Browder × Sunshine Lake: How to Get Funded Before You Graduate

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A talk on how to get funded before graduating at Polsky Exchange North.

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The collab nobody saw coming. Limited run. Chicago gets it first. Browder Capital × Sunshine Lake opens Campus Tour '26 at the University of Chicago. After Chicago, Josh takes it to Columbia, Penn, Princeton, Yale, Harvard and MIT. You get the original pressing. THE LEGEND: JOSH BROWDER Josh started DoNotPay at 18 to fight his own parking tickets, left Stanford as a Thiel Fellow, and raised from a16z, Founders Fund and Coatue. Now he runs Browder Capital, with Sequoia as an LP: 150+ companies including Figma and Mercury, and 100+ founders under 25. He wrote a pre pre seed check into Greptile when it was making $20 a month. Not a typo. Greptile just raised its Series B at $750M. Rumor has it there is a spare room at the Four Seasons where founders live until they raise. THE HOMECOMING: DON STALTER AND SUNSHINE LAKE Don (College '04) is the founder and GP of Sunshine Lake, a pre seed and seed fund that writes the first check into dark horses: founders forged by extreme origins, building the systems the world runs on. Don was early in Kalshi, Deel, Headway and Assured, now worth over $60B combined, and Sunshine Lake was the first investor in Entire, the new company from former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke. Before investing, he helped take Airbnb international and sold his first company within months. Sunshine Lake plugs founders into its ecosystem from Silicon Valley to Silicon Alley, with Speakeasies around the world. Advisors include UChicago Computer Science chair Mike Franklin.