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Mar 13, 2022

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

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