Join us this Thursday September 23rd from 1-3:30pm EST for Female Founders Fund's first-ever virtual pitch competition in partnership with Goldman Sachs and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
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Five female founder finalists will have the opportunity to pitch their businesses to a panel of top investors and founders to win up to $30K in cash prizes and additional services, including financial advisory, pitch coaching, business mentorship, creative services, and more!
Kathryn was inspired to increase accessibility to stem cell matches after her brother, Andrew (hence the name, Anja) couldn’t find a match when he needed it to treat his cerebral palsy.
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Anja is the startup making it easier and more affordable for you to store your baby's umbilical cord blood, tissue, and placenta's stem cells, which are the future of cancer, heart disease, liver disease, diabetes, and more treatments.
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Ty'Lisha and her husband and co-founder, Kiley, once found themselves nearly $100,000 in debt and used their own experience of paying consumer debt to help others work towards a debt-free life through micropayments.
Spendebt is the startup helping you payoff your debt every time you swipe your debit card or have a banking transaction.
Lauren has worked in luxury fashion for over 10 years including at Moda Operandi, Christie's and Gucci. She has long been fascinated by the lives that clothes lead: the places they come from, the distances they travel, the events they attend, the moments of history they witness, and the people whose bodies they grace.
Dora Maar is the startup building a fashion platform where you can shop a curated selection of preowned luxury fashion from the most coveted closets, all in one place.
Meenakshi was born in India and moved to the US for a Master’s degree in Computer Science. She worked at Goldman Sachs for 12 years building an automated transfer solution for brokerage accounts before connecting with her co-founder, who was running a 401k provider focused on small businesses.
The startup building the first-ever digital transfer solution for retirement accounts. Manifest is working to make safe, easy, and quick 401(k) transfers possible for everyone.
Base is an at-home lab testing and smart app combo empowering everyone to improve their sleep, stress, diet, and more with insights into their body’s data through key indicators: their blood and saliva.
Through her own personal health journey, founder Lola Priego realized that a major discrepancy in the healthcare system is the lack of access to data around one’s health. She founded Base as a way to help people understand why they are feeling off with a data-driven approach. Base helps users that can’t sleep, are fatigued, brain fogged or are looking for the optimal personalized diet. Prior to founding the company, Lola was a software engineer at Amazon, Facebook and Instagram where she was focused on improving network performance. She later went on to be the Head of Engineering at a Khosla Ventures, a backed startup within the lab industry space.
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 FFF Investor Adrianna Samaniego will speak with Lola about her experience pitching and fundraising as a first-time founder, what surprised her most in building her company and raising VC money, her top 3 overall tactical takeaways for pre-seed stage founders to raise a successful seed round and beyond, and more.
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Adrianna Samaniego is an Investor at Female Founders Fund, the pre-eminent early-stage fund investing in female-founded technology companies.
Prior to joining Female Founders Fund, she worked at JetBlue Ventures, Harlem Capital Partners, & New Media Ventures. Adrianna spent eight years in tech, formerly as Co-founder & Co-CEO at Area 120 Google’s Startup Incubator. In this role, she led a team to rapidly build and launch a B2B marketplace for Fortune 500 companies to procure from diverse-owned companies. Adrianna also formerly led and created Google's Global Supplier Diversity Program that created over $2B in opportunities for diverse-owned businesses.
Adrianna is passionate about removing inequities and increasing diversity in VC and Tech ecosystems. Adrianna’s excellence in the workplace and community has been recognized on many occasions, including University of Georgia 40 Under 40, Silicon Valley Latino Emerging Leader Award, Hispanic Association of Corporate Responsibility Corporate Achiever Award, Technology Industry Group Top Innovator Award, and Top Latinas at Tech Giants.Â
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