Who We Are

Our Team

We are passionate about helping student entrepreneurs. Beyond being the first check-in, we work tirelessly to provide the support, mentorship, and network founders need to grow their startups. We've built the best community of student investors, operators, and experts anywhere. Come join us.

DRF Co.

Dorm Room Fund's full-time team that runs the fund and student programs.

Molly Fowler

Yale University

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

Conor Harbeck

Franklin and Marshall College

Chief of Staff @ Dorm Room Fund

Caroline Toch

University of Toronto

Head of Ops & Community at DRF. Formerly product at Chief, Accelerator lead at Techstars Crypto, Talent at Venture for America.

HQ

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

Britney Zhang

UC Berkeley Haas

Head of Marketing and Communications. Slack Technologies. Formerly Muse Capital and Quirk Money.

Melissa Li

Harvard

Head of Community and Partnerships. Undergrad at Harvard fascinated by community design, consumer psychology, and modern retail.

Andrew Xu

Northwestern

Editor In Chief. Formerly Lazard Tech (M&A), Kajabi, On Deck (Catalyst), Acorn Genetics

Raymond Banke

Columbia University

Head of Design. Artist and product designer at Columbia University who crafts interactive experiences for audiences to engage with and enjoy.

Daniel Tao

University of Pennsylvania

Co-Head of Engineering. Previously at Pahdo Labs, Microsoft and Volley

Pooja Panchamia

UCLA

Founder Ops. Former accountant turned VC turned tech nerd, MBA at UCLA Anderson.

Tom Zhang

Columbia University

Co-Head of Engineering. Amazon, MLH. Formerly Intonation Ventures, Stanford Medicine.

Will Hoppin

Columbia University, Middlebury College

PM. Artist and engineer with delusions of international stardom.

Kia Uusitalo

Brown

Head of Social. Formerly Icebreaker.vc, Plug and Play, Van Wickle Ventures.

INVESTMENT TEAMS

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

BOSTON & NORTHEAST

Sam Broner

MIT Sloan

Generally Happy.

Jianna Liu

MIT

Formerly Facebook, Nvidia, Skale Education.

Nika Duan

Harvard (HBS)

Nika is passionate about democratizing access to capital and championing innovation that aspires to create a better, more equitable world.

Alex Marley

Northeastern University

An engineer with a passionate to innovate, collaborate and speculate.

Daniel Applewhite

Harvard (HBS)

Scaling impact through entrepreneurship and technology.

Albert Shin

Harvard

Charlesbank, JOKR. Formerly Oaktree, Ringle.

NEW YORK & MIDWEST

Chloe Lopez-Lee

Cornell

Weill Cornell Medicine, Bioventure ELabs. Formerly Blueprint.

David Dellal

Yale University, MIT

Floe. Formerly MIT Langer Lab, Air Liquide.

Avi Muller

NYU

Avi has spent the past two years on both the operations and venture side of the startup ecosystem and loves talking to founders who are working on solving problems that will change the world.

Mia Krishnamurthy

Cornell

I am an impact-driven student-athlete and founder at Cornell passionate about making change through venture capital and entrepreneurship, and I am so excited to be a part of the DRF Team!

Royce Tiger

Yale University

Yale Entrepreneurial Society. Formerly Alumni Ventures, Blue Ivy Ventures, SOSV, Chinaccelerator, MOX Accelerator

Declan Kunkel

Yale Law School

J.D. candidate and Texan interested in investing, corporate structure, and asymmetric opportunities.

Chirag Mahapatra

Chicago Booth

Building the go-to platform for building company culture, starting with helping teams book, co-ordinate and evaluate in person events and investing in B2B Saas, marketplaces and dev tools.

James Wellemeyer

Columbia

James is a product designer and student at Columbia studying Computer Science and Political Science.

Mea-Lynn Wong

Yale School of Management

Yale MBA, Blueprint Track grad, formerly Charles Schwab & fighter for representation in tech and VC

Nicole Ripka

NYU Stern

I'm an artist and art appreciator passionate about breaking stigmas and building culture for those who have been historically left out.

Darya Zakharova

Columbia Business School

Darya is a native San Franciscan with a passion for entrepreneurship and has worked as both an investor and operator prior to pursing her MBA at Columbia.