#xfund

[thingsibookmark]

Xfund offers seed and early-stage capital, expert guidance, and unparalleled access to America’s top-tier universities and venture firms.

[proximate]

Check out the Experimental Tea, hosted on Proximate.

It's a new tradition for Harvard and MIT founders, hosted out of the beautiful Eliot House on the banks of the Charles.

[harvardseas]

Seed-stage venture capital fund, anchored at Harvard and designed to cultivate local innovation and bold experimentation, expands its reach

Cambridge, Mass. – June 26, 2012 –Today, Accel Partners, Breyer Capital, and Polaris Venture Partners join New Enterprise Associates (NEA) as partners of The Experiment Fund (www.Xfund.com), a seed-stage venture capital fund anchored at Harvard and designed to cultivate innovation and bold experimentation in the Boston area.

Also announced today are several new advisers to the Fund, including former Harvard Law School professor and former Director of the Berkman Center John Palfrey, Facebook co-founder Andrew McCollum, noted entrepreneur and MIT researcher Hugo Liu, and an ex-officio post created for the President of Harvard Student Agencies.

Launched by Cherry A. Murray, dean of Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) in January 2012, The Experiment Fund will increase its fund size to further its mission to seek out and support the best engineers, entrepreneurs and designers starting their companies and careers in Cambridge, Massachusetts... [more]