and evaluate investment opportunities in the lower middle-market (aka, small private companies). You’ll complete a rigorous training program through the online Activus Academy, develop your skills in analyzing and presenting deals, and evaluate and present ~1 new deal per week during the course of the program.

While there are many similarities between acquiring a small business, a private equity buyout fund, or large M&A transactions, the world of small business is highly entrepreneurial, fragmented, and nuanced. Through our training, Fellows will gain the skills and knowledge necessary to:

 Evaluate Investments: analyze a target company merits, risks, and financial statements and historical performance.

 Presenting Opportunities: presenting your investment memos to the Diligence Committee making your case for passing on or acquiring a company

 

Pitching Investment Opportunities

Fellows will work in teams to evaluate opportunities, analyze financial statements and historical performance, and present opportunities to other Fellows and Partners in a virtual Diligence Committee (“DC”) meeting. This approach is modeled after a Partner meeting at a PE or VC firm.

Fellows will work in teams of two and DC meetings will include two teams (four Fellows total) and the Fellowship Director or one of the Activus Partners. Each DC group will meet once per week during the fellowship starting in week two to present and evaluate that deal for that week.

 

Community & Coaching

We believe the good life is built on good relationships. Although this a virtual program, we foster a community experience in a few key ways:

 Fellowship Partners – You will be assigned a Fellowship partner and together you will evaluate opportunities and present to Diligence Committees.

 Diligence Committees – Fellowship partners will be partnered into four-person diligence committees where you’ll present your deal memo, financial analysis, and overall recommendation on whether to continue evaluating the deal or pass on it.

 Networking Socials – You’ll participate in online networking events to get to know your Fellowship class and make meaningful connections that last beyond the program.

 1 on 1’s – You will have opportunities to meet with our leadership team for 1 on 1’s. Think of this as a casual virtual coffee meeting where the floor is yours to ask anything (career advice, deal/financial questions, etc.).

 Fireside chats – we host Q&A conversations with industry experts across finance, investing, and technology. Past guests include:

• Jon Bassett, the Managing Director of NextGen Venture Partners. How he went from a gardening startup to becoming a venture capitalist running a $200M fund.

• Alex Konrad, senior editor at Forbes who covers Midas List and the 30 Under 30 for VC.

• Eliana Murillo, Head of multicultural marketing at Google and co-founder of Tequila Alquimia

Given the high demand of the program, our selection process is two parts. First, we will select finalists from among the applicants. Second, if selected as a finalist, you’ll be given an interview assignment to evaluate and present your thoughts on an investment opportunity to help us learn about you and how you think.

Key Benefits

 Deal Flow Review — Live deal analysis and pitching potential acquisitions to partners and investors.

 Network Access — Access to our network of executives, advisors, investors, and professional athletes.

 Hands-on Experience — You’ll work directly with the managing partners to explore investment opportunities.

Requirements

• Current college students (MBA or undergrad) who are committed and hungry to elevate their careers.

• Strong interest in private equity and entrepreneurship.

• Commit ~12 hours per week for a semester with weekly pitch meetings.

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