Thinking of being a startup founder and have a question?
Come join Brandon Farwell, General Partner of Xfund, for a “free-form” office hours session. Xfund is a seed-stage investment firm that backs lateral thinkers and was spun out from Harvard University. Notable investments include 23andme, Kensho (acquired for $550 million), Philo, and Zumper.
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About Brandon Farwell
Brandon Farwell is a General Partner at Xfund. Prior to Xfund, he was an Investment Professional at DFJ focused on software investments including Box (NYSE: BOX), Yammer (acq., MSFT), Twilio (NYSE: TWLO), Newsle (acq., LNKD), SugarCRM, and Insight Squared, in addition to other frontier investments like Planet and SpaceX. After DFJ, he helped build the 150-company portfolio at Rothenberg Ventures nearly from the beginning, including companies like SpaceX, Planet, Robinhood, Gusto, Matterport, Bustle, Revel Systems, Boom Supersonic, Kespry, Andela, Dronebase, Nearpod, Patreon, Vicarious Surgical, SweetIQ (acq., GCI), Accelo, Customer.io, and others. This portfolio was awarded #1 in VR /AR and frontier technology by Goldman Sachs, CB Insights, and Pitchbook.