About The Event
Our Female Founders Demo Day is a quarterly event we started in NYC in 2018 with a mission to create exciting fundraising opportunities for female entrepreneurs. As a startup ecosystem, we believe in walking the talk and bringing more awareness to this mission by starting conversations and showcasing our top women-led startups to help them raise capital.
Our partners and investors who believe in supporting inclusion in technology and empowering women entrepreneurs will be attending. A KiwiTech event to mingle with fellow investors, founders, thought leaders, and partners who believe that it is high time to build a strong community of committed leaders to support female-founded tech disruptions and change the landscape of startups and investors for female entrepreneurs.
June 22, 2023
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET
Previous Panelists
Bridget Greenwood
Founder, The Bigger Pie;
Co-Founder, The 200Bn Club
(PANEL MODERATOR)
Bridget Greenwood is the founder of award winning The Bigger Pie and Co-Founder of The200BnClub. She
got tired of seeing women being left out of technology waves, not getting VC investment, being
overlooked despite their brilliance, so she took matters into her own hands. The Bigger Pie
promotes Women in Web 3 through technical expertise, leadership skills and network
engagement. The200BnClub is an accelerator programme for female founders. Our goal is to
empower women in the technology industry and to help them achieve success in their startups.
She’s also an advisor for a number of startups in the Web 3 space.
Anne Ravanona
CEO & Founder, Global Speaker & Women’s Advocate
Anne Ravanona is Founder & CEO of Global Invest Her, the go-to platform for early-stage women entrepreneurs to get access funding and for investors to find great women founders. Her mission is to help 1 Million Women Entrepreneurs get Funded by 2030. Anne is Head of the EU Delegation to the W20 (official engagement group on policy recommendations to the G20), an international thought leader and speaker on women’s entrepreneurship and financial inclusion including at TEDx and advises Fortune 500 companies on Diversity & Inclusion. She is Past-President of the Jury for the Prix Simone Veil de la République Française by invitation of President Macron of France. Top 100: Europe’s most influential women in the startup and venture capital space and Top 100 Influencers in Gender Equality and Diversity.
Eleonora Mantovani
Principal
El (She/Her) is a Principal at PROfounders Capital, pan-European seed-stage VC firm based in London. Eleonora co-founded and ran a FitTech and Wellness startup, after which she became the Investment Manager for EMEA at the world-class accelerator Techstars. She started her career in venture at the US-based VC SOSV, investing in pre-seed HealthTech, BioTech, and Life Sciences startups where she focused on supporting their fundraising efforts. Having sat at both sides of the table she has a wide experience with regards to VC, startups and fundraising.
Previous Presenters
Agenda
June 22, 2023
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET
Check-In & Welcome
Panel Discussion
Startup Presentations
Empowering Female Founders
I truly believe the zeitgeist of the venture community will be strengthen if the founders behind venture-backed ideas accurately represent our population. After all, statistics show that diverse teams raise more funds and succeed at higher rates, and it's no surprise investing in diverse founders is not just good business, it's smart business.
ILSE CALDERON
OVO FUND
Women entrepreneurs represent the largest opportunity globally to create impact for a robust economy. At TiE Women, we leverage our global footprints and are building an institutionalized and sustainable ecosystem that embraces, engages and empowers all women entrepreneurs - irrespective of background, size or color. In a world currently in crisis mode, investing in women entrepreneurs is the way to go as gender parity is fast becoming the game changer.
DHARTI DESAI
TIE NEW YORK
Experts say that if men and women were treated equally as entrepreneurs, our global economy would receive a $5 trillion boost! Investing in women allows everyone to do well by doing good.
KATHRYN CARTINI
CHOLE CAPITAL
I’m focused on impacting and inspiring the entire ecosystem of funding: from cultivating more female limited partners and female venture capital partners to funding more female founders and the products and services they create. This is whole systems change and a world in better harmony.
NICOLE DEMEO
ANDRA CAPITAL
Finding solutions to the world's most pressing problems requires funding the brightest minds. And if you're not funding women, you're missing out on half of the brightest minds possible. No founder would ignore half their market, and no investor should, either. Investing in female founders is fundamental.
REBECCA OFFENSEND
WORKING CAPITAL
Companies are finding more and more that diverse teams positively affect their bottom line. We're seeing high interest in funding women-led companies, and we at Golden Seeds are proud to welcome these high potential women entrepreneurs to the table. We've been doing this work for over 14 years and we're happy to see that the general investment community is recognizing the value of diverse teams and women in leadership roles.
IRIS BOMBELYN
GOLDEN SEEDS
You must live your truth. Recognize, accept and embrace who you truly are and use it for your advantage. Make it not just great but greater than life. Why not?
PRINCESS NGOC DO
GODDESS VENTURES
We appreciate having the opportunity to invest in female founders who are building technology solutions to reimagine how work is done in these industries.
CLINT CHAO
MOMENT VENTURES
I’m happy I get to work at a company where we have an inclusive environment, and we not only have women supporting women, but men supporting women as well.
JOYCE LIANG
DOCUSIGN
Venture capital investment is essentially all about people. Women make up half the population, so why female founders and investors only hold single digit percentage of the industry? If it’s not because of IQ (of course not), we have to fix it.
CAROL MAO
FUSION FUND
I believe that there is not a role or job that woman cannot get. and when one woman helps another, great things happen.
VICTORIA GERVASI
GRISHIN ROBOTICS
Authenticity breeds success. See, be, and lead your best and the rest will follow.
ALLIE KLUN
SIERRA VENTURES
The best ideas come from a balanced, diverse team with multiple points of view.
MIKE STRASSER
IMPERATIVE CARE
