MassChallenge is an early-stage accelerator with a global reach and a mission is to help founders from all over the world scale and grow their startup. This year, the MassChallenge 2021 Virtual Early-Stage Accelerator Program will provide to startups access to funding opportunities, mentorship, bespoke deals and discounts, and more.
At this Valence Funding Network event, founders will learn what’s in store for the 2021 MassChallenge program and what it takes to apply.
Additionally, MassChallenge Partnerships Account Manager Liz Belfield will be meeting Valence members on March 17 from 1PM-3PM ET for exclusive office hours. Interested founders should book here: https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/March17MassChallengeVFN@masschallenge.org/bookings/.
If you're interested in supporting the participating 2021 startup cohort, don't wait for the event, sign up to be a MassChallenge expert here: https://masschallenge.org/experts
MassChallenge
Senior Vice-President
Caitlin Reimers Brumme is the Senior Vice-President of the MassChallenge Early-Stage Program. Caitlin led the Impact Collaboratory at the Harvard Business School, a multi-faceted effort to develop world class academic leadership on the topic of “Investing in the 21st Century” including sustainable, ESG and impact investing. Caitlin holds an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, …
Valence
VFN Director
Georgia Messinger (she/her/hers), originally from Los Angeles, CA, is a junior at Harvard University studying psychology and computer science on a gap semester currently to explore startups and venture capital. Georgia has founded two companies, Trill Project and Girls Get IT. Experienced in managing teams of 30+ other students, Georgia’s organized conferences for hundreds of attendees (BOLD Conference & Young Women’s Conference), created organic marketing campaigns to generate thousands of clicks, written dozens of blog pieces across all platforms, pitched on national television, and secured $120k+ in equity-free funding for her projects. Georgia’s work focuses on the intersection between social impact and technology and has been featured as Apple’s App of the Day (four times) and on TechCrunch, InStyle, Refinery29, KTLA, and more.
Over quarantine Georgia launched The Bottom Line Podcast through Harvard Ventures, the leading startups and VC club at Harvard, which she is president of, and ran the largest pitch competition for undergraduate students, i3 Innovation Challenge, which has awarded $700k+ in equity-free funding to other founders. On campus, her studies range a wide array of topics including Latin Poetry, Buddhist Art History, and Artificial Intelligence. She is a researcher in the The Systems Neuroscience of Psychopathology Lab and a member of Harvard Women in Business, Harvard Women in Computer Science, Harvard Undergraduate Student Art Collective, and formerly the Harvard Crimson and the Harvard Advocate. She represents .406 Ventures (previously she represented Lightspeed Venture Partners) on campus as their scout.
Georgia is especially energized in entrepreneurial communities and is honored to now be connecting more Black founders to mentorship, peer to peer communities, and, of course, funding through her work with Valence.