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Startup Advisor & Investor Mentor
Oct 2025
The Venture Mechanics Startup Launchpad is a unique "hub" of entrepreneurial activities on Seattles eastside, combining an conference center, coworking studio, event spaces, virtual mail service, and most notably, the regions premier startup incubator/accelerator.
The conference center and coworking facility features 100% active workstations (sit-stand desks, sit-stand conference tables and treadmill desks throughout the building), and other resources like an on-site photography and livestreaming studio. We believe "corporate wellness" shouldnt just be for employees on the main campus; its just as important for remote/hybrid employees and startup operators. The facility is conveniently located close to the 520 yet far enough outside the Bellevue core to offer a great deal free parking.
Venture Mechanics produces over 200 live events a year; about 80% are founder-focused and 20% are investor-focused, and most include a mix of founders and funders. The event spaces are also available for private events.
Venture Mechanics is also the Puget Sounds center of diversity in entrepreneurship, with multiple "Founders & Funders" groups based here, including Black, Women, LGBTQ+, Veteran, Latino, Filipino groups with more coming online monthly.
Investor and Board Member, Product Strategy
Apr 2022
Launched in 2021, our Founder Allen Archuleta, Jr. set out to build an online and mobile-friendly platform to help better manage his end-stage renal failure (ESRD). Having lived with chronic kidney disease (CKD) for more than 16 years, he experienced many challenges, frustrations, and setbacks with his health due to kidney failure. He realized quickly that while there were many aspects of his life that were outside of his control, one way he could take back power over his health and wellbeing was to educate himself and others on tools to manage and mitigate symptoms of kidney disease. KidneyPal was born out of a desire to live a healthy, happy, and full life for many years to come. Our team is thrilled to share this tool and empower anyone living with a similar diagnosis to take back control and be their own best advocate!
Accredited Investor
Jan 2021
What if you were able to unleash innovations, grow great businesses, and truly impact the way we live? And what if you could do it while potentially achieving investment returns? Propel(x) is making that vision a reality.
As a premier digital platform facilitating private venture capital for Deep Tech innovation, our mission is to enable investments in technologies that matter and thus build the next generation of great companies.
For Accredited Investors, Financial Advisors and Funds - Get early access to deep technology deal flow and leverage our due diligence capabilities to make an informed investment decision.
For Deep Tech Startup Founders - Get discovered by investors committed to funding deep tech innovation. Aggregate investments from multiple angel investors handled into a single investment vehicle.
Newton Fund, managed by Propel(x) Advisors, a Propel(x) subsidiary is a seed stage investment firm with a focus on deep tech start ups. Our goal is to propel mankind by helping finance technologies that matter, such as Life Sciences, IT & Communications, Industrial Technologies, Food & Agriculture, Energy & Green Technologies and Aerospace & Transportation.
We invest typically in startups that appear on the Propel(x) platform.
For questions , please email us at info@propelx.com
Experience · 8 entries
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2025
Startup Advisor & Investor Mentor
Oct 2025
The Venture Mechanics Startup Launchpad is a unique "hub" of entrepreneurial activities on Seattles eastside, combining an conference center, coworking studio, event spaces, virtual mail service, and most notably, the regions premier startup incubator/accelerator.
The conference center and coworking facility features 100% active workstations (sit-stand desks, sit-stand conference tables and treadmill desks throughout the building), and other resources like an on-site photography and livestreaming studio. We believe "corporate wellness" shouldnt just be for employees on the main campus; its just as important for remote/hybrid employees and startup operators. The facility is conveniently located close to the 520 yet far enough outside the Bellevue core to offer a great deal free parking.
Venture Mechanics produces over 200 live events a year; about 80% are founder-focused and 20% are investor-focused, and most include a mix of founders and funders. The event spaces are also available for private events.
Venture Mechanics is also the Puget Sounds center of diversity in entrepreneurship, with multiple "Founders & Funders" groups based here, including Black, Women, LGBTQ+, Veteran, Latino, Filipino groups with more coming online monthly.
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
Jun 2025
Zync’s AI-powered Recording Studio lets you effortlessly create polished short-form videos
Generate scripts, record, edit, and publish in minutes—focus on your message and grow your brand.
2023
Angel Investor
Jan 2023
The Sacramento Angels™ and their members believe in the journey of the entrepreneur and startups; the journey to make the world a better place, to create jobs and to keep America strong, competitive and at the forefront of innovation. We believe in this journey because we have traveled the path ourselves, either as entrepreneurs, working as executives in onetime startup companies, or as investors in the venture capital industry.
If you are on such a journey or if you want to help guide and support those who are, then we encourage you to join us. Whether you are a potential member wishing to join our group as an investor or an entrepreneur seeking early stage capital we encourage you to take a trip around our website to learn more about us and our activities.
2022
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer
Jun 2022
VividSparks is a high-speed computing technology company that specializes in fabless semiconductors. We are oriented towards solving fundamental problems in arithmetic circuit designs. We have libraries and algorithms that are highly silicon efficient and brilliant performing. At VividSparks, our technology is built with the goal of delivering high performance to users with minimum power consumption possible. We believe technology has to be novel – not expensive. And novel technology should be accessible and affordable to everyone. VividSparks wants to create a least power consuming, less silicon area consuming computing world, at the same time deliver top class performance.
Investor and Board Member, Product Strategy
Apr 2022
Launched in 2021, our Founder Allen Archuleta, Jr. set out to build an online and mobile-friendly platform to help better manage his end-stage renal failure (ESRD). Having lived with chronic kidney disease (CKD) for more than 16 years, he experienced many challenges, frustrations, and setbacks with his health due to kidney failure. He realized quickly that while there were many aspects of his life that were outside of his control, one way he could take back power over his health and wellbeing was to educate himself and others on tools to manage and mitigate symptoms of kidney disease. KidneyPal was born out of a desire to live a healthy, happy, and full life for many years to come. Our team is thrilled to share this tool and empower anyone living with a similar diagnosis to take back control and be their own best advocate!
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