Getting started with Microsoft for Startups Cloud Development Kit
The Microsoft for Startups Cloud Development Kit is a limited time* offer available to nominated incubation stage startups. Startups are invited to get started on the Microsoft cloud platform with an Azure offer and technical engagement package.

Azure Cloud Credits
Get started and explore Azure with up to $5000 in cloud credits to use for one year. The Microsoft for Startups Cloud Development Kit starts with a $1500 credit, with the opportunity to request an additional $3500.

Azure Technical Support
Included in your offer is Azure Standard Support, 24/7 reactive support for Break-fix issues.

CTO Consults
Access to an Azure Technical Advisor for customized technical guidance to help you get started on Azure, including help with development & application hosting as well as troubleshooting specific to your application.

How can FFA startups apply?

Simply email cloudkit@microsoft.com with “Cloud Development Kit with FFA” in the subject line and include the following:

• Startup Name
• Contact Name

The Microsoft for Startups Concierge Team will get back to you within 2 business days.

Questions? Please contact cloudkit@microsoft.com.

*Offer must be activated by September 15, 2019

We are thrilled to announce a broad national partnership with WeWork Labs, setting the stage for a meaningful collaboration that will benefit all our members — and every female entrepreneur who is a WeWork member, too. Together, FFA and WeWork labs will build a more inclusive global startup community, bridging the gap between female and underrepresented founders and the broader startup ecosystem.

All FFA members can enjoy one free month of hot desk space at any WeWork office nationally. Please fill out this form and we will send you your discount code and instructions on how to take advantage of this Benefit.

Seattle Bank is pleased to offer FFA members the following benefits:

Free Personal Banking

All FFA members are eligible for a Seattle Bank Private Banking account, which includes:

• No cost, interest-bearing checking and savings account — no monthly service charge, no minimum balance requirement, free incoming and outgoing wires.
• Free mobile and online banking, including Bill Pay (with Picture Pay), Mobile Deposits, Wires, Account-to-Account transfers, and Person-to-Person payments.
• Service charge free ATM transactions, free incoming wires and outgoing domestic wire transfers.
• Free printed checks, cashier’s checks, stop payments, check copies, and notary services.
• Foreign currency orders and exchange.
• Customized jumbo residential mortgages and home equity loans.

Free Business Banking

FFA member businesses are eligible for a Seattle Bank Business Banking account, which includes a basic business checking account. This no-cost, non-interest-bearing account includes:

• Mobile and online banking, including Bill Pay, Picture Pay, and fraud prevention.
• Free personal-size checks or up to $50 credit for non-standard checks.
• Free debit card.

To take advantage of this, contact Stephanie Mayfield, smayfield@seattlebank.com or Kevin Payne, kpayne@seattlebank.com (and be sure to reference your FFA membership).

FFA has partnered with Brex, The Smartest Corporate Card for Startups.

They provide:
1. Instant approval cards
2. No personal guarantee
3. The highest rewards in the industry (7x rideshares, 4x travel, 3x restaurants, 2x SAS)
4. Built in expense management platform

Use this link for $200 in statement credits + waived fees for life + $5,000 in AWS credits.

If you have any questions please contact ffa@brex.com

We offer the formation work specified below (the “Formation Work”) for a flat fee of $2,500.

• The Formation Work includes not only the document package but the counseling you need to make informed choices about your business.
• For companies that have already been formed, for the same fixed fee engagement, we can review existing formation documents and provide counseling and recommendations to implement any necessary upgrades to put you in the same position.
• For qualifying companies, the fee for this Formation Work can be deferred until your company achieves a minimum level of financing.
• In addition, we are willing to explore additional deferred fee arrangements and discounts with qualifying companies.

Contact: Claire S. White, Claire.White@klgates.com

Female Founders Alliance is a Preferred Partner of Carta, a leading provider of cap table management software and 409A valuation services.

Female Founders Alliance member companies will receive 20% off Carta’s standard pricing (plus completely waived onboarding fees).

Please also note that FFA companies with less than $250K in funding or fewer than 10 stakeholders can use Carta free of charge via Carta’s Launch plan.

Contact: Ben Hanley, ben.hanley@carta.com

CEO Karli Barokas and President Johanna Erickson train you on how to get the word out about your story/product, share their in-depth knowledge about how the media chooses stories, and give tips on how to position yourself for media coverage.

Find their slide deck here: PR for Startups

ABOUT KARLI BAROKAS

As CEO of Barokas Communications, Karli is passionate about helping clients tell their stories and grow their brands via a holistic approach to communications. With more than 20 years of experience working with enterprise tech, B2B and consumer technology companies, Karli has shaped Barokas Communications into a growing, trusted mid-size PR and communications agency known for its fearless, results-driven approach.

Karli specializes in working with high-growth companies in enterprise and cloud technology. She has been directly involved in leading PR strategy and execution for a number of notable startups from launch through exit. Some of her former clients include Opsware (acquired by HP for $1.65B), Redback Networks (acquired by Ericsson for $1.9B), Apptio (IPO, acquired by Vista Equity Partners for $1.94B) and Skytap (growing, with more than $109M in funding). She is an active speaker in the Seattle and Denver technology communities, participating in women’s leadership and technology marketing and communications events. Her recent speaking platforms and engagements include Female Empowerment for Women Leading Technology, Path to the C-Suite for the Women in Cloud Summit, and Marketing and PR Strategy for the Washington Technology Industry Association Startup Club.

In her spare time, you can find Karli swimming, biking, running, traveling or relaxing with the fam, which includes Mack, a very spoiled English bulldog.

Karli Barokas, CEO
karli@barokas.com

ABOUT JOHANNA ERICKSON

Johanna has been working in communications for brands of all sizes for over 20 years and opened the agency’s doors in Colorado nearly six years ago. In that time, Barokas has worked with great client partners and built an incredibly talented team. In Johanna’s role, you will see her meeting with clients, speaking at events, brainstorming with the Barokas team and making her way to spend time with the Seattle team and clients on a regular basis. When she is not working, you will find her in her other role as an unpaid Uber driver carting her three very active kids all over the city! She is an east coaster at heart, growing up in Boston, masquerading as a Colorado native.

Johanna Erickson, President
johanna.erickson@barokas.com

Microsoft for Startups is a unique program designed to help you develop a true business partnership with Microsoft, building and growing your startup through access to technology, channels, markets and customers.

We work with startups around the world, providing them with free access to Microsoft cloud technologies, enterprise grade technical support, and powerful development tools. In addition, we provide dedicated resources to accelerate your startup’s growth through opportunities to sell with our vast partner ecosystem and alongside our Microsoft sellers.

FFA members have preferred access to all the programs that Microsoft for Startups Programs has to offer. Please contact startups@microsoft.com to take advantage of these offerings.

Get up to $120K in IBM Cloud credits

Startup With IBM and accelerate your business. Get up to $120K in IBM Cloud credits to access services like AI, blockchain and data science to build leading-edge solutions at scale, and then sell your solution to IBM’s global network or customers, partners, and developers.

Build Bigger With IBM

• Get up to $120,000 in IBM Cloud credits to integrate your solutions with leading-edge technologies to deliver more innovation and value to your clients
• Add AI functionality to your startup simply through Watson API’s
  • Launch on both Bare Metal and Virtual servers – Utilize GPUs, CPUs, Bandwidth, Storage, and More
• Use the IBM Blockchain to simplify the developmental, governmental, and operational aspects of creating a blockchain solution
• Store your data with Cloud Object Storage
• And do so much more…

Sell Smart With IBM

Expand your customer base and opportunities so your business can sell more and scale bigger.

• Once you have at least one IBM Cloud service integrated into a solution, you are ready to sell with IBM
• You create your solution listing on IBM Marketplace and gain global exposure to IBM customers and partners.
• Activate IBM as your sales channel to reach new types of buyers you can’t reach alone.
• To get started, visit developer.ibm.com/startups and follow these simple steps:
  • Click “Get FREE credits now”
  • Complete the application to be enrolled into the Builder tier, immediately granting you $1,000/month in free credits for 12 months.
  • Important Note > When completing the application, select “Female Founders Alliance” in the affiliate field to ensure you are eligible.
  • Once you have a Builder account, you can apply for our Premium tier from your member portal, uplifting your account from $1,000/month to $10,000/month.
  • Be on the lookout for an email from our team with additional details to link your account and activate credits.

Questions about account status can be sent to ibmge@us.ibm.com.

Note from FFA: AWS verifies that your application for credits comes from a “startup” by reviewing your website and checking that your email matches your domain. Please ensure you apply on behalf of your startup and not for an individual or non-startup (e.g. org, personal website, consulting biz, etc).

Instructions from Amazon Web Services:

Amazon Web Services provides startups with low cost, easy to use infrastructure needed to scale and grow any size business. AWS Activate is a program with resources designed to help startups get started on AWS. Join some of the fastest-growing startups in the world and build your business using AWS.

Instructions:

• Visit the AWS Activate webpage https://aws.amazon.com/activate/portfolio-signup to apply.
• Use this Organization ID (case-sensitive): 1UkKC
• Provide your AWS Account ID on the application. Promotional Credits will be added directly to this account, so please double check it – we cannot transfer credits in the future.
• Please provide your company domain email address regardless of the email associated with your AWS Account ID. Personal email addresses are likely to be unrecognized and rejected, complicating application processing and billing inquiries.
• *Please note that this link and Org ID should not be shared.
• To see your credit balance, applicable services, and expiration date, please go to your Billing and Cost Management Console.

You will be eligible for:

• $5,000 in AWS Promotional Credit valid for 1 year
• 2 months of AWS Business Support.
• 80 credits for Self-Paced Labs ($80 value)
• AWS Promotional Credits expiration dates are based on your program start date or the date you received investment, regardless of when you actually submit the application, so please apply promptly. Companies may not be eligible for AWS Promotional Credits if they previously received a similar or greater amount of credit. Companies may be eligible to be “topped up” to a higher credit amount if they previously received a lower credit. For more information, please review the AWS Activate Terms & Conditions.

An award-winning program that enables later-stage tech startups to rapidly scale through unparalleled access to Mastercard’s technology, solutions expertise and partners around the world.

OVER THE COURSE OF START PATH’S VIRTUAL SIX-MONTH PROGRAM STARTUPS BENEFIT FROM:

RAPID PATH TO SCALE
We combine our global network infrastructure and resources with innovative startup solutions to  secure commercial opportunities and help startups scale.

DEDICATED SUPPORT
Support from a dedicated sponsor – a Mastercard insider – who creates a pipeline that is unique and relevant to each startup, and acts as a sounding board and as a relationship broker.

UNPARALLELED ACCESS TO CHANNELS + CUSTOMERS
Along with curated and direct access to Mastercard’s product teams, customers and channels, startups also have access to Mastercard’s subject-matter experts, immersive events, virtual programming and more.

STRATEGIC INVESTMENT
We take no equity in exchange for a startup’s participation in the program. Instead, we take an option to participate in the startup’s next round if and when a strategic fit is identified.

More information can be found here: Mastercard Start Path

Cooley GO offers a wide range of legal resources to entrepreneurs of all sizes – from formation to M&A and IPO.

Check out their resources here: Cooley GO

Bench is America’s largest bookkeeping service for small businesses.

Bench provides a wide range of accurate financial reporting, from cash flow to profitability, so you can make informed decisions.

Bench also offers tax season support so filing your taxes is a painless, hands off experience. Bench gives you an intuitive app to track your finances, and a team of bookkeepers to do your books—so you don’t have to.

With your bookkeeper taking care of your books, you can focus on what’s important to your business.

Female Founders Alliance members get 20% off their first 6 months of bookkeeping with Bench.