Executive Candidacy

Meridian Venture Capital admits founders through Executive Candidacy, a formal evaluation process designed to identify individuals capable of operating at the C-suite level of the business they seek to start.  This is not an application for funding. It is a request to be evaluated for executive formation.

Executive Candidacy exists because most founders are never assessed on the qualities that determine long-term success: judgment under constraint, capital discipline, governance awareness, and the ability to coordinate people and resources over time.

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Executive Candidacy is a structured review of a founder’s readiness to enter MVC’s executive formation pathway.

 

Candidates are evaluated on:

• Decision-making under uncertainty

• Time-preference and capital restraint

• Capacity to lead beyond technical expertise

• Willingness to be trained, challenged, and held to standard

• Orientation toward institutional durability rather than short-term growth

 

Acceptance grants entry into executive formation, not access to capital.

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Certified Senior Executive (CSE) Program

Executive Formation for Founders

The Certified Senior Executive (CSE) Program is a rigorous executive training and formation program designed to prepare founders to operate as senior executives in the companies they are building.

Most founders begin as experts—technologists, operators, or visionaries. The CSE Program exists to complete that transition by developing the executive judgment, capital discipline, and institutional leadership capacity required to lead a firm through growth, complexity, and uncertainty.

This is not an entrepreneurship course. It is executive formation.