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DRF Diversity Tracks: Introducing Prism and FIT

You know Blueprint and FFT… Meet Prism and FIT. Announcing our slate of diversity tracks for the coming year!

Student Founders Need YOU: Join the Dorm Room Fund HQ Team

DRF HQ is recruiting! Learn about our HQ team and open roles.

Welcoming Caroline Toch, our Head of Operations and Community

Tell us about your professional journey and what led you to DRF. I started my career in the world of… Continue reading Welcoming Caroline Toch, our Head of Operations and Community

Getting your first internship in tech

The hardest part of starting a career in tech – of starting any career, really – is getting your foot… Continue reading Getting your first internship in tech

Reducing busy work in gym with IRON founders

Co-founders Kyle Collins (left) and Elijah Mishkind (right) of IRON in Chattanooga, TN in April 2022. Courtesy of IRON.

Weight lifting is the second most popular form of exercise, yet weight lifters are left using notebooks, spreadsheets, and the… Continue reading Reducing busy work in gym with IRON founders

My journey to DRF, from Berkeley

Cronk Gate to the Haas School of Business. Courtesy of UC Berkeley.

Content associate Kevin Wu shares his entrepreneurial experiences. Though I came to UC Berkeley aware of the vast entrepreneurial ecosystem,… Continue reading My journey to DRF, from Berkeley

Applications open for summer diversity tracks

Blueprint Investor Track The venture capital industry has a reputation for being homogenous and tough to break into. Together we… Continue reading Applications open for summer diversity tracks

Part 2: Becoming a Gen Z Investor

Alex Marley. Courtesy of Alex Marley.

In the last blog post, I posed the following question: How can you use your experiences to source, support and… Continue reading Part 2: Becoming a Gen Z Investor

How Spiky.ai optimizes employee experiences

Co-founders Furkan Eris and Burak Askar of Spiky.ai in London in January 2020. Courtesy of Furkan Eris.

Boston investment partner Alex Marley recently led Dorm Room Fund’s investment in Spiky.ai, a machine learning startup on a mission to… Continue reading How Spiky.ai optimizes employee experiences

Aktiv Learning brings life to college math and science classrooms

The Aktiv team at the most recent American Chemical Society (ACS) conference. From left to right, Amanda Kutney (Director of Content), Dvora Inwood (VP of Marketing), Justin Weinberg (Co-Founder & CEO), and Eric Gates (Sr. Sales Executive). Photo courtesy of Aktiv team.

As a college tutor in 2010, Justin Weinberg recognized that mobile was the future of education, and built an app… Continue reading Aktiv Learning brings life to college math and science classrooms

How I landed three internships in venture capital

Nathan Ho, left, and Francis Zhan, right, at the Tribe Capital investment team offsite in Bend, Oregon in March 2022. Courtesy of Nathan Ho.

When I started my path into venture capital, I didn’t know where to start in my internship search. I cold-emailed… Continue reading How I landed three internships in venture capital

Kenyan student talks fear, aversion to entrepreneurship in Kenya

Tevin Singei, a student at Princeton University, took multiple gap years before college and worked in consulting and private equity.… Continue reading Kenyan student talks fear, aversion to entrepreneurship in Kenya