Become a Keymaker
Join the movement, share what opened a door for you, and choose a membership option that fits.
Choose membershipBe part of what’s next.
Share your key. Build the room. Open new pathways.
There is more than one way to open a door. Share your key, join the community, connect entrepreneurs or help expand access to opportunity.
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Ways to Get Involved
Partner with Us
Your contribution supports Keymakers. Your connections help open doors. A Keymakers Partner does more than support entrepreneurs financially. Partners bring their knowledge, relationships and networks to the community, helping create opportunities that entrepreneurs might not otherwise reach.
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Serve as a Connector
An approved service role for paid members who make thoughtful introductions. Approved by WVF’s President.
Explore Connector role
Apply to Be a Key Guide
Offer practical guidance inside the Circle. WVF staff review applications against written criteria.
Explore Key Guide roleOpening a door
Customer Doors
Buyers, procurement, markets
Expertise Doors
Professionals who have solved it
Network Doors
Associations and relationships
Capital Doors
WVF-coordinated financing introductions
Partners and Connectors may help entrepreneurs reach the right doors. WVF coordinates every introduction with consent. No introduction or outcome is guaranteed.
Choose your membership path
Choose how you want to participate in Keymakers. Start free as a Key Carrier, or join at a paid level for Community Circle access and additional benefits.
Key Carrier
Free
Stories, curated previews, invitations to selected events
Keyholder
$25 / year
Community Circle, library, Business Showcase, two regular conversations a year
Keysmith
$100 / year
All regular conversations plus two small-group Strategy Sessions
Key Shaper
$250 / year
Featured Showcase profile, Spotlight eligibility, early discounted Gathering registration
Key Multiplier
$1,000 / year
Includes five gifted Keyholder memberships selected by WVF
Each Key Multiplier membership provides five gifted Keyholder memberships, issued after the Key Multiplier’s 14-day refund period has ended. Each is a full Keyholder membership and ends on the same date as the Key Multiplier membership that made it possible, including when the Key Multiplier joins at half dues in July or August.
Membership runs January to December. Join January–June at full dues, July–August at half dues; from September, your dues cover the following year. Renewals each September and October.
To move to a higher badge, you pay the difference between the two badges’ annual prices at the dues rate on the day you upgrade—the full difference January–June and September–December, half in July–August. For example, Keysmith to Key Shaper in August costs $75. Your end date stays the same; an upgrade doesn’t renew or extend your membership. A move to a lower badge takes effect at the start of your next membership term; your current benefits continue through your paid term, even if you renew at the lower badge in the fall. Dues are refundable within 14 days of payment; within that time, a move to a lower badge is handled as a refund and a new enrollment at that badge.
Register for Keymakers
Select one of the five badges above to begin. Key Carrier is free and includes curated previews. Paid membership begins only after verified checkout.
Choose a badge to see the registration form.
Your free Key Carrier registration is confirmed and the welcome message was sent. It includes the optional question “What was your key?” This does not activate paid membership or Community Circle access.
Your registration is saved. Continue to the verified Givebutter test checkout for the selected paid badge. Reaching checkout does not activate membership or Community Circle access, and no charge occurs on this website.
Continue to Givebutter test checkoutWant to support Keymakers with a gift? Donations are welcome and are separate from membership.
Give through GivebutterKey Guide and Connector are service roles for paid members, never purchased.
After you join
Joining free as a Key Carrier
- Register in a minute.
- Receive a welcome and one question: What was your key?
- Enjoy stories, curated previews and invitations to selected events.
Joining at a paid badge
- Choose your badge and complete checkout.
- Receive your badge, membership dates and: What was your key?
- Set up your Showcase profile, join the Circle, find your next conversation.
Paid membership activation follows verified checkout; registration and payment remain on staging until launch approval.
Founding Members help build what’s next.
Founding Members
Paid members and Host Committee members who join Keymakers from its opening until the first Annual Keymakers Gathering are recognized as Founding Members. Founding Member recognition closes at that first Gathering. It is a recognition, not an additional membership or badge, and it carries no separate benefits or privileges.
Programming
Keymakers Capital Network — In Development
Capital Doors are WVF-coordinated introductions to appropriate financing resources. The Keymakers Capital Network, our future structured capital initiative, is In Development. Neither guarantees funding, investment, a loan or approval, and Women’s Venture Fund retains all lending decisions.
The Movement Grows With You.
Share your time. Your talent. Your resources. Your key.
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