Emer Dooley

Founded in 2007, Julep is boldly reimagining the business of beauty, taking a social, community-focused approach to product development and cultivating share-worthy conversations around empowering women. By gathering crowd-sourced customer feedback from various social channels, Julep takes innovation up a notch, bringing exciting new color cosmetics, skincare products and toxin-free nail polish to market much faster than traditional beauty brands! Along with monthly beauty box subscriptions, Julep products can be found on Julep.com and major retailers like QVC, Nordstrom, Amazon and Ulta Beauty. Seattle-based Julep proudly infuses its “tech startup DNA” with the latest beauty innovations while empowering women to explore outside their comfort zones, to experiment without judgment -- to be BRAVE PRETTY.

Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a nonprofit organization that delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies. The nine-month program employs an objectives-based mentoring process to enhance the performance of technical founders who learn from the insights of experienced entrepreneurs, with the goal of maximizing equity-value creation. Founded by Professor Ajay Agrawal in 2012 at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, the program has expanded and now has 11 sites across six countries: Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Halifax, Paris, Madison, Seattle, Estonia, Berlin, and Melbourne. The program combines 5 elements to help companies transition from science projects to scalable and financeable companies: - An emphasis on objective-setting, helping companies focus on what’s most important to their business - Focused mentorship from experienced entrepreneurs who have founded, led, and sold significant tech companies - Technical advice from world-leading scientists, engineers, and economists - Hands-on support from top business students, who embed within the company to provide business support - Opportunities to raise capital, including angels and VCs from Europe and North America The successful commercialization of cutting-edge science and technology achieved through the program has led to the creation of over CAD $35 billion in equity value.

Womens World Banking is dedicated to economic empowerment, through financial inclusion for the nearly one billion women in the world with no or limited access to formal financial services. Using our sophisticated market and consumer research, we turn insights into real action to design and advocate for policy engagement, digital financial solutions, workplace leadership programs, and gender lens investing. To date, weve helped provide 14 million women in emerging markets – targeting 100 million by 2027 - access and use of financial products and services that are transforming womens lives, households, businesses and communities, and driving inclusive growth globally.

Founded in 2007, Julep is boldly reimagining the business of beauty, taking a social, community-focused approach to product development and cultivating share-worthy conversations around empowering women. By gathering crowd-sourced customer feedback from various social channels, Julep takes innovation up a notch, bringing exciting new color cosmetics, skincare products and toxin-free nail polish to market much faster than traditional beauty brands! Along with monthly beauty box subscriptions, Julep products can be found on Julep.com and major retailers like QVC, Nordstrom, Amazon and Ulta Beauty. Seattle-based Julep proudly infuses its “tech startup DNA” with the latest beauty innovations while empowering women to explore outside their comfort zones, to experiment without judgment -- to be BRAVE PRETTY.

Washington Research Foundation (WRF) supports research and scholarship in Washington state, with a focus on life sciences and enabling technologies. WRF was founded in 1981 to assist universities and other nonprofit research institutions in Washington with the commercialization and licensing of their technologies. WRF is one of the foremost technology transfer and grant-making organizations in the nation, having earned more than $445 million in licensing revenue for the University of Washington and providing over $140 million in grants to the state's research institutions to date. WRF Capital, a reserve pool of funds that Washington Research Foundation invests in local early-stage companies, has backed 119 startups since 1996. Returns support the Foundation’s investment and grant-making programs. For additional information, please visit www.wrfseattle.org.