Andrea White-Kjoss has been building the Long Beach Accelerator from the ground up.

In just the first year of program operations, the Long Beach Accelerator has graduated 3 cohorts. Those twenty companies alone have received over $12M in funding, generated over $2.5M in revenue, and received 5 acquisition offers straight out of the accelerator.

In addition, more than 50% of LBA founders are female founders, and 75% underrepresented founders of all types.

The Long Beach Accelerator has already been creating waves, recognized as one of LA’s top tech startup accelerators by dot.LA, and winner of a prestigious SBA Inclusive Small Business award.

The Long Beach Accelerator is a largely virtual program and accepts the best companies from anywhere in the US from any sector and provides an average of $100K in funding to each cohort member.

Andrea believes we can create exceptional, high-growth tech startups and opportunities for investors while humanizing the journey for founders.

Zach is the most active early-stage PropTech investor in the United States, having funded over 60 startups in the space as an individual as well as 40 startups (and counting) through MetaProp's venture capital funds.

Prior to joining Millennium and founding MetaProp, Zach was a Senior Associate at ENIAC Ventures, a seed stage mobile technology fund and the founder of Travelgoat, an online and offline walking tour business.

Zach is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He serves on the Technology Committee LLP for the Real Estate Board of New York and the Technology and Real Estate Council for the Urban Land Institute.

Zach has been featured in dozens of international publications and media, including The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The Real Deal, Curbed, Commercial Observer, Propmodo, The Information, TechCrunch, Bisnow, Forbes, The Real Estate Weekly, Crain's, and Cheddar.

Ido Sarig is a Startup Coach and mentor, mentoring CEOs and founding teams of early-stage companies for more than 15 years.

He has been working with several world-class accelerator programs and incubators, such as The Alchemist Accelerator, AlchemistX, ICON SV, Next47, US Market Access Center and Startup Wind. He is a former venture partner at Thomas Weisel Venture Partners, where he focused on Enterprise software.

Ido has coached, mentored and has been a board member to tens of startups. Companies he's provided services to have raised venture rounds of tens of millions of dollars, and have had successful exits.

His main expertise is marketing, business development and fundraising. Specialties include Category Design, Product Strategy and Product Marketing.

His proven track record of successful category creation has been covered by the New York Times and Fortune Magazine, among others.

Jackie is the heartbeat of the fashion tech landscape in NYC, and her program has not only brought together some of the best founders in the space, but also connected them with their first large enterprise sales opportunities.

The New York Fashion Tech Lab is a community-driven, relationship building, collaboration, and business development platform.

The nonprofit program was co-founded by Springboard Enterprises and key fashion retailers to support women-led companies that have developed innovations at the intersection of fashion, retail, and technology.

www.nyftlab.com

Lito is a grants specialist with over 20 years of experience in grantsmanship and the overall funding environment. Over the past 10 years, he applied this experience to helping startups spinning out of university systems and mainly in life sciences. His work includes finding funding opportunities for grassroots organizations, social service agencies, advocacy groups, and individuals.

Lito mentors in a number of startup programs, including Mass Challenge, The Founders Institute of Dallas, Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) of North Texas, and started a have also recently founded a consultancy for startups.

As part of this, he works with startup companies on finding partners and building coalitions, evaluation planning, budgeting & financing, sustainability strategies, and raising capital. His favorite part is helping a company position itself for the next round of funding and improve the chances of getting funds awarded.

Lito also currently leads grant research for the Moncrief Cancer Institute (MCI), which provides early cancer detection services and interventions.

Mia is the Program Manager at Company Ventures, an early-stage VC in NYC that provides a foundation for entrepreneurs building with purpose.

In addition to investing in pre-seed/seed companies, Company Ventures operates the Grand Central Tech Residency, an annual program purposefully built to support NYC’s premier founding teams. Since the program’s inception in 2014, 127 program companies have raised $1.9B from top VCs.

Mia is an experienced community professional, and operations master, with a demonstrated history of working in the nonprofit sector and tech industry and a passion for workplace collaboration and equality.

She is also leading The City Fellowship at Company Ventures, In partnership with New York City Economic Development Corporation, supporting extraordinary community-oriented entrepreneurs who are making NYC better.

The program specifically centers on the experience of Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and women-led small businesses, nonprofits, and technology startups that are building a more equitable and sustainable future for New Yorkers.

As an investor and entrepreneur, Jason believes the most important component of any startup is the founders and the team behind the business.

While his team at EQx Fund focuses on spotting the next great leaders and investing in the Jockey's, the Prepare 4 VC team has created programs, webinars and educational resources to help first time founders become those next great startup success stories.

The Prepare 4 VC Startup Oasis is the sum of all its parts, including a virtual Accelerator Program, a multitude of global conferences, live networking & pitch events, as well as access to growth tools, critical business resource, and communication pathways directly to investors, advisors, coaches, mentors and peers across a global stage.

Jason is also actively involved in Startup Grind and Boston New Technology.

Over the years, he's been featured in Entrepreneur magazine, All Business Media, Boston Voyager, Radio entrepreneurs and more to share his expertise.

Micah has entrepreneurship in his DNA. A son of self-employed parents, he started by selling homemade cookies at summer camp and launching a social enterprise in college.

He founded a successful startup which he led for three years in Israel and learned just as much from his failed startups thereafter.

Micah is a former investment banker at Lazard and software engineer Transfix, and currently advises dozens of startups and works with entrepreneurs at Newchip Accelerator.

Micah graduated from Northwestern University in Math & Economics and received his MBA from CornellTech. He leverages his operating, finance, tech, and founder advisory experience to help invest at StartFast Ventures.