Agentic FinTech Opportunities & Challenges- Hear from the Investors!
Female Investors Club invites you to join us for intentional networking and a timely and engaging conversation on how and why investors are allocating capital into agentic fintech (what is it?) and governance and the use cases gaining momentum as financial institutions move from pilots to commercialization, all while on high agentic cyber alert. And, what impact will the ban on 3rd party AI agents by major banks and others have on the industry?
Adoption Split: In global studies, 57% of fintechs have adopted AI agents vs. 45% of traditional financial institutions, (23% overall actively scaling them, while rest remain in pilots)
5:30-8:00pm Agenda:
-Welcome reception/networking
-Welcome Remarks:
Jenn Byrne/FIC+Grit Capital Partners
Jae Zhou/Morrison Foerster
-Panel
-Networking+ Drinks and light bites
Panel Moderator: Emmaline Swanson - Enigmata
Sherrise Pond - Anthemis
Galia Beer-Gabel – Team8
Julia Huang - Vesey Ventures
Devi Malhotra - Centana Growth 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 FinTech/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.
Thank you to our partner Jae Zhou, Partner, Morrison Foerster
Morrison Foerster (MoFo) is a global law firm with 19 offices across the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Our comprehensive platform includes an award-winning Emerging Companies + Venture Capital (ECVC) practice that combines a deep understanding of market conditions with tailored legal strategies. We advise more than 1,700 entrepreneurs, founders, and venture investors, partnering with clients at every stage of the business lifecycle – from initial formation and financings, through late-stage financings and investments, mergers and acquisitions, and public offerings. In just the last five years, we have guided our clients through venture capital financings totaling over $110 billion and mergers and acquisitions with an aggregate transactional value exceeding $850 billion.
Thank you to our sponsors:
Escalon helps growing companies stabilize finance and HR quickly, so leaders can focus on building the business instead of managing operational complexity. We support financial operations, accounting, revenue optimization, HR, recruiting, payroll, and more. Escalon isn’t just an outsourced back-office solution. We’re a strategic growth partner that helps teams scale with confidence.
Rho is the all-in-one banking platform for startups and the accountants supporting them. With banking setup in minutes, cashback cards, and tools for managing spend, paying bills, and closing the books, Rho helps high-growth startups move fast and stay focused, backed by support that goes to the end of the earth to help you win.
Rho is a fintech company, not a bank. Checking and card services are provided by Webster Bank, N.A., member FDIC; savings account services are provided by American Deposit Management Co. and its partner banks.
Enigmata, Inc. builds the trust infrastructure for the AI data economy: software that lets organizations protect, govern, use, and prove sensitive data across their AI workflows. The company was founded in 2024, is based in Nashville, Tennessee, and raised a $6.5 million seed round led by Blockchange Ventures in September 2026.