ABOUT GRID110
Talent is everywhere. So we built the room.
For 10 years, Grid110 has backed the founders the system overlooks. Women. Founders of color. First-generation builders. We bring the people, the mentorship, and everything they need to build. They bring the talent.
No cost. No equity. Los Angeles, since 2015.
Meymuna Hussein, Co-Founder
Flavors from Afar · Idea to Product · 2018
WHY WE EXIST
Every founder in this room has earned the chair they're sitting in. Our job is to make sure the room exists.
Talent was never the problem. Access was. The people, the rooms, the introductions, the know-how. Most founders we work with were never handed any of it.
So we support what's already there. We open the door, stay in their corner, and get out of the spotlight. That's theirs.
WHERE IT STARTED
2015
Seven builders in downtown Los Angeles.
One belief: talent was never the problem. Access was.
Our name comes from the city itself. The 110, and the Stack, where it meets the 101. A crossroads. Every founder who walks in stands on the work of the ones who came before, with the road ahead wide open. 10 years and 31 cohorts later, that's still what we build.
10 YEARS
A decade of impact
Every number here is a founder who got a seat at the table.
581
407
Founders
Companies
40+
33
Industries
Cohorts
68%
80%
Women founders
Founders of color
13%
1000s
More reached through free events
Industries
The full story, lives in our 10-year equity report.
THE DIFFERENCE
Not your typical accelerator.
Four things that make Grid110, Grid110.
01
No fee. No equity.
Founders never pay to join. We never take a stake. What they build stays theirs.
02
Any industry. Any model.
We don’t invest, so we’re free to back the right founder. Whatever they make, however they make it
03
Founders first.
We are the frame. The founders are the subject. We don’t take the spotlight. That’s theirs.
04
The right people in the room.
Peers, mentors, and partners who stay in your corner. Long after the program ends.
HOW WE SHOW UP
It’s how we work.
Equity isn’t a line we say.
We remove the cost.
Our programs are free. Money is never the reason a founder sits out.
We count who’s in the room.
We track who our programs reach and publish it. Accountable to the founders we exist for.
We build with community.
Partners like FOUND/LA help us reach founders where they already are.
The cohort ends. The community doesn’t. Alumni keep the events, the support, and each other.
We stay.
Our Team
Ezinne Price
Executive Director
VP of Operations, People & StrategyAli Zafiris
Kenneth Han
Executive DirectorFounded by: Stephen Kane (founding chair), Jared Goodner, Miki Reynolds, Prashant Samant, Megan Sette, and Justin Wolske.
Board of Directors
Megan Sette · Board Chair
Jade Turner-Bond · Board Member
Jared Goodner · Board Member
Rohit Gupta · Board Member
Executive AssistantMichelle Santa Ana
Emma Mayerson · Board Member
Miki Reynolds · Board Member
Prashant Saman · Board Member
Stephen Kane · Emeritus
Jon Kinnard
Program ManagerTHE PROGRAMS