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Molly Fowler

General Partner at Dorm Room Fund

Brooklyn, New York

Overview 

Molly Fowler is the Founding General Partner and CEO at Dorm Room Fund, investing in student founders and startups at pre-seed and seed stages. With a background in politics and communications, she has held roles at First Round Capital, worked with the Los Angeles Mayor's office, and has invested in companies like Poolit and MovieBot.

Work Experience 

  • Founding General Partner

    2021 - Current

    Dorm Room Fund invests in the best tech companies founded by students-- college, MBA, masters, PhD, recently graduated and dropouts. We're specialists in the earliest days, helping preseed founders with the blocking and tackling of starting a game-changing company. Apply here: www.dormroomfund.com

  • CEO

    2019

    Dorm Room Fund is the premier student venture fund backing student-led startups.

Dorm Room Fund is the strongest community of entrepreneurial students in the nation.

  • Investment Team

    2019 - 2021

    Learned how to invest from the best while running DRF.

First Round Angel Track is a community of operators and founders looking to develop their skills and identities as early-stage investors.

  • Market Launcher, "Future of Cities" Dreamer

    2015 - 2018

    Launched a hardware product in a new geography and dreamed up the future of urban life with the Sidewalk Labs gang

Intersection is a home media and tech company that brings consumer amenities and data driven advertising to cities.

Raised $150,000,000.00 from NewSpring, ArrowMark Partners and Graham Holdings.

  • Deputy Director of Communications

    2013 - 2015

    Keeping the mayor out of trouble while working on tech, economic, seismic, environmental and other policy.

  • Field Director

    2012 - 2013

    Essentially GTM for campaigns: you can't elect a guy without a killer ground game

  • Field Director

    2012 - 2012

    Turned out a couple thousand students to vote; learned how to organize vast teams of humans in very short order with a small staff and very few dollars. Startup building on steroids.

  • Campaign Organizer

    2011 - 2012

  • Analyst

    2010 - 2011

    Baby's first startup.

Axiom provides tech-enabled legal, contracts, and compliance solutions for large enterprises.

Raised $28,000,000.00 from Permira.

  • Client Associate

    2009 - 2010

    I can do math.

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