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First Round Capital

Venture capital firm

Summary

Venture capital firm

Field	Value
name	First Round Capital
logo	[[Image:logo-black.tiff	150px	First round]]
foundation
founder	Josh Kopelman
Howard L. Morgan
location	San Francisco
industry	Venture Capital
homepage

Howard L. Morgan

First Round Capital is an American venture capital firm that specializes in providing seed-stage funding to technology companies.

Founded by Josh Kopelman and Howard Morgan First Round typically provides seed-stage funding and focuses on portfolio companies' growth during their first 18 months. It has offices in San Francisco, Philadelphia and New York.

Dorm Room Fund

In 2012 First Round Capital created the Dorm Room Fund, a $10 million fund focused on investments in student-run startups. In 2019, the firm launched the Graduate Fund, a pre-seed fund for recent graduates of undergraduate or master's programs. The firm is operated by full-time undergraduate and graduate students. It has backed companies that have raised a combined $300 million in venture capital from investors including Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and Union Square Ventures. The firm has teams in San Francisco, New York City, Philadelphia, and Boston.

References

[https://money.cnn.com/2007/10/09/technology/first_round_capital.fortune/ Well-Known Tech Investor Aims Higher, cnnmoney.com, September 7, 2007]
Mark Suster. (April 21, 2011). ""Want To Know How First Round Capital Was Started?"". Fast Company.
"First Round Expands $500K Student-Run Investment Arm, Dorm Room Fund, To New York City Universities – TechCrunch".
(17 January 2019). "New pre-seed fund powered by First Round Capital will target recent graduates".
Casserly, Meghan. "The Dorm Room Fund: A Conversation With First Round Capital's Phin Barnes". Forbes.
Ramsinghani, Mahendra. (2014). "The Business of Venture Capital". Wiley.
"DRF 5-Year Report".

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