Graham & Walker is a venture firm that activates the potential of all women in business for the benefit of humankind. We envision a world where the founders, leaders, investors are more representative of the world they serve.
We’re serving our mission and purpose through an accelerator, VC fund ($10M), connections, education, and events. Our community has raised $2.6B for women and non-binary founders.
- The Female Founders Alliance rebranded to Graham & Walker in October 2021
- FFA Powered by Graham & Walker, formerly the Founder community, is an inclusive online community with access to today’s top business leaders.
- The Graham & Walker Accelerator, formerly the Ready Set Raise Accelerator, is a six-week national, virtual, industry-agnostic startup accelerator, designed to help pre-seed and seed-stage founders raise outside capital.
- The Graham & Walker Summit is a virtual three-day leadership conference for all women in business.
- The Champion Awards, formerly the FFA Champion Awards, recognize champions of equity across industries, selected by the people they lead.
- The VC Fund is new in 2021, and is helping reshape the Nasqaq by funding early stage woman-founded tech companies that are bettering how we live, how we work, and how we coexist with our planet.
It all starts with one. One idea. One partnership. One life-changing investment. With one woman- and nonbinary-owned business at a time, Graham & Walker is changing the face of entrepreneurship. This is Graham & Walker & you.
We’re serving our mission and purpose through an accelerator, VC fund ($10M), connections, education, and events. Our community has raised $2.6B for women and non-binary founders.
- The Female Founders Alliance rebranded to Graham & Walker in October 2021
- FFA Powered by Graham & Walker, formerly the Founder community, is an inclusive online community with access to today’s top business leaders.
- The Graham & Walker Accelerator, formerly the Ready Set Raise Accelerator, is a six-week national, virtual, industry-agnostic startup accelerator, designed to help pre-seed and seed-stage founders raise outside capital.
- The Graham & Walker Summit is a virtual three-day leadership conference for all women in business.
- The Champion Awards, formerly the FFA Champion Awards, recognize champions of equity across industries, selected by the people they lead.
- The VC Fund is new in 2021, and is helping reshape the Nasqaq by funding early stage woman-founded tech companies that are bettering how we live, how we work, and how we coexist with our planet.
It all starts with one. One idea. One partnership. One life-changing investment. With one woman- and nonbinary-owned business at a time, Graham & Walker is changing the face of entrepreneurship. This is Graham & Walker & you.
Location: United States, Washington, Seattle
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2017
Investment Type: Venture Capital; Accelerator
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A
Portfolio 28
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 13.11.2023 | PairUp | pairupapp.com | - | - |
| 13.11.2023 | Tokki | tokki.com | - | United Sta... |
| 21.04.2023 | Mimoto | mimoto.ai | - | United Sta... |
| 10.03.2023 | Seven Star... | sevenstarling.com | $21.8M | United Sta... |
| 07.03.2023 | itselectri... | itselectric.us | $8.7M | United Sta... |
| 27.12.2022 | National C... | nclracing.com | - | - |
| 27.12.2022 | Fourplay S... | fourplaysocial.com | - | United Sta... |
| 27.12.2022 | breakthru | breakthru.me | - | United Sta... |
| 27.12.2022 | WorkTorch.... | worktorch.io | $2.2M | United Sta... |
| 27.12.2022 | mpathic | mpathic.ai | $350K | United Sta... |
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Persons 7
| Date | First Name | Last Name | Title | Location | |||
| - | Sarah | Imbach | Advisor | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
| - | Amanda | Eldridge | Business D... | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
| - | Leslie | Feinzaig | Founder &a... | twitter.co... | - | - | |
| - | Pam | Kostka | Advisor | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
| - | Jenna | Winocur | Analyst | linkedin.c... | - | - | - |
| - | Divya | Kakkad | Partner | linkedin.c... | twitter.co... | - | United Sta... |
| - | Rohre | Titcomb | Venture Pa... | linkedin.c... | twitter.co... | - | United Sta... |
Mentions in press and media 15
| Date | Title | Description |
| 04.03.2024 | When your cap table makes your startup uninvestable | The CEO of a Norwegian hardware startup shared a pitch deck with me that had an unusual slide: It included the company’s capitalization table — the breakdown of who owns what part of the company. Typically, cap tables are shared in the dili... |
| 03.03.2023 | For female VCs, bias is a branding issue | Leslie Feinzaig, a venture capitalist, likes that her venture firm, Graham & Walker, sounds like an old, stodgy law firm. But apart from the name, there’s nothing really stodgy about it: Her fund exclusively invests in female- and nonbi... |
| 10.08.2022 | The women writing checks: A list of female venture capitalists in the Pacific Northwest | Back in 2018, GeekWire published a list of women investors based in the Pacific Northwest who were writing checks to help startups grow. A lot has changed in four years. We’ve put together a new compilation below, highlighting more than 60 ... |
| 04.08.2022 | 7 first-time fund managers detail how they’re preparing to thrive during the downturn | Until a few months ago, the venture market was on a historic bull run that lasted for the better part of a decade. Many new investors and funds entered the fray, but the last few years also saw a proliferation of new venture firms. That tre... |
| 26.07.2022 | 3 ways founders can turn feedback into action | Leslie Feinzaig Contributor Share on Twitter Leslie Feinzaig is the founder and CEO of Graham & Walker. More posts by this contributor Early-stage fundraising is a tale of two planets Three ways VC firms can construct sustainably divers... |
| 24.06.2022 | Why it might be easier for tech startups to recruit in a downturn | Venture capital firm Graham & Walker hosted a startup event at the Amazon Spheres in Seattle on Thursday. Panel from left: Bloomberg tech editor Anne VanderMey; Tina Huang-To, founding partner at Kin Ventures; Julie Sandler, co-founder ... |
| 26.04.2022 | Early-stage fundraising is a tale of two planets | Leslie Feinzaig Contributor Share on Twitter Leslie Feinzaig is the founder and CEO of the Graham & Walker. More posts by this contributor Three ways VC firms can construct sustainably diverse portfolios If you follow mainstream tech me... |
| 14.02.2022 | Proxi morphs from trick-or-treating tool to an ambitious mapping startup that just raised $1.2M | Proxi founders Melinda Haughey (left) and Chelsey Roney. (Proxi Photo) Melinda Haughey and other parents were desperate for safe trick-or-treating in the midst of the pandemic in 2020. They began individually posting long lists on Facebook ... |
| 02.02.2022 | These are the 6 companies in Graham & Walker’s latest accelerator class | Graham & Walker, an accelerator and venture fund focused on helping female and non-binary founders, has announced the latest batch of companies to enter its accelerator program. I hopped on a call with G&W founder Leslie Feinzaig to... |
| 26.01.2022 | Seattle startup accelerator that focuses on women and non-binary founders unveils latest cohort | Seattle-based Graham & Walker announced the six companies participating in its fourth Ready Set Raise accelerator. The organization was previously known as Female Founders Alliance and changed its name last year to Graham & Walker a... |
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