Under Construction

Thank you so much for your support of our community. We are working hard on major improvements for you! To bring these upgrades to life, login and signup will be temporarily offline.

•If you are looking to sign up as a member please fill out the form below, and we will manually enter your information and confirm with you upon going live. Thank you, and welcome to our community!

https://startout.typeform.com/to/KuwrZs

•If you are currently a member, we look forward to introducing you to our new and streamlined features once they are online. Please check back on Friday, Sept 13th for more information.

OUR MISSION

StartOut connects and educates LGBTQ entrepreneurs to empower great leaders and businesses. Our goal is to create jobs and prosperity for LGBTQ individuals and for the local communities in which they do business, and to be recognized and respected for our contributions.

Almost every LGBTQ entrepreneur has encountered unequal access to key resources needed to advance their business. In 2009, Darren Spedale, Bryan Janeczko, Joe DiPasquale, and Lorenzo Thione founded StartOut, an LGBTQ non-profit to promote LGBTQ equality and combat discrimination in the business world. Since then, StartOut has become a champion for the LGBTQ entrepreneurial community providing the resources entrepreneurs need to succeed, promoting the successes of our community, and researching the economic impacts of LGBTQ discrimination.

Board of Directors

Vivienne Ming

Chair
Chris Young

Vice Chair
Ty Sheppard

Secretary
Chris Fraley

Treasurer
Alex Capecelatro
Andy Wheeler
Charles Lorum
Chris Sinton

Chair Emeritus
James Bain
Jody Michael
JT Batson
Lindsay Nuon
Lorenzo Thione

Co-Founder and Chair Emeritus
Nick Hendra
Patrick Grosso

Chair Emeritus
Sayan Gomel
Suzanne Killea

Board of Advisors

Staff

Andres Wydler

Executive Director
Sarah Burgaud

Chief Operating Officer
Tony Uceda

Director of Development
Liz Jones

Senior Marketing Manager
Ben Greenlea

Program Director, StartOut Index
Blake McCammon

Events & Volunteer Manager
Amanda Coopersmith

Systems & Operations Manager
Nizar Fraj

Program Fellow