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Xfund is an American venture capital firm with offices in Palo Alto, California and Cambridge, Massachusetts. It provides early-stage venture capital to entrepreneurs across multiple disciplines. Xfund was founded as the Experiment Fund in 2012 as a partnership between the venture capital companies New Enterprise Associates, Accel Partners, Breyer Capital, and Polaris Partners. Anchored at Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), it was established to make seed-stage investments in startups developed at Harvard and MIT, although the fund has been open to all founders regardless of university affiliation from the start. In 2014 the fund formally renamed itself Xfund (an abbreviation of "Experiment Fund"), and raised $100 million in a second fund, Xfund 2. A th

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dbo:abstract	Xfund is an American venture capital firm with offices in Palo Alto, California and Cambridge, Massachusetts. It provides early-stage venture capital to entrepreneurs across multiple disciplines. Xfund was founded as the Experiment Fund in 2012 as a partnership between the venture capital companies New Enterprise Associates, Accel Partners, Breyer Capital, and Polaris Partners. Anchored at Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), it was established to make seed-stage investments in startups developed at Harvard and MIT, although the fund has been open to all founders regardless of university affiliation from the start. In 2014 the fund formally renamed itself Xfund (an abbreviation of "Experiment Fund"), and raised $100 million in a second fund, Xfund 2. A third fund in 2020 raised $120 million. The first investor in most of its portfolio companies, Xfund's partners have invested companies such as 23andMe, Kensho, Gusto, Plaid, Robinhood, Patreon, Andela, and Philo. (en)
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