Rima Reddy

Principal

2021 - 2024

Fellow

2021 - 2021

Investment Partner

2020 - 2021

Dorm Room Fund is the best way for student founders to grow their startup. Built by students and powered by First Round, we provide founders with a strong network of investors, world-class mentors, and a $20,000 check. We've invested in 200 startups who've raised $400 million from firms like GV, Sequoia, and YC.

CEO | Editor-In-Chief

2020 - 2021

StartU's mission is to find, feature, and promote the next revolutionary student-led startups before anyone else discovers them. Our team of 40 Campus Scouts actively sources startups across 9 universities nationwide - including Stanford, Harvard, and Wharton. We cover campus pitch events, interview founders for exclusive in-depth articles, and help VCs quickly scan the student startup ecosystem to easily connect with emerging entrepreneurs. Through StartU, we help entrepreneurs by giving them the early press and exposure they need to succeed. Our featured startups have raised capital from firms including Accel, Lightspeed, Norwest, NEA, and Cowboy Ventures, and have raised over $370M in venture funding to date.

Member

2017 - 2021

37 Angels is a community of women investors who invest in early-stage companies.

MBA Investment Associate

2020 - 2020

M13 is a venture firm accelerating businesses at the nexus of consumer products, technology, and media. Some of our investments include: Lyft, Ring, Slack and Daily Harvest. Learn more here: www.m13.co Investments I was actively involved in include Locker Room (acq: Spotify), Adyn, and Rock The Bells.

Fellow

2019 - 2020

We invest at pre-seed and seed stages. We partner with entrepreneurs from day zero to build category defining companies. Pear portfolio companies have achieved: $28B total value, and $3B capital raised. Our portfolio includes: Branch, Doordash, Guardant Health (NASDAQ:GH), and Gusto.

Spring MBA Intern

2020 - 2020

I worked with the Executive team at Recess on a project to develop their content strategy.

Pre-MBA Intern

2019 - 2019

Eutopia is a Paris and New York based early-stage venture capital fund. We invest in consumer startups who are rethinking the way we eat, sleep, dress, exercise and feel. We empower early-stage startups to grow through investment, in-house expertise and a network of global advisors. With Europe as our investment playground, and the US as our second home, we invest at the seed/series A stages in rounds from €500,000 to €10 million.

Principal

2018 - 2019

Director Of Corporate Partnerships / Business Development

2017 - 2018

XRC Labs is an innovation accelerator for the next generation of disruptors in the retail and consumer goods sectors. We select and invest $1.4M in 10 startups twice a year. Our startups are positioned to create significant change in the retail or consumer goods industries. Alumni companies include Billie, ShopShops, Snappy, Hemster, Extra (FKA IRL), Edn, Terra Kaffe, Fitted Laundry, Visuwall, VirtualAPT, Simplista, Mayawell, Caraa Sport, Findmine, Forge, by Reveal, Cherry Pick, Lexset, Frenzy, StoreDNA, and many more