Meet the Mentors Behind Alchemist

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.

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.

Frank is a 3x fintech / proptech founder & CEO currently running Ownify - focused on building a better path to homeownership. Frank has 25+ years of experience across financial services, technology, and analytics go-to-market. He's been teaching the pricing & sales classes at Alchemist since 2014.

Founder turned VC, Jeremy Geiger generated $65M revenue across multiple startups, built 100+ partnerships, raised $45M, and brings venture experience from BootstrapLabs, GenLab AI, and Stanford VC graduate.

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.

Bill has successfully run four technology startups and now coaches CEO founders through three core stages of growth: Product Market Fit ($0 to $2MM revenue), Gaining Traction ($2MM to $20MM revenue), and Breaking Out ($20MM to $100MM+). His work focuses on helping founders navigate scale with clarity and confidence.