Comstock's, among the regional media platforms in Sacramento that is helping tell the stories of FourthWave cohort companies and their journey, recently featured a story interview with FourthWave co-founder Cheryl Beninga. Thanks to journalist Joan Cusick for capturing not only an accurate view of our programming and...
Meet The RedMelon Company and Le Vuong. We are so proud to be advising/helping the founder/chief scientist Le Vuong of The RedMelon Company. Le's tech is the patented extraction process for RedMelon nutrients, but also she has laser clear and focused creative and product vision for product uses,...
We have great collaboration partners. One of them, StartUpSac.com, is a connecting platform in the Sacramento innovation community. They just covered our first Community Dinner for our 2017 Sacramento cohort, fresh off the selection on ramp. Read that full article here. We SO appreciate this capture of the energy and authentic...
Our gratitude to Giovanni Rodriguez, Forbes contributor, for this great piece on FourthWave! He's right when he says Sacramento is the "capital of the nation's largest economy, (and) it might influence other cities that are looking to reimagine themselves with public/private partnerships, and to reimagine themselves with...
Recently FourthWave Co-founder and Sacramento's Program Director Tracy Saville attend two events around equality and inclusion on behalf of the team, hosted by the City of Sacramento and by the region's economic development organization, The Greater Sacramento Economic Council. Inclusion, the active embodiment of a...
Kitty O'Neal from KFBK in Sacramento is the afternoon news host of a popular radio program in Sacramento and recently interviewed FourthWave Co-founder Cheryl Beninga about the launch of programs in Sacramento. Kitty O'Neal anchors the highly rated and award winning KFBK Afternoon News from 4...
Sweetcode is very cool site filled with blogs, case studies, and white papers from tech developers (you know-the experts tech companies need to find/hire or partner with) -- tech developers who could just as easily be female, minority, or "late start" developers. Sweetcode is the unbiased answer...
One of the main reasons incubators and accelerator programs with a female-founder leaning such as FourthWave exists is because of the dismal gender inequity in venture capital. According to CrunchBase's latest Women In Venture report, the third in their ongoing analysis of women and their...
Among our partnerships is SoGal, among the fastest growing, global platforms for the next generation of entrepreneurs and investors, bridging Asia, the U.S., and beyond. SoGal Ventures is first female-led, Millennial venture capital firm, and has a bevy of successful global ventures under their belt. We...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (PDF) FourthWave Announces New Women-Led Tech Accelerator in Sacramento [Sacramento, CA] – March 1, 2017 – FourthWave, an LA-based nonprofit, announced today the launch of its female tech entrepreneur catalyst program in Sacramento, with an open call for applications to fill its Sacramento 2017...