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DRF family! Thank you for a productive semester and for joining our community events. 2021 is an unusual year, even after all that’s happened the year before, and we only wish the next year continues to bring us back to a new normal. Crossing our fingers that we have an All-DRF to actually see everyone in person (!!). Thanks for being a part of this great family and making startups plus venture capital more accessible to students. Cheers to a new year 🎆 and a stronger community!!
💌 HQ team
🚀 community updates
Umamicart bags $6M to deliver traditional Asian ingredients to your home
Lauren Reeder becomes partner at Sequoia
Forbes 30 Under 30: Several DRF alums and founders were selected again this year, including the folks below. They join the 100+ members of the DRF community to have made that list.
DRF alum Neal Khosla, alum Matt Gibstein, Topicals founder Olamide Olowe, the Memora Health founders, Pashion founder Hayley Pavone, the founders of Learn to Win Sports, FFT grad Deirdre Clute, C16 Bio founder David Heller, DRF Alum Maneet Khair, DRF Alum Trevor Sookraj, former founder of NextBiotics Maricel Saenz, former founder of Greo Brandon Hill, founder of Py Derek Lo, and the founding team at Impact.
☄️ want to join DRF’s content team?
Calling all writers! Want to write about tech news? Get plugged into the student entrepreneurship community? Any enrolled student can join the DRF content team. Send a resume and two writing samples to annewen@dormroomfund.com by Dec. 31.
📎 tech news
Meta transports you to the Metaverse with Horizon Worlds. The company formerly known as Facebook has expanded its invite-only beta to adults in the U.S. and Canada. Once you get the free app, TechCrunch reports that you can enter a social world-building playground.
More on Facebook: Shareholders want board oversight to see what the company is up to, especially after pressure from lawmakers.
Three months into her job, Instacart president announced she will resign by the end of the year, after disagreeing with CEO on grocer relationships. The latest exit comes after Instacart’s head of advertising left for Walmart.
Google has announced that employees can lose pay and face firing if they don’t comply with COVID-19 vaccination rules.
Remember CliffsNotes? Its parent company, Course Hero, raised a Series C funding round for $380M at a $3.6B valuation.
Reddit has confidentially filed for an IPO.
📂 new startup + VC jobs
Afore VC: full-time investor, VC intern (reach out to Anumitra on LinkedIn)
Floodgate: MBA intern
Rent the Runway: undergrad internships
Chaac Ventures: marketing intern
Alinea: growth intern
Watz: data engineering intern
Out of the Box: UI/UX designers, full stack developers (email yuqian@ootb.education and kloe@ootb.education)
Highlight: head of marketing, sr. product designer, and backend go developers
Trust: product manager
Equal Ventures: insurtech/fintech associate
Polimorphic: many roles, including engineering and government sales
Fika Ventures: associates
List of crypto and blockchain roles: job board
📗 consider a contest or fellowship
EneryTech University Prize: chance to win over $250K
Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge: share $1M
📌 and if you missed it the first time round…
Wefunder: paid legal intern
Duolingo: design, finance interns
Founder Collective: MBA associates in NYC and Boston
📖 reads from the DRF community
How education startup Out of the Box builds preschool curriculums
Adding books to your holiday reading list
Our holiday gift guide, just for you
Latino immigrants simplify remittance
Advice to founders from managing partner of Boston
😂 meme 😂
More fun: Twitter + website + company app. Send jokes, criticisms, and hot takes to info@dormroomfund.com + annewen@dormroomfund.com (content feedback) + melissa@dormroomfund.com (community updates). 🚀