Women Investing Forward: Family Office, Wealth, & Venture
Female Investors Club & How Women Invest invite you to celebrate International Women’s History Month in NYC
Venture capital is no longer just the domain of Sand Hill Road — it is rapidly becoming a core allocation for family offices, wealth advisors, and private investors seeking exposure to innovation and long-term asymmetric returns.
Join us for an engaging conversation on why venture capital is increasingly top of mind for high-net-worth individuals, wealth advisors, and family offices while in the midst of the greatest transfer of wealth in history combined with a 31% increase in Family Offices since 2019 (now 8,000) and that Family offices will manage $5.4 trillion by 2030. (That's more than the entire hedge fund industry.)
Hear directly from venture fund managers, family offices & asset allocators about their investing career journeys, how each panelist participates in venture capital, as well as the challenges & significant opportunities in 2026+.
5:30-8:00pm Agenda:
-Welcome reception/networking
-Welcome Remarks:
Jenn Byrne/FIC+Grit Capital Partners
Jae Zhou/Morrison Foerster
Julie Castro Abrams/How Women Invest
-Investing Panel: Women Investing Forward: Family Office, Wealth, & Venture
-Networking
Panel Moderator: Kristen Castell/MD, Center for Accelerating Financial Equity (CAFE)
Panelists: Jenn Byrne, Julie Castro Abrams
Kindra Tatarsky/Partner Cerity Partners
All genders are welcome!
About your Hosts:
FIC is a community of tech-oriented investors: Angels, LPs, GPs, Family Offices, Asset Managers & Allocators, RIAs, Wealth Managers, Endowments, Funds of Funds, and women who are interested in starting their tech investment journey this year. The FIC is committed to empowering, building community, breaking down barriers, and elevating the visibility of women investors and sharing high-quality investment opportunities.
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Jennifer Byrne is Co-Founder of The FIC and is a General Partner at Grit Capital Partners who lead Seed rounds in Applied AI in Fin/InsurTech, Commerce, Media, & MarTech. After delivering two top-decile pilot performing funds, Grit has launched Fund III. She launched the world's 1st and largest Female Founders in FinTech & InsurTech accelerator -over 500 women-led startups participated, raising over $1.8B. Former executive at American Express & Verizon.
How Women Invest is an early stage venture firm, and sister entity to How Women Lead, a professional network of over 14,000 women. We see that female founders are a force to be reckoned with and are part of an untapped venture capital landscape. We will invest in U.S. based, female-led and female-majority owned companies in most industry sectors. With 40% of companies founded by women, generating 26% greater returns, and yet only 2% of venture backing, How Women Invest focuses at the intersection of this opportunity to create ecosystem change.
Thank you to our partner Jae Zhou, Partner, Morrison Foerster
Morrison Foerster’s 170+ Emerging Companies + Venture Capital (ECVC) lawyers advise companies, venture capital funds, and corporate VCs at every stage, from formation and financings to strategic exits. We handle the full spectrum of needs, including M&A, IPOs, licensing, commercial contracts, IP, privacy, executive compensation, labor & employment, and governance.
Our team brings deep experience in AI, robotics, fintech, healthtech, life sciences, software, e-commerce, consumer packaged goods (including food, beverage, and beauty), data analytics, clean technology, alternative energy, impact investing and agtech. In the last five years, we’ve advised on $110+ billion in venture capital transactions. Visit us at mofo.com.
Thank you to our sponsors:
Stifel Financial (NYSE: SF) is a global investment bank, wealth management, and commercial banking institution with $500B+ in AUM.Stifel Bank offers venture and fund banking solutions, including 100% free banking for fund clients, fully insured liquid ICS accounts (up to $275MM FDIC coverage), capital call and management company lines of credit, and venture lending.
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Sydecar - the infrastructure that powers private markets. Thousands of venture managers use Sydecar to launch SPVs and funds faster, without the back office burden