We believe in substance over hype.
We center founders. We succeed when our founders succeed.
We’re ambitious, but never ruthless. High standards, but never catty. High integrity, but never sanctimonious.
We embrace the messy middle, because nobody is perfect. We play the long game and take the high road.
We get one life, so let’s make it count. We are brave, audacious, and empathetic. We work hard and have fun.
No a*holes allowed.
Meet The Team
Marysia Angus
Operations
Leslie Feinzaig
Founder & General PartnerLeslie Feinzaig
Founder & General PartnerLeslie Feinzaig is the founder and General Partner at Graham & Walker Venture Fund, an early stage VC fund that identifies and invests in venture capital’s biggest blindspots. Feinzaig is a 2x startup exec with 8- and 10-figure exits, and a 2x movement starter recognized nationally for her leadership and influence.
In 2017 she founded the Female Founders Alliance, the largest community of its kind in the US, which now serves as Graham & Walker’s proprietary deal flow machine. In 2024, she led VCs for Harris (now VCs for Democracy) a civic coalition of 850+ VCs, representing $300B in AUM, which includes a “who’s who of Silicon Valley” according to NPR. Feinzaig has been named among Fortune’s Most Powerful Women from Central America, Worth Magazine’s Worthy 100, Puget Sound Business Journal’s Women of Influence, and Seattle Magazine’s Most Influential People. She is a contributor for Fortune and Fast Company.
She was born and raised in Costa Rica, and now lives in Seattle with her husband and two young daughters.
Pam Kostka
AdvisorPam Kostka
AdvisorPam Kostka is an experienced C-suite operator, investor, advisor and board member. Currently an Advisor at Graham & Walker, EIR at Magnify Ventures and Operating Partner at Operator Collective, she was previously the founding CEO of All Raise, a startup nonprofit accelerating the success of female funders and founders for a more diverse, inclusive and equitable tech ecosystem.
Pam is a seasoned CEO with 25+ years of experience driving scale at enterprise startups including Bluebox Security, VituOz and Sabrix. Her specialties are defining go-to-market strategies and implementing operational processes that allow startups to effectively scale to successful exits. She has also held executive sales, marketing and product roles at software companies Arena Solutions, Connect, and Extensity. Pam earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in economics, summa cum laude, from College of the Holy Cross and her MBA from Harvard Business School.
A lifelong cyclist, runner, and outdoor adventure seeker, she can be found on San Francisco Bay Area trails with her husband and daughter.
Sarah Imbach
AdvisorSarah Imbach
AdvisorSarah Imbach is an active angel investor and start-up advisor. Before locating to the northwest in 2011, Sarah was an early operating exec at three of the most well known consumer companies to come out of the valley in the last 20 years: PayPal, LinkedIn and 23andMe. Since moving to Seattle, Sarah has shifted from running start-ups to investing in them. Sarah has made over forty investments in early stage companies. Her primary investing focus has been consumer, marketplaces and Saas software companies. Sarah currently serves on the boards of Outreach.io and Change.org.
