![]() ![]() Peter Boyce: I was inspired by the New York entrepreneurial ecosystem and how close-knit the community is. When did you first realize you were interested in VC? ![]() Nina Stepanov: Tell me about your background. The support from General Catalyst and his team has given students around the country the opportunity to connect, learn, and build the next generation of student-led startups. Nowadays, Peter is building startup communities for student founders and investors in Boston and New York through Rough Draft Ventures. His driving force? The opportunity to help others achieve. After launching HackHarvard and co-founding Harvard Ventures, Peter co-founded Rough Draft Ventures with help from General Catalyst. I joined RDV to help student founders achieve their goals and meet some of the most passionate young entrepreneurs out there! I’m most excited to help them with their go-to-market strategy and support founders from diverse backgrounds.A well known figure in the Boston entrepreneurship community, Peter Boyce, often referred to as PB2, has been building communities around startups since high school. Outside of robotics, I care a lot about creating better access to education for individuals from all backgrounds I spent the past summer at Acceptitas, an early-stage education technology startup! I am also very passionate about robotics and spent two summers at General Electric’s Research and Development Robotics Group creating crawler robots and drones for the inspection and maintenance industry in the aviation and energy sectors. During my freshman year, I started the HUCP Innovation Fund to support early-stage entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds by providing equity-free grants of up to $10K and thousands of dollars in partnership credits to any Harvard-affiliated founder. I am also the Vice President of Harvard Undergraduate Capital Partners, an organization that partners with VC clients totaling $27B AUM on sourcing and due diligence projects. I am a Junior at Harvard University majoring in Economics with a secondary in Computer Science and am a Coca-Cola Scholar and Blankfein Family Goldman Sachs Scholar. I’m excited to join Rough Draft because I believe that successful startups are built on the backs of successful founders, and we’re uniquely positioned to identify and cultivate those people. I’ve worked as a software engineer at both a cybersecurity startup and litigation finance fund I’ve also been a PM at Microsoft and a founder in the entertainment analytics space. In the past, I’ve served on a corporate philanthropic board, been elected to local public office, and developed an original TV pilot. I’m currently interested in consumer social, new media and user-generated content, and enterprise productivity SaaS (plus the metaverse). As a self-identified humanities person, I see artistic creativity and technology as two sides of the same coin, and I spend a lot of time reading books and newsletters about pretty much everything. Although I studied computer science in undergrad and grad school, I actually wrote my first line of code as a college sophomore. I’m a first-year MBA student at Harvard Business School with a professional background in product management. I am thrilled to be an RDV Fellow this year and working with a stellar team equally passionate about supporting student founders. I am excited to dive into sectors like consumer and sports technology, especially as a former competitive rock climber. RDV attracted me as a way to gain hands on experience and autonomy as an investor beyond even what a traditional internship can provide. I am passionate about leveraging everything I learned in the Navy from being scrappy enough to locate the information critical to key operational assessments to managing and assessing team dynamics in tense, chaotic environments – not too different from the startup experience. It was the adventure of a lifetime and included a round-the-world deployment. I joined the Navy after graduating from Harvard College in 2016 with a degree in Applied Mathematics. As a second year MBA student at MIT Sloan, I have emphasized re-shaping analytical skills honed as a naval intelligence officer into ones that can be applied to venture capital. ![]()
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