Funded Female Founders Summit (Hosted by BABC Community Partner Startup Grind)

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 200+ founders and 85+ 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:

​MC: AJ Thomas - Founder & GP @ Good Trouble Ventures Hosts: Mabel Chan - Founder @ Superconnected & James Gee - Global Sales Director @ Startup Grind

​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.

​The Capital Stack: From LP Capital to Founder Checks

• ​Aury Cifuentes (Moderator) - VC @ How Women Invest

• ​Evan Segal - Founder & Managing Partner @ Segal Ventures

• ​Asya (ah see ya) Bradley - LP @ Kinship Ventures & Startup VC Lead @ Stripe

• ​Julie Zinamon - Founder & CEO @ Vataseason

​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

​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

​Capital & Growth Roundtables

• ​Simran Nath - Partner @ Suncoast VC

• ​Jyotika Gupta - Co-founder & Partner @ z21 ventures

• ​Aizada Marat - CEO @ Alma

• ​Dilara Rustam - Founder @ Passion Technologies INC

• ​Tugce Bulut - Founder @ Eloquent AI

• ​Claire Xie - Founder @ Women in AI

• ​Julie Zinamon

​AO Shearman Founder & Funder Reception

• ​Step into an elegant, elevated cocktail reception bringing together select growth-stage and Series A+ founders, VCs, LPs, and strategic partners. Designed for deeper conversations and meaningful relationship building, this refined experience features premium cocktails, sushi, curated bites, and live music in a sophisticated 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, not pitching. 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.