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<span style="font-size:small;">Dorm Room Fund is an organization which consists of a small committee of students in the New York, Bay Area, Boston and Philadelphia campuses. Each of these groups has available five hundred thousand dollars which they can invest in student venture ideas in order to bring their ideas from the "dorm to the market". Student venture capitalists can fill out an application on the website &nbsp;and a video pitch can be attached. The website stresses the importance of two main components in a proposal. The first thing they look for is a plan for how the company plans to grow in either capital or users quickly and effectively. The second thing the investors look for is where the ideas are coming from and if they have faith in the success of the people they are investing in. From there the student investors decide where the best place to invest their money would be and make investments of about twenty thousand to allow the company to start up in exchange for a stake in the companies.</span>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-198f9028-de14-368a-bdbe-675fcea3cefa"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once accepted into the program, founders are given access to all of the resources at DRF. On top of providing $20,000 of capital, DRF investment partners meet regularly with founders to help them learn fundraising, launch strategy, growth, and hiring. In addition, DRF connects founders to a vibrant community of talented entrepreneurs, world-class advisors, investors, industry leader, and mentors to help them solve their key problems. &nbsp;</span></span>
  
 
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-198f9028-ddfc-152c-bbf9-e2ef1ed5c871"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Website: </span><span style="text-decoration-line: underline; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[https://dormroomfund.com/ https://dormroomfund.com/]</span></span>
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[https://dormroomfund.com/ <span id="docs-internal-guid-198f9028-ddfc-152c-bbf9-e2ef1ed5c871"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Website</span><span style="text-decoration-line: underline; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span>]
  
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[https://www.facebook.com/DormRoomFund <span id="docs-internal-guid-198f9028-ddfc-152c-bbf9-e2ef1ed5c871"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facebook</span><span style="text-decoration-line: underline; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span>]
  
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[https://twitter.com/DormRoomFund <span id="docs-internal-guid-198f9028-ddfc-152c-bbf9-e2ef1ed5c871"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter</span></span>]
  
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Overview

Dorm Room Fund (DRF) is a five year old venture capital firm that invests in student founded companies. The firm, back by First Round Capital, invests in companies where at least one founding member is a student, undergraduate or graduate. DRF’s investment teams consist of small committees of students on campuses in the New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and the Bay Area. Each investment team is given $500,000 to invest in student run startups in order to bring their ideas from the “dorm to the market.”

The Program

Once accepted into the program, founders are given access to all of the resources at DRF. On top of providing $20,000 of capital, DRF investment partners meet regularly with founders to help them learn fundraising, launch strategy, growth, and hiring. In addition, DRF connects founders to a vibrant community of talented entrepreneurs, world-class advisors, investors, industry leader, and mentors to help them solve their key problems.  

Stats

  • DRF invested in 150 startups that have gone on to raise $300M+ in follow on funding from Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, Union Square Ventures, Sequoia Capital and more.
  • We’ve delivered the best-in-class entrepreneurship and VC education to our student partners and helped them build successful startups, launch venture funds, and land careers at Sequoia Capital, KPCB, the White House, Dropbox, Google, and more.
  • We represented the largest community in Y Combinator, with 8 startups in the recent S17 batch
  • We’re building VCWiz, a product to help first-time founders fundraise. With the help of Product Hunt, we’ve generated interest from hundreds of founders and investors.
  • Partners consist of team of undergraduates, MBA students, PhD candidates, and master’s students who are engineers, entrepreneurs, and innovators across the nation.
  • 4 teams — Bay Area, Boston, NYC and Philly — with 36 total partners.

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