Grit and Geography: Founders without borders

​About the Event

​Join us for a panel featuring female founders from around the world who have built their companies in Silicon Valley. The discussion will explore the realities of entrepreneurship, fundraising, leadership, resilience, and scaling startups, while highlighting the diverse journeys that brought these founders to the Bay Area.

​Rather than focusing solely on gender, this conversation centres on what it takes to build enduring companies and navigate the challenges of the founder journey. Attendees can expect candid stories, practical insights, and honest reflections from founders shaping the future of innovation.

​Speakers

​Jingwei Hao
Jingwei Hao is the co-founder and CEO of Panorama, an AI startup backed by the a16z Speedrun. Prior to founding Panorama, she spent 10+ years as an engineer and engineering leader at Google, Twitter, Lyft, and Cash App, where she worked on large-scale infrastructure and platform systems.

​Coco Chao
Coco Cao is a 3x founder whose journey has spanned from Burberry to construction tech — across Hong Kong, Germany, and the US. She's the co-founder of Blueprints AI, backed by NVIDIA Inception and the Vercel AI Accelerator. Coco's background is in data science, with an MS in Business Analytics from UCLA Anderson.

​Food & Drinks

​🍣 Sushi and refreshments will be provided.

​Sponsors

​This event is proudly supported by Singapore Global Network, NUS Overseas Colleges, and Wefunder.

​Organised By

​Menlo House is a community hub in Menlo Park created by students from the National University of Singapore's Overseas Colleges (NOC) Silicon Valley programme. Our residents work at startups across the Bay Area, and we regularly bring together founders, students, investors, and operators from Singapore and beyond.