Startup425 Accelerator Fall 2025
Founder Institute Startup425 Mentors
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 Startup425 program below.
Abdellah Aouf
Chief Executive Officer @ GO PLATFORM
Alan Gonzalez
Founder & CEO @ DevMatch
Andie Rytter
Stylist & Owner @ Level Seven Salon
AnnaMaria White
Aspen White
Cofounder and CEO @ Aerware AI
Ben Stacey
CEO @ Pitchverk
Beth Kolko
@ University of Washington
Bill Dillmeier
Advisor / Fractional CFO @ Aperture Advisors
Bina Shukla
Brian Pulliam
Founder @ Refactor Coaching
Brian M Pasalich
Chief Executive Officer | Co-Founder @ Behave Technologies (Formerly Syntoniq, Inc.)
Collin Dayley
Founder @ Collin Dayley Coaching
Dana Sather Robinson
Pitch Trainer, Pitch Coach, Angel Investor @ Pitch 4 Impact Inc
Daniel Hatch
Director - Commercial Lending @ BECU
Dannel Fischer
Founder @ Deciphyr AI
Drake Glesmann
Counsel - Emerging Companies and Venture Capital @ Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Edith Young
Branch Manager @ Alaska CU
Elisa La Cava
Investor @ Madrona Venture Group
Elisabetta Manago
Branch Manager @ First Fed
Elizabeth Woolf
Advisor @ Communication Code
Evan Poncelet
evan@dreamward.vc @ Dreamward Group
Gaurav Jain
Product (AI | Data Platform | Data Governance) @ Atlassian
Gordon L. Sansaver III
Executive Leader / General Manager @ Virginia Mason Institute
Ian Lurie
EVP @ Clearlink
Ivan Inchauste
CFO @ Stably
Jagdish Bajaj
@ Sanscode.co
James Lee
Co-Founder @ Stealth startup
Jared Mc Connell
Business Banking Relationship Manager @ KeyBank
Jay Lyman
Librarian @ Seattle Public Library
Jeremy Bruck
Managing Partner, Data Valuation & Monetization @ Gulp Data
Jesse Posey
Co-Founder, COO, Managing Partner @ Dreamward Group
Joaquin Gallardo
SVP, Tech Banking @ Silicon Valley Bank
John Robinson
Founder and Owner @ Resolution Photomatching
Jonathan Chang
Investor @ Change Paradox Ventures
Jonny Lu
Head of Carbon Strategy & Business Operations @ Lithos Carbon
Josh Trujillo
Entrepreneurship Consultant @ Rural Innovation Strategies, Inc. / Center on Rural Innovation
June W Choi
Managing Partner @ Serval Ventures
Kelly Lawton Abbott
Partner @ SSM Law
Khelan Patel
Founder & CTO @ Techlusion
Komal Kashiramka Bhandari
CEO & Founder @ Poshan
Lachlan Huck
Leigh Goldstein
Marketplace Consultant @ self-employed
Levi Velez Reed
Venture Partner @ Loyal VC
Luke Newman
VP of Delivery @ Sparq
Meredith Felton
Senior Product Marketing Manager @ Enable
Michael Avent
Partner @ Perkins Coie LLP
Miya Nazzaro
Managing Attorney @ Nazzaro PLLC
Nate Bek
Associate @ Ascend VC
Nelly Yusupova
Founder @ TechSpeak.co
Nirav Desai
@ Moonbeam
Noah Wallach
Founder @ Hope OS
Paul Marciante
@ RocketReach.co
Rachel Kroft
Fractional CPO @ Happy Warriors
Raja Mawad
Founder @ Thrv.health
Ram Dutt
CEO & Co-Founder @ Meylah
Ravi Khandelwal
Senior AI/ML Engineering Leader, Machine Learning @ Etsy
Richard Bristol
@ Bristol Advisory
Rick Graham
Rob Hillas
Founder @ PlainVanilla
Sandy Dupleich
Career Ownership Coach @ The Entrepreneur's Source
Scott Cohen
Vice President of Finance @ Karat
Scott Nichols
Founder | Pitch Deck Writer | Investor Pitch Deck Creator | Pitch Deck Design @ Velocity Pitch Decks
Shawn Palmer
Business Advisor @ OneRedmond
Steven Evans
EVP, Chief Lending Officer @ First Sound Bank
Sue Bollinger
Founder & President @ Possibility Factor
Tahmina Watson
@ Watson Immigration Law, PLLC
Tee Podder
Investor @ Trilogy Equity Partners
Tom Hammer
Partner @ Andreesen Horowitz
Tory Schuessler
Director of Recruiting @ TalentReach
Trevor Longino
Founder & CEO @ CrowdTamers
Trish Scearce
Founder and Principal Attorney @ Trillian Law
Vladimir Pletyukhin
Founder and Creative Director @ Launch Deck
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