Built by builders.

DRF is run by student investment partners embedded at top universities across the country, backed by a leadership team with deep roots in venture and operations. These are the people writing your first check.
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Molly Fowler
Founding Partner
Molly joined First Round Capital in 2019 to lead Dorm Room Fund. In 2022, she spun DRF out as an independent fund and raised $12.5M from LPs including Marc Andreessen and Insight Partners. Before venture, she was an operator at Sidewalk Labs' Intersection, City of Los Angeles government, and ran political campaigns. She trained alongside First Round partner Bill Trenchard. She has been building DRF for seven years.
Madison Jacox
Principal
Madi runs DRF's student investing program and portfolio operations. An investor and builder by training, she previously helped fund and launch companies at Mike Bloomberg and Tom Secunda's venture studio Hangar, and co-founded Sidebar. Her background spans Tech:NYC, IBM Watson, and the State Department. She chose investing because she would rather back 30 companies than start one at a time.

Student Investment Partners

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BOS & Northeast
SF & West Coast
PHL & Southeast
NYC & Midwest
Eyrin Kim
Computer Science & Energy (Mayfield Fellows Program)
Jennifer Richards
JD/MBA
Kenny Hoang
MBA
Charlotte Chiang
Computational Bio & Economics
Hari Srikanth
Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, & Business (M.E.T.)
Olaoluwa Oguneye
Computer Science & Mathematics
Christopher Zou
PhD in Genetics
Saras Agrawal
Mechanical Engineering & Business (M.E.T.)
Om Shastri
Computer Science & Finance (M&T)
Anisha Musti
Computer Science & Economics (Morehead-Cain)
Stanley Yu
Computer Science, Finance, & Statistics (M&T)
Juliano Perczek
Foreign Service
Charlie Aschkenasy
Philosophy, Politics, & Economics
Jayden Bai
Computer Science & Statistics
Anjali Dhupam
Economics & International Studies
Christian McGrew
MBA
Varun Varahabhotla
MBA
Ilona Golynker
PhD in Neuroscience
Saharsha Navani
Computer Science
Jack Flintoft
Economics & Philosophy
Annie Dong
Applied Statistics & Political Science
Alex Hammerman
MBA
Miraya Jain
Computer Science
Roxana Grunenwald
Chemical Engineering
Jai Tamboli
Business
Kevin Zhu
Computer Science
Aryan Jain
Computer Science
Sunshine Chen
Statistics & History
Manasi Maheshwari
MS/MBA
Aashrith Chejerla
Computer Science & Math
Maureen Zhang
Computer Science
Zachary Rosca-Halmagean
Computer Science & Economics
Anchal Bhardwaj
Computer Science & History

Where DRF leads.

Our alumni do not just enter the industry. They run it.
Will Manidis
Founder, ScienceIO
Toni Oloko
Co-Founder, Dandy
Talia Goldberg
Partner, Bessemer
Shawn Xu
GP, Lowercarbon Capital
Sara Du
Co-Founder, Alloy & Ando
Santiago Hernandez
Research, OpenAI
Sam Broner
Founder, The Better Money Company
Nick Kim
Partner, Upfront Ventures
Michael Truell
Founder, Cursor
Mike Annunziata
Founder & GP, Also Capital
Matt Piccolella
Product, Anthropic
Liu Jiang
Founder & GP, Sunflower Capital
Lauren Reeder
Partner, Sequoia
Lan Jiang
Partner, Lux Capital
Karine Hsu
Founder, Slope Agency
Jéssica Leão
Partner, a16z
Isabelle Phelps
Partner, Lerer Hippeau
Heston Berkman
Founder & GP, Banter Capital
David Mackanic
Founder, Anthro Energy
Claire Smilow
Partner, BoxGroup
Christine Esserman
Partner, Accel
Brent Willess
VP, General Flash
Anjney Mihda
GP, a16z
Amanda Bradford
Founder, The League
Alex Wendland
Founder, Adaptive Innovations
Alex Torrey
Founder, AIC & The Rounds
Alex Immerman
GP, a16z