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We backed companies founded at Berkeley, Tufts, Yale, NYU, Stanford, Harvard

and many other colleges including Penn, Columbia, Brown, MIT, HBS, and Georgia Tech.

We traveled 250+ times

including ride shares, train rides, NYC subways, flights, Amtraks, and more to meet the most talented students this year

We hosted, supported, and attended over 90 campus events across 25 campuses.

like MIT's pitch competition, Tufts's Machine Learning meetup, and NYU's Women In Tech forum.

We attended 25+ hackathons to date

including YHack, Wellesley Hacks, and Major League Hacking's HackCon conference

We had over 500 Coffee Chats

and meetings with student entrepreneurs, aspiring technologists, and founders of tomorrow.

We reviewed 90+ Pitch Decks

We edited, viewed, collaborated, or advised student founders on their pitch decks. (Working on something cool? We're always happy to chat and/or provide feedback on your pitch as well!)

We backed over 65 founders representing 36 companies

from universities including Penn, Columbia, Brown, MIT, HBS, Harvard, Georgia Tech, Stanford, Yale, NYU, and more. Check out our full portfolio here!

We backed 10 new Female Founders

We introduced a new team of Venture Fellows, who helped us spearhead initiatives to support female founders. As a result, we backed 10 new female founders.

Our founders are disrupting over 13 industries

including healthcare, developer tools, social, retails, computer vision, edtech, cleantech, robotics, music, travel, govtech, construction tech, and productivity

Our portfolio companies created 200+ jobs

supporting and growing the next generation of peer technologists

12 founders were honored in Forbes 30 Under 30

We kicked off the first year of The RDV Academy

our internship program that connects the most talented, technical students with high-growth startups in Boston and NYC for a fully immersive three-month summer internship experience.

2018, Here We Come!

We're excited to keep supporting the next generation of student founders.