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.
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.
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