Support Our Impact Work

Often, people who have the talent and drive to become successful startup founders can’t because they lack access to a combination of the educational programming, resources, networks, and capital needed.

The impacts of this include:

1. Limiting the ability of talented people to reach their full potential.
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2. Hindering the ability of talented people to build wealth for themselves and their families.
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3. Preventing people with the desire and potential to drive significant change in their communities from doing so.
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4. Reducing the economic potential of the geographic areas where they live.

Overall impact:

This has a tremendous overall negative impact on economies, communities, and regions throughout the world.

Your support:

By supporting our impact-focused work, you help provide talented people with access to the critical elements they need to build scalable companies and reach their full potential.

How you can support our impact-focused work?

You can support our impact-focused work by:

Supporting our educational programming:

Our educational programming is run at no cost to participants in partnership with our nonprofit parent organization. Supporting these programs ensures participants have access to the education and advisors needed to become successful tech startup founders.

Providing support for grant funding for early-stage founders:

Many talented founders who are early in their journey need the initial capital to get started but don’t have access to friends and family or angel networks. They also aren’t ready to raise venture capital. Providing these founders with grants tied to milestones gives them the early funding needed to start building and preparing themselves for later fundraising rounds.

Providing program-related investments:

Many founders are beyond grants but still need more patient and less risk-averse capital than traditional venture capital can be at times. Through program-related investments, we can invest in founders in a more supportive, impact-focused way than traditional venture capital would allow.