Kate Brodock

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About Kate Brodock

Kate is Founding Partner of W Fund, a VC investing into early-stage tech startups led by incredible founders, and CEO of SWITCH, a global platform shaping the future of our innovation economy, creating a pipeline of resilient startup leaders and angel investors. She’s lived in the tech startup world for almost 20 years, and has played an active leadership role in the women in tech and entrepreneurship ecosystem for 15 of them, having led a global, 60+ chapter organization focused on the issue as President for several years prior to coming to SWITCH in 2016.The 2+ decade combination of her operational experience in startups and her deep expertise on and central commitment to gender and representation in the ecosystem has positioned her as a expert and leader on the creation and development of a more equitable future for our innovation economy.She’s also an EIR at Techstars, and has held prior roles as CMO of untapt, an AI-driven tech talent marketplace based in NYC, COO of Atribute, an EdTech startup, and Adjunct Professor at Syracuse University.Kate has keynoted, spoken at and been featured in 100s of places, including SXSW, Collision Conference, Fast Company, Rally Conference, Fifteen Seconds, UNLEASH, Microsoft, IBM, MSNBC, Techcrunch, IBT, the BBC and Al Jazeera. She's authored a chapter in Digital Activism Decoded, entitled "Economic and Social Factors: The Digital (Activism) Divide), and has spent several years focused on issues around digital activism, social mobilization and the use of digital tools at all levels of society.She holds BAs in Political Science and African American History from the University of Rochester, an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Marketing from Goizueta Business School at Emory University and an MA in International Relations from the Fletcher School at Tufts University.When she’s not doing all *that*, she’s a very non-professional (but adventurous!) athlete, an equally as non-professional musician, can be found outdoors in any weather — skiing, biking, hiking, sailing — loves a good meal with bubbly, craft beer and good friends, hilariousness and life. Her husband is a startup-web-developer-turned-beer-guy and they live on a hops farm in Upstate New York with their two boys. She can be found on Twitter at @just_kate.You can view her full speaking and media accomplishments at