Our Community

Where innovators, founders, mentors, and partners grow together. A global network of leaders shaping the future of enterprise innovation.

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Driven by people. United by vision.

Our community is more than a network—it’s a long-term support system built through shared experiences, bold ideas, and a commitment to helping each other succeed.

Core team members

40 +

Mentors & Coaches

7000 +

Mentors & Coaches

Rachel Chalmers

Rachel Chalmers is the co-founder of Generationship, a venture fund writing early checks for technical women building infrastructure software. She was an early investor in LaunchDarkly, Aviatrix Systems, and Honeycomb.io.

Rachel Chalmers

Partner & Coach

Ed Baum

Ed has decades of experience leading strategy and operations across technology companies and startups, including executive roles at Cisco and co-founding CXO Systems, which was acquired by Cisco.

Ed Baum

CEO Mentor

Bill Demas

After successfully running four technology start-ups, Bill now coaches CEO founders through three core stages of start-up growth: Product-Market Fit [$0 to $2MM revenue]; Gaining Traction [$2MM to $20MM revenue] and Breaking Out [$20MM to $100MM+].

Bill Demas

Mentor & Coach

Walter Roth

Sales and leadership coach for high-growth, founder-led ventures, Walter is a venture-backed founder with engineering and Oracle sales experience, specializing in deal diagnosis and helping non-sales founders outperform hired salespeople.

Walter Roth

Sales Mentor

Events & Gathering

Connecting Through
Shared Experiences

Community comes alive through events — Demo Days, alumni meetups, panel discussions, workshops, and global gatherings.

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Community Meetups

Founders, mentors, and partners coming together to exchange insights and build meaningful connections.

Community Meetups

Founders, mentors, and partners coming together to exchange insights and build meaningful connections.

Community Meetups

Founders, mentors, and partners coming together to exchange insights and build meaningful connections.

Community Meetups

Founders, mentors, and partners coming together to exchange insights and build meaningful connections.

Community Meetups

Founders, mentors, and partners coming together to exchange insights and build meaningful connections.

Community Meetups

Founders, mentors, and partners coming together to exchange insights and build meaningful connections.

Community Meetups

Founders, mentors, and partners coming together to exchange insights and build meaningful connections.

Community Meetups

Founders, mentors, and partners coming together to exchange insights and build meaningful connections.

Alchemist Team

Ravi Belani

Ravi leads Alchemist and works hands on with enterprise founders as they build, sell, and scale. He has been an early investor in several unicorns and teaches entrepreneurship at Stanford University.

Ravi Belani

Founder & CEO

Ian Bergman

Ian leads global deeptech commercialization and oversees corporate and government innovation programs. He brings an operator-investor perspective, shaped by 20+ years of experience, that bridges the gap between scientific breakthroughs and enterprise scale.

Ian Bergman

Partner & Managing Director

Danielle Vivo

Helps founders refine their product, improve scalability, and make smart technical decisions for sustainable growth.

Danielle Vivo

Director of Programs

Katinka Harsányi

Partnerships & Platform at Alchemist. Katinka previously co-founded a spin-out from UCL's AI Labs, led enterprise sales at Microsoft, and held commercial leadership roles at early-stage startups across Europe, the US, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Katinka Harsányi

Investor Relations & Platform

Majed Lababidi

Director of Ecosystem Integration at Alchemist Doha, Majed leads investment and startup relocation in Qatar. A three-time entrepreneur with a successful exit, he brings over a decade of experience connecting founders, investors, and institutions across emerging tech.

Majed Lababidi

Director of Ecosystem Integration, Alchemist Doha

Insights & Stories

Influencer Series
Blog

Why Enterprise AI’s Biggest Opportunity Lies in Structured and Unstructured Data

In this Influencer Series episode, Sidney Rabsatt, Chief Product Officer at MindsDB, explores why enterprise AI’s biggest opportunity lies in bridging structured and unstructured data to unlock faster insights without years-long data migrations.

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Accelerator

Next Wave of Deep Tech Innovators Selected for Phase 2 of Alchemist Chicago

Alchemist Chicago — the deep tech accelerator partnership between the University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Alchemist — today announced the startups selected for Phase 2 of its inaugural cohort.

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Accelerator

Alchemist Japan Announces its Second Cohort

2025年10月28日 Alchemist Japan in partnership with:

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Voices of Innovation

Explore lessons learned, behind-the-scenes stories, and practical advice from leaders crafting the future.

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Podcast

How AI Is Helping Local Governments Unlock Billions in Funding

This conversation highlights how technology can reduce friction, expand access, and help underserved communities compete for the resources they need.

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Podcast

Open Banking, AI, and Building Tech That Serves People First

From open banking and data ownership to AI agents and a practical Responsible Innovation framework, this conversation is built for founders, operators, and innovation leaders who want to ship meaningful change without being reckless.

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Disrupt or Be Disrupted

Jim Stallings, Founder and CEO of PS27 Ventures, shares lessons from a career spanning the U.S. Marine Corps, senior leadership roles at IBM, and now early-stage investing. Jim has led through disruption at massive scale and now helps founders do the same in fast-moving AI-driven markets.

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How to Build Products People Actually Use

Ghazenfer Mansoor, Founder & CEO of Technology Rivers, breaks down how to build AI and software products people actually use, not just download. With more than 15 years of experience building mobile, SaaS, and AI-driven products, Ghazenfer shares why most apps fail.

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Why Most Corporate Startup Partnerships Fail

Noga Tal unpacks what really happens at the intersection of startups, corporates, and innovation. She also shares hard earned lessons founders and operators rarely hear early enough.

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Podcast

How Amazon’s Innovation Framework Helps Builders Move Faster

Marcelo Calbucci breaks down the innovation habits that shaped his career at Microsoft, Amazon, and across six startups.

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Why High Achievers Burn Out and How Conscious Leaders Break Through

Why do so many high achievers hit every goal, earn the title, build the company, and still feel lost or unfulfilled?

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How to Turn Information Overload into Signal with Syncro Founder Yunsu Tang

Yunsu Tang shares her journey from a stable corporate career in Hong Kong and Shanghai to rebuilding in London’s startup ecosystem.

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Podcast

How Crowdfunding Sparked and the Rise of the Customer-Investor

How investment crowdfunding grew from an eight-bullet outline into a 485-page regulation that opened startup investing to everyday people.