The MBA Fund

The MBA Fund

The MBA Fund launched to institutionalize the deal flow that emerges from the campuses of Harvard Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and The Wharton School. Its four general partners sit atop a distributed campus-team structure spanning dozens of students across those three schools plus UC Berkeley, though the firm does not disclose a founding year or a single headquarters location. The firm has deployed capital into more than 150 early-stage companies from its Fund I and Fund II, and its backers include top-tier venture firms, repeat founders, and super-angels with ties to the university networks it serves. Strategy and deployment center on pre-seed and seed-stage investing across software, consumer, fintech, AI, healthcare, climate, and robotics. The firm writes initial checks through its core funds and manages a separate invitation-only syndicate on AngelList for later-stage deals, giving LPs and co-investors the option to participate deal-by-deal. Portfolio companies that have raised follow-on capital have done so from firms including Sequoia, Founders Fund, Accel, Bessemer, and Lightspeed. Confirmed portfolio names from the firm's own disclosures include Dandy, Jeeves, Hightouch, Pair Eyewear, FlutterFlow, and Lucra. The team lists over 50 people across its campus chapters, though it does not publish total assets under management or a distinct professional headcount beyond the four general partners. Campus leads are organized by graduation cohort, with named Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, and Berkeley teams operating as scouts or venture partners. The firm also notes that companies in its portfolio have reached unicorn status, though it does not name them individually or specify count. The structural differentiator is a campus-scouting model that embeds operators inside the three highest-output startup universities in the United States, then funnels those investments into a single institutional venture fund with a parallel syndicate vehicle for later-stage allocations — a hybrid that few VC firms attempt at this scale. The four-general-partner top layer contrasts with founder-led firms, distributing decision-making across a partnership with no single named CEO or managing partner.