Deming Center Venture Fund

The Deming Center Venture Fund (DCVF) is a venture capital fund made up of multidisciplinary grad students: MBAs, law students, and engineers at CU Boulder. Created both as a hands-on educational opportunity and a way to support early-stage Colorado companies, DCVF is a venture fund that prioritizes growing and improving the Colorado startup ecosystem. DCVF invests in early-stage startups with connections to the Colorado and CU Boulder communities. We write $25,000 checks in exchange for equity, convertible debt, or a similar security. We are industry agnostic; however, the company needs to be venture scalable and connected to Colorado or CU in some way. We support prospective and current companies by keeping things simple: ▪ No term negotiation; we sign on to the same terms as the lead investor ▪ Pitch to investment decision timeline of 4-5 weeks, can be as short as 3 weeks if required ▪ No investor pressure to pass along; we're funded by donors ▪ Hands-off, but we're available to help how we can with our connections and resources Our investment process respects valuable founder time, consisting of: ▪ 30-minute initial meeting ▪ 30-minute pitch and Q&A ▪ Provide access to the data room and answer a round of diligence questions