Leigh Pomerantz

Gaingels is a leading venture investment syndicate in support of and representing the LGBTQIA+ community and allies in the venture capital space. Gaingels also supports its companies with a diverse talent and capital pipeline and provides an internal diverse board member recruitment advisory to help bring more diversity and representation within private boards. Gaingels invests in companies with diverse/LGBTQIA+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in other high-growth companies resolved on building more inclusive teams. Gaingels is an ardent supporter the Diversity Term Sheet Rider Initiative to increase access to venture funding events for non-traditional check writers, and regularly co-invests with select VC leads across a variety of sectors, from technology, to B2B, healthcare and consumer, in competitive and over-subscribed rounds from Seed to Growth/pre-IPO. For more information visit www.gaingels.com.

The Helm is a New York City-based early-stage venture firm investing in world-changing companies founded by women.

We’re specialists in pre-seed and seed. The startups we back go far. Best-in-class founders do not come around every day. When they do, we jump at the opportunity to work together. Our approach is to work with just a small number of best-in-class founders so we can dig in and go deep.

The MBA Fund is a venture capital firm that helps founders from the top startup-producing universities create legendary companies.

Calm Ventures is a Los Angeles based venture capital and growth equity firm focused on emerging brands and technologies

Riverside Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund founded by high-level and experienced operators with an untraditional path into venture.

Broadway Angels is an angel investment group made up of world-class investors and business executives who happen to be women. We each have decades of experience investing in and managing some of the best technology companies in the world. All of us are or have been General Partners in top tier venture capital firms and, or Senior Executives in leading technology companies. We have built remarkable careers and portfolios by cultivating a deep network of relationships with amazing entrepreneurs and executives. Broadway Angels invests in the very best people and ideas in early stage startups. The majority of our investments are in information technology, an area of deep expertise for most of us, but we are also open to exploring other investment opportunities. We are great team players and work well with other angels and venture capital firms. We typically do not take board seats but serve as excellent advisors and sounding boards to management teams. We have deep expertise in the areas of strategy, marketing, operations management, corporate governance, fundraising and recruiting. We believe corporate governance is essential to the long-term success of any company. While we are all women investors, 60% of our founders are men and 40% are women. We invest in the best entrepreneurs. Among our portfolio companies are: Other Machine Co, SupportPay, RocksBox, UrbanSitter, GemShare, Strevus, and Prism Skylabs.