Join Ally for a casual chat on startups, InsuranceTech, AI, community-building, fundraising, etc.Duration - 30 minutes virtual session over Zoom

Zoom chat (30 min)

If you are in NYC, join Ally for a cup of coffee. Have a casual chat with her on startups, InsuranceTech, AI, community-building, fundraising, etc.Duration 1hr - In-person. Can be converted to virtual, Zoom chat

Coffee chat in NYC

This is a great Charm for startup founders planning to or in the process of fundraising. Ally will make an intro to an investor of your choice in her network. The following criteria apply:<ul><li>Ally makes the ultimate decision if she would introduce you to a specific investor</li><li>Double opt-in is required</li><li>If the requested intro was deemed infeasible, inappropriate, or if the counter-party doesn’t want to connect, Ally will try up to 2 more intros to other investors.</li></ul>

Investor intros

Ally currently leads the Venture Partnerships team at Vouch, a startup that provides business insurance to technology startups. She joined Vouch from E*TRADE where she led startup partnerships for the Ventures and Labs organization. Prior, she spent time at x.ai, a venture backed AI startup, as their first sales person to bring their B2B product to market and build out sales operations from the ground up. She began her career at IBM Watson where she worked with early stage enterprise and consumer startups building off of IBM's artificial intelligence technology. Ally cares deeply about being a part of the startup and founder journey and she takes pride and defines success for herself in how she is able to advocate for and support founders that are solving important problems. She is based in New York City.

The Equal Justice Initiative is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.

Allison Schneider

Get one hour of professional dating and relationship coaching from Adam. Find out the secrets to gaining attention on dating apps and find your perfect match.Duration - 1 hour virtual session over Zoom

Relationship and Dating Coaching (date like a celebrity)

S’More Live is the #1 celebrity dating show on Instagram. Get featured on the show and play fun dating games, share crazy dating stories, and provide useful dating tips. Millions of people have watched the show! Check out @smoredate on Instagram

Appearance on S’More dating show on Instagram

Adam Cohen Aslatei is the CEO and Founder of S’More, the world’s first anti-superficial relationship network. S’More is among the fastest growing new apps in the U.S.  Adam was a managing director at Chappy, a Bumble Group app.

The Trevor Project is the world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) young people.

Adam Cohen-Aslatei

Join Asmau for a casual chat on startups, product development, FinTech, fundraising, etc.Duration - 30 minutes virtual session over Zoom

Asmau is obsessed with solving the world's most pressing problems with technology. She is a senior leader at X (formerly Google X), Alphabet’s innovation factory. She sits on the boards of CAA (Creative Artists Agency) and Quinstreet (NASDAQ: QNST). She serves as an advisor to the Yale Entrepreneurship Society, is a member of the Opportunity Leadership Council, and the founder of The Diversity Meter.She has a foundation in Engineering and Finance and over 20 years of experience as a venture-funded CEO, and operating executive. She has led over $10B in digitally enabled innovations and operations spanning multiple industries including technology, consumer retail, manufacturing, and financial services.Asmau is a mother to two children. Her most recent passion project, inspired by her experiences as a black woman navigating the world and by her non-verbal autistic son, involves finding tech solutions to shift traditional power dynamics and inspire inclusion.More <a href="https://youtu.be/VZNfasbmHYM" target="_blank">in this Hulu series</a>

NYCLI was founded in 1994 as a state certified nonpublic preschool for children with autism. In 1995, educational services were extended to school-age children between the ages of five and eleven. In 2002, NYCLI was certified to serve the needs of learners up to age 21. The institute implements a science-based educational approach and is committed to providing the highest standard of education for its students.

Asmau Ahmed

Join Dennis for a walk around downtown Manhattan. Have a casual chat with him on startups, AI, programming, fundraising, etc. We recommend wearing sneakers on these walks. Dennis is known to walk at a brisk pace. [Duration 1hr] [In-person. Can be converted to virtual, Zoom talk]

Walk & talk around NYC

Girls Who Code is on a mission to close the gender gap in technology and to change the image of what a programmer looks like and does.

Dennis Mortensen

Join Greg for a casual chat on eng management, startups, hiring a CTO, MVPs, building products, eng recruiting, fundraising, etc. Duration - 1-hr

Advice session in NYC or Zoom chat 

Invite Greg to be a guest at your next podcast or panel event. Greg has spoken on topics like open-source software development, Scala, team building, and startups. Schedule, topics, and content to be mutually agreed upon ahead of redeeming this Charm. Max Duration 1hr (Virtual, over Zoom)

Podcast or Panel Appearance

Greg Ratner is the technical co-founder and CTO at Troops (Troops.ai) building codeless workflow automation for customer facing teams for the past 6 years. He has a passion for building high-powered teams and scalable products (Troops system currently processes over 300M changes a day). He is a serial entrepreneur, technologist and people leader, previously at Dell/EMC, early VistaPrint, LBi, and Deep Focus. He holds a BS, MS in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Greg is a guest lecturer at NYU, engineering mentor, startup advisor and early stage angel investor.

We practice responsible and innovative ways to reduce animal overpopulation in shelters, rescue and rehabilitate critically injured and neglected animals, and connect the community to services that enable animals to remain in their homes. Together we are advocates, rescuers, and educators. Together we make a difference.

Greg Ratner

Stories hold the power to connect, communicate and compel people to act. But crafting and telling stories that resonate requires a delicate balance of art and science. Work with Heidi to unpack the secrets to crafting a strong story and delivering it well, including the use of data to strengthen that story. This session is intended for audiences that find themselves communicating with diverse stakeholder groups like media, potential investors and donors, current and prospective customers, as well as internal employee audiences. Over the course of this session, we will delve into the building blocks of a great story and storytelling tips to master delivery by drawing on best practices and examples from master storytellers like Apple, Tesla, Coca-Cola, Disney, and many others.Duration - 1 hour virtual session over Zoom with one 30 minute storytelling messaging feedback session

Art of Storytelling 1:1s

Leverage Heidi’s extensive knowledge and experience in communications, marketing and investor storytelling to present and get feedback on your pitch, presentation and delivery.  Walk away from this session with constructive feedback to strengthen your marketing materials or presentation to improve outcomes.

Presentation/Pitch Feedback

Invite Heidi to be a guest at your next podcast or panel event. Heidi also trains professional athletes, sports teams and leagues, rookie and draft prep, entertainers and artists on storytelling, avoiding crises, avoiding social media pitfalls, and media training, and can share critical lessons learned through some of our country’s biggest recent scandals. Additional topics may include marketing and communications tips, tricks, lessons learned or best practices; a storytelling workshop or lessons in crisis communications; or incubator and accelerator training programs or structure.Schedule, topics, and content to be mutually agreed upon ahead of redeeming this Charm.Max Duration 1hr (Virtual, over Zoom)

Dr. Heidi Davidson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Galvanize Worldwide, the largest distributed marketing and communications consulting firm in the world and Galvanize On Demand, a tech platform to match freelancers with marketing projects. The Galvanize team focuses on startup advisory work, outsourced marketing, crisis communications and change management for organizations of all sizes. Before co-founding Galvanize Worldwide, Heidi spent four years as part of the turn-around team at BlackBerry in senior executive roles focused on helping BlackBerry move from a device manufacturer to a security software and services provider. Prior to that, Heidi worked at MasterCard Worldwide at its global headquarters in Purchase, New York for 11 years.Heidi holds a Bachelor’s in Communications and Public Relations from Russell Sage College in Troy, NY, an MBA in Marketing and a Doctorate from Pace University’s Lubin School of Business in New York. Heidi is Chairman of the Board for the Business Council of Westchester and a member of the Board of Governors for the YMCA of Central and Northern Westchester.

Girls Inc. Westchester is a non-profit organization, a local affiliate of Girls Incorporated.We’re dedicated to creating girls-only programs that equip young women with essential knowledge and skills. We provide a place for them to feel physically and psychologically safe, and a peer group that helps them feel emotionally supported, confident, and bold.

Heidi Davidson

Join Jerry for a casual chat on startups, programming, VC, fundraising, etc.Duration - 1 hour

Coffee in NYC or Zoom chat

Jerry Neumann invests in and advises early-stage companies through Neu Venture Capital (http://neuvc.com). Neu has been among the first investors in groundbreaking companies including Datadog, The Trade Desk, and Simple. The companies Neu has helped seed-fund have created more than $100 billion in market value and more than 5,000 jobs. He has been called one of New York’s “50 Most Important VCs” by Business Insider and “reasonable sounding” by the Wall Street Journal. Jerry teaches entrepreneurship and innovation at Columbia University.Before Neu Jerry co-founded Root Markets, a pioneer in programmatic marketing. In the late 1990s he ran the venture capital division of Omnicom Group, the world’s leading marketing services company, where he was involved with the seed financing of many of the earliest internet marketing firms. He started his career at IBM as an engineer on the design team of the ES/9000 family of mainframes. He writes at http://reactionwheel.net.

The Nature Conservancy is a global environmental nonprofit working to create a world where people and nature can thrive. Our mission is to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. To achieve this, we must boldly address the biodiversity and climate crises over the next decade. By maximizing our ability to affect change between now and 2030, we can shape a brighter future for people and our planet.

Jerry Neumann

Join Jonathan for a casual chat on startups, fundraising, Enterprise SaaS, NY tech, etc.Duration - 20 minutes

Zoom chat

I'm co-founder and General Partner at Work-Bench where we invest in early stage enterprise technology startups.Our current portfolio can be viewed <a href="https://www.work-bench.com/portfolio">here</a> and includes companies such as Cockroach Labs, Socure, Dialpad, Spring Health, FireHydrant, Catalyst, and many others.I started the NY Enterprise Technology Meetup (nyetm.com) in January 2012, and the group currently has over 10,000 members including Fortune 500 technologists, enterprise founders and operators, and investors of all stages. The NYETM is the first meetup group in NYC focused exclusively on enterprise technology company presentations on a monthly basis.

Jonathan Lehr

Join Josh for a casual chat on startups, scalability, engineering velocity, tech management, etc.Duration - 1 hour

Josh is the VP of Engineering at chess.com - more than 70 million users and a top-200 global website.  Josh is a team leader and architect who inspires innovation, velocity and ground-breaking achievement.  He has been building teams and the systems that power companies for over two decades. His people-first philosophy drives a culture of trust, excellence, creativity and transparency with a focus on bringing joy to customers - an environment where people can find meaning and apply their passion every day.  As a veteran of many successful NYC startups, Josh's experience and positive energy are contagious - don't miss this chance for a great conversation!

Josh Levine

1 Charm = 1 NFT Collectible = 1 Hour Enterprising Conversation (executed within reasonable time)Conversations can be anything about helping others, real talk, advisory, potential support, investment ideas, technology, software, etc. 99% of conversations will be virtual, but if in-person is requested it will be based on the discretion of the EnterpriseGuy.Potential Ongoing/Future Charm Holder Benefits:EnterpriseGuy&rsquo;s Respect &amp; Attention Owning a Piece of The Story Future Private Community Access Startup Advisory and Support Proprietary Startup Investment Deal Flow Network Introductions Future Discounts to Product/Service Offerings Benefit from my success and higher NFT value. The potential future benefits can be endless as I plan to stay engaged with this community!NFT Distribution Schedule Based on Demand - 10 Tranches<ul><li>Tranche #1) 1 - 100 </li><li>Tranche #2) 101 - 200 </li><li>Tranche #3) 201 - 300 </li><li>Tranche #4) 301 - 400 </li><li>Tranche #5) 401 - 500 </li><li>Tranche #6) 501 - 1,000 </li><li>Tranche #7) 1,001 - 2,500 </li><li>Tranche #8) 2,501 - 5,000 </li><li>Tranche #9) 5,001 - 7,500 </li><li>Tranche #10) 7,501 - 10,000</li></ul>

Enterprising Conversation - Tranche 1

&quot;Owning your story is the bravest thing you'll ever do.&quot;- Brene BrownNow come own a piece of the EnterpriseGuy&rsquo;s story.The EnterpriseGuy, a battle-hardened angel investor in Silicon Valley, is on his next big epic adventure that will last a whole lifetime. In the next chapter of his story, the EnterpriseGuy is wagering a bold bet against the world where he is committing his best efforts to donating the equivalent of 10,000 hours of his precious time to charity. The execution of this bold bet is likely to last several decades of his entire life and charm holders will own a piece of this once in a lifetime story.With time being his most valuable asset, each EnterpriseGuy NFT charm will represent exactly one hour of his time. There will only be 10,000 NFT charms offered at the minimum price of $100 USD per charm. The resulting proceeds will be $1,000,000 USD and 100% of it will be donated to the charity of his choice.In the EnterpriseGuy’s personal upbringing, he deeply understands and truly feels for all the children in the world growing up with the most unfair advantage in life. Because of this, the EnterpriseGuy has selected Save the Children charity to give every child in this world a fighting chance to write their own stories.If you believe in the EnterpriseGuy and his level of commitment to this 10,000 hour challenge, you can support him in his journey by owning a piece of this story and ultimately a token of his respect.You can be the Angel Investor's Angel Investors. ;)

In the United States and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We do whatever it takes for children - every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.

EnterpriseGuy

Join Nitay for a casual chat on startups, scalability, tech management, etc.Duration - 30 minutes

The National Pediatric Cancer Foundation is dedicated to funding research to eliminate childhood cancer. Our focus is to find less toxic, more effective treatments through a unique collaborative research initiative called the Sunshine Project.

Nitay Joffe

Join Sutian for a casual chat on startups, women in VC, fundraising, etc.Duration - 30 minutes

Sutian Dong is a partner at Multitudes, a new model of venture fund that uncovers and invests in talented founders of both high-growth companies and emerging seed funds. Multitudes believes the future of innovation will come from diverse networks and ideas, and targets funds and founders who look, think, and act differently to generate industry leading returns. Multitudes discovers those shaping the future.Previously, Sutian was a partner at Female Founders Fund, the leading seed fund investing exclusively in the exponential power of extraordinary female talent, with investments in companies like Rent the Runway, Maven, Thrive Global, Billie, and Co--Star Astrology. Prior to that, she spent several years as an investor at FirstMark Capital, and started her career in fashion as head of marketing for Norisol Ferrari.Sutian co-founded the Global Women in VC Directory, the largest community of female technology investors worldwide, with 3,700 members across 2,000 funds in over 200 cities and 60 countries.Sutian is a Texas native and studied finance and marketing at NYU.

We focus on where we can make the greatest impact on malnutrition, which threatens the health, well-being, and future of mothers and children around the world, every day.

Sutian Dong

We are experts in startup valuation and financial modeling. In this 30-minute-consultation we can answer any questions you have about modeling or valuing your startup, how to look for investors, or how to evaluate a term sheet.Duration - 30 minutes virtual session over Zoom

AMA about startup valuation, financial modeling, fundraising, or startup finance

Victoria is the President and Founder of the Startup Station, an education and finance advisory platform for early-stage startups. We focus on helping founders prepare their financials and valuation for the fundraising process as well as support companies post-funding.Our models clearly demonstrate how your strategy translates into financial results over what time frame and with what investment. We make it easy to communicate with investors and defend your valuation. We also help you execute on your strategy post-funding by providing an outsourced finance department which can scale with your company.More than 1,000 founders have taken The Startup Station's courses to learn the basics of accounting, valuation, financial modeling, and startup financing and our clients have raised more than $50M. We have experience in 15+ industries and worked with 150+ entrepreneurs one-on-one on all continents. We have collaborated with numerous accelerators including Rockstart, Starta, Numa, Halo, and more. Victoria also teaches at Bank of America Institute of Women’s Entrepreneurship At Cornell.Victoria holds a Bachelor's Degree, Cum Laude, in Computer Science, with a minor in Mathematics from Cornell University, and an MBA, with honors, from Columbia Business School.

To build a world in which every child learns, UNICEF will increasingly promote equity and inclusion. This includes making targeted efforts for children who are excluded on the basis of gender, disability, poverty, ethnicity and language, as well as those who are displaced or affected by emergencies.

Victoria Yampolsky

Join Chris for a strategy session to discuss approaches to raising Seed, Series A or Series B capital.Duration - 1 hour

Fundraising Strategy Session

Chris Neumann is a 20-year veteran of Silicon Valley as both a founder and investor, with a focus on helping startups outside of the Bay Area more successfully raise capital from Silicon Valley VCs.He is a Partner at Panache Ventures, Canada’s most active pre-seed and seed stage VC. Prior to joining Panache, Chris founded Commonwealth Ventures, a San Francisco-based platform focused on helping international startups raise funding from Silicon Valley investors. In less than three years, Commonwealth Ventures helped Canadian and UK-based startups raise over $100M in funding from Silicon Valley VCs.Chris was previously a Venture Partner at 500 Startups, the CEO and Cofounder of DataHero (acquired by Cloudability in 2016) and the first employee of Aster Data (acquired by Teradata in 2011). Chris teaches entrepreneurship at the Beedie School of Business.

HBCU.vc’s mission is to direct how capital is formed and distributed to increase opportunities for Black and Latinx innovators.  We accomplish this by developing, connecting and mobilizing the next generation of venture capital leaders in communities where entrepreneurs face barriers in accessing capital, and by empowering institutions to employ race-conscious investing practices.

Chris Neumann

Join Neil for a casual chat on AI, innovation, startups, tech future, public speaking etc.Duration - 20 minutes

This is a great charm to gain more visibility for your product, service, or company. Neil will post a sponsored LinkedIn post on your behave. The following criteria apply:<ul><li>The post will be marked “Sponsored”</li><li>Neil will make the ultimate decision if a certain content would be appropriate for his audience.</li><li>If the content is deemed inappropriate, the holder may resubmit a new post for up to 3 more times.</li></ul>

Neil Sahota

This NFT grants access to our private Discord channel

Membership Access

Schedule a call with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidsonheidi/">Heidi Davidson.</a>This NFT also grants access to our private Discord channel

30 Minute Zoom call

Galvanize Worldwide is a full-service virtual agency. Since 2015, Galvanize Worldwide has served as an outsourced marketing partner for high-growth companies and established brands looking for help with marketing strategy and tactical execution. For more information about Galvanize Worldwide, please visit <a href="https://galvanizeworldwide.com/about/">https://galvanizeworldwide.com/about/</a>.