Chief

Chief is the private network executive women rely on to maximize their leadership impact through access to a vetted executive community and valuable insights. Founded in 2019, Chief is the largest community of senior executive women, representing more than 10,000 companies and 77% of the Fortune 100. Chief has been recognized as one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies. Visit Chief.com to learn more or apply for membership. More about Chief: What began as a vision to support women in corporate leadership is now the largest community of senior women executives in the United States. Chief membership helps women executives raise their leadership. Services include one-on-one or peer-group executive coaching, programming centered on timely issues in business, and access to a vast, powerful community where members can build meaningful relationships — connections that unlock transformative professional outcomes. Our Services: Executive Coaching: Chief offers coaching in small groups or one-to-one settings. With small-group coaching, or Core, members can gain peer advice on a variety of topics. With Executive Coaching, members receive goal-based, personalized guidance at their own pace and on their own schedule. Programming: Members can attend a wide range of in-person and virtual programming that’s centered on pressing issues they face as executives. This includes roundtable discussions led by industry experts, inspiring speakers, local one-day conferences, and thought-provoking editorial content. Community: With Chief, members join a vast community of business leaders and connect through our digital platform or at Chief- and member-hosted events. Chief women’s network also has five Clubhouse locations in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.
Founding Year
2019
Headquarters
New York
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United States
Sector(s)
Social
Funding State
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Exited
Total Funding Amount
$140.00M
Funds that Investested

Flybridge

VC firm backing ambitious founders leveraging the power of community. They believe that the first step is capital but beyond that, they leverage their own community to assist founders on every step of their journey, especially at the earliest stage. Flybridge is currently investing out of their two recently raised fund, totaling $150M.

Flybridge has a straightforward and honest due diligence process that starts with a Phone/Zoom Convo With A Member of Our Investment Team, followed by Follow-ups with individual team members leading the opportunity and potentially 1-2 other investment team members, Due Diligence, Invitation to team meeting if it’s a good fit,Team discussion (internal), Pass/Offer, and then anInvestment

They are committed to making daily, weekly, and monthly checkins focused on recruiting, product, fundraising, and leadership w/ founders they back.
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General Catalyst

We back ambitious founders who actively seek to change the status quo.
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Able Partners

Aims to support passionate entrepreneurs building visionary brands in positive living that will make the daily lives of consumers healthier, happier and more meaningful
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BoxGroup

BoxGroup is an early-stage investment fund that invests in technology companies.
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Primary Venture Partners

Takes a low-volume, high-conviction approach—because they pull out all the stops to make sure the founders they support can succeed. The differentiator, unheard of in early-stage VC, is Primary’s Portfolio Impact team: Full-time, seasoned executives getting into the trenches with founders to supercharge growth and secure quality hires, early customers, and downstream investors.
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Seed
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XFactor Ventures

supports ambitious female founders with the "X Factor" the insight and drive to build the next billion-dollar company.
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BBG Ventures

Invests in female-led companies working on the biggest areas of the consumer economy.
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Series A
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TQ Ventures

Focused on early-stage and growth-stage companies.
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Accel

First partner to exceptional teams everywhere.
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Investors that Investested

Alexa von Tobel

Founder and Managing Partner, Inspired Capital Partners
Alexa founded Inspired Capital in 2019 with the aim of helping Seed and Series A consumer and enterprise tech businesses become category-defining companies. Alexa has seen success with investments in B2B fintech Rho Technologies, social calendar platform Saturn and customer-focused AI startup Forethought. She draws on over a decade of experience as the founder and CEO of LearnVest, a learning platform that helped bring personal finance to the masses on its way to raising over $75 million in venture capital before being acquired by Northwestern Mutual in one of the biggest fintech acquisitions of the 2010s. Beyond her role at Inspired, Alexa is a New York Times-bestselling author, writes as a columnist for Inc. and hosts both ‘The Founders Project with Alexa von Tobel’ and 'Inspired in 15.' She has been recognized on the cover of Forbes, Fortune's 40 Under 40, Forbes 30 Under 30, Inc. Magazine's 30 Under 30, and is a Henry Crown Fellow.
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Kenneth Chenault

Chairman and Managing Director, General Catalyst
Spent 37 years at American Express, most recently as Chairman and CEO.
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