Rima Reddy
Principal at Commerce Ventures
Rima Reddy
Principal at Commerce Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Principal
2021 - 2024
Commerce Ventures is a venture capital firm focusing on investments in the e-commerce, retail, FinTech, and Insurance sectors
Fellow
2021 - 2021
On Deck is a community platform designed to develop different ideas and build companies.
Raised $20,000,000.00 from Pioneer Fund.
Investment Partner
2020 - 2021
Dorm Room Fund is the best way for student founders to grow their startup. Built by students and powered by First Round, we provide founders with a strong network of investors, world-class mentors, and a $20,000 check. We've invested in 200 startups who've raised $400 million from firms like GV, Sequoia, and YC.
Dorm Room Fund is the strongest community of entrepreneurial students in the nation.
CEO | Editor-In-Chief
2020 - 2021
StartU's mission is to find, feature, and promote the next revolutionary student-led startups before anyone else discovers them. Our team of 40 Campus Scouts actively sources startups across 9 universities nationwide - including Stanford, Harvard, and Wharton. We cover campus pitch events, interview founders for exclusive in-depth articles, and help VCs quickly scan the student startup ecosystem to easily connect with emerging entrepreneurs. Through StartU, we help entrepreneurs by giving them the early press and exposure they need to succeed. Our featured startups have raised capital from firms including Accel, Lightspeed, Norwest, NEA, and Cowboy Ventures, and have raised over $370M in venture funding to date.
StartU is a digital publication that aims at finding, promoting, and featuring the next revolutionary student-led startups.
Member
2017 - 2021
37 Angels is a community of women investors who invest in early-stage companies.
37 Angels activates the untapped capital and experience women can bring investing in female and male led startups
MBA Investment Associate
2020 - 2020
M13 is a venture firm accelerating businesses at the nexus of consumer products, technology, and media. Some of our investments include: Lyft, Ring, Slack and Daily Harvest. Learn more here: www.m13.co Investments I was actively involved in include Locker Room (acq: Spotify), Adyn, and Rock The Bells.
M13 provides strategic counsel and operational expertise to help founders grow their companies.
Raised $5,512,500.00 from Manhattan West.
Fellow
2019 - 2020
We invest at pre-seed and seed stages. We partner with entrepreneurs from day zero to build category defining companies. Pear portfolio companies have achieved: $28B total value, and $3B capital raised. Our portfolio includes: Branch, Doordash, Guardant Health (NASDAQ:GH), and Gusto.
PearX is a bootcamp for pre-seed founders
Spring MBA Intern
2020 - 2020
I worked with the Executive team at Recess on a project to develop their content strategy.
Recess is a consumer wellness brand creating products and experiences designed to help people feel balanced, centered, and inspired.
Pre-MBA Intern
2019 - 2019
Eutopia is a Paris and New York based early-stage venture capital fund. We invest in consumer startups who are rethinking the way we eat, sleep, dress, exercise and feel. We empower early-stage startups to grow through investment, in-house expertise and a network of global advisors. With Europe as our investment playground, and the US as our second home, we invest at the seed/series A stages in rounds from âŦ500,000 to âŦ10 million.
Principal
2018 - 2019
Director Of Corporate Partnerships / Business Development
2017 - 2018
XRC Labs is an innovation accelerator for the next generation of disruptors in the retail and consumer goods sectors. We select and invest $1.4M in 10 startups twice a year. Our startups are positioned to create significant change in the retail or consumer goods industries. Alumni companies include Billie, ShopShops, Snappy, Hemster, Extra (FKA IRL), Edn, Terra Kaffe, Fitted Laundry, Visuwall, VirtualAPT, Simplista, Mayawell, Caraa Sport, Findmine, Forge, by Reveal, Cherry Pick, Lexset, Frenzy, StoreDNA, and many more