Diversify Female Founder Dinner
An intimate evening designed to foster meaningful connections among visionary women founders, investors, operators, and innovators shaping the future of technology, business, and culture.
Hosted at Caspian Cuisine in Mountain View, this curated dinner creates space for authentic conversation beyond the surface-level networking of traditional events. Through thoughtful dialogue, shared experiences, and a warm atmosphere, attendees will build relationships rooted in trust, collaboration, and long-term support.
The evening is centered around community, leadership, and the power of women helping women navigate the realities of building companies, raising capital, scaling teams, and creating lasting impact.
Sponsor
Yousuf Khan and Madhu are the founders of Clario. Yousuf is a longtime leader in enterprise software, go-to-market strategy, and customer success. Previously a Partner at Ridge Ventures, Yousuf focused on early-stage B2B software investments, backing founders building category-defining companies and serving on the boards of high-growth startups including Cerby, Lightyear, and Theom.
Throughout his career, he has advised and helped scale leading technology companies such as Zoom, Productiv, and Material Security, bringing deep expertise in product strategy, customer success, and enterprise growth.
Yousuf is passionate about supporting visionary founders and helping entrepreneurs navigate the journey from early traction to enduring company building. Through Calrio.ai, he continues to explore how artificial intelligence can transform the way organizations operate, learn, and grow.
We are grateful to Yousuf for supporting this evening and for his commitment to empowering the next generation of founders and innovators.
Host
Empowering Women Entrepreneurs.
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Erika Bahr is the Founder and CEO of Daxe, an AI infrastructure company helping financial institutions, government agencies, and regulated industries deploy trustworthy, auditable artificial intelligence. Daxe combines knowledge graphs, agentic workflows, and traceable AI systems to help organizations automate complex document-heavy processes while maintaining transparency, security, and compliance.
Prior to founding Daxe, Erika spent more than a decade building and managing large-scale data and analytics programs for Fortune 500 companies, leading teams responsible for digital marketing, measurement, and data strategy initiatives. Her work spans enterprise technology, financial services, government innovation, and artificial intelligence.
Erika is also the founder of Diversify: Female Founders in Focus, an initiative dedicated to increasing the visibility of women entrepreneurs and investors through community-building, storytelling, and large-scale public exhibitions. In 2026, Diversify brought together more than 200 female founders representing over $1.9 billion in venture capital funding, creating one of the largest visual celebrations of women innovators in the Bay Area.