Organization:Dorm Room Fund

Overview

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  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.

The Program

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• 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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Website: https://dormroomfund.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DormRoomFund

Twitter:https://twitter.com/DormRoomFund

Medium: https://medium.com/@dormroomfund