Rough Draft Ventures focuses on student founders and their startups in the Greater Boston area. The fund is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It backs the best student founders across the nation with 25k checks and a networks of. Rough Draft Ventures is a mezzanine fund managed by Rough Draft Ventures and General Catalyst. The firm seeks to invest in the early and seed stage of. Beyond GC, Boyce has experience co-founding and running Rough Draft Ventures, a program that helps incubate startups founded by students and recent graduates, as well as promote entrepreneurship on campuses. Rough Draft Ventures Latest funding round Companies invested Segments and amount invested Segments and number of companies invested QUICK LINKS TOPICS. Rough Draft Ventures is General Catalysts student-led venture firm. Each school year at Rough Draft Ventures, General Catalysts student-focused program that backs founders at the university level, we meet hundreds of. Founded in 2012, Rough Draft Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The venture was found in North America in United States. He’s also supported portfolio companies such as Giphy, Jet.com and Circle. In 2012 was created Rough Draft Ventures, which is appeared as VC. For an investor to leave a prominent venture capital firm after an eight-year tenure to raise dozens of millions of his own - and somehow do so quietly and with minimal coverage - might be a result of the funding frenzy and consequential numbness to yet another filing.īoyce joined GC in 2013 and led investments in Ro, Macro, towerIQ and Atom. With RDV University, we're excited to empower even more student founders and to accelerate our mission: supporting all students with their roughest drafts. It’s been a quiet transition for the investor his LinkedIn and Twitter have not been updated to indicate his new job title, but his personal website indicates the new gig. Rough Draft Ventures was founded on the belief that students can build wildly successful companies. Sources say that most, if perhaps not all, of that total has been closed since the initial SEC filing in April.īoyce declined to comment for this story. His new firm is called Stellation Capital, and filings indicate that he is looking to raise up to $40 million for the debut investment vehicle. In addition to his work at GC, he also co-founded & manages Rough Draft Ventures (an initiative to encourage more entrepreneurship on college campuses). Peter Boyce II has left General Catalyst to start his own firm, a little over a year after the venture capital firm promoted him to partner.
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