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: David Munir Nabti (CEO @ Bloom.pm 🌻; Director, Founder Institute - San Francisco, Oakland, Seattle, Portland, Las Vegas), Jeni Chang (., .), 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:
- Abby Sugar: CEO, Play Out Apparel
- Abdellah Aouf: Chief Executive Officer, GO PLATFORM
- Abhiroop Gandhi: Principal, Advisory Services
- Abhishek Garg: Head of Growth, TheCapitalNet
- Adam Mangone: CEO , Mangone Ventures
- Adeo Ressi: CEO, Decile Group / VC Lab
- Ahmed Muzmmal: VP of Engineering (Cofounder), Gaper
- Aishwarya Bagaria: Product Designer, Applied Intuition
- AJ Shergill: Co-Founder, Januity
- Alain Raynaud: CEO, FairSoftware
- Alan Young: Strategic Advisor, BellSant
- Albert Lam: Partner, Dorm Room Fund
- Aleksandra Manuilova: Senior Portfolio Development Manager, Microsoft
- Alex Brough: Partner, Keneh
- Alex Oakley
- Alex Katzman: Founding Partner, Growth Inflection
- Alexa Meyer: Co-Founder and CEO, Beam
- Alexander Sumin: co-founder, Chief Marketing Officer, ClaimCompass
- Alexey Kadet: Chief Business Officer, Gero
- Ali Ahmed: CEO, Robomart
- Allen Saakyan: Interviewing the Greatest Minds, Simulation
- Allison Ayer
- Altif Brown: User Strategist, Constellation Network
- Amarinder Sidhu: Founder and Owner, Innowaring Labs
- Ambar Mehta: Chief Resident, General and Vascular Surgery, Mass General Hospital
- Amit Gupta: Sys Dev Manager, Amazon
- Amy Hutchins: Founder, Chief Product Officer, Unearth Technologies, Inc.
- Amy Swanson: CEO & Co-Founder, Ultropia
- André Flórido: Partner, Altaz Capital
- Andrew Lee: CEO, Esper
- Andrew Klein: Founder, Zccounting
- Andrew Broderick: Project Co-Director, San Francisco Tech Council
- Andy Herman: Founder, Signtag Corp.
- Andy Van Valer: COO, Esaiyo, Inc.
- Andy Billings: Profitable Creativity, Electronic Arts
- Andy Marse: Director of Customer Success, Ecology Action
- Angela Rastegar: Director, West Coast and Asia Pacific, Circle Surrogacy and Egg Donation
- Anish Patel: Employer Go-to-Market Advisor, GRAIL
- Anisha Vinjamuri: Founder & President , boza
- Ankoor Tailor: CEO & Partner, NAVN Advisory
- Anna Lindbäck: CEO & Founder, Startup Strats
- Anne Cocquyt: Founder & CEO, The GUILD
- Annu Navani: Founder & CEO, Comprehensive Spine and Sports Center
- Anthony Bull: Principal, Bluxome Labs LLC
- Antoine Morin: Co-founder & Creative Director, LeanTeams
- Anu Shultes: CEO, LendUp
- Anubhav Sharma: Head Of Agentic AI, Jeeva AI
- Anuradha Gali: Engineering Leader, @OXIO
- Aracelis Nass: Senior Business Program Manager, Microsoft
- Arcui Usoara: Global Board Advisor and Brand Strategist, Founder, Iaculus
- Arjun Rao: Founder and CEO, Syncremedies Healthcare Pvt Ltd
- Arun Nithyanandam: Co-founder and CEO, Cappius Technologies
- Ashli Weiss: Attorney, Weiss Law LLP
- Ashwin Sivakumar: Chief of Digital Business Strategy, JugularSocial Group
- Aswin Pranam: Sr. Product Manager, UVC Partners
- Asya Bradley: VP | Channel Partnerships, Socure - Real Identity Verification
- Atsuko Jenks: Founder & CEO, Japan Accelerator
- Audrea Fink: Sales Coach & Strategist, mConnexions
- Austin Stevenson: Managing Director, Thomas Green Holdings
- Avery Lyford: Chief Customer Officer, Infostretch
- Aviv Shalgi: CEO, Solar Simplified
- Axel Strombergsson: Vice President, QuickVault, Veeva Systems, Inc.
- Ayodeji Agboola: Founder, Akowe
- Ayush Bharti: CoFounder/CTO, Our Health Mate
- Bade Aluko: Managing Partner, White Hibiscus Capital
- Balaji Gopalan: Independent Product Management Educator, Mentor, Consultant and Advisor, self
- Barbara Timm Brock: CEO, eTrack Tech
- BARRET NEWBERRY: CEO, Leasera
- Basavaraj K: Senior Software Engineer, Meta, Inc
- Bastien Berthon: Sr. Director of Product, Head of Data, GM of Prism fund, Yieldstreet
- Behrooz Behbod: Founder & CEO, The Entrepreneur's Doctor
- Ben Larson: Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Vertosa
- Ben Stacey: CEO, Pitchverk
- Ben Rush: Business, Pioneer Square Labs
- Ben York: Director of Corporate Strategy, RampRate
- Ben Larralde: Founder, Hackster.io
- Ben Huang: CEO, Astron Medtech
- Bethany Hills Grois: Partner, DLA Piper
- Bill Bromfield: Partner, Fenwick & West
- Bill Bryant: General Partner, Threshold Ventures
- Bill Reichert: Partner
- Blair Mandell: Director of Talent Acquisition, Velodyne Lidar
- Blake Wehman: Founder & CEO, Remission Medical
- Bob Crimmins: General Partner, Startup Haven Ventures
- Bow Rodgers: CEO
- Brad Larmie: Strategic Transformation & Innovation, Children's Minnesota
- Bradley Mora: CEO, Spacestation
- Brandon Steelman: Founder, Clear Gene, Inc.
- Brandon Zhang: Business Analyst II, Amazon.com Services Llc
- Brennan Woodruff: Co-Founder, Chief Business Officer, GoCharlie.ai
- Brett Fink: Managing Partner, Greater Holdings
- Brett Yokom
- Brian Sparkes: Head of Communications, Bay Angels
- Brian M Pasalich: Chief Executive Officer | Co-Founder, Behave Technologies (Formerly Syntoniq, Inc.)
- Britt Johnson: Operations Excellence Leader, Amazon
- Brittany Canty: Director of New Product Development, Braven
- Bryan Rutberg: Partner, AG Consulting Partners
- Bryan Fields: Cofounder & CEO, Eighth Revolution
- Bryan Talebi: CEO, Ahura A.I.
- Candice Dietz: Founder, Givespace
- Carla Brenner: Venture Partner, Supernode Ventures
- Carlos Ochoa: Founder & CEO, Alpha Impact 8
- Caroline Yeh: Director of Procurement, Kiva Confections
- Chandler Lewis: Founder, 360 Social Impact Studios
- Chang Chen: Founder, Hockey Stick
- Charles Kwon: Managing Partner, Concitor
- Charles Warner: Editor in Chief, Cannabis and Tech Today
- Charles Becker: Attorney, Hanson Bridgett
- Chase Harmer: CEO, Wishes
- Cheale Villa: Founder, CEO + Visionary Rabbit, Visual Caffeine
- Chinara Askerzade: Managing Partner at PocketVC early-stage VC, PocketVC Studio and PocketVC Technologies Inc
- Chintan Oza: Founder, Anantam Ecosystems
- Chloe Feingold: Financial Advisor, Edward Jones
- Chris Hawkins: Founder, SignNow
- Chris Kelley: Principal, DFJ
- Chris Haberle: Principal Product Marketing Manager, AWS
- Chris Bruno: Owner, X2Y Strategic Advisors
- Chris Foltz: Global Entrepreneur-In-Residence, Founder Institute
- Chris Cromwell: UX Motion Designer, Indeed.com
- Chris Miller: CEO, ScratchSpace Inc.
- Chris Frost: Director of Technology and Infrastructure, Cruzio Internet
- Chris Mc Carthy: Innovation and Design Leader, ILN Coaching & Consulting
- Chris Anderson: General Partner, A2Z Ventures
- Christian Behl: International Business Development, Cognition IP
- Christina Lomasney: Director of Commercialization, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Christopher Brereton: Partner and Cheif Product Officer, Sidebench
- Christopher K. Lee: Technology Strategy Director, Elevance Health
- Christy Johnson: CEO, Artemis Connection, Inc
- Chuan En (Ken) Lin: Managing Director, ABIES Asset Management
- Ciaran Byrne: President, Creeslon
- Claire Mc Taggart: Founder & CEO, Square Peg Hires
- Clare Gould: Founder & CEO, Your Vesa
- Claudius Mbemba: Venture Investment Director, Startup Haven
- Coco Sellman: Entrepreneur & Angel Investor, Remarkable Ventures
- Cody Birkland, Ultropia
- Colleen Hilton: CEO, Alli Connect
- Connor Gray: CEO, Stealth
- Cory Wang: CoDirector, Founder Institute SF
- Dada Nabhaniilananda The Monk Dude: Mindfullness & Meditation Leader, Google
- Dan Fine: Managing Partner, Fine Solutions
- Dan Arkind: Founder & CEO, JobScore
- Dan Kihanya: Director, REI Path Ahead Ventures, REI
- Dan Rubins: Founder & CEO, Legal Robot
- Daniel Takabayashi: CTO, Laguro.com
- Daniel Idzkowski: Co-Founder & CEO, SkunkLock, Inc.
- Danl Kasow: Principal, Sorted Solution
- Daria Boldyreva: Founder, Wunderdogs
- Dave Tran: Co-Founder, Farechild
- David Gibbons: Managing Director, ESA/ESTEC
- David Anderson: GM, Kilby Silicon Valley Labs at Texas Instruments
- David Gimpelevich: Venture Scout, Kilby Silicon Valley Labs at Texas Instruments
- David Kuchar: CEO, Coral
- David Carvajal: Founder & CEO, Cannavest
- David Chung: Regional VP Sales, VirnetX
- David Dennis: Co-Founder, Microsoft
- David Jorjani: Founder, Qatalyst Labs
- David Munir Nabti: CEO/GM, Bloom.pm 🌻
- Deborah Lindsay: VP of Sales and Business Development, SellHound
- Dennis Robbins: Principal, Dennis Robbins Ph.D., M.P.H.
- Derek Andersen: Co-Founder, Bevy / Startup Grind
- Diane Najm: CEO/Founder, PhotoPad
- Dianthe Skurko: Principal, GVC Partners
- Diego Roman: Founder & CEO, InsureHero
- Diogo Ruiz: CEO and Founder, Bluezup
- Divyanshu Sharma: Software Engineer 3, Platform Security (Authentication & Authorization), CrowdStrike
- Diwen Chen: Value Based Care Advisor / Consultant, Freelance / Former VP/National Head of Payment Innovation, Elevance Health
- Dj Saul: CEO, Khalifa Kush
- Dj Gregory: Project Manager, Skybridge Construction
- D.J. Mogefors: Founder and CEO, Mogefors Consulting
- Dominique Kim, MPH: Health and Healthcare Transformation Leader, InnovatorMD
- Don Samoil: Managing Partner, Trusted Scale
- Dr. Pallavi Singh: IP and Technology Lawyer and Consultant, Founder, Episteme Legal
- Dr Pooja Sancheti: Doctor | Healthcare Strategist and Operations SME, Deloitte UK
- Dr. Raashid Saiyed: Founder , Centre for Research in Human Nature
- Edmond Sanctis: Partner, REASON Venture Partners
- Elio Asuncao: Founder, Venture Capital World Summit Inc
- Elisa La Cava: Investor, Madrona Venture Group
- Elizabeth Di Gaetano Andrew: Senior Sales, HelloSign
- Emeka Alozie: Director, IntuitiveX
- Emna Ghariani: Chapter Lead Director, The Founder Institute
- Eren Bali: Chairman & Co-founder, Udemy
- Eric Anderson: President , And One Technologies
- Eric Hsu: Corporate Attorney
- Eric Fennel: Founder / President, Value Strategies, LLC
- Erwin Hosono: Partner, Kilby Silicon Valley Labs at Texas Instruments
- Ethan Carter: CEO & Founder , Codexa Hub
- Evan Weiss: Sales Engineer, Retool
- Fabian Geyrhalter: Founder and Principal, FINIEN
- Fabiana Clemente: CTO, YData
- Faye Sahai: General Founding Partner, Telosity Ventures
- Felipe Castro Quiles: CEO, Emerging Rule
- Feron Mcgurrin: Creative Team Lead - Product Innovation Team, Samsung USA
- Fran Ayalasomayajula: CEO, RTL Innovation
- Francisco Cruz Mendoza: Community Manager, Notion
- Francois Nguyen: Chief Design Officer, frog
- FRANCOIS PAILLIER, CIRCAGENE
- Frank Mastronuzzi: Founding Partner, Punch Financial
- Frank Hysa: Senior Innovation Manager , Volvo Group
- Franklin Kamnang Ngansop: Co-Founder, Vitamin C&S Coaching
- Frederic Voyer: Senior Strategy & Execution Advisor, Post-Exit Entrepreneur (multiple: SWAAAP, BVI & HR Inc.)
- Fredrick Tsang: IP Attorney, Fenwick & West
- Gabriela Covay: Agency Owner, Bright Valley Marketing
- Gabriela Covay Moore: Founder of a Digital Marketing Company - I can Help Companies Leverage SEO and Digital Marketing to Grow, Bright Valley Marketing, LLC
- Gagan Biyani: Co-Founder, Udemy, Spring, Maven
- Garrett Gross: Director of Growth, Xemelgo
- Gary Gaessler: SaaS Community Builder, Nylas, Co-Founder of CloudElements
- Gary Goldman: Founder, Global Health Impact Fund
- Gautam Tandon: CEO, Ellipsis Marketing
- Genau L. Jr.: Founder & CEO, Yoobe.me
- Genevieve Le Marchal: General Partner, Suncoast Ventures
- Ghayath Janoudi: Founding CEO, Loon Bio
- Gil Allouche: Founder & CEO, metadata.io
- Gina Cavuoto: Media Specialist, Believe Agency
- Gira Wieczorek: Managing Partner / Co-Founder, Aleberry
- Giselle Bisson: Managing Director, Chain Reaction PR
- Glenn Wisegarver: CEO, Sigma IQ
- Gordon L. Sansaver III: Executive Leader / General Manager, Virginia Mason Institute
- Grace Robinson: Director of Business Development, Ello Capital
- Graciela Perez: Founder & Lean Start Up Coach, Lean Sigma Tech, LLC
- Gregory Rickman: Executive Coach, Greg Rickman Leadership Coaching, LLC
- Haden Kirkpatrick: Head of Marketing Strategy and Innovation, Esurance
- Hamza Shaikh: Founder / CEO, Stabl
- Harmony Oswald: Founder & CEO, Legalucy, Inc.
- Helene Servillon: Founding Partner, JourneyOne Ventures
- Henry Lin: Managing Director, Point B Capital
- Hiren Patel: Angel Investor, board member, advisor, head of QA/RA, Multiple
- Ian Lurie: EVP, Clearlink
- Ian Richards: CEO, Fitchburg Management
- Ian Gordon: DevOps, Orcale
- Ignacio Castro: Managing Partner, 128vc
- Ignacio Castro (Don't Use): N/A, 128vc
- I Lin Tsai: Co-Founder, Astron Medtech
- Irina Menn: CEO, Hopela
- Irina Berkon: Member, Golden Seeds
- Irina Kukuyeva PhD: AI diligence, Kukuyeva Consulting
- Isaac Bock: Managing Director, AlphaRoot
- Isabelle Girad: Business Director, Arkema
- Ishwar Persad: Funder. Executive Coach, Insight Coaching
- Israel Raz: Partner, Extera Partners
- Ivan Goldensohn: CEO, Valis Bioscience
- Izabela Miller: Founder, Coach and Mentor, Growing Curiosity
- Jack Cochran: Retired CEO and Plastic Surgeon, Executive Advisor on Straegy and Leadership
- Jake Kuczeruk: Business Development, The Arcview Group
- Jake Hite: CTO, Compete to Create
- Jake Wall: Chief Innovation Officer, avec bloom
- Jake Tital: Co-Founder, Sproutways
- J. Allie Morse: Head of Expansion, Postmates
- James Hu: CEO, Jobscan
- James Leaverton: Partner Marketing Manager, Startups, Equinix
- Jana Krystofova Mike: Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Critical Care at University of California, San Francisco
- Janiece Jenkins: Associate, Fenwick & West
- Janis Machala: Corporate Director, Paladin Partners
- Jason Jacobsohn
- Jason Jacobsohn: Managing Director, Propellant Ventures
- Jason Scharf
- Jason Novak: Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright
- Javid Jamae: Director of Growth, Postman
- Jaxon Ridgewell: Founder and CEO, TheTechInspo
- Jay Goyal: President, Actively Learn
- Jay Rooke: Executive Coach, Jay Rooke Coaching
- Jean Garcia Periche: Co-Founder, GENIA Latinoamérica
- Jean-Claude Junqua: CEO, CE2Innovate
- Jeanne Sullivan: Investor, RampRate
- Jed Katz: Managing Partner, Javelin Venture Partners
- Jeff Croft: CRO, Kurvv
- Jeffrey McIntosh: Founder, McIntosh Tea
- Jeffrey Mazer: Chief Financial Officer, WYLD
- Jeffrey Finkle: CEO, Arcview Ventures
- JEFFREY CHAMPAGNE: Vice President, Business Development, Inertia Product Development
- Jen Haller: Chief of staff, Ascend VC.
- Jeni Chang: Founder | Investor | Advisor
- Jenn Knoop Koblick: VP, BoomerBaby
- Jenna Cheng: Director of Marketing, PullString
- Jennifer Azapian: Former Venture Partner and Advisor , Loyal VC | Mighty Capital
- Jeramy Lund: Co-Founder, Rehabilitation Health
- Jeremy Glassenberg: Product Management, APIs, Developer Experiences, Marketplaces, API Strategist
- Jeremy Zaretzky: Managing Director, Founder Institute Seattle
- Jeremy Bruck: Managing Partner, Data Valuation & Monetization, Gulp Data
- Jiaxi Zhu: Head of Analytics, Google
- Jim Poss: CEO, Modifi
- Jim Woodroffe: Director of Engineering, Datadog
- Jimmy Ku: Head of Growth, Flutterwave
- Joanna Hildebrand: Owner and Principal Designer, Joanna Hildebrand Design
- Joe Bezdek: Co-founder, DivX, Inc.
- Johannon Olson: Partner, Kilby Silicon Valley Labs at Texas Instruments
- John Borofka: Founder, Walnut+Oak
- John Kinsella: VP Engineering, Not applicable
- John Cleveland: Lead Advisor, SkyDeck Berkeley
- John Avilla: Founder & CEO, Sound Union
- John Frye: Founder, Finesse Media
- John Shufeldt: Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Xcellerant Ventures
- John B Graham: CEO/Co-Founder, iObjx
- Johnny Lam: SVP, Business Development, ScaleHealth
- Jon O'connell: Partner, Crowell & Moring
- Jon Baer: Managing Partner, StoneHearth Ventures
- Jon Mechan: Executive Coach and Leader, JM Coaching
- Jonathan Greechan: Co-Founder & CEO, Founder Institute
- Jonathan Lu: Managing Partner, Transformation Equity Partners
- Joni Chroman: Consultant, Quintuple Aim Solutions
- Jordan Crawford: Founder & CEO, Scout
- Jordan Layman: Co-Founder, Idea Fabrication Labs, LLC.
- Jordan Wahbeh
- Jose Ostolaza: Co-Founder, Red Rock Rebels
- Joseph Horsman: Investor, Madrona
- Joseph Severson: Executive Director, Strategic Planning, Kaiser Permanente
- Josh Dougherty: Co-Founder & CEO, A Brave New
- Josh Jacques: COO, Mautto Handbags
- Joshua Krammes: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuakrammes/, Equinix
- JP Persico: Co-Founder and Managing Partner, ShuckerVC
- Juan Polanco: Founder & CEO, Optimo Capital
- Julia Selander: Vice President S.F, Essen International
- Julian Fung: Solutions Architect, Real Estate Investor, Qualtrics, Avalanche Assets
- Julie Pham: CEO, CuriosityBased
- Julio Casado: Founder, Full Funnel Growth
- June W Choi: Managing Partner, Serval Ventures
- Justine Reichman: Founder, NextGenChef
- Kan Lew, Esq.: Counsel, SSM
- Karin Kidder: Executive Director, E8 Angels
- Karl Shaikh: Founder , Interpreters-On-Call
- Kate Bunina: Managing Director of Bay Area, U+
- Kate Loose: Investment Director, Capria Ventures
- Kate Edwards: AWS Startup BD/Co-Founder at Heartbeat , Heartbeat
- Kathleen Baxley: Interim CFO / Strategic Venture Advisor
- Katrin Jakob: Managing Partner, California Business Associates, LLC
- Kelli Peterson: Principal, Managing Director, The Change Project
- Kelly Lawton Abbott: Partner, SSM Law
- Ken Kruszka: CEO, SnapCheck
- Ken Kranseler: Managing Director, Kabuki Strategy
- Ken Gordon: Co-founder and CEO, VALR
- Ken Horenstein: Founder, GP, Pack Ventures
- Kenneth Grant: Physician , Children's Hospital Orange County
- Kerry Jones: Former Co-Founder / CTO, HubHaus
- Kevin Yu: Co-founder & CTO, Socedo Inc.
- Kevin Yamazaki: CEO & Founder, Sidebench
- Kevin Noble: Co-Founder, Red Rock Rebels
- Kevin Chan: Director, Product Marketing, Fleetio
- Khurram Agha: Founder, Aghaz Investments
- Kimberly Wiefling: Founding Member, Silicon Valley Alliances
- Kirill Satanovsky: Co-Lead, FI Santa Cruz
- Kris Mihalic: Tech Product Executive / Advisor, Abbott (fmr Samsung, BandPage, Zynga, Lumo BodyTech)
- Krishna Chidambaram: CEO, Rapid Digital Services
- Kristopher Alford: Venture Capital, Cercano Management
- Kristopher Floyd: General Partner, Founders Bay
- Lainey Lee: Director, Founder Institute
- Laura Malcolm: Founder/CEO, Give InKind
- Leah Feygin: Founder, LF Ventures
- Leena Palav: Board Member, Strategy Advisor, Interim COO/CFO, -med devices, health tech, consumer products, robotics
- Leonidas Papadopoulos: CEO, Viable
- Lesa Hammond: CEO, ProfHire
- Levi Velez Reed: Venture Partner, Startup425
- Lewis Lin: CEO, ManageBetter
- Lindsay Randall: Sr. Program Manager, Moonbeam
- Lisa Fernow: President, Fernow Consulting
- Lisa Sherwin: CEO, Sherwin Advisors
- Liz Wald: Executive, Board Director, Good Earth Organics
- Liz Skalla: Co-Founder & EVP, GIVN Goods
- Lizette De Arkos: Chief Strategy Officer, Phenotopia
- Loren Kosloske: Head of New Verticals - Mobility, Uber
- Luba Lesiva: Partner, Palumni VC
- Madeline Duva: Board Member, Fluxx.io
- Madeline Ulivieri: Chapter Lead: Europe, North America, & LATAM, Startup Grind
- Madhu Singh: Chief Legal Officer, Foundry Law Group
- Madhu Shetti: Founder and CEO, Anchor Healthcare
- Maha Baimyrzaeva: Associate Professor of Organizational Development, Change, and Leadership, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
- Mahad Ahmad Sheikh: Co-founder & CEO, remoty.dev
- Maia Bittner: Hustler, Serial Entrepreneur
- Mara Rada: Chief Operations and Strategy, Loon (loonbio.com)
- Marc Gelfo: Founder & CEO, Modacity
- Marcos Polanco: CEO, Deedit
- Margeaux Bruner: Founder, HOLI Smokables
- Mariane Bekker: Founder & CEO, Founders Bay
- Marius Ursache: CEO & Co-founder, MetaBeta
- Mark Landay: Managing Director, Dynamic Synergy
- Mark Montalban: Founder & CEO, MindfulText
- Mark Wesson MPH, FACHE: Managing Director, VitaX Ventures
- Mark Busch: Director of Corporate Development, Unity Rd.
- Mark Ciotola: CEO, SustainSpace
- Mark Freeland: Chief Operating Officer, Give Virtual Care
- Martina Truche: Healthcare Innovator , Space Medicine Enthusiast
- Maryam Salehijam: Business Expert, MS Consulting
- Matt Mandell: Principal, PayNerd.com
- Matt Paulin: Founder , zCrowd
- Matt Rubright: VP of Early and Growth Stage Tech, Silicon Valley Bank
- Matt Martin: Co-Founder, Startup Oasis
- Matt Mc Ginn: CEO, Fly Beverage
- Matthew Bradley: VP Machine Learning, SynapseFI
- Matthew Pelnar: VC & Startup Attourney, Crowell & Moring
- Matthew Coombs: VP of Business Development, Cidi Labs
- Matthew Lickwar: Co-Founder | Growth | Operations | Product, Ynomia
- Matt.M.Hill@Gmail.Com Hill: Founder & CEO, Elegen
- Maureen Ezekwugo: Chief Customer Officer, RealSelf
- Maurits Werdmuller Von Elgg: CMO, Blacksite Solutions
- Max Simms: Co-Founder, CEO, MindTrace Technologies
- Maximilian Von Poelnitz: Investment Director, DSM Venturing
- Melissa Li: Managing Partner and Head of Community, Dorm Room Fund
- Melissa Reaves, Story Fruition
- Melonee Hawkins: Certified Public Accountant, Hawkins CPA, Inc.
- Mercedes Bankston: Founder, Funderstar LTD
- Merve Isler: CEO, Marvelous
- Michael Gorback: Partner, K&L Gates LLP
- Michael Zaytsev: Founder, High NY
- Michael Sidgmore: Partner, Broadhaven Ventures
- Michael Goldman: CFO, EN 360 Holdings
- Mikaela Kiner: CEO & Founder, Reverb
- Mike Vandenbos
- Mike Suprovici: Head of Acceleration, VC Lab
- Mike Lingle: Entrepreneur / Mentor, Rocket Pro Forma
- Mike Siebold: Advisor, FlowerHire
- Mike Simpson: CEO, Omura
- Mike Cozart: Angel Investor and Startup Advisor, Relumin
- Mikhail Holst: Program Manager, CITRIS Foundry
- Miles Rand: VP of Product, Milk Moovement
- Milkana Brace: CEO, Jargon
- Minda Brusse: Founding Partner, First Row Partners
- Mohak Saxena: Investor, Race Capital
- Mohammed Kashif: Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer, Department of Motor Vehicles
- Mohan Iyer: General Partner, SOSV / IndieBio
- Mohit Menghnani: Technical Lead, Staff Software Engineer, Twilio
- Molly Pyle: Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Lead, Center on Rural Innovation
- Monica Phillips: President, Spark Plug Labs
- Mu Zhou: Head of AI, SenseTime
- Munjal Shah: CEO, Like.com
- My Le Goel: Founder & CEO, Flight Live, Inc.
- Nada Miljkovic: Entrepreneurship Instructor, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Nagesh Mallugari: Business Development & Partnerships, Fission Labs
- Nancy Wang: CEO, Advancing Women in Product
- Nancy Birnbaum: Founding Publisher, Market Director, Sensi Media Group
- Nardo Manaloto: Managing Partner, Qubits Ventures
- Natalie Wilson: Partner, Emerging Companies Group, Hanson Bridgett
- Natalie Pan: Founder, Funding Breakthrough Lab
- Nathan Yagoda: VP of Marketing, PLUS Products
- Nathan Kline: Managing General Partner, Cistern Capital
- Neil Gehani: Principal Founder, Katen.AI
- Neil Cohen: Marketing Therapist, Brand, Marketing & Sales Consulting
- Nelly Yusupova: Founder, TechSpeak.co
- Newton Paskin: President & CEO, Explorer Technologies
- Nicholas Larkins Perez: Innovation Manager, Samsung America
- Nicole De Meo: Founder, Outfront Solutions
- Nidhi Kathuria: Social Entreprenuer, Test
- Nila Rafiq: MD, MBA, FI Health
- Nitin Pachisia: Founding Partner, Unshackled
- Noah Wallach: Founder, Hope OS
- Oleksandr Pukhalskyi: Mr, Case IQ
- Olena Bochulia: Co-Founder, Severus
- Olga Mack: CEO | Startup Advisor | Author | Speaker | Women's Advocate, Parley Pro
- Olu Ogunlela: Co-Founder & CEO, Liferithms
- Omar Valle: Startup Business Development, Innovation Bay
- Omi Iyamu: Product Manager, Google Austria
- Pablo Casilimas, OneSixOne Ventures
- Parag Jain: Dr, Children’s Medical Center, Dallas
- Pascale Diaine: Principal, Storm Ventures
- Pascha Scott: Partner and Co-founder, VERTETUDE
- Patrick McCullough: Impact Coach, Patrick McCullough
- Patrick Reilly: CEO, Intellectual Property Society
- Paul D'souza: President and CEO, The D'Souza Group
- Paul Rosen: Executive Chairman, Global Go
- Paul Watt: Global Business Manager, Google
- Paul Adams: CEO & Founder, Sound Financial Group
- Pete Biggam: Director / Mentor / Advisor, Founder Institute
- Peter Leonard: CEO, Meddle
- Peter Cardilla: Web Developer, Bay Photo
- Peter Crawford: Co-Founder & COO, Eduvero
- Phil Libin: Founder & CEO, All Turtles
- Phnam Bagley: Partner and Creative Director, Nonfiction Design
- Phong Nguyen Dang: Managing Partner, Hyperform
- Pilar Fernandez Hermida: Founder i-Expand (We help Health Tech companies go global), i-expand
- Piotr Zając: CEO, Monterail
- Pooria Arab: Managing Partner, Beeloud
- Pradeep UN: Founder, CEO, Seerflix Inc
- Pranay Suresh: Engineering Leader, Rivian Automotive
- Prashanthi Ramamurthy: Engineering Leader, Adobe
- Prathamesh Prabhudesai: Co-Founder & CEO, safeBVM
- Puneet Kohli: CEO, Careerflow.ai
- Qasim Salam: CEO, CreativeMorph
- Quinn Wang: CEO, Quadrant Eye
- Rachel Ndungu: CEO, Biashara Africa
- Rachele Keech: Training Coordinator, CrowdStrike
- Rafael Viana: Co-Founder, Bee Family
- Rafael Kartaszynski: CEO, TechEdge Dynamics
- Rafael M Lopes, MBA, CPXP, CPHIMS: Founder & Chief Digital Health Strategist, Bold Digital Health
- Raikirat Sohi: Senior Manager Software Engineering, Walmart Global Tech
- Raja Mawad: Founder, Thrv.health
- Rajesh Setty: Rajesh Setty - Serial Entrepreneur and Author, WittyParrot
- Raphael Gernot Klingmann: Founder, Angel Investor, HCVC.net
- Rebecca Lovell: Director, Create33
- Renata George: Managing Director, Zenmen VC
- Renee Niemi: Venture Partner, Mighty Capital
- Reza Taheri: Helping Founders Create the Future |Founder | Mentor | Executive Coach, Higher Potential
- Richard Cristina: Principle Director of Founder Institute, Co-founder of InnovateU, Founder of Bloom for Start Ups., Bloom for Start Ups / Innovate U / Founder Institute.
- Rishi Mallik: Senior Product Manager, Mobile
- Rob Hillas: Founder, PlainVanilla
- Robert Le: Director, FI Seattle
- Robert Pruter: Chief Revenue Officer/Co-Founder, SPHER, Inc.
- Robert Maddox: Cofounder, Startup Oasis
- Rohan Sampath: Cofounder & CEO, Copilot
- Rohre Titcomb: COO, Female Founders Alliance
- Roman Martynenko: Co-Founder, Astound Commerce Corporation
- Ron Gentile: Founder, Moodfit
- Russell Brand: CEO & Founder, Responsible Solutions Limited
- Russell Cole: Partner, AGXactly
- Rustam Hashimov: Engineering Manager, Google
- Ruth Becke: Founder & CEO, Plantmatch
- Ryan Micheletti: Head of Global Operations, Founder Institute
- Ryan Vinyard: Hardware Startup Consultant, Vinyard Product Development
- Ryan Mendoza: Partner, Scrum Ventures
- Ryan Mc Robert: Partner, Fenwick & West
- Ryan Coonerty: 3rd District Supervisor, County of Santa Cruz
- Saikiran Chandha: CEO, SciSpace (Formerly Typeset.io)
- Sam Gichuru: CEO/founder, Kidato
- Sameer Sortur: Founding Partner, SquareCircle Ventures
- Sana Keshtkaran: Executive Caoch, Sana Keshtkaran Coaching
- SANDRO TUZZO: Attorney and Advisor, Vispo.ai
- Sanjaykumar Patel: Founder -Patent & Trademark Attorney, EXCELON IP - Patent & Trademark Attorneys
- Sanjit Singh: COO, Various Companies
- Santosh Khare: Founder & CEO, Touchbase, Inc.
- Sarah Falvo: Director of Community, Arcview
- Sarah Anto: Leadership & Strategic Alignment Coach, Sarah Anto
- Saro Nikraz: CEO, Resigrid
- Sascha Karstädt: MD Germany
- Sc Moatti: Managing Partner, Kilby Silicon Valley Labs at Texas Instruments
- Scarlett Chen: Managing Partner , Verge HealthTech Fund
- Scott Weller: President, Radian Labs
- Scout Tweedie Yates: Regional Manager , The Founder Institute HQ
- Sean Casey: Managing Director, Silicon Valley Space Center
- Shaahin Cheyene: President
- Shahar Matorin: CEO, Crumbiz
- Shakthi Kumar: Dr, BHS Group
- Shama Keskar: Cofounder & CEO, VoxAI
- Shankar Narayanan: Mr. Shankar Narayanan, Amazon Web Services | Energy & Utilities
- Shannon Hattan: Cofounder & CEO, Fiddler's Greens
- Shilpa Sharma: Co-founder & CEO, Flyte (flyteai.com)
- Shruthi Lakshmi Saravanan: Founder, Izome Learning
- Shubhi Nigam: Product, Carta Inc.
- Sidd Gavirneni: CEO and Co-Founder, Zeguro
- Simone Bertolone: Managing Director and Partner , Orka Ventures
- Simran Kaur: Founder, Power Women Corp
- Sina Roshan: Cofounder & CPO, Peekage (Techstars 2020)
- Sneha Lundia Agrawal: Founder & CEO, Step2Growth
- Sri Kasam: Director of Engineering, Nfinity
- Sridhar Prathikanti: President, Future World Studios, inc
- Stan Schroeder, C6 Systems
- Stephen Meade: Founder & CEO, MonetaPro
- Stephen Pieraldi: Founder, Pieraldi, LLC.
- Steve Cherewaty: Founder & Creative Director, Abacus
- Steve Carver
- Steve Spring: Senior Business Development Manager , Cor Medical Ventures
- Steven Morley: Business Advisor, Success4Execs
- Steven Colby: Partner, Rimon Law
- Subramaniam Eassuwaren: Co-Founder, The Carbon Consulting Company
- Sumit Mehta: CEO, MAZAKALI
- Surabhi Bhandari: CEO & Co-founder, Soulside
- Sushant Shankar: Co-Founder & CEO, HealthPals
- Suzanne Mills: Biz Dev & GTM - Retail & Fintech, Stealth Startup
- Suzy Engwall: CEO and President, HealthTech Strategies, LLC
- Sven Eenmaa: Director, Investment and Economic Analysis, ISS U.S. National Laboratory
- Symon Perriman: CEO & Founder, FanWide
- Tai Rattigan: Global Head of Partnerships & Alliances, Deel
- Tanu Jain: Startup Advisor, Self Employed
- Tarun Gulati: Founder & CEO, Contemplate
- Taylor Sims: Co-Founder, #HowSheWorks
- Taylor Mc Partland: CEO, ScaleHealth
- Taylor Black: Principal Program Manager, Office of the CTO Incubator , Microsoft
- Ted Holladay: CEO, Studio Holladay
- Terri Richardson: CEO, Accelerate Consulting Group, LLC
- Theodore Moskovitz: Founder, AMMA
- Theron Mc Collough: CEO, fiifi
- Thibaut Labarre: Founding Engineer, SingleFile.io
- Tiago Gavassi: Founder, PANIC LOBSTER
- Tiarne Hawkins: Vice President, Playable
- Tijan Watt: Managing Director, African Tech Leaders
- Tijana Momirov: Startup Consultant - Product Management, StartupSetup
- Tom Charman: Co-Founder/CEO, Rassa
- Torrey Smith: Co-Founder & CEO, Endiatx
- Travis Murdock: Executive Vice President, Ruder Finn
- Travis Scadron: VP Business Development, Surfside
- Trent Campbell: VP. Commercial Strategies, Axonics, Inc.
- Uli Chettipally, MD: Founder, InnovatorMD
- Usama Abid: Founder & CEO, Inventhub
- Veeraj Shah: Co-Founder & CEO, Vitalize
- Vern Chan: Certified Startup Coach, Your Pivot
- Veronica Guzman: Founder | Innovation Catalyst, WAMVentures
- Vic Kapur: Founder & Managing Member, VisionPassage
- Viji Natarajan: Founder & CEO, LaPortaCare
- Vince Bianco: CEO, Advanced Medical Reviews
- Vincent Diallo: Partner, Interlace Ventures
- Vincent Mao: Managing Partner/Global Tech Strategist, Bouken Capital/VC firms/Google/Meta
- Vipula Tailor: CEO, Sonix Medical Devices, Inc
- Vladimir Pletyukhin: Founder and Creative Director, Launch Deck
- Walter Roth: CEO, Moment Sales, LLC
- Wayne Willis: Managing Partner, Nodal Partners
- Wilson Jian: Co-Founder, SumoDash
- Yan Chow: Global Healthcare Leader, Automation Anywhere
- Yannis He: Strategic Projects Lead, Scale AI
- Yash Sharma: Software Engineer, Google
- Yasmeen Turayhi: Global Product Marketing Lead, AdRoll
- Yemi Oluseun: Growth & GTM For FinTechs, The Change Hive
- Yoko Okano: Co-founder, First Row Partners
- Yuwei Shi: Academic Director, Blue Pioneers Accelerator, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Zaina Orbai: Chief People Officer, The RealReal
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 1.9BN.
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 1.9BN 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.
