Charlotte Chiang

Were a student-led angel syndicate backing SoCals biggest dreamers, at the earliest stages of their journeys.

Bruin Entrepreneurs (BE) is the premier entrepreneurship organization at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). BE exists to support UCLA students at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, helping them find and invite their passion into a collaborative community where new ideas and ventures come to life. Driven by the significance of boldness, BE aims to connect equitable resources to students to find and discover entrepreneurship. Through Weekly Nights, Startup Labs, Startup Fair LA, BruinLabs, Designation, and 1K Pitches, BE is dedicated to providing equity, transparency, and support to student entrepreneurs so that they may solve the complex problems, questions, and issues facing our world today. Because we believe its important to BE. And to BE Bold.

Were a student-led angel syndicate backing SoCals biggest dreamers, at the earliest stages of their journeys.

Comma Capital is a pre-seed and seed fund based in New York focused on backing founders at the earliest of phases of company formation and scaling. Comma Capital runs the Comma Collective, a community of 1000+ startup and tech operators in saas, dev tools, fintech, digital health and AI companies.

From UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, the Global VCIC is the world’s largest venture capital competition among top MBA students from 120+ prestigious business schools and universities. Students attend the competition by competing in one of 21 regional finals held on 3 continents to qualify for the Global VCIC Finals in Chapel Hill, hosted by UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. During the competition, students are acting as venture capitalists: evaluating real start-ups, interacting with entrepreneurs and preparing term sheets. In the meanwhile, judges (real venture capitalists!) are assessing the students’ performances. Global VCIC is a unique competition as it brings top VCs, prestigious MBAs and promising start-ups together!

Bruin Entrepreneurs (BE) is the premier entrepreneurship organization at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). BE exists to support UCLA students at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, helping them find and invite their passion into a collaborative community where new ideas and ventures come to life. Driven by the significance of boldness, BE aims to connect equitable resources to students to find and discover entrepreneurship. Through Weekly Nights, Startup Labs, Startup Fair LA, BruinLabs, Designation, and 1K Pitches, BE is dedicated to providing equity, transparency, and support to student entrepreneurs so that they may solve the complex problems, questions, and issues facing our world today. Because we believe its important to BE. And to BE Bold.