Forget social mobile apps: here’s what Penn students are building

Three years ago, Penn students were wild about building social mobile apps. That’s not the case anymore, said Isaac Sukin, a Penn student investor with First Round Capital’s Dorm Room Fund.

From the Dorm Room Fund blog:

The Dorm Room Fund Philly portfolio is half B2B [business to business] and half B2C [business to consumer]. By my count, it is roughly one-third software, one-third physical goods, and one-third other services.

All of the Philly Dorm Room Fund portfolio companies that have been announced — some are not public yet — are from Penn.

Read the whole post on startup trends at Penn here.

While hardware startups haven’t yet spun out of Penn, there’s also a budding maker scene at the school, shown in part by PennHacks, the student hardware hackathon that’s now in its second year of existence.