Shaherose Charania

Switch is shaping the future of our global innovation economy. One built and run by founders, capital allocators, and ecosystem players that are truly and fully representative of the challenges they tackle, the solutions they scale, and the humans they serve. Founded in 2006 as Women 2.0, we’ve built a robust space that invites tackling heavy topics like gender and race inequality and calling for and creating pathways to action, having proven our ecosystem strength with a bounty of accessible programs and resources for founders, investors, and the broader tech space.

Hacker Dojo, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2009, provides space to bring together entrepreneurs, programmers, creators and other hackers in Mountain View, California. We embrace the term “hacker” in the positive sense as describing someone who likes to understand how things work and produce new creations.

Unshackled Ventures is the first and only early-stage venture capital fund focused on retaining foreign talent in the U.S. By investing in immigrants and helping them to secure visas, the firm has tapped into undiscovered super-talent in helping foreign-born founders turn their innovative ideas into the next great American company.

The podcast for Angels and Seed Investors bold enough to write the first check.

First Round is a venture capital firm that works with founders exclusively at the earliest stages of company building, often when all they have is an “imagine if.” We fill in where we can until the team is filled out, tackling crucial early hiring and equipping those who are great at building product with the skills to sell it, too. By getting the foundational firsts right, we increase the odds of finding extreme product-market fit. Our founders’ “imagine ifs” have turned into companies like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square.

A decentralized approach to venture capital. Learn more @ joindvc.com