Elpha
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Elpha (elpha.com), formerly known as Leap, was a San Francisco professional network for women in tech, founded in 2019 by Cadran Cowansage and Kuan Luo and part of Y Combinator's Summer 2019 batch. Billed as 'where women succeed at work together,' it offered personal and professional development, a member-built salary database, job listings, and candid discussion of topics from fundraising to workplace harassment, growing to over 100,000 members.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded, YC, and seed round
Elpha was founded in 2019 (formerly Leap), joined Y Combinator's Summer 2019 batch, and raised a $1.1M seed round in November 2019 from Maveron, Moxxie Ventures, Y Combinator, January Ventures, Michael Seibel, Jessica Livingston, Holly Liu, Tracy Chou, and Geoff Ralston.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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