Founder Institute Mentors

Los Angeles 2025

Founder Institute Mentors join weekly feedback sessions, host office hours, and in general provide you feedback every step of the way. In addition, through our Equity Collective, Mentors are invested in the success of your company both during and after the program.

See the list of current and past mentors for the Los Angeles program below.

Mentors

Aaron Ross

Author, Predictable Revenue

Aaron Abram

Entrepreneur with 1 exit & Advisor., Pricestack, Kangarootime, & Osurv

Abdellah Aouf

Chief Executive Officer, GO PLATFORM

Adeo Ressi

CEO, Decile Group / VC Lab

Aeolan Kelly

CEO & Founder, Benchmark Equine

Akshay Bajaj

Founder & CEO, HostEasy

Alan Cole

Alan Cole - CEO, GovX (San Diego FI), Gov X

Alex Lightman

Alex Lightman - Chairman, Witkit (Kuala Lumpur FI) , Witkit

Alex Dang

Senior Advisor and Former Partner, McKinsey & Company

Alexey Semeney

Founder & CEO, DevTeam.Space

Allison Silvers

Early-Stage Investor; Startup Advisor, Tech Coast Angels

Alphonzo Terrell

Co-Founder and CEO, Spill

Amanda Lettmann

CEO, COO & Co-Founder, Kardia Ventures/ SimpleDisability, Inc.

Amy Chang

CEO, Delta Nutrassentials

André Filho

Founder In Residence, AI Fund

Andrew Beinbrink

CEO, SportsForce

Andy Abramson

CEO, Comunicano, Inc

Angela Lee

CEO & Co Founder, From Fat to Finish Line

Angelo Di Leva

Founder & CEO , Simply I Do, Inc.

Ar Tabrizi

Co-Founder , Human 1st Ventures

Ariel McNichol

CEO & Co Founder, SmartSpark

Arnaud Saint Paul

Founder, Give Labs

Ashtan Moore

Entrepreneur, A Misfit Plethora

Atilio Spaccarotella

General Partner, Swivel Ventures

Benjamin Narasin

Founder & General Partner, Tenacity Venture Capital

Bennett Batten

CEO, Lumpsucker Studios

Bernardo Herzer

CEO / Founder, LEHR Inc.

Bob Saffari

Founder, Flairio Labs

Brandon Hoffman

General Partner, Sunset Ventures

Brian Liu

Chairman & Co-Founder, LegalZoom.com

Bridgit Lombard

CEO & Founder, Marea Partners

Brock Pierce

Vice Chairman, Affinity Media

Bryan Hall

Principal Architect (San Diego FI), Seismic

Charlie Jackson

Founder, Silicon Beach Software

Chas Rampenthal

General Counsel, LegalZoom.com

Cheryl Yeoh

EIR, Silicon Valley Bank

Chris Studer

Founder & Former CEO, ScholarPoint Financial

Chris Snook

Managing Partner/Venture Catalyst in Residence, Launch Haus

Chris Bechtel

Managing Partner, Growth Engine Labs

Christopher Harz

Vice President, VirtualAgility

Cliff Boro

Managing Partner , The Team Group, LLC.

Corey Coto

CEO, Kaizen Insights

Cory Rosenberg

CEO & Co-Founder , Biista

Courtney Nichols Gould

CEO & Co Founder, SmartyPants Inc.

Craig Hagopian

CEO & Founder, Chalk Media Holdings, Inc.

Dan Shapiro

Dan Shapiro - Founder, Sparkbuy (Seattle FI) , Stealth

Daniel Landsman

Aerospike, Head of NA/MarTech/Gaming

David Johnson

Co Founder & Chairman of the Board, From Fat to Finish Line

David Parham

Director of Research - Projects, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board

Delilah Panio

Vice President, Capital Formation, TMX Group

Derrick Oien

FI Mentor

Dimitri Villard

CEO, Live Longer, Inc.

Dolly Singh

CEO & Founder, Thesis Couture

Don Di Pietro

Co-Founder/COO, XIRKL Networks

Don Swan

Private Equity Associate, Skyview Capital

Donna Antebi

FI Mentor

Eddie Hartman

co-Founder, LegalZoom

Edmond Banayan

Entrepreneur / CEO / VP of Biz Development / Board Observer / Investor / Mentor, See LinkedIn

Elizabeth Topp

CEO & Co Founder, MOD - Meaningful Organizational Design

Eric Pulier

CEO and Founder, ServiceMesh, Inc

Evan Rifkin

CEO, Burstly.com

Fabian Geyrhalter

Founder and Principal, FINIEN

Fabrice Gould

Founder & CEO, Diggen

Frank Mastronuzzi

Founding Partner, Punch Financial

Fred Joyal

Fred Joyal - CEO & Co-Founder, Futuredontics (Los Angeles FI) , Futuredontics

Gabe Zichermann

CEO, Failosophy

Gaurav Bhattacharya

CEO & Co-Founder , Involve.ai

George Bandarian Ii

Founder & Managing Partner, ValueScaler

Gioia Messinger

Gioia Messinger - Founder and Chairman, Avaak, Inc. (San Diego/Orange County FI), LinkedObjects, Inc.

Greg Hallinan

Founder & CEO, ModMedia, Inc

Gregg Spiridellis

CEO, JibJab

Hany Alhamidi

Founder, eMentoring

Henri Duong

Founder, Principal, Enclave Web Group (EWG)

Irving Hsu

Investor, Mayfield Fund

Jad Meouchy

FI Mentor

Jake Tan

Founder, ErgoTune

Janet Todorova

Head of Expansion, Founder Institute

Jason Calacanis

Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Author, LAUNCH, All In, This Week in Startups

Jason Nazar

Jason Nazar - Co Founder & CEO, Crew32

Jason Pang

COO, Bodymatter, Inc.

Jason Butcher

Founder & CEO, Orbit Capital

Jay Samit

Former CEO, SocialVibe

Jay Tsao

CEO & Founder, GM Technologies

Jay Kossifos

Founder & CEO, Pay Close Attention, Brand & Venture Partners

Jayla Siciliano

Founder, Bon Affair

Jeff Jackel

CEO, Chatter

Jeffrey Paine

Founding Partner, Golden Gate Ventures, Singapore

Jenny Pollock

Founder, Women and AI

Jesse Dylan

CEO, Wondros

Jilliene Helman

Co-Founder & CEO, Realty Mogul

Jimmy Hendricks

Jimmy Hendricks - CEO & Co-Founder, , Light Post Digital & Deal Current Network

Joe Betts Lacroix

CTO, Vium

Joe Bezdek

Co-founder, DivX, Inc.

Joe Bayen

CEO, Credit Plus

John Girard

CEO, CIENCE

Jon Carder

CoFounder and CEO , Empyr

Jon Funk

Founder & President, Ocean Road Partners

Jong Choi

Co-Founder & Managing Director, Chaperone Ventures

Jordan Greenhall

Co-Founder & Former CEO, DivX

Joseph Yeh

FI Mentor

Joshua Azran

Founder, Azran Financial APC

Joshua Lee

Founder & CEO, Ardius (Acquired by Gusto)

Justin Wu

Founder, Growth.ly

Kelly Perdew

Cofounder, Moonshots Capital

Ken Rutkowski

CEO / Founder, METal

Ken Ong

Senior Vice President, Salesforce.com

Kevin Yamazaki

CEO & Founder, Sidebench

Kim Walpole

CEO & Co Founder, Trials.ai

Liz Gasser

Managing Partner, High Camp Ventures

Lucy Beard

Lucy Beard - CEO & Founder, feetZ

Madeline Fraser

CEO & Founder, Gemist

Manoj Khani

CEO & Founder, Memorita

Mara Rada

Chief Operations and Strategy, Loon (loonbio.com)

Marcos Polanco

CEO, Deedit

Margot Bushnaq

Founder & CEO, BrandBucket.com

Mark Landay

Managing Director, Dynamic Synergy

Mark Hellinger

Chief Marketing Officer, InvolveSoft

Mark Wald

Managing Director, Supporting Strategies

Matt Walker

Founder, DayPoint

Michael Stemple

Mike Stemple - Founder, Inspirer , Inspirer

Michael Green

President , Tech Coast Angels

Michael Taus

Founder / CMO, Rent.com, CrowdStreet, Rentable, Amplion, FoundersPad

Mike Fleck

Vice President, Security, CipherPoint (a Covata Ltd. company)

Mike Sherbakov

General Partner, The Veteran Fund

Nadav Wilf

Founder & CEO, ENLTND

Neha Bansal

Head of Product, Meta

Nick Cates

Founder & CEO, Showpads.com

Nitsan Tucker

COO & Co-Founder, Truemance, Inc.

Noah Wallach

Founder, Hope OS

Nolan Bushnell

CEO and Founder, uWink

Oded Noy

Founder & CEO, Social Approach

Oren Klaff

Director of Capital Markets, Intersection Capital

Patrick Dillon

Co-Founder & President, Deal Current Network, Inc.

Patrick Barry

Founder and CEO, Kinduce

Peter Guber

CEO, Mandalay Entertainment

Ralph Simon

Chairman Emeritus & Founder, MEF

Rebecca Sadwick

Founder & Managing Partner, Strategica Partners

Reichart Von Wolfsheild

Chief Software Architect, CTO & Co-Founder, Qtask

Renee Zau

Co-Founder & CEO, DonationMatch

Richard Gibbs

CEO, Invisible Arts

Richard Koffler

CEO, Greenwings Biomedical

Rick Hernandez

Redefined Logistics, Head of Business Development

Ricky Velasquez

Founder, Mooch (exited)

Rishi Sharma

West Coast Lead , Newlin VC

Robert Tercek

President, General Creativity Consulting

Robin Lee

Investment Screening Director, Tech Coast Angels

Ronen Olshansky

Co Founder , CrossCampus

Ruslan Nazarenko

Head of Growth, Scale AI

Ryan Kaltman

CEO, Brevity Inc

Ryan Bettencourt

Ryan Bettencourt - Co-Founder, Cursive Labs , Cursive Labs

Sam Saddigh

CEO / Founder, Knightsbridge Branding

Sam Strasser

Founder & CEO, Treasure

Sameer Sortur

Founding Partner, SquareCircle Ventures

Sarah Song

Startup Advisor, Los Angeles, CA

Saumya Bhatnagar

CTO & Co-Founder, Involve.ai

Scott Painter

Co Founder, BrightHouse

Scott Tilton

Co Founder & CEO, Hookit.com

Scott Wayman

Founder & CEO, Kangarootime

Sean Markin

CEO & Co Founder, Myvana

Serephina Ha

Managing Director, Founder Institute - Los Angeles

Sergey Sundukovskiy

Co-Founder, CTO and Chief Product Officer, Certemy

Seth Shapiro

FI Mentor

Shaahin Cheyene

FI Mentor

Shahab Kaviani

Co-Founder, Chief Entrepreneurs Office, CoFoundersLab

Shankar Narayanan

Technology Partnerships & Sales Leader, Amazon Web Services | Energy & Utilities

Shar Ghoudsifar

Founder & CEO, Helpkin

Shuki Lehavi

CEO & Co-Founder, Gumiyo

Simon Mainwaring

CEO, Mainwaring Creative

Sina Roshan

Cofounder & CPO, Peekage (Techstars 2020)

Siobhan Oldham

CEO & Founder , Azestfor, Inc.

Snow Lee

Co-Founder & CEO, Runbear

Steen Strand

Director, Snap

Stephane Fymat

Founder & CEO, Smartplane Inc.

Stephen Meade

Founder & CEO, MonetaPro

Steve Hansen

CEO, WePlay

Steve Lehman

Co-Founder, "C" Student Entertainment

Steven Morley

Business Advisor, Success4Execs

Stuart Oden

CEO, JLink

Susy Pang

Director of Customer Operations, InvolveSoft

Talha Basit

Co-Founder & CEO, Spiraldot Health

Taryn Rose

FI Mentor

Taylor Milsal

Managing Director, Cotor Inc

Taylor Cavanah

CEO & CO-Founder, Locai, Inc.

Thom Kozik

Chief Commercial Officer, Loyyal

Tim Norris

Co-Founder, J!NX

Tim Drees

FI Mentor

Tim Suski

Co Founder, Rush Cycle

Todd Terrazas

Founder, President, & Executive Director, AI LA

Tom Marchesello

Investor Trend & Strategy Director, United States Fund

Tom Andrus

FI Mentor

Tom Walpole

CTO, TrialsAi

Tony Karrer

Tony Karrer - CEO/CTO, TechEmpower (Los Angeles FI), TechEmpower

Tony Greenberg

Chairman and Founder, RampRate

Travis Schmidt

Founder, WorldFare

Trevor Jensen

CEO, Bullibone

Tyler Turner

Founder & CEO, Beauy Fox

Vidya Dinamani

Co Founder & Principal, Product Rebels

Walter O'brien

CEO, Scorpion Computer Services

Wayne Bos

Chairman, Minergy

Wesley St. Louis

Founder, CEO, HecTech

William Quigley

CEO, OPSkins and WAX Token

Yemi Oluseun

Growth & GTM For FinTechs, The Change Hive

Yunus Sevimli

Co-Founder & CTO, Almond Fintech

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