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Rough Draft Ventures

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Last activity: 27.05.2022

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Powered by General Catalyst, Rough Draft Ventures is a student team that helps university students in their journey from creating ‘rough drafts’ to startup companies by investing at the earliest stage. We support student-led teams with up to $25K in funding, and provide access to a community of peers, experienced mentors, alumni and investors to help take their startups to the next level. Decisions are led by a team of university students dedicated to encouraging tech entrepreneurship & forging a community of student founders.

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Location: United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge

Employees: 1-10

Founded date: 2012

Investment Type: Venture Capital

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Date	Name	Website	Total Raised	Location
03.05.2018	Medinas He...	medinas.com	$6M	-
-	Candelytic...	candelytics.io	-	United Sta...
-	Sparrow	sparrowfi.com	-	United Sta...
-	Wellnest W...	wellnest.co	-	United Sta...
-	Gradia Hea...	gradiahealth.com	-	United Sta...
-	AKKO	getakko.com	-	United Sta...
-	Impilo	impilo.health	$11.5M	United Sta...
-	MomentRank...	momentranks.com	$1.7M	United Sta...
-	Unbox	tryunbox.ai	-	United Sta...
-	Relentlo	relentlo.com	$2M	United Sta...
-	Whist	whist.com	-	-
-	Fanfix	fanfix.io	$1.3M	United Sta...
-	Contenda	contenda.co	-	-
-	Spyce	spyce.com	$21M	United Sta...
-	SoundMind	soundmind.app	$800K	United Sta...

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Date	Title	Description
15.07.2021	California Crescent Fund Is Taking a Chance on SoCal Students	College kids have hatched some of the biggest ideas throughout tech history, sometimes before they even finish school. But students who aren't as lucky as Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates usually have to backburner big ideas to focus on earnin...
15.07.2021	'They Know You Better Than Any Venture Capitalist': The California Crescent Fund Aims to Boost SoCal's Student Founders	College kids have hatched some of the biggest ideas throughout tech history, sometimes before they even finish school. But students who aren't as lucky as Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates usually have to backburner big ideas to focus on earnin...
02.02.2021	This Student-Funded, TikTok-Style Dating App Is Going After Tinder	It may not be love, but this fund made its first match. A Gen-Z dating app hinged on short-form videos closed its first round of funding last month with backing from the California Crescent Fund, a new student-run venture capital firm focus...
18.01.2021	‘Founders Couch’ Podcast Highlights Student Entrepreneurs Forging Their Own Career Paths	Photo courtesy of Catherine Jiang.
01.07.2020	Student-led accelerator Envision is shaking up which startups get funded	Meet Envision, a new startup accelerator. The group, built and run by a collection of students and recent graduates, just closed the application process for its first cohort of startups. Its goal isn’t merely to find some companies and give...
03.07.2019	5 tips for female founders from DMV investors and tech leaders	What does it take to build and support a “robust and inclusive entrepreneur ecosystem” in Baltimore? As part of this year’s Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) National Conference and Business Fair, a group of over 70 femal...
16.05.2019	Part fund, part accelerator, Contrary Capital invests in student entrepreneurs	First Round Capital has both the Dorm Room Fund and the Graduate Fund. General Catalyst has Rough Draft Ventures. And Prototype Capital and a few other micro-funds focus on investing in student founders, but overall, there’s a shortage of c...
18.03.2019	General Catalyst just carved out an aggressive new seed-stage program — here’s what to know	General Catalyst is diving more seriously into the business of funding seed-stage startups. To wit, the venture firm is announcing today that it plans to invest at least $25 million each year in nascent teams that “can’t be too early” for t...
16.03.2018	Village Global raises $100M seed scout fund from Zuck, Bezos…	It takes a village to grow a startup, so Village Global is offering access to a deep network of top tech execs to lure founders to its seed fund. Today, Village Global announced it’s raised $100 million for that fund that was first unveiled...
27.01.2018	Scout networks are latest VC salvo in war for founders	Founders are extraordinarily busy, even for their own investors. A decade ago, they might have had relationships with a handful of VC partners as they scaled their businesses and raised additional rounds of capital. Today, it is hardly rare...
10.04.2017	Yale spinout raises $1.5M to help physicians match patients with the right antidepressant	Koh described the growth stage company’s technology as part behavioral health screening tool and part clinical decision support for primary care physicians. Physicians administer a tablet-based questionnaire to patients with 25 questions to...
14.02.2017	TheBlindGuide acquires UPenn startup ThirdEye, bringing computer vision to the visually impaired	There’s nothing quite like the atmosphere of a college hackathon. Amidst the free t-shirts and apps to help you find parties on campus always lie a few hidden gems for those with the patience to hunt. ThirdEye, one of those gems forged out ...
16.01.2017	College founders, there’s a new investment firm that wants to hear your pitch	Reach out to a peer. Chat over coffee. Pitch your idea. Get a decision within two days. Recently, a group of Penn students, along with a few members from Columbia University in New York and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, became a...
20.12.2016	General Catalyst's Rough Draft Ventures Launches 'The RDV Academy'	Rough Draft Ventures, the VC fund for student startups that’s backed by General Catalyst, recently announced the start of a new initiative called The RDV Academy. College sophomores and juniors are invited to apply to the program for the ch...
12.12.2016	Campus Capital launches to raise a new generation of VCs	This article was originally posted on the Tech North website. Venture capital can be a stimulating, challenging career, but it’s not exactly easy to find a way in unless you move in the right circles for long enough. Campus Capital is a ne...
11.08.2016	Apply now for Include Office Hours with General Catalyst and CrunchFund!	TechCrunch Include Office Hours are happening on August 31st! Adam Valkin, Spencer Lazar and Peter Boyce from General Catalyst in NYC, along with Pat Gallagher and Susan Hobbs from CrunchFund in SF, will join TechCrunch to provide valuable ...
23.07.2013	MIT Dropouts Launch Medication Adherence App with the Help of Rough Draft Ventures	While watching his grandmother suffer through breast cancer in high school, Delian Asparouhov grew frustrated by her quality of care. He knew more could be done with technology, and enrolled in MIT with the goal of discovering what that “mo...
27.06.2013	Rough Draft Invests $5K in Harvard Startup Helping Organizations Fundraise Effectively	After years of attending charity events, rising Harvard junior Jake Silberg started looking for ways to give back. In middle school, Silberg had been diagnosed with lymphoma, and soon began touring as a motivational speaker, serving as a so...
12.12.2012	General Catalyst launches student-run fund in Boston	Rough Draft Ventures will invest in student founded start-ups Good ideas can come from, literally, anywhere. Some random person, who has no experience with ever founding a company, might just have the next big idea in his head. Or it could ...
12.12.2012	General Catalyst Backs Roughdraft.VC To Fund Student-Run Startups And Ideas In Boston	There’s no shortage of college student who have startup ideas and want to turn their entrepreneurial dreams into a reality. But getting the money, even if it is a few hundred dollars to set up servers, isn’t easy for college students. First...
-	Yale spinout raises $1.5M to help physicians match patients with the right antidepressant	Spring Health, a Yale University spinout aimed at helping primary care physicians do a better job of prescribing appropriate drugs for patients with depression, has raised a seed round, according to a company press release emailed to MedCit...

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