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Dorm Room Fund

Founders CeCe Cheng Josh Kopelman Phin Barnes

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Total investments 226
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$797K
Portfolio companies 198
Rounds per year 18.83
Lead investments 1
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.12
Exits 14
Key employees 52
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Health Care
  • Information Technology
  • Internet
  • FinTech
Summary

In 2012 was created Dorm Room Fund, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Philadelphia.

This organization was formed by CeCe Cheng, Josh Kopelman, Phin Barnes. The overall number of key employees were 52.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 participants. Despite the Dorm Room Fund, startups are often financed by MIT delta v, Berkeley SkyDeck, SOSV. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Pear Ventures, Y Combinator, Techstars. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Y Combinator, Techstars, BioAdvance.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Capella Space, FiscalNote, Shield AI. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Information Technology, E-Commerce. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 1 and less years to get the investment from the fund.

The fund is constantly included in 13-24 investment rounds annually. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 18 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Opposing the other organizations, this Dorm Room Fund works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2016. The average startup value when the investment from Dorm Room Fund is 1-5 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2019.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Slingshot

$2M29 May 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

Faura

$500K24 Apr 2024 Napa, California, United States

Baton Media

Media and Entertainment
Music Streaming
Social Media Management
$4M14 Nov 2023 New York, New York, United States

Hadrius

Artificial Intelligence
FinTech
$2M11 Sep 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Concentro

CleanTech
FinTech
17 Aug 2023 New York, New York, United States

Aviato

$1M01 Apr 2023 -

Movley

Manufacturing
Quality Assurance
Service Industry
Small and Medium Businesses
Software
Supply Chain Management
$1M15 Jan 2023 Lewes, Delaware, United States

boam

Consumer Software
Food and Beverage
Internet
Marketplace
Software
$1M01 Dec 2022 Miami, Florida, United States

WellTheory

Health Care
$7M09 Nov 2022 Atherton, California, United States
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Cadoo gets $1.5M to gamify fitness with betting challenges

– Cadoo, a US-startup that’s gamifying fitness by turning it into a betting opportunity, using the prospect of winning (or losing) cold hard cash to motivate people to get off the couch, has collected $1.5m in seed funds from Sam & Max Altman’s Apollo VC and the student-focused Dorm Room Fund.
– The app itself has been around since 2018 but in March 2020 it launched a “challenge model” that lets users stake money to join a challenge related to a specific fitness goal — be it running 10 miles in 10 days, or walking three miles in three days.
– Participants who achieve the challenge goal get their stake back and a pro-rata share of losers’ staked entry fees.

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Total investments 226
Average round size 797K
Rounds per year 18.83
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 1
Follow on index 0.12
Exits 14
Group Appearance index 0.65

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Slingshot

$2M29 May 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

Faura

$500K24 Apr 2024 Napa, California, United States

Baton Media

Media and Entertainment
Music Streaming
Social Media Management
$4M14 Nov 2023 New York, New York, United States

Hadrius

Artificial Intelligence
FinTech
$2M11 Sep 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Concentro

CleanTech
FinTech
17 Aug 2023 New York, New York, United States

Aviato

$1M01 Apr 2023 -

Movley

Manufacturing
Quality Assurance
Service Industry
Small and Medium Businesses
Software
Supply Chain Management
$1M15 Jan 2023 Lewes, Delaware, United States

boam

Consumer Software
Food and Beverage
Internet
Marketplace
Software
$1M01 Dec 2022 Miami, Florida, United States

WellTheory

Health Care
$7M09 Nov 2022 Atherton, California, United States
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