These are the 6 companies in Graham & Walker’s latest accelerator class

Graham & Walker, an accelerator and enterprise fund targeted on serving to feminine and non-binary founders, has introduced the newest batch of corporations to enter its accelerator program. I hopped on a name with G&W founder Leslie Feinzaig to listen to what’s new with this system and what these six new corporations are as much as.

In the event you’re unfamiliar with Graham & Walker, you would possibly understand it higher by its former identify: Feminine Founders Alliance. The group rebranded to Graham & Walker on the finish of 2021, alongside an announcement that they’d raised a $10 million greenback fund. Haje wrote up the main points of the rebrand — and the considering behind the brand new identify — proper right here.

Likewise, you would possibly see G&W’s accelerator program known as each “the Graham & Walker Accelerator” and “Prepared Set Increase”; the latter was the accelerator program’s identify previous to the rebrand, however the basic identify nonetheless pops up every so often.

The Graham & Walker accelerator is a six week digital program meant to assist the taking part founders take their early-but-proven companies to the following degree, and to navigate the complexities of fundraising and storytelling. The businesses get one-on-one teaching, investor/mentor entry, and PR help in trade for five% fairness.

With out additional ado, the six corporations from this newest class:

Bilin Academy

On-line courses for multilangual households seeking to strengthen their youngsters’ grasp of a tradition and language, utilizing immersive actions to show reasonably than focusing solely on the language itself. It at the moment gives courses like chess, artwork, debate, and calligraphy, with most courses at the moment led in Chinese language.

Blink Date

A voice-first relationship app. Slightly than having you swipe by means of a thousand profile photos, they match you with one other consumer for a ten minute voice-only dialog. After the dialog, a “Look” function gives up a handful of images that is likely to be the particular person you spoke to. If all the celebrities align and either side are excited about speaking extra after the voice date/look, a match is made.

Native,Away

Love the way in which folks costume in New York, or Seattle, or Paris? Native,Away is constructing a region-focused trend platform, permitting influencers (or “styletrotters” as they name them) in a given space the power to focus on traits, native manufacturers, and make cash for locating ‘suits.

Obánj

A month-to-month membership program for borrowing excessive finish jewellery — assume Dior, Hermés, and so forth. Membership prices $49 or $99 a month (for one piece or three items of bijou at a time, respectively); you’ll be able to maintain a chunk so long as you need (assuming you retain your membership lively), or swap it out with free transport in each instructions.

OpenField

A device for organizing efforts to get the phrase out (assume political canvassing, or distributing vaccine data) both by knocking on doorways or by way of telephone banking. You inform them the place you wish to discuss to folks, and their platform helps divvy up the duties, share conversation-starter scripts, observe notes on conversations you’ve had with a family, and so forth.

SaySo

An enterprise device for modifying a speaker’s accent in actual time — like, for instance, making an accent extra refined whenever you’re speaking on the telephone to somebody in one other area — whereas preserving “the speaker’s voice and intonation”