Kate Brodock
CEO of Switch & General Partner of W Fund
Cazenovia, New York
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2019 - Current
The W Fund is a Venture Capital firm that invests in early stage, tech-enabled startups led by women and underrepresented founders. Talk to us about investing in our fund!
Our fund is singularly focused on investing in traditionally underfunded founders - women and other underrepresented innovators.
CEO
2016
Switch, formerly Women 2.0, is building a future where our global innovation economy is built and run by founders, capital allocators and ecosystem players that are truly and fully representative of the challenges they’re tackling, the solutions they’re scaling, and the humans they’re serving.
Entrepreneur in Residence
2023
Mentor
2012 - 2023
Ongoing mentor for various Techstars cohorts, including most recently the Techstars Anywhere program.
Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.
Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.
Investor
2021
Invested into an incredible founder who's pushing boundaries between the physical and the metaverse, and combining art, sports and NFTs.
round21 creates special edition sports lifestyle products in partnership with artists and athletes.
Board Member
2022
Curastory allows anyone to create and edit high-quality video, monetize shows, and distribute to all of their video channels, 100% free.
Raised $2,305,000.00 from Google for Startups, Innovation Global Capital, AngelList Quant Fund, R/GA Ventures, Eliot Horowitz, The W Fund, Elysian Park Ventures, Techstars, Daniel Pomp and Gaingels.
Board Member
2022
Founding Member
2018
Chief is a private membership network focused on connecting and supporting women executive leaders.
Raised $140,000,000.00 from BoxGroup, General Catalyst, Notable Capital, Primary Venture Partners, Inspired Capital Partners, Flybridge and CapitalG.
Entrepreneur In Residence
2021
Investor
2020
Direct investment into an incredible women-led apparel startup changing the way women athletes perform through clothes made for them.
Goal Five is a provider of sports apparel for women specializing in soccer.
Investor
2020
Investing directly into a platform that provides debt-based capital to women business owners - particularly women of color - while simultaneously changing the way loans are underwritten, both with a goal of opening up access to crucial startup capital for a traditionally underfunded group of business owners.
EnrichHER is a funding platform owned by fintech lender serving business owned by women and people of color.
Raised $1,695,000.00 from Fearless Fund, Fearless Fund, Bracken Darrell and The JumpFund.