The Student Partnership

Our Team

We're builders, tinkerers, technical nerds, and so much more. We eat, breathe, and sleep startups and venture. And we're the next generation of this industry.

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DRF Co.

Dorm Room Fund's full-time investment team who run the fund and student program

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Madi Jacox

Columbia University

Principal. Formerly founding team at Sidebar, investor and chief of staff at Hangar.

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Molly Fowler

Yale University

General Partner, Dorm Room Fund, First Round Capital, Intersection, City of Los Angeles.

Investment

Our student investment partners seek out, vet, and back the best student-run companies across the country -- don’t hesitate to get in touch.

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Jo Cheng

Wharton

Community builder, dedicated to expanding quality access to women's health.

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Kyle Dolce

Harvard (HBS)

Pumped up about a modern industry renaissance! Runs, bikes, and swims a lot.

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Vishal Dubey

Columbia University

Founder/Engineer who's passionate about Consumer and FinTech, prev YC S21

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Jack Flintoft

University of Chicago

Australian curious about trends, but driven by founders who create them.

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Jessica Gartenstein

Stanford GSB

I am an entrepreneur who started a health food company in college and have grown passionate about healthy eating, supply chain management, ethical business practices, and supporting female founders.

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Ben Horwitz

Harvard (HBS)

Excited about passionate builders, great design, and complex problems. Bonus if it's all three.

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Aryan Jain

MIT

I'm a founder and builder who’s passionate about LLM’s, AI, and Deep Tech. Always down to meet new people!

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Eyrin Kim

Stanford

Obsessed with solutions at the climate-technology nexus and deeply curious about the people who drive them.

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Jacob Kopelman

University of Pennsylvania

I am an incredibly passionate and driven individual, always eager to dive into new opportunities with energy and focus.

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Elijah Kurien

University of Waterloo

Elijah is a software engineer with extensive background in AI, hardware and biology looking to apply his breadth of knowledge to solving problems at the intersection of these fields.

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Anna Marie Manning

Wharton

Anna Marie is passionate about combining her background in biology and entrepreneurship to drive innovation in and around healthcare and the life sciences.

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Ian McCreadie

Georgetown

Accelerating thoughtfully. Interested in hardtech, industrials, biosensing, and good stories.

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Tafarii McKenzie

MIT Sloan

Operator passionate about CPG and the intersection of beauty, health, and wellness. Ask me for product recs, I've tried everything!

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Catherine Mekhael

University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business

true extrovert with boundless curiosity, passionate about tackling challenges in healthcare

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Anisha Musti

UNC

Committed to creating positive change. Exploring deeptech, logistics, QC, and meaningful connections.

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Sean Nissenbaum

NYU Stern

Learning and building towards a more meaningfully connected future; chocolate chip cookie connoisseur.

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Ben O'Keefe

Stanford

A nerd that loves learning.

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Shasi Pinninti

UC Berkeley, UC Berkeley Haas

Hardware builder and investor with a passion for complex, NP hard problems

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Aryan Shah

Emory, Georgia Institute of Technology

Exploring all things Fintech, Deeptech and Enterprise :)

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Om Shastri

University of Pennsylvania

A seeker of knowledge, weaving dreams with code and creativity.

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Tony Shi

Stanford GSB, Stanford

Investor and ex-founder with the mission to empower responsible innovation and bold ambitions in a rapidly evolving world.

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Rishi Sriram

The University of Texas at Austin

A guy who loves to be creative, work with numbers, and make impactful change.

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Zachary Swidey

University of Pennsylvania

Motivated by conceptual elegance. Exploring deeptech, AI/ML, and abstract nonsense. Biotech VC at Pillar.

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Angela Tsao

Stanford

Researcher driven to go deep in the data

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Omo Tseumah

Columbia Business School

Ex-Googler, lover of sweet treats. Passionate about health, somatic wellness and all things beauty, CPG, B2B SaaS & consumer tech.

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Katie Xu

Duke

Storyteller at heart, with a love for building brands and empowering entrepreneurs to chase their dreams.

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Oliver Ye

UC Berkeley

interested in fast things and making things faster :)

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Linda Zhou

Yale School of Management

Community-focused operator and utility player. Striving to be open, curious, and unafraid– and looking for founders who are too.

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Kevin Zhu

MIT

Builder and investor passionate about AI and LLMs. Love learning and meeting new people!

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Caroline Zhu

Cornell

empowering creators to make magic through tech. lifelong magic-seeker!

HQ

Our operators-in-residence support our investment partners and founders alike with strategic, technical, and operational expertise.

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Aaron Anandji

McGill

Aaron is a self-proclaimed startup nerd based in Montréal. He tweets about VC & startups on X at @aaronanandji.