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📣 And more news from Phin Barnes and Russia

Dorm Room Fund
Mar 13
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DRF fam! As March is underway, we’re excited to bring you updates from our portfolio, our community, and from around the world.  🚀

💥 community updates

  • Office Hours with Dorm Room Fund is back! 📚 Subscribe here for weekly podcast episode interviews with some of the brightest minds in business, venture, and tech. Most recently, our host Souhail talked to alum Shawn Xu, a Partner at On Deck and Forbes 30 under 30. 

  • Congratulations to Jennifer Xia Spradling, Patrick Schmitt, and their team on FreeWill’s $30 million Series B round led by Bain Capital Double Impact. Though we hope that our readers won’t be writing their wills soon, we do hope they use FreeWill when their time comes. 

  • Kudos to Sam Slover (NY ‘14) and the Pinto team on their acquisition by SPINS. We’re excited to see two mission-driven teams come together to provide retailers and brands with the tools they need to help shoppers make healthy, lifestyle-aligned product choices. 

  • Excited to announce RoBhat Labs’ $2 million pre-seed round from General Catalyst, Madrona Venture Group, The House Fund, Kevin Carter, Brian Pokorny, and Eddie Koai. We are grateful to have brought co-founders Ash Bhat and Rohan Phadte into the DRF community during their days at Cal. 

  • Cheers to Edward Warren and the Zippity team on their $3 million seed round led by York IE. DRF has been a proud champion ever since our investment in 2017, and we continue to be excited by what the team is building for owner-operators service businesses nationwide. 

  • DRF godfather Phin Barnes has joined forces with Dan Portillo to co-found The General Partnership. Phin spent the past 18 months post-First Round collaborating with Dan on the prior iteration of The GP, Sweat Equity Ventures, working hand-in-hand with a tight-knit group of founders as a builder-investor. More in his personal announcement.

🚀 tech news

  • Netflix, Mastercard, Visa, Paypal, Adobe, and other tech platforms have suspended service in Russia, with Coinbase blocking over 25,000 wallets

  • Founders Fund raised 2 new funds totaling $5 billion, the D’Amelio Family launches 444 Capital, a $25 million fund for growth-stage startups, and Griffin raised a $750 million fund Fund II dedicated to gaming

  • Russia has blocked Facebook in the country and rumored to have blocked Twitter as well, with Twitter actively working to restore service

  • Samsung Galaxy source code was confirmed to be stolen, with responsibility taken by a group who also breached Nvidia data earlier this year

💡 new startup + VC jobs 

full-time 

  • Relative Basis: DeFi Software Engineer

  • Letterdrop: GPT-3 Engineer

  • Kindred: Founding Engineer

  • Inversion Space: Engineering & Business Development Roles

  • Slauson & Co: Investment Analyst, Pre-Seed / Seed

  • Toyota Ventures: VC Analyst, Frontier Fund

  • American Family Ventures: VC Analysts / Associates

  • Grand Ventures: VC Analyst / Associate

  • Chamaeleon: VC Analyst / Associate

  • Cathay Innovation: VC Associates

  • Emerson Collective: Associate Director, Venture Investing

internships 

  • JetBlue Technology Ventures: Summer Investment Associate

  • PayPal Ventures: MBA Summer Intern

  • The Chernin Group: MBA & Undergraduate Summer Interns

  • X, The Moonshot Factory: Summer Intern, Business & Strategy

  • Kyte: Business Operations & Strategy Intern

  • Blind: Marketing & Growth Intern

  • Chime: Growth Product Analytics Intern

  • Faire: Data Science Intern

  • Inversion Space: Engineering Intern

  • Variant Fund: Operations Intern

📗 more opportunities

  • GGV: Summer 2022 NextGen Fellows

  • Business Insider: VC/Startups Reporting Fellows

  • EVCA: Undergraduate VC Fellows

  • Dynamo Ventures: Venture Fellows

📖 cool reads

  • Ash founders are building the next-generation of at-home health diagnostics 

  • Meet our newest team of content associates

  • How Veeper plans to disrupt online shopping 

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Written by content associate Kevin Wu (kevin.wu@dormroomfund.com). More fun: Twitter + website + company app. Send jokes, criticisms, and hot takes to info@dormroomfund.com. 🚀

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