Jun 26, 2024

Gold House Ventures Accelerator Powering Recognition Gold House Ventures Accelerator Gold House is supporting and empowering industry-changing Asian and Pacific Islander (API) entrepreneurs. Through the Gold House Ventures start-up accelerator, Gold House provides emerging business leaders with an intensive 10-week program offering targeted masterclasses, 1:1 advising, and a community of API founders. Applications are currently closed for our Spring 2024 cohort, and we’ll start recruiting for our Fall 2024 class in August. Click the button below to join our priority list for the Fall 2024 GHV Accelerator Application! Fundraising support 1:1 advising with a dedicated Advisor, plus office hours with subject matter experts A tight-knit community of other API founders In-person founder showcase MedSetGo Shrey Kapoor First ever dual MD/MBA candidate at Johns Hopkins. Recipient of full scholarship for MBA and the Schier and Harry P. Clause Jr. Scholarship for School of Medicine ($150,000). Prolific researcher (10+ peer-reviewed scientific publications), serial entrepreneur. Saanchi Kapoor Expert in building in AI, financial modeling, and business administration; nationally acclaimed HS student with 14 honors/distinctions. Vivek Kapoor About MedSetGo MedSetGo aims to optimize care placement for at-home medical services, powering the merchandizing of the next generation of healthcare delivery. MedSetGo aspires to be the leading tech-enabled mobile care convener, thereby reducing costs, improving outcomes, and increasing access across the care continuum. View Bio Dae Kim Dae previously worked on AI strategy at Microsoft and was a strategy consultant for leading CPG companies before that. He received his BA from Dartmouth and was a former nationally ranked debater. David Lee David was previously Founding Engineer at Seek AI and a Senior SWE at DataFox (Oracle). He received his BS from Northwestern and his MS from CMU. He was a former nationally ranked ping pong player. About NoxuData NoxuData is an app that empowers business teams at CPG companies to analyze their data directly. NoxuData helps users get insights from their data conversationally without having to learn SQL or rely on data teams. View Bio Lee Chang Lee went to law school to fulfill his parents’ hopes and dreams, but then went straight into software development for a startup after graduating. His high school summers doing construction work led him to founding Ruck. If you can’t get a hold of him, he’s probably fishing. Shaun Merritt Shaun enjoys teaching his kids the Polynesian and Asian cultures of their heritage. Shaun has pursued a passion in sales, working in the industry, as well as helping start several consultancy and sales businesses. He speaks fluent German, having lived in Germany for nearly 2 years. About Ruck View Bio Jonathan Chen Jonathan Chen is the CEO and co-founder of Scarlet AI alongside his long-time friend, David Donahue. Coming from a background in biochemical engineering, Jonathan has since transitioned to entrepreneurship with projects in Web3, fintech, and AI. In his free time, he enjoys trying new recipes, playing music, and traveling with friends. About Scarlet AI Scarlet AI is revolutionizing the process of internal and external quality auditing in the manufacturing space by leveraging emerging technology. Advisors Partner. Upfront Ventures Aditi Maliwal is a partner at Upfront, leveraging a global perspective to invest in the highest-potential founders and teams. She invests in pre-seed and seed-stage fintech and saas companies, leading and supporting Upfront investments including Clair, Arcade, Writer.ai, Stem, Dayslice and Renew. Before joining Upfront, Aditi was a product manager on the Next Billion Users team at Google, in a hybrid role leading investments in and building product for companies in emerging markets. Previously she worked on the Corporate Development team at Google, leading acquisitions across various sectors including AI, Messaging, and Media. Prior to Google, she worked in early-stage venture at Crosslink Capital leading investments in BetterUp, Chime, and PowerToFly, and before that in investment banking at Deutsche Bank, in the technology banking group. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Stanford University and has lived between India, Hong Kong, Singapore, and San Francisco. View Bio Founder, Photoscale Capital David Chen is founder of Protoscale Capital, and invests from prototype to scale across enterprise software, healthcare, and crypto. He was formerly a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where he invested in companies like Guardant Health (NASDAQ:GH), Clever, and Blockchain.com. Prior to Lightspeed, David was a product manager at Facebook and co-founded a consumer internet company. He has a PhD in Science, Technology, and Management from Harvard Business School and Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He also has MS and BA degrees in Computer Science from Harvard. View Bio Partner, Ripple Ventures Dom is a Partner at Ripple Ventures, leading pre-seed and seed stage investments into enterprise software, developer tools, and web3 infra companies. He works closely with founders to find product market fit, hire talent, and raise capital. Dom is also the founder of the RippleX Fellowship program, which empowers underrepresented student founders and aspiring VCs across the world. View Bio Partner, Contrary Jason is a Partner at Contrary, focusing on early-stage investments. As a generalist investor, he has invested across applied AI/ML, dev tools, fintech, agtech, and healthcare – largely into companies that expand markets and democratize access to technology. Prior to Contrary, he founded two venture-backed companies, one a food marketplace and the other in office management SaaS. He studied English and economics at Yale and has an MBA and MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and Lauder Institute. View Bio Co-founder & CEO, Chowbus Linxin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Chowbus, food delivery platform that provides high-quality, authentic Asian food to customers in North America. Linxin holds a Masters degree from the Illinois Tech Stuart School of Business and a Bachelor’s degree from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics View Bio Co-Founder, Caviar Shawn is a proud Chinese-American immigrant who grew up in the Los Angeles area. He is an alumnus of UC Berkeley class of 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and Minor in Sustainable Design. During his senior year, he joined his college friends to start a daily deals company called Munch On Me (YC class of S11) and dove into the tech startup industry. He later co-founded a food delivery company, Caviar, in early 2012. Caviar was acquired by Square, now a public company. in 2014 and then acquired again by DoorDash in 2019. He is currently a Co-Founder and General Partner of Beluga Capital which has invested and advised in several food tech startups, restaurants, and numerous other companies. He is also currently a Senior Advisor at Grishin Robotics. Besides tech, Shawn is the founding partner of Umai Hospitality Group, a restaurant group invested in major franchises like The Halal Guys and Bonchon Fried Chicken, along with local brands like Rooster and Rice. View Bio VP/GM, Ambarella Steven is currently VP/GM at Ambarella (NASDAQ: AMBA), one of the market leaders in Multi Modal AI Inference Silicon. Steven joined Ambarella through its $400M All Cash acquisition of Oculii, where he was the CEO/Co-Founder, growing the company to become the leading provider of AI Software for Radar Perception. Prior to founding Oculii, Steven was a partner at Kleiner Perkins where he invested in early stage (Seed/Series A) HardTech companies pioneering Autonomous Systems, AI + Machine Learning, Space, IoT, 3D Printing, Robotics, and Cloud Infrastructure. Before KP, Steven co-founded Kumu Networks (Self Interference Cancellation for Full Duplex Wireless – $65M from NEA, Khosla Ventures, Third Point, Cisco, Verizon). Steven started his career as a management/strategy consultant at McKinsey and Uber, where he specialized in M&A diligence and expansion strategy. Steven holds a PhD and MS in EECS from Stanford University where he won several best paper awards for his research in AI + Wireless Communications, and graduated at age 23 – completing both degrees in 3 years. Prior to Stanford, he received a B.S. in EECS from the University of Michigan. FAQ How many founders are accepted to each cohort? We accept 8-10 companies per cohort, and at least one principal founder must identify as Asian and/or Pacific Islander. Where is the accelerator based? Do I need to be in a certain city? All required programming is held virtually and available to founders based anywhere in the U.S. or Canada, though our in-person events & meetups will be held in the U.S. Do I receive funding if I’m admitted? Each selected company receives $250,000 in seed funding in exchange for 6% equity on a post-money Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE), the “ GHV SAFE .” When your company is admitted to the accelerator, you’ll receive $250,000 up front and we enter into a participation agreement that includes guidelines around Gold House Ventures’ right to invest in future financing rounds. When your company raises its first priced round, the SAFE converts into preferred shares representing 6% of the company. Other investors in that round will purchase shares at the price per share of the preferred stock being sold in the round. What does the program look like? Over the 10 weeks, you’ll have access to a variety of community building and networking opportunities to meet other founders in your cohort. You’ll also be matched with at least one Advisor who you can meet with 1:1 weekly/bi-weekly. Throughout the program, we’ll host four deep dive sessions that are designed to increase your ability to build, scale, and fundraise. You’ll hear from subject matter experts and founders that are a few steps ahead as you deep dive into topics such as Brand (and how to articulate it), Fundraising (from pitch decks to term sheets), Company (how to approach product and growth hacking), and Leadership (how to manage the human aspect of being a founder). The program will culminate in a virtual demo day as well as an opportunity for the founders to showcase their products and services in-person to investors and the Gold House network. What's the difference between the two deadlines? For the Spring 2023 application cycle, there are two deadlines. You may submit at any time before 11:59PM PT February 22nd. The priority deadline is 11:59PM PT February 15th, and applicants who submit by February 15th will receive priority consideration. The Gold House Ventures team will be interviewing finalists on a rolling basis throughout March. Selected founders will be notified by the end of March. When will I know if I’m admitted into the program? Selected founders will be notified by the accelerator program leads after the Selection Committee has completed the voting process. Spring 2023 finalists will be interviewed on a rolling basis through March. The selected class will be notified by the end of March. What are the terms of the GHV SAFE? Our standard SAFE agreement can be found here . We invest $250,000 in exchange for 6% equity. What if we have previously raised funding at a higher valuation? If you’ve raised on terms that differ from the GHV SAFE terms, we still encourage you to apply. If selected as a finalist, a member of our team will be available to discuss options for funding. Given the hands-on nature of our program, 1:1 time dedicated by our advisors, and long-term access to the Gold House network via Gold House Futures (a lifelong membership community that unites the next generation of top API entrepreneurs, creatives, and social impact leaders), we strive to meet our ownership threshold across all accelerator companies, and will find a way to work with you if there is mutual fit. Does my venture have to be incorporated? Can I be an LLC? In order to be eligible to receive the $250,000 in seed investment, your company must be structured as a C Corp (rather than an LLC or S Corp). Companies that are currently operating as LLCs may apply, but if selected must convert to a C Corp in order to receive investment. What is the expected time commitment? Approximately 2-3 hours per week. We like to think that the more you put in, the more you’ll get out of the program. In order to graduate and be eligible for Alumni benefits, we expect your participation in the majority of sessions and networking opportunities. Your active engagement with your advisor and other founders in your cohort is key to building the community that is core to the Gold House Ventures Accelerator experience. Are founders expected to be full time with their venture? Yes, founders are expected to commit full-time to their ventures by the start of the Gold House Venture Accelerator program. Ultimately, requiring founders to be full-time ensures that they are positioned to maximize their impact and fully capitalize on the resources and support offered through the accelerator program. Do you consider solo founders? Yes, we do consider solo founders and you do not have to have a co-founder to apply for GHVA! In fact, some of the companies in our past cohorts have solo founders. What is the selection process like for GHVA? The application process for the accelerator will involve an initial screening phase, then, selected candidates will proceed to interview(s) with the Gold House Ventures team, providing an opportunity for further exploration of their qualifications and proposals. Selected founders will receive offers by the accelerator program leads after the Selection Committee has completed their final voting process. What types of companies are you interested in investing in? Gold House’s accelerator program is currently prioritizing investment in tech-enabled consumer, enterprise, fintech, healthcare, and e-commerce businesses. Our focus on these sectors reflects our commitment to supporting innovative ventures that leverage technology to scale and create impact. If your business does not aligns with any of these sectors, we encourage you to explore other Gold House opportunities – such as grants, prizes, amplification, and referrals to other accelerators. Apply Now Applications are currently closed for the Gold House Ventures Accelerator. Check back for more information on the Fall 2024 cycle of GHVA applications. Explore Other Accelerators Get exclusive content featuring Gold House Members and stay updated on upcoming initiatives! Email Address