FFF x Inc. Magazine @ Ramp HQ
Where Venture-Backable Founders Meet Capital
Join us for the first Funded Female Founders event in NYC at Ramp HQ. One of the largest curated deal flow rooms for venture-scalable women founders, FFF is expanding to New York after five successful Silicon Valley events with 1,000+ attendees, in partnership with Inc. Magazine and Female Founders 500.
Funded founders will share what is working right now as they build and raise, while early-stage investors offer a candid look at what they are backing from pre-seed through Series A. The goal is simple: create an intentional room where the right founders and investors can meet, build relationships, and open the door to real opportunities.
Our Website: https://fundedfemalefounders.io/
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The Program
How Founders Build a Capital Stack That Works - Four female founders share how they strategically navigated capital from pre-seed to Series A, including investor outreach, bridge rounds, and the key decisions that shaped each raise.
Michelle Volberg — Founder & CEO @ Twill
Aasiyah Abdulsalam — Founder & CEO @ The Renatural
Tiya Gordon — Co-Founder & COO @ itselectric
Julia Palatovska — Co-Founder & CEO @ Dorian
Rebecca Deczynski - Senior Editor - Inc. Magazine [Moderator]
Investors Backing Women - Early-stage VCs break down what they look for from pre-seed through seed, how their investment criteria evolve by stage, and what founders need to demonstrate to get funded
Jennifer Mandelbaum — Partner @ Halogen Ventures
Tahira Dosani — GP & Co-Founder @ ResilienceVC
Stephanie Campbell — GP & Co-Founder @ The Artemis Fund
AJ Thomas — Founder & GP @ Good Trouble Ventures [Moderator]
Why Attend: FFF is a tactical room, not a performative panel. Founders are here to build, raise, and scale alongside investors, operators, and allies ready to help. Walk away with real fundraising strategy, stronger investor relationships, and a network that opens doors.
Who’s in the Room: More than 1,000 attendees across five Silicon Valley events, with 150–300+ guests per gathering. FFF brings together a curated early-stage ecosystem, with 60–70% founders from early stage through Series A and 30–40% active investors, operators, strategic partners, and male allies. Every seat is intentional, creating high-signal rooms designed to help founders raise, build, scale, and form meaningful connections.
Funded Female Founders is a curated community that started in 2024, an event series, and summit connecting female founders, investors, and ecosystem leaders across SF and NYC.
Our Past Speakers
VCs at FFF
NFX
Investors from these firms have participated across FFF events. Participation varies by event; firms listed are not necessarily attending this specific event.
Series Hosts & Producers:
FFF x Inc. Magazine
We are proud to launch Funded Female Founders NYC in special partnership with Inc. Magazine, bringing national visibility to one of the most curated rooms for venture-scalable women founders, investors, operators, partners, and male allies. This collaboration reflects our shared commitment to spotlighting the women building high-growth companies and creating more intentional access to capital, strategic relationships, and founder-focused conversations.
Female founders know what struggle is, but they’re also queens of improvisation, adaptability, and creativity. The women on Inc.’s annual Female Founders 500 list have the grit and poise necessary to make it in entrepreneurship and beyond. Consider that past honorees have included such game-changing leaders as Billie Jean King, Sallie Krawcheck, Serena Williams, Emma Grede, and Michelle Zatlyn—women who’ve all overcome much on the road to success.
Ramp - is an all-in-one spend management platform that combines corporate cards, expense management, accounts payable, travel, and procurement into a single system. Trusted by 50,000+ businesses including Notion, Shopify, and Eventbrite, Ramp uses AI to automate expense coding, invoice processing, and policy enforcement -- saving finance teams an average of 27.5 million hours collectively. Teams can get fully implemented in under 30 days, with no personal credit checks required.
SUPERCONNECTED - is a premium events production company backed by a highly engaged founder and investor community. We design high-signal, relationship-driven experiences that bring together funded founders, VCs, operators, and ecosystem partners in intentionally curated rooms. From summits and pitch nights to private dinners, our events prioritize quality over scale, meaningful connections over transactional networking, and real outcomes. Mabel Chan is the Founder of Superconnected.
Startup Grind is a global community of founders, innovators, and ecosystem builders dedicated to educating, inspiring, and connecting entrepreneurs everywhere. Rooted in grassroots chapters and powered by events, programming, and peer learning, Startup Grind brings together founders at every stage to share candid stories, build meaningful relationships, and accelerate growth. James Gee runs their Global Sales and Partnerships team and hosts multiple events every month, so reach out to him to find out more.
Sponsors & Partners
Ustun Law Group provides strategic immigration counsel to founders, entrepreneurs, investors, and senior professionals building in the United States. With over 15 years of experience, founder Dobrina Ustun works directly with clients on employment-based and investor visas, as well as long-term immigration strategy. The firm advises startups and growth-stage companies on securing work authorization for key talent and leadership, serving clients from companies like Google, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft, as well as NATO personnel and foreign government officials. Dobrina is also a cofounder of a legal tech startup focused on helping law firms operate more efficiently without compromising quality.
Microsoft for Startups helps founders build fast, scale smart, and sell more with startup credits, AI tools, technical guidance, and access to Microsoft's global ecosystem. Startups can get started quickly and unlock up to $150K in startup credits over time as they build and scale on Azure. Apply today to explore the benefits available to your startup.
Reitler is a top-ranked venture capital law firm with offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Princeton. The firm represents emerging companies, venture investors and limited partners across all stages of investment, in seed financings, growth rounds, mergers and acquisitions and exit transactions. Reitler is consistently ranked as a Top 10 venture capital law firm by Pitchbook and has been recognized by Chambers as a global leader in its Startups & Emerging Companies category. With thousands of venture financings completed since our founding, we bring deep experience and practical insight to help our clients achieve their goals efficiently.
Backblaze is a cloud storage company built for startups. We provide simple, scalable object storage through Backblaze B2, designed for builders who want predictable infrastructure without unnecessary complexity. From AI and ML startups to SaaS platforms, media companies, and data-driven applications, we help teams store and scale data without surprise costs.
Our Activation Partners
The Noelja is a Korean-inspired experience studio creating elevated social, corporate, and brand moments that bring people together with intention. Partnering with K-beauty, consumer, and wellness brands, The Noelja helps connect emerging brands with new audiences as they expand into the U.S. market.
At this event, The Noelja will be sampling exclusive K-beauty products and gifting every founder a curated beauty bag valued at $300. We encourage founders to stay through the full event to enjoy the experience and receive their gift bag.
The Fourth Effect is building the system founders need to use equity strategically. We help companies access the right talent at the right stage by connecting them with experienced operators, advisors, and specialists, then structuring those relationships with clear incentives, aligned agreements, and long-term management. Instead of treating equity like a one-time transaction, we help founders turn it into a scalable tool for building stronger companies.
Girl Math Capital (GMC), founded by Emma Usich and Porter Geer, is an alternative investing community expanding women’s access to education and deal flow across angel investing, real estate, and crypto. Since launching in 2025, GMC has grown to 650+ women and deployed $1M into alternative investments.
Imera is immigration infrastructure that brings clarity and automation to workforce immigration, replacing the spreadsheets, scattered documents, and blind spots that compliance and recruiting teams currently rely on. It serves both enterprise teams managing international employees and individual visa holders navigating their own process, all through a single system of record.
London & Partners is London’s official growth agency, helping high-growth businesses scale internationally while promoting London as a global destination for innovation, investment, talent, and entrepreneurship. Through strategic programs, partnerships, and trade initiatives, they connect companies with the resources and networks needed to grow globally.
Foundess is a community where women, girls, and gender-expansive founders connect, grow, and build bold ideas together. Through meaningful relationships, resources, and shared opportunities, Foundess is helping redefine who gets to create and lead the next generation of startups.
Boardy is an AI superconnector that talks with founders, investors, and operators over phone and text to learn who they are and what they're looking for, then proactively makes warm introductions across a network that already spans firms like a16z, Sequoia, Anthropic, and Google. It's built to replace the slow, manual work of networking with an always-on agent that's constantly mapping who should meet whom.
Rocket Mixer is a community built for momentum, where bold founders meet at high-energy events blending business, entertainment, and opportunity. Rooted in NYC, scaling globally.
Women in AI is a global community of 50,000+ founders, operators, investors, and builders shaping the future of AI. WIA brings women across the ecosystem together through curated events, community, and partnerships designed to spark meaningful connections, collaboration, and opportunity.
La Creme de la STEM™ is the only global, private network for early-stage female founders in tech and science. https://www.lacremedelastem.com/
NYC Fintech Women is a community of 19,000 members across startups, banks and VCs. Our mission is to connect, promote and empower women to advance their careers in Fintech.
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Important Notice: All attendees are individually vetted, and registration does not guarantee acceptance. Service providers must register under the correct ticket tier, and registrations submitted under another tier may be declined. To preserve the quality and exclusivity of the room, service providers are capped at approximately 5% of attendees, keeping the experience focused on founders, investors, and select strategic partners.
Event & Venue Policy: RSVP is required. This is a 21+ event and valid ID will be checked at entry. No minors, unregistered guests, or plus-ones. All guests must agree to the event Terms of Service. Ticket sales are final, non-refundable, and non-transferable unless approved by the organizers. Guests must also follow Ramp HQ building and security policies.