Funded Female Founders VII - #SFTechWeek

Oct 6, 12:00 – 3:30 AM (UTC)

Silicon Valley, San Francisco Bay Area

CBRE, 415 Mission St, Ste 4600, San Francisco, CA, 94105

We're back from NYC!! Join us for our 7th Funded Female Founders event and one of our biggest gatherings yet during SF Tech Week. Funded Female Founders is a curated deal flow room connecting high-potential female founders with venture investors and ecosystem leaders for meaningful introductions, funding conversations, and access to capital. Use STARTUPGRIND for a discount. Ends Sep 22

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About this event

Funded Founder Panel

  • Brooke Hopkins, Founder & CEO, Coval — $31M Raised - Building evaluation infrastructure for enterprise voice AI. Previously at Google Assistant and Waymo.
  • Kristina Cahojova, Founder & CEO, Lady Technologies — $11M+ Raised - Building continuous biomarker monitoring technology to unlock previously inaccessible women’s health data and enable more proactive care.
  • Amanda Levay, Founder & CEO, Redactable — $7M+ Raised - Building an AI-powered document redaction platform serving legal, healthcare, insurance, and government.
  • Moderated by Lyndi Thompson, Head of Marketing at Every.io

VC Panel

  • Azin Radsan van Alebeek, Co-Founder & General Partner, Emmeline Ventures - Investing in women’s health, wealth, and sustainability, with 30+ years of executive and board experience across the US and Europe.
  • Laura Moreno Lucas, Partner, L’ATTITUDE Ventures & Libra - Investing in early-stage transformational technology companies. Previously led major IPOs at Nasdaq, including Airbnb, Lyft, Beyond Meat, and The RealReal.
  • Shaherose Charania, Partner, Unshackled Ventures - Backing technical immigrant founders at the earliest stages, with two decades of experience building founder communities, incubators, and startup platforms.
  • Moderated by Rachel Kim, Partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Who Should Attend:

  • • Female founders raising or preparing to raise capital, from early stage to Series A.
  • • VCs, GPs, angels, and active investors
  • • Operators and executives supporting high-growth companies
  • • Select ecosystem partners who meaningfully support founders and investors
  • Each attendee is individually vetted, and registration is subject to approval.

Sponsored by:

  • Every — An all-in-one back office platform for startups, helping founders manage banking, accounting, payroll, taxes, and more. 
  • Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP — A leading global law firm advising startups, investors, and companies across venture financings, M&A, corporate transactions, and more. ⁠
  • Ustun Law Group — A U.S. immigration law firm helping founders, entrepreneurs, and professionals navigate business and employment-based immigration. ⁠
  • Vibrant Talent Group — A boutique recruitment and executive search firm helping growing companies find exceptional talent across marketing, product, design, and sales. 
  • Plain — is the AI support stack built for B2B teams: composable, API-first infrastructure that lets companies build a support motion their way, whether no-code or all-code. At its center is Sidekick, an AI assistant that knows every customer's context, product knowledge, and history, so teams can draft replies, find answers, and resolve issues without ever leaving Plain. Fast-growing companies like Cursor, Vercel, and n8n trust Plain to keep them organized while they scale. 
  • Pebl — puts a world of talent at your fingertips. With our AI-powered Global Work Platform™, companies can hire, pay, and manage employees in 185+ countries—removing risk, red tape, and guesswork from global growth. Backed by more than a decade of compliance leadership and local expertise, Pebl helps businesses move fast, stay compliant, and scale with confidence. With Pebl, companies everywhere can hire great talent anywhere. 

This event is a part of #San Francisco TechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com. #SFTechWeek*

When

When

Tuesday, October 6, 2026
12:00 AM – 3:30 AM (UTC)

Organizers

  • James Gee

    Startup Grind

    Global Partnerships Manager

  • Derek Andersen

    Startup Grind

    Chapter Organizer

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