Maria Swainson

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.

Citrine Angels is an angel investment organization composed of more than 80 women angel investors committed to empowering female founders and funders through investments, education and mentorship. Our focus is to provide the necessary resources, networks, and expertise to cultivate female angel investors into helping female-founded businesses grow and succeed. In an industry where capital disproportionately goes to men, Citrine Angels is the only angel investing organization in the mid-Atlantic region pledged solely to supporting female founders and funders. Since our founding in late 2019, our members - many of them first time angel investors - have invested more than $1.75M in female founded companies.

UPWARD—Uniting Professional Women Accelerating Relationships & Development—is dedicated to creating a collaborative forum for executive women. It’s a place for sharing ideas, learning, and growing careers. UPWARD is focused on building trusted professional relationships to help professional women further their career and professional development. At UPWARD, women will find the connections to help them realize their professional potential and find the best career opportunities. To join UPWARD, visit: www.upwardwomen.org

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.

Citrine Angels is an angel investment organization composed of more than 80 women angel investors committed to empowering female founders and funders through investments, education and mentorship. Our focus is to provide the necessary resources, networks, and expertise to cultivate female angel investors into helping female-founded businesses grow and succeed. In an industry where capital disproportionately goes to men, Citrine Angels is the only angel investing organization in the mid-Atlantic region pledged solely to supporting female founders and funders. Since our founding in late 2019, our members - many of them first time angel investors - have invested more than $1.75M in female founded companies.

Accenture helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. We bring together the talent of our approximately 786,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale. Through our Reinvention Services, we offer broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology. We serve approximately 9,000 clients and generated approximately $70 billion in FY25 revenue. Visit us at accenture.com. This LinkedIn company page is moderated. When engaging with Accenture, we encourage everyone to: - Use common courtesy and be respectful of others. - Create your own original content and avoid content that you know to be fraudulent. - Never repost someone elses copyrighted work, unless you have permission. - Never post personal, identifying, or confidential information. We reserve the right to delete comments or posts we deem to be: - Profane, obscene, inappropriate, offensive, abusive material. - Spam, repeated comments and commercial messages and personal advertisements. - Discriminatory or that contain hateful speech of any kind regarding age, gender, race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability. - Threats; personal attacks; abusive, defamatory, derogatory, or inflammatory language; or stalking or harassment of any individual, entity or organization. - False, inaccurate, libelous, or otherwise misleading in any way.

UPWARD—Uniting Professional Women Accelerating Relationships & Development—is dedicated to creating a collaborative forum for executive women. It’s a place for sharing ideas, learning, and growing careers. UPWARD is focused on building trusted professional relationships to help professional women further their career and professional development. At UPWARD, women will find the connections to help them realize their professional potential and find the best career opportunities. To join UPWARD, visit: www.upwardwomen.org