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.

HQ

Dorm Room Fund’s HQ team supports our investment partners and founders alike with strategic, technical, and operational expertise.

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

Ansh Nanda

Duke

Head of Operations.

Britney Zhang

UC Berkeley Haas

Head of Social. Slack Technologies. Formerly Muse Capital and Quirk Money.

Rahul Bathija

Western University

Head of Growth. Formerly Figma, Divisional Growth

Tina Teng

UC Berkeley

Head of Design. Wish. Formerly PwC, CBRE.

Melissa Li

Harvard

Head of Community. Melissa is an undergrad student at Harvard fascinated by community design, consumer psychology, and modern retail.

Anne Wen

Princeton University

Head of Content. Princeton TigerLaunch. News reporter. Talks about her home island, Guam, way too often.

Peter Nguyen

Stanford

Co-Head of Engineering. Previously MLH Fellowship, ServiceNow.

Michael Zhu

UC Berkeley

Co-Head of Engineering. Previously Amazon and Riot 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

Irene Wu

Harvard

Blue Collective & The YX Foundation. Formerly Rowing Blazers and IDEO.

Ivan Zhao

Brown

Formerly Blend, Ask, Iggy, Intus Care and Loftium.

Neil Bhammar

Northeastern University

BusRight. Formerly Melodize.

Robert McKnight

Harvard (HBS)

Former Blue River Technology (John Deere), Tesla, SpaceX, Google.

Yvette Rodriguez

MIT Sloan

Formerly Cultivation Capital and Vamos Ventures.

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.

Bahram Tavakoli

Babson

Thrasio. Formerly Italic, Knollwood Investment Advisory, and 248 Builders.

Daniel Applewhite

Harvard (HBS)

Scaling impact through entrepreneurship and technology.

Vedant Agrawal

Harvard (HBS)

Experience in investing, operating and advising high-growth, tech-enabled consumer-facing businesses in India. Early-stage tech-investor at Sequoia, operator with 0-1 experience at Scaler Academy and management consultant at McKinsey.

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.

Hillary Bush

NYU Stern, UC Berkeley

Formerly MasterClass, Bungalow, Kiva.

Jarrod Barnes

Illinois Urbana

Operating with natural optimism and curiosity, wondering less about how things could fail and more about how they might succeed.

Jason Brooke

Chicago Booth

Currently Sapphire Ventures, Formerly Kong and Kaiser Associates.

Zakaria Gedi

Yale University

Georgian Partners, Yale Investments Office. Formerly Bracebridge Capital.

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

Tony Cueva Bravo

University Of Michigan

Scout @ SHL Capital. Formerly Flourish Ventures, Hyland, HP, IBM.

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.

PHILADELPHIA & SOUTHEAST

Adriana Gadala-Maria

UVA Darden

Formerly TechCrunch, SocialCode, and Reddit.

Alexa Spagnola

University of Pennsylvania

Formerly Google, NSIN, and Kairos Society.

Andre Mota

Wharton, Penn Law

Formerly .406 Ventures, Cravath, and Manatt Health.

Cole Fairchild

University of Pennsylvania

Morgan Stanley. Formerly COS.

Daniel Bessonov

University of Pennsylvania

Formerly Genecloud and CMU.

Jasman Singh

Princeton University

Nabis. Formerly Policy @ Cory Booker.

Richard Clay

Bowie State

DoD. Intel Capital. HBCUvc.

Yewande Alade

Wharton, Penn Law

Assembly Fellow @ Berkman Klein Center/MIT Media Lab. Formerly Google AI, Treasury Department.

Nathan Ho

UNC

Passionate about building and investing in the innovation economy.

Raymond Chen

Duke

Previously engineering @ Anduril, Facebook, Pendo. Building scope.so!

Iris Liu

Wharton

Lifelong learner. Menlo Ventures, Draper Associates. Formerly AWS.

Sagar Chopra

Wharton

Aspiring to be like water 🧘🏽. Co-founder @ Empower Sleep. Formerly expansion @ Uber.

Tori Orr

Wharton

Spelman Alumna. Formerly Tesla, Intel, & BCG Digital Ventures.

Leonardo Girlando

Penn State University

Born in Venezuela but live in Panama. Currently researching entrepreneurship, growing Happy Valley VC, and leading College Ventures Network. Upcoming Fellow @ Dynamo Ventures & Emerging Markets (LatAm) Sales @ Bank of America.