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<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-198f9028-de1d-beb9-fa6f-43e9b5f372d7"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent;">DRF has invested in 150 startups that have gone on to raise over $300M 300 million in additional funding from Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, Union Square Ventures, Sequoia Capital and more. Here are some examplesa few of those startups:</span></span></span></span></li>

<li><span style="color:#000000;"><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DRF represented the largest community in Y Combinator's Spring 2017 batch, with 8 startups.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-198f9028-de1d-beb9-fa6f-43e9b5f372d7"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Over $1B 1 billion in value has been created by DRF companies. With multiple portfolio companies raising rounds of over $10M+ 10 million within the last 6 months alone, students are rapidly building some of the most promising companies in the country.</span></span></span></li><li><span style="color:#000000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-198f9028-de1d-beb9-fa6f-43e9b5f372d7"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Student founders come from schools all across the countryNorth America:</span></span></span></li>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-198f9028-de1a-5059-00c2-0c8aeafcff54"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Student founders can submit an application to the DRF website with the option to include a pitch deck. The website stresses the importance of two main components in an application. The first thing partners look for is a strategy for how the company plans to grow either capital or users quickly and effectively. The second thing they look for is where the ideas are coming from. DRF partners want to have faith in the success of the people they are investing in. Based off of these criteriascriteria, the investment partners decide whether or not a company startup should join DRF's program.</span></span>

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