Funded Female Founders Summit
Top Funded Founders & VC Leaders
Our Journey: Built on three successful series and 500+ attendees, the Funded Female Founders Summit brings together venture-backed women founders, VCs, and LPs for high-signal conversations on the founder and capital journey.
What You'll Experience: Join 260+ founders and active investors, angels, LPs, and ecosystem leaders for a day of tactical insight and meaningful connection. Programming includes fireside chats with funded AI founders, early-stage VC panels on conviction and signal, and conversations across the capital stack exploring how funding moves from LPs to founders.
From first check to scale, the summit is designed for real outcomes, trusted relationships, and actionable insight that goes beyond the stage.
Summit Speakers & Programming:
You can view the full agenda here: FFF Summit Agenda
10:30AM - Breakfast sponsored by Ustun Law Group
11:00 AM - Opening Keynote MC: AJ Thomas - Founder & GP @ Good Trouble Ventures Hosts: Mabel Chan - Founder @ Superconnected & James Gee - Global Sales Director @ Startup Grind
11:15AM - Fireside Chat
Carina Hong - Founder @ Axiom - Building Mathematical Superintelligence: A conversation with Carina on her journey from math prodigy to founder, and raising a $64M seed round for Axiom Math to build self-improving AI systems that push the frontier of machine reasoning. Speaking with Matt Kraning, Partner @ Menlo Ventures.
12:00PM- The Capital Stack: From LP Capital to Founder Checks
Aury Cifuentes (Moderator) - VC @ How Women Invest
Evan Segal - Founder & Managing Partner @ Segal Ventures
Asya Bradley - LP @ Kinship Ventures & Startup VC Lead @ Stripe
Julie Zinamon - Founder & CEO @ Vataseason
12:30PM - Lunch sponsored by Wells Fargo
1:15PM - Capital & Growth Roundtables
Simran Nath - Partner @ Suncoast VC
Jyotika Gupta - Co-founder & Partner @ z21 ventures
Ella Shukho & Ragini Inguva - Partnerships & Paralegal @ Alma
Dilara Rustam - Founder @ Passion Technologies INC
Tugce Bulut - Founder @ Eloquent AI
Claire Xie - Founder @ Women in AI
Julie Zinamon - Founder & CEO @ Vataseason
2:30PM - The FFF Pitch features 6 early-stage founders presenting live to active investors, creating direct visibility and real opportunities to spark funding conversations.
3:15PM - From Pitch to Product: How AI Founders Raised and Are Scaling:
Mala Ramakrishnan - (Moderator) - VC @ Progressive VC
Anna Patterson - Founder @ Ceramic AI
Eshani Mehta - COO @ Lumari (YCx25)
Alisha Chowdhury - Founder @ Kiro Money
Yehong Zhu - Founder @ Zette AI
4:00PM - Signals Before Scale: How Early VCs Evaluate Founders
Marina Temkin (Moderator) - Senior Reporter @ TechCrunch
Charlotte Xia - Senior Associate @ FusionFund
Rocio Wu Dianoux - Partner @ F-Prime Capital
Abbie Strabala - Jr. Partner @ Outlander VC
AO Shearman Cocktail Reception (5-8PM)
The private cocktail reception will take place from 5:00–8:00pm at the A&O Shearman office. Entry is reserved exclusively for confirmed ticket holders, with no exceptions.
Step into an elevated evening experience bringing together select growth-stage and Series A+ founders, active VCs, LPs, and strategic partners. Designed for deeper conversations and meaningful relationship building, the reception features premium cocktails, curated sushi and bites, and live music in a refined, intimate setting.
Who Should Attend: The FFF Summit brings together early-stage and funded founders from ideation through Series A+, alongside investors, operators, and male allies who actively support them. This is a curated, relationship-first gathering focused on meaningful conversations and long-term collaboration. The audience is intentionally founder-led: approximately 50% founders, 30% investors (VCs, angels, LPs, and funds of funds), 12% experienced operators, 5% ecosystem allies, and a limited 3% curated service providers to maintain a high-signal environment.
Previous FFF Series Speakers:
VC Attendees
NFX
FFF Community Partners 2026
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Summit Sponsors & Partners:
OpenAI Codex - OpenAI’s coding agent that helps teams build and ship faster. OpenAI Codex is a powerful AI-driven software engineering assistant that can read, generate, edit, and even run code, enabling developers and teams to automate coding tasks, fix bugs, answer questions about codebases, and accelerate feature development based on natural-language prompts. It works across platforms like the web, IDEs, and command line to boost productivity and reduce repetitive work. Learn more at https://openai.com/codex/.
Flex is an AI-native private bank for business owners and startup founders. Our customers enjoy a unique interest-free period of 60 days. We also take the time to understand your business, evaluating its unique needs, cash flow, and transaction history. Using advanced analytics, we provide a credit limit explicitly tailored to your business.
Alma is modernizing immigration legal services by combining top immigration attorneys with AI/ML to streamline visa and employment-based green card applications for individuals and businesses.
Founded by immigrant entrepreneurs, Alma delivers fast, transparent support with a 99%+ approval rate and a guaranteed 2-week turnaround. The company helps both individuals and companies navigate immigration efficiently and is backed by leading investors including NEA, NFX, Bling Capital, Forerunner, Village Global, and Conviction.
Wells Fargo’s Technology Banking Group: As part of the Commercial Banking division, Wells Fargo’s Technology Banking Group has delivered specialized insights and recommendations to technology companies for more than 25 years. The team provides scalable support to clients in all stages of the business lifecycle – early, growth, and maturity – and combines industry experience with the strength and resources of one of the largest U.S. commercial banks. Primary subsector focus includes Software, Fintech, E-commerce, Semiconductor, Business & Technology Services, and Sustainable Tech.
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.
Generation Lab Founded out of the UC Berkeley longevity lab, Generation Lab brings frontier aging science into real-world care. Backed by Accel and Samsung, the team created SystemAge, an AI-powered biological age diagnostic designed to detect disease risk before symptoms appear. Generation Lab uniquely measures both biological age and pace of aging across 19 organ systems, delivering clear, personalized actions to slow and reverse aspects of aging. Trusted by more than 375 clinics worldwide and leaders across entertainment, tech, and professional sports, Generation Lab is redefining how people understand and manage their healthspan.
Reception Sponsors & Partners:
A&O Shearman is a global law firm with nearly 4,000 lawyers, including 800 partners, across 50 offices in 29 countries. Formed by the combination of Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling, the firm advises clients on complex, cross-border matters, delivering strategic legal guidance across industries and regulatory environments worldwide. For more info on A&O Shearman, please visit: www.aoshearman.com
Zhong & Sanchez is a tech-forward accounting, tax and advisory firm built for founders. Trusted by tech founders backed by top VCs including OpenAI, Y Combinator, Neo Accelerator, General Catalyst, Google Ventures, we have tracked $3m+ USD in tax savings, and secured $60m+ USD fundings for our clients
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Summit Hosts & Producers:
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.
Entrepreneurs First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch. We find exceptional talent, to form exceptional teams, to build exceptional companies. We back founders at the earliest stage and have created $13B in value to date. We amplify ambition, enabling founders to work at the cutting edge of tech and alter their life trajectory.
Are you interested in volunteering for this event? Please contact [email protected]