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Rough Draft Ventures

Venture Capital · Founded 2012 · Boston, United States

#339 Investor Ranking 2026 Top 2% of investors worldwide

Student team that helps university students in their journey from creating ‘rough drafts’ to startup companies by investing at the earliest stage

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95 Portfolio companies+27% in 5 years
5 Unicorns
108 Investments
Feb 2024 Last investment
01 · Biggest holdings

Rough Draft Ventures’ biggest current holdings.

The most valuable companies Rough Draft Ventures still holds, ordered by Dealroom’s latest valuation. Companies that have been acquired or gone public are in Exits instead. Dealroom has no parsed shareholder register for Rough Draft Ventures, so the size of each stake isn’t shown.

#CompanyValuation
  1. 1 Spring HealthUnicorn · Health · USA $3.3B
  2. 2 TwelveUnicorn · Energy · USA $2.0B
  3. 3 InstabaseUnicorn · Enterprise Software · USA $2.0B
  4. 4 Mark43Unicorn · Legal · USA $1.0B
  5. 5 Fireflies.aiUnicorn · Marketing · USA $1.0B

Unicorns and thoroughbreds Rough Draft Ventures has backed and still holds, at Dealroom’s latest valuation. See the underlying shareholder registers on Dealroom →

02 · Portfolio analysis

Where Rough Draft Ventures’ portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 95 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA101
  2. UK2
  3. Canada1
  4. Netherlands1
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software24
  2. Health15
  3. Fintech11
  4. Media10
  5. Education6
  6. Food6
  7. Marketing6
  8. Gaming5
  9. Sports5
  10. Jobs Recruitment4
  11. Real Estate4
  12. Security4
By stage enteredCount
  1. Seed74
  2. Series A11
By growth stageCount
  1. Early Growth82
  2. Breakout Stage18
  3. Late Growth7
03 · Portfolio market map

Inside Rough Draft Ventures’ portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 95 tracked.

Twelve
Energy · Unicorn
$2.0B
Spring Health
Health · Unicorn
$3.3B
Mark43
Legal · Unicorn
$1.0B
Instabase
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$2.0B
Beepi
Telecom
$280M
TetraScience
Health
$320M
Memora Health
Health
$200M
Ribbon Health
Health
$174M
Indico Data Solutions
Fintech
$110M
TVision
Marketing
$40M
Burrow
Fashion
$100M
LearnLux
Fintech
$50M
Spyce Food
Food
$186M
Mercaux
Marketing
$20M
Sigma Ratings
Fintech
$69M
Fireflies.ai
Marketing · Unicorn
$1.0B
KēlaHealth
Health
$65M
AAVRANI
Wellness Beauty
$28M
Impilo
Health
$46M
Jones
Health
$36M
HumanFirst
Health
$12M
AKKO
Fintech
$11M
Hydrant
Wellness Beauty
$34M
Grove
Fintech
$32M
Branch
Home Living
$40M
AirWorks
Real Estate
$11M
Multitude Insights
Enterprise Software
$40M
Medinas Health
Health
$20M
Vidrovr
Security
$10M
Aktiv Learning
Education
$18M
Spiral
Security
$12M
Sparrow
Fintech
Fresco News
Media
$20M
MomentRanks
Sports
$17M
Karuna
Health
$14M
Unruly Studios
Gaming
$5.0M
Gradia Health
USA
$17M
ScholarMe
Fintech
Whist
USA
Smarking Inc
Transportation
$12M
Soundmind
Health
$9.2M
ShelfLife
Food
$12M
Weven
Event Tech
Valley
Marketing
$8.0M
Merkle Data
Energy
Noken
Travel
$10M
Infotap
Gaming
$6.0M
Relentlo
Marketing
Bowery
Enterprise Software
$6.4M
Properly
Real Estate
TracFlo
Fintech
Yobs
Jobs Recruitment
$10M
Krypt.co
Security
$4.8M
Technical Machine
USA
$4.0M
Uru
Media
$3.2M
Cloudstitch
Enterprise Software
$3.2M
TransparentCareer
Jobs Recruitment
$3.4M
Watchsend
Enterprise Software
$500K
Bloxsmith
Gaming
GitLinks
Legal
$960K
04 · Portfolio founders

Where Rough Draft Ventures’ portfolio founders come from.

126 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount
  1. United States120
  2. United Kingdom3
  3. Australia1
  4. Ireland1
  5. Israel1
UniversityCount
  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology15
  2. Harvard Business School10
  3. Stanford University8
  4. Harvard University7
  5. MIT Sloan School of Management7
  6. Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania7
  7. Cornell University5
  8. Harvard Kennedy School4
  9. Olin College4
  10. Columbia University3
Previous companyCount
  1. Alphabet | Google5
  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology5
  3. Microsoft5
  4. Boston Consulting Group4
  5. Stanford University3
  6. US Army3
  7. Blueprint Fit2
  8. Council on Foreign Relations2
  9. Esmap2
  10. Fed Tech2
05 · Similar investors

Similar investors.

Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.

Y Combinator
Accelerator · San Francisco
#62 rank 7,127 companies $1.9T portfolio
Techstars
Accelerator · New York City
#855 rank 2,278 companies $249B portfolio
500 Global
Venture Capital · Palo Alto
#431 rank 2,321 companies $284B portfolio
Plug and Play
Venture Capital · Sunnyvale
#410 rank 1,576 companies $290B portfolio
Sequoia
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#3 rank 1,921 companies $23T portfolio
Khosla Ventures
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#53 rank 856 companies $1.9T portfolio
SV Angel
Venture Capital · San Francisco
#109 rank 986 companies $3.7T portfolio
Gaingels
Angel Fund · Burlington
#183 rank 661 companies $175B portfolio
06 · Key people

Key people at Rough Draft Ventures.

Derek Tu
Derek Tu
Partner
 Max Zang
Max Zang
Managing Partner
 Angelina Lue
Angelina Lue
Managing Partner
 Bilal Zuberi
Bilal Zuberi
Founder
 Nitesh Banta
Nitesh Banta
Advisor
 Zach Hamed
Zach Hamed
Co-founder and Student Partner
Source: Dealroom next-gen API — investor team endpoint.