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Free Ventures

BUSINESS - TECHNOLOGY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

We provide the university's brightest student founders with workspace, mentorship, academic units, funding, and resources to scale. Our mission is to free students from the constraints that hinder starting up while in school to found high-impact startups We are a program run by students, for students. Our founders have gone on to become Forbes 30 Under 30, build companies that are changing the world, and continue to develop the college startup scene by creating The House. Free Ventures has been an instrumental part of Berkeley’s startup ecosystem in its formative years, helping it to develop into the most robust college startup scene in recent years. In the process we’ve built the most comprehensive pre-seed program for Berkeley startups, tailored to each team’s specific needs and purely pro-bono. Each day our team actively works with our venture capital sponsors, resource partners, The House, Dorm Room Fund, and other groups to build the strongest community of Berkeley founders, providing startups with a full stack of resources to guide them from ideation to investment. We have helped our 62 alumni teams raise over $40 million from top firms such as Y Combinator, Greylock, KPCB, and SVAngel. Collectively they’ve gone on to tackle problems in VR, drones, IoT, neuroscience, AI, real estate, and renewable energy, to name a few.

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