# Dorm Room Fund

> Dorm Room Fund is a VC fund in Philadelphia backing Software and Health Care. See 185 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Philadelphia, United States
- Total investments: 185
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 3%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/dorm-room-fund
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/DormRoomFund
- Website: http://dormroomfund.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DormRoomFund

Dorm Room Fund is a VC fund in Philadelphia focused on Software and Health Care. Dorm Room Fund is the strongest community of entrepreneurial students in the nation. 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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $150k–$7.2M |
| Pre-Seed | $147k–$2.3M |
| Convertible Note | $20k–$1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 40 | 22% |
| Health Care | 27 | 15% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 23 | 12% |
| Information Technology | 21 | 11% |
| Internet | 15 | 8% |

215 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 86 | 46% |
| Pre-Seed | 62 | 34% |
| Convertible Note | 9 | 5% |
| Angel | 7 | 4% |
| Series A | 7 | 4% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 154 | 83% |
| Canada | 2 | 1% |
| India | 1 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Mexico | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Joesph Kahn | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joe-kahn-0367 |
| Adetayo Zenger | Investment Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adetayo-zenger |
| Albert Lam | Investment Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/albert-lam-2f4d |
| Bruno Faviero | Alumni Council | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bruno-faviero |
| Eric Sung | Investment Team Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-sung |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aethex | AethexAI is a voice AI infrastructure provider for Middle Eastern and African businesses. Its platform uses developer APIs and SDKs along with a no-code enterprise platform to integrate speech models, telephony integration, and agent orchestration. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Jun 03, 2026 |  |
| Adaptive Innovations | Adaptive Innovations is the AI-native healthcare provider rebuilding the way care is delivered in America, starting with home health. | $50M | Series A | Jun 02, 2026 |  |
| Snapp | Snapp uses AI agentic systems and LLMs with access to comprehensive sports databases, real-time APIs, and AI-powered content tools to truly engage the passionate fan. Our early adopters are sports bettors and fantasy players looking for detailed insights and personalized recommendations — delivered in an intuitive, easy-to-use experience. | $4.4M | Seed | May 20, 2026 |  |
| Illuminant Surgical | Illuminant Surgical is building a new way of seeing inside the human body. Our breakthrough platform, Skylight, is the first real-time anatomical projection system, displaying images directly on the patient to give doctors an x-ray vision view for safer interventions. | $4.2M | Seed | Apr 30, 2026 |  |
| Sonibel Instruments | Sonibel Instruments catches weld defects during welding, giving welders the option to rework them on the spot and minimize repair costs. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Apr 07, 2026 |  |
| The Better Money Company | The Better Money Company is a financial technology firm focused on building an institutional-grade stablecoin clearinghouse. | $10M | Seed | Mar 31, 2026 |  |
| Barnwell Bio | Barnwell Bio analyzes waste streams for insights into animal health and farm management. | $6M | Seed | Jan 26, 2026 |  |
| Jones | Jones helps quit smoking by using a combination of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), behavioral support, and community. | $10M | Series A | Apr 09, 2025 |  |
| Jolly | Jolly is a rewards platform for the workplace that incentivizes employee performance. It implements performance-based incentives to increase employees utilization, compliance, referrals, and loyalty. | $16.5M | Series A | Feb 10, 2025 |  |
| Genia | Genia is revolutionizing structural engineering with its AI-powered generative design platform, the Structural CoPilot. This technology empowers engineering consultancies and real estate developers to generate optimal, physics-validated, and code-compliant engineering drawings in minutes, a process typically taking weeks. Genia enables users toachieve up to 10x faster design cycles, reduce errors by 40%, and save 10% on materials. By transforming architectural plans into multiple optimized structural solutions, Genia helps firms win more bids and enhance project efficiency without expanding their workforce. | $3M | Seed | Feb 07, 2025 |  |

10 of 185 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Dorm Room Fund invest in?

Dorm Room Fund invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 185 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Dorm Room Fund's check size?

Dorm Room Fund typically joins rounds of $150k–$7.2M at Seed, $147k–$2.3M at Pre-Seed and $20k–$1M at Convertible Note. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Dorm Room Fund participates in.

### How do I contact Dorm Room Fund?

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### Who are the partners at Dorm Room Fund?

The team at Dorm Room Fund includes Joesph Kahn (Partner), Adetayo Zenger (Investment Partner) and Albert Lam (Investment Partner), among 15 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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