I’m excited to announce cord as a founding sponsor for State School Ventures. cord’s mission is to increase the number of people doing their best work. The more I dug into this mission, the more I saw it lands squarely with what we’re doing at SSV:

1. Progress has relied on us all developing individual skills and diverse talents that move us forward together ✅

2. We all benefit when each one of us makes our unique contribution and shares our gifts with each other ✅

3. And more than anything: where we work, matters, but finding it in the first place is still unreasonably difficult 🙏

At SSV we try to make it as easy as possible for people without easy access to money and networks to do the work that matters 🤝

Another thing that SSV and cord have in common is quality. Our ethos is that just because SSV is free, doesn’t mean it will ever be less than the best accelerator programme in the country. And cord is first class. Hiring teams inside the world's most advanced technology companies use cord to hire, from recent Y-Combinator alumni to publicly listed technology companies. Whole teams are built on cord that wouldn't otherwise exist, inside companies whose work develops vaccines, tackles climate change and builds autonomous vehicles. 

Together, State School Ventures and cord will help more people do their best work.