The Seattle Founder Institute, the local chapter of the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, is proud to announce the newest Alumni from the Seattle - Silicon Valley Virtual 2021 program.
Over 110 founders applied to the program, and after an intense four months of aggressive business-building sprints and constant evaluation and feedback from investors and mentors, just seven companies were able to make it through.
The new FI Seattle alumni invite members of the public to join them live this Wednesday, September 15th, for an online graduation event, featuring a keynote address from Fabian Geyrhalter.
Each of these dedicated entrepreneurs has demonstrated a high level of perseverance and creativity, and their businesses have been thoroughly vetted and supported by a panel of Seattle's top startup experts and investors.
Without further ado, we proudly present the newest Alumni of the Seattle program:
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Dash X
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ElertCo
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Impact Arts Co-op
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MusicScene
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Quiteoften
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Startosphere
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UltraMatria
The Seattle - Silicon Valley Virtual 2021 program would not have been possible without help, because it truly takes a city to raise a startup. We would first like to thank the Local Leaders of the Seattle Founder Institute: Aniket Naravanekar (CEO & Co-founder, Skillsheet), Nicole Doyle (Founder / CEO, Aspir). Our Local Leaders play an incredibly important role in building the local Founder Institute program, and creating an environment and network in Seattle that is conducive to building to great companies.
In addition, the Seattle - Silicon Valley Virtual 2021 program was supported by some of Seattle's top technology organizations, including:
Some of Seattle’s top startup mentors helped our founders in the program, including:
- Abdellah Aouf: Chief Executive Officer, GO PLATFORM
- Adam Mangone: CEO , Mangone Ventures
- Adeo Ressi: CEO, Decile Group / VC Lab
- Aleksandra Manuilova: Senior Portfolio Development Manager, Microsoft
- Allison Byers: Founder & CEO, Scroobious
- Amber Fehrenbacher: Growth Marketing Director & Venture Fellow at Material Change Institute , Condoit
- Amit Gupta: Sys Dev Manager, Amazon
- Amit Bhanot: Venture Partner, Loyal VC
- Amy Hutchins: Founder, Chief Product Officer, Unearth Technologies, Inc.
- Amy Swanson: CEO & Co-Founder, Ultropia
- Andrew Lee: CEO, Esper
- Andrew Klein: Founder, Zccounting
- Apurva Bhargava, TrusTrace
- Aspen White: Cofounder and CEO, AerwareAI
- Aviv Shalgi: CEO, Solar Simplified
- Ben Rush: Business, Pioneer Square Labs
- Ben Hallen: Neal and Jan Dempsey Endowed Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business
- Bill Bromfield: Partner, Fenwick & West
- Bob Crimmins: General Partner, Startup Haven Ventures
- Brian M Pasalich: Chief Executive Officer | Co-Founder, Behave Technologies (Formerly Syntoniq, Inc.)
- Bryan Rutberg: Partner, AG Consulting Partners
- Candice Dietz: Founder, Givespace
- Carmela Fortin: CEO, Seattle Startup Coaches
- Carson Nye: Investor, Two Ravens
- Charles Kwon: Managing Partner, Concitor
- Chloe Feingold: Financial Advisor, Edward Jones
- Chris Haberle: Principal Product Marketing Manager, AWS
- Christina Lomasney: Director of Commercialization, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Claire Mc Taggart: Founder & CEO, Square Peg Hires
- Clare Gould: Founder & CEO, Your Vesa
- Cody Birkland, Ultropia
- Collin Dayley: Founder, Collin Dayley Coaching
- Dan Fine: Managing Partner, Fine Solutions
- Dan Kihanya: Director, REI Path Ahead Ventures, REI
- Dan Moore: Cofounder, Tarka
- Dana Sather Robinson: Pitch Trainer, Pitch Coach, Angel Investor, Pitch 4 Impact Inc
- Danl Kasow: Principal, Sorted Solution
- Daria Boldyreva: Founder, Wunderdogs
- David Jorjani: Founder, Qatalyst Labs
- David Abu: Snr PM, Microsoft
- Dominique Simmons: Founder and CEO, CX UX Spark
- Elisa La Cava: Investor, Madrona Venture Group
- Evan Poncelet: evan@dreamward.vc, Dreamward Group / Venture Black
- Fabian Geyrhalter: Founder and Principal, FINIEN
- Garrett Gross: Sr. Director of Growth, Xemelgo
- Gary Gaessler: SaaS Community Builder, Nylas, Co-Founder of CloudElements
- Gaurav Malhotra: CMO, PickMyCar USA
- Gira Wieczorek: Managing Partner / Co-Founder, Aleberry
- Glenn Wisegarver: CEO, Sigma IQ
- Graciela Perez: Founder & Lean Start Up Coach, Lean Sigma Tech, LLC
- Hiroki Kudo: Founder, CEO, Easy Proposal
- Ian Lurie: EVP, Clearlink
- Irina Menn: CEO, Hopela
- James Hu: CEO, Jobscan
- Janis Machala: Corporate Director, Paladin Partners
- Jay Goyal: President, Actively Learn
- Jeff Croft: CRO, Kurvv
- Jeremy Zaretzky: Managing Director, Founder Institute Seattle
- Jeremy Bruck: Managing Partner, Data Valuation & Monetization, Gulp Data
- Jesse Posey: Co-Founder, COO, Managing Partner, Dreamward Group
- Joe Bezdek: Co-founder, DivX, Inc.
- John Robinson: Founder and Owner, Resolution Photomatching
- Jonathan Greechan: Co-Founder & CEO, Founder Institute, GP Founder Capital
- Jordan Hopson: Venture GM and Principle, BCG X
- Josh Trujillo: Entrepreneurship Consultant, Rural Innovation Strategies, Inc. / Center on Rural Innovation
- Josh Dougherty: Co-Founder & CEO, A Brave New
- June W Choi: Managing Partner, Serval Ventures
- Kate Edwards: AWS Startup BD/Co-Founder at Heartbeat , Heartbeat
- Ken Kranseler: Managing Director, Kabuki Strategy
- Kerra Melvin: Partner, DLA Piper
- Kevin Yu: Co-founder & CTO, Socedo Inc.
- Kevin Chan: Director, Product Marketing, Fleetio
- Khurram Agha: Founder, Aghaz Investments
- Kt Mc Bratney: Head of Community , Renew Venture Capital
- Laura Malcolm: Founder/CEO, Give InKind
- Leila Ergul Demir: Founder, Partner UP
- Levi Velez Reed: Venture Partner, Startup425
- L. Patricia Richards
- Madhu Singh: Chief Legal Officer, Foundry Law Group
- Marc Krejci: Founder, Pathfinder Foundry
- Mark Landay: Managing Director, Dynamic Synergy
- Matt Mandell: Principal, PayCard.com
- Matthew Lickwar: Co-Founder | Growth | Operations | Product, Ynomia
- Maximilian Von Poelnitz: Investment Director, DSM Venturing
- Melissa Li: Managing Partner and Head of Community, Dorm Room Fund
- Melissa Reaves, Story Fruition
- Mercedes Bankston: Venture Partner, Loyal VC
- Michael Avent: Partner, Perkins Coie LLP
- Michael Dryja: Principal and Registered Patent Attorney, Law Offices of Michael Dryja
- Mike Vandenbos
- Nelly Yusupova: Founder, TechSpeak.co
- Nicole Doyle: Founder, CEO, Aspir
- Nishanth Lingamneni: Angel Investor, Family Office
- Noah Wallach: Founder, Hope OS
- Noemi Ceapa: Founder / CEO, The Consulting Studio
- Pablo Casilimas, OneSixOne Ventures
- Paul Adams: CEO & Founder, Sound Financial Group
- Pilar Fernandez Hermida: Founder i-Expand (We help Health Tech companies go global), i-expand
- Rachel Kroft: Fractional CPO, Happy Warriors
- Raja Mawad: Founder, Thrv.health
- Rebecca Lovell: Director, Create33
- Rich Minice: Corporate Associate, Fenwick & West
- Rick Graham, Radd Studio Inc.
- Rob Hillas: Founder, PlainVanilla
- Ron Gentile: Founder, Moodfit
- Ryan Micheletti: Head of Global Operations, Founder Institute
- Ryan McRobert: Partner, Fenwick & West
- Shaahin Cheyene: Founder and President, Podcastcola Inc.
- Shilpa Sharma: Co-founder & CEO, Flyte (flyteai.com)
- Sneha Lundia Agrawal: Founder & CEO, Step2Growth
- Stacy Saal: Managing Director, Jelly Collective
- Suzanne Mills: Biz Dev & GTM - Retail & Fintech, Stealth Startup
- Symon Perriman: CEO & Founder, FanWide
- Tarun Gulati: Founder & CEO, Contemplate
- Taylor Black: Principal Program Manager, Office of the CTO Incubator , Microsoft
- Thibaut Labarre: Founding Engineer, SingleFile.io
- Travis Murdock: Executive Vice President, Ruder Finn
- Vladimir Pletyukhin: Founder and Creative Director, Launch Deck
- Yemi Oluseun: Growth & GTM For FinTechs, The Change Hive
In the Founder Institute's pre-seed accelerator program, early-stage entrepreneurs and teams build their business alongside a critical support network of local startup experts that share equity in their success, and through a structured and challenging business-building process that has helped alumni raise over 2BN.
After Graduation, the new Seattle Founder Institute Portfolio Companies now have a fast-growing company that has been fully validated by experienced startup founders, with access to the Founder Institute's global network and post-graduate support programs to continue building their business.
Leaders of the world’s fastest-growing startups have used the Founder Institute to raise funding, building a co-founding team, get into seed-accelerators, generate traction, recruit a team, build a product, transition from employee to entrepreneur, and more. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 200+ cities and 100+ countries, the Founder Institute’s mission is to Globalize Silicon Valley and empower talented and motivated entrepreneurs to build companies that will create one million new jobs.
The next Seattle Founder Institute Virtual 2022 program is being planned now. If you are interested in being notified when applications open, visit FI.co/apply/seattle.
Alumni of the Founder Institute are creating some of the world's fastest growing startups, having raised over 2BN in funding, and building products people love across over 200 cities worldwide.
See the most recent news from our Grads at FI.co/news, or learn more about their stories at FI.co/journey.
