MBA Recruiters by School · Venture Capital
Watertower Ventures: which MBA programs it recruits from
Watertower Ventures (Venture Capital) appears on the published MBA employer lists of 3 of the 26 top U.S. business schools that name their recruiters, for the Classes of 2023 to 2025. It recruits narrowly, so school choice matters if this is your target.
Its H-1B record: thin sponsor. USCIS approved 0 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 1 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial).
Schools whose employer lists name Watertower Ventures
| School | Listed for the Class of | The school’s full list | In the report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard HBS | 2024 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| Pennsylvania Wharton | 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
| UCLA Anderson | 2023, 2024, 2025 | full employer list | jobs and pay |
Not on the list at
Chicago Booth, Northwestern Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Columbia CBS, Berkeley Haas, Yale SOM, Dartmouth Tuck, NYU Stern, Duke Fuqua, Michigan Ross, UVA Darden, Cornell Johnson, Carnegie Mellon Tepper, USC Marshall, UT McCombs, UNC Kenan-Flagler, Georgetown McDonough, UW Foster, Indiana Kelley, Vanderbilt Owen, Rice Jones, Emory Goizueta, Minnesota Carlson. A gap means the school did not print the name for those classes, which is not proof it never hires there: some schools publish only companies that hired several graduates, and a few publish a hand-picked selection. The school pages say how each list was built.
Other venture capital employers with wide reach
Touchdown Ventures (5) · In-Q-Tel (4) · Newlab (4) · Piva Capital (4) · Plug and Play Tech Center (4) · Relay Investments (4) · Samvid Ventures (4) · 53 Stations (3)
Questions about Watertower Ventures
Which MBA programs does Watertower Ventures recruit from?
Watertower Ventures is named on the published employer lists of 3 of the 26 top U.S. MBA programs that publish names, Classes of 2023 to 2025: Harvard HBS, Pennsylvania Wharton and UCLA Anderson.
Does Watertower Ventures hire MBAs from Harvard HBS?
Harvard HBS lists Watertower Ventures as an employer for the Class of 2024. A listing means the school printed the company on its own employer list; it does not say how many people were hired.
Does Watertower Ventures sponsor H-1B visas for MBA hires?
Its H-1B record: thin sponsor. USCIS approved 0 new H-1B petitions for it in fiscal year 2025 and 1 across fiscal years 2024 to 2026 (2026 partial). The record covers all of the company's approved new petitions, not MBA hires alone.
How do I get to Watertower Ventures from a school that doesn't list it?
Most hiring at firms like this comes through networking rather than on-campus recruiting, and the schools that do list it are where that network is densest. Build your school list around the programs that name your target employers, and say so in your applications. The report's How to choose schools section explains how.