Emerging-Tech Scouting Sprint for a Family-Office Innovation Fund
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Emerging-Tech Scouting Sprint for a Family-Office Innovation Fund. Advanced challenge in research. Conducting rigorous research on real questions, earn a blo...
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Turn two noisy emerging-technology markets into two decision-ready investment theses and ten diligence-ready companies for an USD 80 million fund's next quarter.
This is not a research exercise. It is the work a researcher does to produce findings that withstand scrutiny. That distinction matters to every hiring manager who has seen candidates summarize papers and none who have produced original findings under expert review.
When you finish, you will have something most graduates do not: a real-world deliverable, verified by Ewance, that you can show to a hiring manager and say "I did this. Here is the proof."
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Map a fast-moving emerging-technology market into consistent, comparable segments
- Score early-stage companies on both technical and commercial maturity using a defined rubric
- Run founder interviews that surface defensibility and go-to-market signal rather than generic narrative
- Write an investment thesis that names its own disconfirming evidence and forward watch metrics
- Communicate deep-technology judgments to non-technical investment decision-makers
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Aligned coursework coming soon.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Emerging Tech Scouting
Apply emerging tech scouting to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Innovation Management
Structure and accelerate innovation processes within organizations.
- Venture Thesis
Apply venture thesis to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Customer Discovery
Apply customer discovery to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Research To Product
Apply research to product to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Stakeholder Communication
Apply stakeholder communication to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles:
Emerging-Tech Venture Scout
Scouts use exactly this loop — map a market, score maturity, talk to founders, and form a thesis — to feed early-stage deal pipelines. The sprint builds the judgment a scout needs to separate hype from defensible bets.
This challenge sharpens
- emerging-tech-scouting
- venture-thesis
- customer-discovery
Innovation Program Manager
Corporate and fund innovation managers must turn raw technology trends into structured, communicable investment or partnership decisions. This challenge practices framing readiness assessments and theses for non-technical decision-makers.
This challenge sharpens
- innovation-management
- research-to-product
- stakeholder-communication
Technology Product Manager
Product managers in deep-technology spaces constantly translate emerging research into customer and market judgments. The sprint strengthens converting market and founder evidence into a defensible product and investment narrative.
This challenge sharpens
- research-to-product
- customer-discovery
- stakeholder-communication