Portfolio companies – Dorm Room Fund

How Bessemer-backed Formally helps international founders on their visas

Anyone familiar with Silicon Valley will understand the difficult and humbling experience being a startup founder entails: finding product-market fit,… Continue reading How Bessemer-backed Formally helps international founders on their visas

How Wreno is filling critical labor shortages

Two Wrenners in the field, inspecting a single-family home. (Courtesy of Wreno)

Charlotte Schell joined Zillow during the summer of her Stanford MBA excited to build products for Zillow Offers. Her professional… Continue reading How Wreno is filling critical labor shortages

How to grow your app waitlist with DRF company Faves

Faves app features. Courtesy of Faves.

Faves, an app that connects friends over content curation and link sharing, recently held a workshop for our community on… Continue reading How to grow your app waitlist with DRF company Faves

How a student finance startup created a team, interviewed users

From left: Sparrow CEO Harrison Hochman, COO Daniel Kahn, and CTO Griffin Morris in New York in August 2021. Courtesy of Harrison Hochman.

Harrison Hochman, co-founder of Sparrow, talks about building the student finance startup during the COVID-19 pandemic. How did you meet… Continue reading How a student finance startup created a team, interviewed users

DRF company: Candelytics on 3D data, military

The Candelytics team enjoys time and fish tacos at the beach after a successful demo for the Coast Guard and other maritime agencies in San Diego. From left: Clark Yuan, James Parker and Bryan Lee. Courtesy of Bryan Lee.

Dorm Room Fund welcomes Candelytics, which makes 3D data more accessible, intelligent, and impactful. Co-founder Bryan Lee, a former Army helicopter… Continue reading DRF company: Candelytics on 3D data, military