Our Team
Our team has a proven track record and a unique blend of venture investment, startup growth & operations, leadership, and team development experience, building and growing successful technology companies and Accelerator programs.
MANAGING PARTNER | INVESTING
Cheryl Beninga
Cheryl has 20+ years of investment experience working with leading technology investors including Intel Capital and GE Ventures on all stages of technology investing. She has been responsible for billions of dollars in venture investing with over $50M in early-stage technology investments yielding over $2B in value. Cheryl is experienced at the board and operations level at all venture stages, Seed round to IPO, and has experience in M&A transactions.
She is Co-Founder of FourthWave a non-profit accelerator program for female-led, high-potential technology companies providing business mentorship, personal potential coaching and access to capital. FourthWave co-hort members have raised over $25M in capital, gone on to participate in Y Combinator and earned national growth recognition from INC., TechCrunch and others.
She is very grateful to have worked with many great startup teams having successful IPO and acquisition exits.
GENERAL PARTNER | TECHNOLOGY
Janet Goodrich
Janet is an expert in large-scale technology solutions for the environmental, renewable energy, and waste management sectors and is the Global Technology Leader for Waste Solutions at the top environmental consulting firm in the world. She specializes in forging relationships between technology specialties and public, private, academic, utility, and regulatory interests to implement technologies, create innovative solutions, and address public and environmental needs. Her engineering career has spanned the world and bridged a range of disciplines for more than 30 years.
Janet is a mentor to the FourthWave non-profit accelerator program, and to women in the circular economy and sustainability spaces world-wide. Janet combines her passions for creating a better approach to how humans and the environment interact and for helping companies thrive as they bring their ideas to market.
GENERAL PARTNER | DIRECTOR, GROWTH CATALYST PROGRAM
Amanda Sanders
Amanda is a 10x entrepreneur with a dynamic journey that's impossible to capture in a summary paragraph. Mechanical Engineer by degree, award-winning Enterprise Software Executive by trade, and Human Potential Activator by passion. Amanda has worked with Apple, Dell, Visa, Wells Fargo, Zynga, Yahoo!, Verizon, AT&T, Southwest, Honda, and many other widely known brands in addition to high-growth startups.
Amanda has contributed to making more than one unicorn company from the inside, and now she is helping companies from the outside, forging a path for each company to activate their core potential to grow and succeed with maximum impact. She has developed and mentored companies with the rest of the Wai-Mohala team in FourthWave, a women-led tech accelerator program. Through psychology, neuroscience, and quantum physics, the open framework of the Growth Catalyst Program developed by Amanda & Amy is changing the way business is done.
GENERAL PARTNER | DIRECTOR, GROWTH CATALYST PROGRAM
Amy Levin
Amy began her career as an open-heart nurse along with a degree in public health policy and a background in health and wellness. She developed a passion for team collaboration and personal development, which provided her the opportunity to help open a multi-specialty surgery center which became of the largest in Indiana and repeatedly ranked #1 in the state.
In 2018, she met Amanda Sanders and they founded, Authentic CEO. Their understanding of quantum physics and neuroscience created the foundation from which they guide leaders and their teams to unlock and live their highest human potential.
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