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  Xfund Xfund is an early-stage venture capital firm dedicated to finding and supporting technically-gifted entrepreneurs with a liberal arts mindset. Founded at Harvard in 2011 by a partnership of Accel Partners, Breyer Capital, New Enterprise Associates and Polaris Partners, Xfund has offices in Cambridge and Silicon Valley.
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  The Rise of the Student-Entrepreneur If you asked most people today, they would probably agree with the notion that a college sophomore can develop technology or launch a business that can transform an entire industry and define a generation. Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have already blazed that trail. But often, just when those…
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  The Experiment Fund Launches Today we are thrilled to announce that, in a special collaboration with Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), NEA is launching The Experiment Fund (www.xfund.com), a unique seed-stage investment vehicle based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the Harvard campus. NEA and Harvard share in many respects the same…
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  Bullish on Boston: Why Biotech (and More) is Booming I spend a lot of time in Boston these days. So do many of my partners. In fact, half of our partnership serves on boards in Boston, and we have about two dozen Boston companies in our active portfolio. This is not a new phenomenon—NEA has always been among…