Funded Female Founders III - SF Tech Week

Oct 7, 12:00 – 3:00 AM (UTC)

Silicon Valley, San Francisco Bay Area

CBRE, 415 Mission Street, San Francisco, 94105

Join us for the third edition of Funded Female Founders hosted by Startup Grind and Superconnected — our 3rd edition of Funded Female Founders. We have the best and most scenic venue in all of SF Tech Week, 46 floors above San Francisco in the Salesforce Tower.

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About this event

🚨 Our last event SF was completely SOLD OUT — and our next one for a16z’s Tech Week is already filling up fast. We have limited seating, so if you want in, now’s the time to RSVP. Don’t miss your chance to connect with top founders, VCs, and operators.

Join the waitlist to get access to tickets. Tickets are required for building access.

​After drawing 350+ RSVP's to SF & Menlo Park, we’re bringing this high-impact evening to SF again for tech week— uniting founders, investors, and operators who are scaling startups and championing women in leadership.

​Featuring top Silicon Valley early-stage founders (x3 YC female founders from the 2025 batch) and VCs from Pear VC, NFX, Worklife VC and Mighty Capital.

Agenda:

  • 5:00 PM - Doors open, check in and make your way to the 46th floor for networking, nibbles and drinks 
  • 6:00 PM - YC Female Founder panel
  • 7:00 PM - VC panel 
  • 7:45 PM - Networking
  • 8:30PM - Home time

​Enjoy live music, wine, light bites, and two bold panels:

💡An exceptional panel of funded female founders sharing what it really takes to raise, scale, and exit

​💡VCs on what makes a fundable founder in today’s market

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Speakers

  • SC Moratti

    Mighty Capital

    Founding Managing Partner

  • Valerie Osband Mahoney

    NFX

    Principal

  • Katie Li

    Pear VC

    Investor

  • Brianne Kimmel

    Worklife Ventures

    Founder

Panelists

  • Tugce Bulut

    Eloquent AI (YC X25)

    Co-Founder

  • Catherine Zhao

    Delty (YC X25)

    Founder

  • Sahitya Sridhar

    Synthio Labs (YC X25)

    Co-founder

  • Neha Suresh

    April

    CEO

Moderator

  • AJ Thomas

    Good Trouble Ventures

    Founder & CEO

When

When

Tuesday, October 7, 2025
12:00 AM – 3:00 AM (UTC)

Hosts

  • James Gee

    Startup Grind

    Global Sales Director & Silicon Valley Chapter Director

  • Mabel Chan

    Superconnected

    Founder

Organizers

  • James Gee

    Startup Grind

    Global Partnerships Manager

  • Derek Andersen

    Startup Grind

    Chapter Organizer

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