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| 13.12.2022 | Meet the 71 rising-star VCs who shook up the industry in 2022 | From left to right: Jillian Williams, Rex Salisbury, Nancy Torres, and Brian Hollins Jillian Williams; Rex Salisbury; Nancy Torres; Brian Hollins; Marianne Ayala/Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an ... |
| 22.09.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Swiftly bags $100m for grocery tech, Pano’s $20m to fight wildfires with AI | This week, retail and grocery tech startup Swiftly bagged a mega-round while front-of-house restaurant software startup Zenchef cooked up new financing to expand its presence. In agtech, Pano raised funds to fight wildfires with AI and Land... |
| 11.09.2022 | Обзор технологических стартапов в образовании за последнюю неделю | Соучредители Docquity Амит Витал (Директор по росту), Индранил Ройчоудхури (Генеральный директор), Абхишек Кабам (Организационный директор)
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Что стало известно об инвестировании в стартапы EdTech за прошедшую неде... |
| 18.03.2022 | NYC-based Quantbase raises $500k pre-seed to make smart high-risk investing effortless | We’re finding that very few firms in the investment space are willing to even talk high-risk. And on the other side, alternative investments are all about the acceptance of short term volatility for long term gain. There’s value in bridging... |
| 12.01.2022 | Dorm Room Fund returns to campus with new $10.4 million fund | Dorm Room Fund, a venture capital operation that launched to invest in student-led startups, has raised a new $10.4 million fund, per SEC filings. The filing marks Dorm Room Fund’s largest fund to date, and its first that appears to include... |
| 15.07.2021 | California Crescent Fund Is Taking a Chance on SoCal Students | College kids have hatched some of the biggest ideas throughout tech history, sometimes before they even finish school. But students who aren't as lucky as Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates usually have to backburner big ideas to focus on earnin... |
| 15.07.2021 | 'They Know You Better Than Any Venture Capitalist': The California Crescent Fund Aims to Boost SoCal's Student Founders | College kids have hatched some of the biggest ideas throughout tech history, sometimes before they even finish school. But students who aren't as lucky as Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates usually have to backburner big ideas to focus on earnin... |
| 17.05.2021 | Who are the Top LA Investors Under 30? We Asked Their Peers | There is a common credo in tech that one should work 20 years as an operator before switching over to the VC side. The young investors you are about to meet flip that assumption on its head as they bet big on everything from livestream shop... |
| 02.02.2021 | This Student-Funded, TikTok-Style Dating App Is Going After Tinder | It may not be love, but this fund made its first match.
A Gen-Z dating app hinged on short-form videos closed its first round of funding last month with backing from the California Crescent Fund, a new student-run venture capital firm focus... |
| 18.01.2021 | ‘Founders Couch’ Podcast Highlights Student Entrepreneurs Forging Their Own Career Paths | Photo courtesy of Catherine Jiang. |
| 14.05.2020 | Forget sourdough, these sisters are launching a starter to create authentic Asian food | For immigrants in the United States, representation can feel complex, celebrated and oftentimes a mix of the two. And that’s exactly why sister duo Vanessa and Kim Pham launched Omsom, a seed-stage food startup that sells packaged “starters... |
| 03.07.2019 | 5 tips for female founders from DMV investors and tech leaders | What does it take to build and support a “robust and inclusive entrepreneur ecosystem” in Baltimore?
As part of this year’s Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) National Conference and Business Fair, a group of over 70 femal... |
| 16.01.2019 | New pre-seed fund powered by First Round Capital will target recent graduates | In 2012, early Uber investor First Round Capital decided it needed an avenue to access the best companies brewing inside dormitories across the U.S. So the seed-stage venture capital firm launched Dorm Room Fund, a pool of capital managed b... |
| 18.07.2018 | Moonshot Insights Bets on Algorithms to Address Biases in Hiring | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
In recent weeks, there’s been some local buzz about a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison students that’s getting set to participate in the 2018 Hyperloop Pod Competition,... |
| 16.03.2018 | Village Global raises $100M seed scout fund from Zuck, Bezos… | It takes a village to grow a startup, so Village Global is offering access to a deep network of top tech execs to lure founders to its seed fund. Today, Village Global announced it’s raised $100 million for that fund that was first unveiled... |
| 27.01.2018 | Scout networks are latest VC salvo in war for founders | Founders are extraordinarily busy, even for their own investors. A decade ago, they might have had relationships with a handful of VC partners as they scaled their businesses and raised additional rounds of capital.
Today, it is hardly rare... |
| 07.09.2017 | 4 ways college entrepreneurship classes fall short | According to a Bentley University Survey, over 66 percent of millennials would like to start a company.
It’s no wonder that colleges, universities, and private institutions are trying to ride the wave and offer entrepreneurship training cla... |
| 07.09.2017 | 4 ways college entrepreneurship classes fall short | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
According to a Bentley University Survey, over 66... |
| 22.08.2017 | SA eating out app Feastfox nets $175 000 from Silicon Valley investors | Cape Town eating-out app Feastfox today announced that it had successfully closed an angel fundraising round, raising $175,000 (R2.3 million) primarily from Silicon Valley-based angels and venture-capital (VC) firms.
A mobile startup out o... |
| 22.08.2017 | SA eating out app Feastfox nets $175 000 from Silicon Valley investors | Cape Town eating-out app Feastfox today announced that it had successfully closed an angel fundraising round, raising $175,000 (R2.3 million) primarily from Silicon Valley-based angels and venture-capital (VC) firms.
A mobile startup out of... |
| 14.02.2017 | TheBlindGuide acquires UPenn startup ThirdEye, bringing computer vision to the visually impaired | There’s nothing quite like the atmosphere of a college hackathon. Amidst the free t-shirts and apps to help you find parties on campus always lie a few hidden gems for those with the patience to hunt. ThirdEye, one of those gems forged out ... |
| 12.12.2016 | Campus Capital launches to raise a new generation of VCs | This article was originally posted on the Tech North website.
Venture capital can be a stimulating, challenging career, but it’s not exactly easy to find a way in unless you move in the right circles for long enough. Campus Capital is a ne... |
| 17.06.2016 | Startups and immigration: Myths, lies and half-truths | Desmond Lim Contributor
Desmond Lim is the founder of Workstream.us.
Uber has transformed local transportation in American cities and SpaceX aims to enable Americans to travel to Mars. Oscar Health Insurance makes healthcare more accessible... |
| 18.04.2016 | Meet VC Jeremy Fiance, UC Berkeley’s 24-year-old superconnector | Most 24-year-olds are still figuring out how their careers will take shape. Jeremy Fiance, a recent UC Berkeley graduate, knows he wants to be a venture capitalist. He isn’t waiting to rise through the ranks of someone else’s firm, either.
... |
| 22.03.2016 | Dorm Room Fund wants to invest in startups outside Philadelphia | The Philly Dorm Room Fund, First Round Capital’s student-run investment firm, is increasingly looking outside Philadelphia for promising startups.
The team, which has historically focused on Penn and Drexel, just made its first investment i... |
| 04.12.2015 | LearnLux Gets Dorm Room Fund Backing to Educate Millennials on Finance | LearnLux, a startup helping millennials learn how to make personal finance decisions, has been going at full sprint this past year. In addition to landing a spot with MassChallenge, the company received financing from Dorm Room Fund in the ... |
| 05.02.2015 | HBS-Spun 'Digital Video Version of ClassPass' Raises $20K | When Prita Kumar was working in finance, she relied on Friday night Flywheel classes and Billy Blanks' Tae Bo videos; her schedule didn't allow for much else. And she's not alone. "I don't have enough time" is the primary excuse p... |
| 02.12.2014 | HBS-Spun Startup Receives $20K to Help Grads Choose a Career from Those Looking to Hire | Google "how to become a software engineer," and you're met with ads. For a new graduate exploring career paths, that's not helpful. Phil Strazzulla, the founder of LifeGuides, realizes that. And on Tuesday it became clear Dorm Roo... |
| 26.11.2014 | How-to-guide startup Squareknot launches [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S MAKING MOVES?
Squareknot, the Center City crowdsourced site for posting how-to guides and one of the recipients of the city’s initial StartUp PHL angel investments, launched today. Sign up on the site to get an invite.
State-backed in... |
| 10.11.2014 | A Tufts Senior Receives $20K to Bring Solar Solutions 'the Last Mile' in Nicaragua | Tufts University senior Morgan Babbs is working to bridge "the last mile gap" in Nicaragua with a solar solution natives need. And she is doing it with the help of student-run venture firm Dorm Room Fund Boston, which announced Mo... |
| 08.10.2014 | Cloudmine to move to new Center City office [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S GETTING FUNDED?
SuperMighty, the startup that’s trying to help game developers make money, raised $450,000, according to an SEC filing. The money came from private social impact investors, said CEO Ty Burrowbridge.
Y-Prime, a Malvern-... |
| 11.09.2014 | This founder left Penn to run online art marketplace, Easely | Ashwin Muthiah and Harris Gani aren’t going back to school this year.
They’re taking a year off from Penn and NYU, where they would be seniors, to run their online art marketplace startup, Easely. Muthiah, 21, said he’s already working 16-h... |
| 30.07.2014 | RJMetrics launches new product [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S MAKING MOVES?
After one year of development, Center City analytics firm RJMetrics launched a new product: a platform that lets online businesses analyze data from many sources, instead of buying multiple tools and integrating them. Re... |
| 22.07.2014 | BoardRounds Helps Hospitals Follow Up With Patients After They Leave The Emergency Room | BoardRounds is a startup helping hospitals stay connected with patients after they leave the emergency room — co-founder and CEO Benjamin Jack said the approach is “much like Google Now, but for healthcare.”
Jack comes from the medical worl... |
| 30.04.2014 | PennApps Fellows is looking for startups that need interns [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S GETTING FUNDED?
Wharton edtech startup Digipuppets raised $100,000, according to an SEC filing. The startup, which offers finger puppets that children can use with iPad books, was featured on The Today Show in February. It’s not clear... |
| 02.04.2014 | Dorm Room Fund invests in sunglasses company Glass-U [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S GETTING FUNDED?
First Round Capital‘s Philly Dorm Room Fund announced its investment in Glass-U, a sunglasses company founded by Penn student Dan Fine. The company, which spokeswoman Yuval Yarden said is moving toward doing more ecomm... |
| 29.01.2014 | Plane-sharing Service Flytenow Soars with $15K from the Dorm Room Fund | Sure, ridesharing is convenient, particularly when stuck sitting on a curb into the wee hours of a brisk Saturday morning, but it doesn't incite the same thrill, say, as seeing the Boston skyline from above does. With a $15,000 investment f... |
| 04.12.2013 | This Dorm Room Fund-backed startup wants to modernize the college exam | College students all over the country still take final exams in “blue books,” booklets of lined paper where they respond to essay prompts. That just doesn’t make sense anymore, said Penn senior Alex Rattray.
So he built Emerald Exam, softwa... |
| 04.12.2013 | Boston's Dorm Room Fund Pours Its First $20K into an Eco-Friendly Vending Machine | Boston's Dorm Room Fund is now helping collapse the bottled water industry.
First Round Capital's local student-run investment team announced Tuesday its first portfolio company: Refresh, an environmentally friendly vending machine designed... |
| 30.10.2013 | Forget social mobile apps: here’s what Penn students are building | Three years ago, Penn students were wild about building social mobile apps. That’s not the case anymore, said Isaac Sukin, a Penn student investor with First Round Capital’s Dorm Room Fund.
From the Dorm Room Fund blog:
The Dorm Room Fund P... |
| 25.10.2013 | Here’s what 10 Philly tech leaders told 100 college entrepreneurs last week | In the last decade, Philadelphia’s notorious brain drain has slowed. In that time, a grassroots network of entrepreneurs and technologists have built a supportive ecosystem that has advanced enough that more established institutions are joi... |
| 11.10.2013 | Spend 3 Months Accelerating Your Startup in Vegas with Progression Labs | Applications are now open for the second class of Progression Labs, an “accelerator-like” program in downtown Vegas that is part of Tony Hsieh’s Downtown Project.
The program, which will run from January to March, has many aspects of an acc... |
| 25.09.2013 | Curalate pilots new product with Urban Outfitters, Under Armour [Startup Roundup] | WHO’S MAKING MOVES?
Curalate, the Center City visual analytics firm, announced the pilot of its latest product with a host of major brands including Urban Outfitters, Under Armour and Beauty.com, AdWeek reported. The product, FanReel, helps... |
| 11.09.2013 | Boston Roundup: Gov. Patrick, Benu, iZotope, Dorm Room Fund, edX | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
We’ve got some significant tech-industry political news this week, along with fundraising announcements, VC expansions, and a new online education product:
—Gov. Deval Patrick... |
| 06.09.2013 | Scholly Helps Students Find Their Ideal Scholarships On Their Smartphones | More and more of America’s young people are coming to grips with a nasty truth: college can be incredibly, stupidly expensive. Drexel University student (and Philadelphia Dorm Room Fund member) Christopher Gray knows that all too well, so h... |
| 05.09.2013 | First Round’s Student-Run Dorm Room Fund Has Backed 20 Startups; Adds Entrepreneur ‘RAs’ As Advisors | First Round Capital has made a big bet on students sourcing and making investments at colleges around the U.S. with its Dorm Room Fund. the idea behind the Dorm Room Fund is that if students are motivated enough and smart enough to start a ... |
| 05.09.2013 | Dorm Room Fund RAs: Penn alumni make up 1/3 of investment firm’s new mentor program | First Round Capital‘s Dorm Room Fund portfolio companies are getting their very own resident advisors, or RAs, for short — and they’re all seasoned entrepreneurs at swiftly growing startups across the country.
The student-run investment fir... |
| 02.07.2013 | Dorm Room Fund invests $20K in Pagevamp, now in NYC | The Dorm Room Fund, First Round Capital‘s student-run investment group, announced a $20,000 investment in Pagevamp, a service that turns Facebook pages into websites.
Pagevamp was originally created at PennApps Fall 2012, the Penn student-r... |
| 01.05.2013 | First Round Capital Expands $500K, Student-Run Investment Arm Dorm Room Fund To Silicon Valley | VC firm First Round Capital has steadily expanded its The Dorm Room Fund from Philadelphia, to New York. And today, the firm is heading west with its latest Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay Area-based initiative, which is a $500,000 fun... |
| 26.03.2013 | KPCB teams up with USC for new L.A. accelerator | Grants will be provided to 10 startups with students enrolled in USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering
It probably started with Facebook, but venture capital firms have definitely locked into the idea that colleges where new ideas are going t... |
| 25.02.2013 | First Round Expands $500K Student-Run Investment Arm, Dorm Room Fund, To New York City Universities | Last fall, First Round Capital debuted The Dorm Room Fund in Philadelphia, which was a $500,000 fund run by an all-student investment team to invest purely in student-run startups in the area. Last year’s venture paired 11 undergraduate and... |
| 12.12.2012 | General Catalyst launches student-run fund in Boston | Rough Draft Ventures will invest in student founded start-ups
Good ideas can come from, literally, anywhere. Some random person, who has no experience with ever founding a company, might just have the next big idea in his head. Or it could ... |
| 04.12.2012 | Firefly: Dorm Room Fund announces $20k investment in Penn undergrad startup | Hundreds of applications later, First Round Capital‘s student-run venture fund has made its first investment. The Dorm Room Fund [find our previous coverage here] will invest $20,000 in Firefly, the screen-sharing startup run by Penn underg... |
| 24.09.2012 | Dorm Room Fund: $500k pilot from First Round Capital for college startups | Early-stage First Round Capital has announced this morning the launch of its Dorm Room Fund, a $500,000 pilot investment fund run by and for college student entrepreneurs that will make small investments to college-bound startups, often bel... |
| - | Funded in the Alley: A&B American Style – Dormroom Fund NY’s First Very Hot Launch | 485SHARES
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A&B American Style is one of the first companies to emerge from the Dormroom Fund NYC – a new kind of venture fund run by students, for students. After all, when small amounts of capital can find its w... |
