Seattle Fall 2026
Seattle Mentors
Program Mentors join weekly feedback sessions, host office hours, and in general provide you feedback every step of the way.
See the list of current and past mentors for the Seattle program below.
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
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
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