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<h1>PhD Founder Track</h1>
<p>A masterclass by Dorm Room Fund aimed at empowering PhD founders.</p>
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PhD students build several of the key skills needed to be a great founder, including hypothesis testing, project management, and independent thinking. We provide the others so that they can build the companies we desperately need tomorrow.
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PhD Founder Track is a 10-week masterclass to help doctoral students who are interested in founding the companies of tomorrow. We are looking to build a strong cohort of forward-thinking, passionate, and driven PhD students who will learn from the best founders and investors in the game.
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While many are STEM-focused, we are open to all doctoral students in any discipline! Past participants have come from fields from a plethora of fields, including electrical engineering, sociology, mechanical engineering, education, computer science, and law.
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<p><em>Application Open: April 20th – May 23rd, 2022</em></p>
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Tapping into networks across the country and resources from experts in the space, the PhD Founder Track aims to enable growth through:
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<li><span>A strong network of mentors of founders and investors dedicated to jumpstarting your growth and success throughout and beyond the program.</span></li>
<li><span>Community-building based on growing a rich cohort of PhD students in diverse fields who are motivated and passionate about entrepreneurship, as well as a massive network of Dorm Room Fund and First Round Partners.</span></li>
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<strong style="color: #06029B"">Mario Ruiz</strong> <br />
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Nashilu is Head of Operations at Clay.run, bringing together the best parts of spreadsheets, coding and simple automation. Prior to Clay.run, Nashilu was an investor at First Round Capital and Dorm Room Fund and now angel invests and advises founders at the earliest stages.
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Frederik is a Principal at Storm Ventures where he focused on B2B, AI, SaaS, Vertical SaaS, GovTech, and Enterprise Voice Tech. Prior to Storm Ventures, Frederik spent two years as CEO of Stanford Student Enterprises. He is also the co-founder of BLCK VC.
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<strong style="color: #06029B">Abdul Ly</strong> <br />
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<strong style="color: #06029B">Kanyi Maqubela</strong> <br />
<strong>Managing Partner at Kindred Ventures</strong>
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Kanyi is a Managing Partner at Kindred Ventures. He served as a Partner at Collaborative Fund, where he was an early advisor to Tala and Walker & Co., and a board member at Buffer, Camino Financial, Spruce, and True Link. Kanyi is a co-founder at Heartbeat Health, and previously ran growth at One Block Off the Grid (acquired by $NRG) and was an early employee at Doostang (acquired by Universum Global).
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<strong style="color: #06029B">Ulili Oniovakpuri</strong> <br />
<strong>Partner at Kapor Capital</strong>
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Uriridiakoghene “Ulili” is a partner at Kapor Capital where she focuses on early stage investing in digital health and medical technology companies. Prior to Kapor Capital, Ulili was an investor at Fresco Capital and served as Director of Global Programs at Village Capital. Before Village Capital, Ulili began her career in venture capital as an investment analyst at Kapor.
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<strong style="color: #06029B">Gabby Cazeau</strong> <br />
<strong>Senior Associate at Harlem Capital</strong>
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Gabby Cazeau is a Senior Associate at Harlem Capital Partners where she focuses on investing in women and underrepresented founders. Before getting her MBA at Yale, Gabby worked in R&D at General Mills where she created new products. Her work encompassed a full lifecycle of product development including early stage customer engagement, product testing and validation, and manufacturing scale execution.
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<strong style="color: #06029B">Megan Maloney </strong> <br />
<strong>Principal at General Catalyst</strong>
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Megan is a Principal at General Catalyst (GC) where she focuses on early stage investing and works closely with portfolio companies including Grammarly, Livongo and Samsara. Prior to joining GC, Megan spent four years working at Morgan Stanley, first in the institutional equities division and then transitioning to the Technology investment banking group.
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<strong style="color: #06029B">Mercedes Bent </strong> <br />
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Mercedes is a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners where she focuses on early stage consumer investing. Prior to this, she was an executive at a VR startup and a GM at General Assembly where she helped the company grow to ~$100 million in revenue over 4.5 years as a product manager and general manager. Prior to this, Mercedes worked in finance at Goldman Sachs.
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<strong style="color: #06029B">Adeyemi Ajao </strong> <br />
<strong>Managing Partner at Base10 Ventures</strong>
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Adeyemi (“Ade”) is co-founder & Managing Partner at Base10 Partners. Before Base10, Ade was the co-founder and CEO of Tuenti (The “Spanish Facebook” which was acquired by Telefonica in 2010 for $100M), co-founder and CEO of Identified (“AI for HR” acquired by Workday in 2014) and a founding investor of Cabify (the largest ridesharing company in Latin America currently valued at over $1B).
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<strong style="color: #06029B">Phin Barnes </strong> <br />
<strong>Partner at First Round Capital</strong>
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Phin is a Partner at First Round Capital, where he's responsible for notable investments in Ubiquity6, Clearbit, Modern Fertility, and Notion. Prior to First Round, Phin started a video-game company, served as Creative Director for Footwear at AND1 and co-created the AND1 MixTape. As a seed investor, Phin brings a decade of experience building companies to help founders go from zero to one, going deep on product creation and brand building.
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<strong style="color: #06029B">Charles Hudson </strong> <br />
<strong>Managing Partner at Precursor Ventures</strong>
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Charles is the Managing Partner and Founder of Precursor Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in the first institutional round of investment for the most promising software and hardware companies. Prior to founding Precursor Ventures, Charles was a Partner at SoftTech VC. In this role, he focused on identifying investment opportunities in mobile infrastructure.
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<strong style="color: #06029B">Jomayra Herrera</strong> <br />
<strong>Senior Associate at Cowboy Ventures</strong>
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Jomayra is a Senior associate at Cowboy Ventures where she focuses on seed-stage investments and backing exceptional founders. Prior to Cowboy, she spent 3 years as an investor at Emerson Collective where she played an important role in creating internal processes, building key investment theses, and helping to grow the team.
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<strong style="color: #06029B">Sydney Thomas</strong> <br />
<strong>Senior Associate at Precursor Ventures</strong>
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Sydney is the Senior Associate at Precursor Ventures. Prior to joining Precursor, Sydney gained experience working in technology startups in business development and product marketing. Prior to her work in tech, she managed public-private partnerships for the NYC Government’s Department of Education and Office of Financial Empowerment.
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<strong style="color: #06029B">Lo Toney</strong> <br />
<strong>Managing Partner at Plexo Capital</strong>
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Lo is the Founding Managing Partner of Plexo Capital, which he incubated and spun out from GV, based on a strategy to increase access to early stage deal flow. Prior to founding Plexo Capital, Lo was a Partner on the investing team at GV where he focused on marketplaces, mobile and consumer products. Before GV, Lo was a Partner with Comcast Ventures where he led the Catalyst Fund and worked with the main fund where he focused on mobile messaging and marketplaces.
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<strong style="color: #06029B">Richard Kerby</strong> <br />
<strong>Partner at Equal Ventures</strong>
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Richard is Co-Founder and General Partner at Equal Ventures. Prior to co-founding Equal Ventures, Richard was an investor at Venrock, where he led seed-stage and Series A stage investments in 6Sense, Amino Apps, Beckon, Burner, Luxe Valet, and Salsify. Prior to joining Venrock, Richard was an investor at Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), where he focused on identifying and evaluating later-stage investments.
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<strong style="color: #06029B">Freada Kapor Klein</strong> <br />
<strong>Partner at Kapor Capital</strong>
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Freada is a Founding Partner at Kapor Capital where she invests in seed stage tech startups that create positive social impact by closing gaps of access, opportunity or outcome for low income communities and communities of color. Freada is an Advisory Trustee of the U.C. Berkeley Foundation, a founding team member at Project Include and co-chair of the Kapor Center. She is also the author of Giving Notice, which details the human and financial cost of hidden bias in the workplace.
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<strong>1. Who can apply?</strong> <br />
PhD candidates with a startup idea are encouraged to apply. We are a group of PhD candidates working on our startup ideas while pursuing a degree. We strongly believe the training we get during our PhD can have a large scale impact through commercialization of our technologies and ideas.
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<strong>2. Do I need to have a company to apply? </strong><br />
You don’t have to be incorporated yet. However, we would like to see proof of concept in some form, and a commitment to develop the venture. The goal of this program is to give you access and a community so you can get your startup off the ground and raise your first capital.
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<strong>3. What does the application process look like?</strong> <br />
Applications are due by Monday, May 23rd, 2022 at 11:59pm PST (late applications will not be accepted). Selected applicants will be given an interview within the following few days. After the interview, decisions will be sent out by late-June.
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<strong>4. What is the time commitment?</strong><br />
We know you are busy, tired and overworked - so are we. Thus, we are going to keep this a low time commitment, high engagement and small cohort size so we can truly get to know each other. With guest speakers every Monday evening and participant share-outs and workshops every Thursday evening, you will get to spend quality time with some of the brightest minds of our generation.
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<strong>5. Is this program an accelerator?
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No. This program is designed to support the side hustlers through education and community, to explore if this venture is a viable post-grad opportunity. We don't require that students continue their venture after graduation. There is no guarantee of funding from Dorm Room Fund, First Round, or any speakers/mentors from the sessions. However, we aim to help you take a big leap in the direction of progress
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<strong>6. What is Dorm Room Fund?
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Built by students and powered by First Round Capital, Dorm Room Fund provides founders with a strong network of investors, world-class mentors, and a $40,000 check. We’re a venture fund that has backed over 380 startups, whose founders have gone on to raise from the top venture capital firms.
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<strong>7. Where are the sessions?
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All the sessions will be held online through video conferences and calls with the possibility of an in-person networking session
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<strong>8. When are the sessions?
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Sessions tentatively run from June 6th, 2022 to August 8th, 2022 and the meetings will be held on Mondays and Thursdays from 8:30-9:30 ET/5:30-6:30 p.m PST.
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<strong>9. How much does it cost to participate in this program?
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Nothing. At Dorm Room Fund, we’re looking to support PhD founders in their pursuit to build amazing companies.
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<strong>10. Who should I contact if I have more questions?</strong><br />
Please reach out to David Dellal at <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> or Chloe Lopez-Lee at <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> if you have questions!
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