šØ Our last event SF was completely SOLD OUT ā and our next one for a16zās Tech Week is already filling up fast. We have limited seating, so if you want in, nowās the time to RSVP. Donāt miss your chance to connect with top founders, VCs, and operators.
Join the waitlist to get access to tickets. Tickets are required for building access.
āAfter drawing 350+ RSVP's to SF & Menlo Park, weāre bringing this high-impact evening to SF again for tech weekā uniting founders, investors, and operators who are scaling startups and championing women in leadership.
āFeaturing top Silicon Valley early-stage founders (x3 YC female founders from the 2025 batch) and VCs from Pear VC, NFX, Worklife VC and Mighty Capital.
Note - join the waitlist or head toĀ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/funded-female-founders-iii-yc-founders-vcs-sftechweek-tickets-1629771964819?aff=oddtdtcreator
Agenda:
5:00 PM - Doors open, check in and make your way to the 46th floor for networking, nibbles and drinksĀ
6:00 PM - YC Female Founder panel
7:00 PM - VC panelĀ
7:45 PM - Networking
8:30PM - Home time
āEnjoy live music, wine, light bites, and two bold panels:
š”An exceptional panel of funded female founders sharing what it really takes to raise, scale, and exit
āš”VCs on what makes a fundable founder in todayās market
Agenda
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Speakers
SC Moratti - Mighty Capital (Founding Managing Partner)
SC Moatti is the Founding Managing Partner of Mighty Capital, a Silicon Valley venture firm that capitalizes on the growing importance of product managers in enterprise success. She earned her reputation as a āgenius at making products people loveā during the cloud/mobile era, when she built products that billions of people use at Siebel Systems and Meta, won industry awards and nominations frā¦
Valerie Osband Mahoney - NFX (Principal)
Passionate about supporting founders from the earliest stages | Supporting through product-led growth initiatives, GTM, strategy and solving the complex technical and interpersonal challenges that face founders during this most pivotal phase of their journey.
An engineer by training, I spent the first 10 years of my career on the operating side, primarily in technical product management ā¦
Katie Li - Pear VC (Investor)
Pear partners with exceptional founders to turn great ideas into category-defining companies. We invest at the pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages. If you're exploring ideas, we'd love to meet you š
Brianne Kimmel - Worklife Ventures (Founder)
Worklife invests $500K-2M at the formation stage.
Our pitch to founders is simple: we write the first check to technical teams and help with go-to-market. Weāre experienced operators and work closely with founders to build enduring, profitable companies. Weāre investors in Deel, Webflow, Hex, Equals, Supabase & over 20 Series B+ companies. Worklife is bā¦
Panelists
Tugce Bulut - Eloquent AI (YC X25) (Co-Founder)
Tugce is the co-founder of Eloquent AI and a serial entrepreneur. Previously, she founded Streetbees, scaling it into a 200-person global AI company with $80M in VC funding and multi-million dollar enterprise deals with Fortune 500 clients.
She began her career as a strategy consultant, advising tech companies on GTM strategy. A Cambridge-trained economist and published author, sheās recā¦
Catherine Zhao - Delty (YC X25) (Founder)
Catherine Zhao is the founder of Delty (Y Combinator-backed), an AI staff engineer. For enterprises, key engineering work happens outside of code: product specs, docs, architecture decisions, and support tickets. Thatās where a staff software engineer shines. Like a seasoned engineer embedded in your team, Delty understands your architecture, code evolution, and constraints. It designs new sofā¦
Sahitya Sridhar - Synthio Labs (YC X25) (Co-founder)
Neha Suresh - April (YC X25) (CEO)
Neha is the CEO of April, a voice AI Executive Assistant backed by Y Combinator, SkyDeck, and CMU Venture Bridge. Before building April, she was a software engineer at Zoho where she led engineering for the accounting product - and helped them get accredited by the government of UAE and Saudi Arabia .
Her experience in a hard-core product company - and later her masterās at CMU - pushed ā¦
Moderator
AJ Thomas - Good Trouble Ventures (Founder & CEO)
AJ Thomas is a visionary leader, investor, and futurist driving innovation at the intersection of technology, creativity, and impact. As CEO of The Troublemaker Lab and Founder of Good Trouble Ventures, she empowers founders and invests in the future of entertainment and digital transformation.
Formerly at Google X, AJ specializes in AI-driven workforce transformation and high-impact teaā¦
Hosts
James Gee - Startup Grind (Global Sales Director & Silicon Valley Chapter Director)
James Gee is the Global Sales Director at Startup Grind who relocated to the Bay Area from the UK to immerse himself in Silicon Valley's vibrant tech ecosystem. With both a startup founder and a banking background, James is your go-to guy for all things startups and partnerships, and he loves connecting the dots between founders, investors, and coaches across different fields.
Always hapā¦
Mabel Chan - Superconnected (Founder)
I'm a super connecter and a seasoned events architect with a track record of hosting over 100+ immersive tech events, drawing more than 95,000 + attendees.
My expertise in designing and social engineering experiences has led to successful partnerships with over 70+ startups, companies, and vibrant communities. These collaborations have not only fostered strong backing from the startup cā¦
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