Women's Investor Breakfast: Fueling the Future of Female-Founded Innovation
Join us for an inspiring morning designed to connect, empower, and elevate women across all stages of their careers who are passionate about investing in startups.
This breakfast - expect coffee and tea, yoghurt and granola and pastries - brings together a dynamic community of current and aspiring female investors to learn from one another, build meaningful networks, and champion the growth of women-led ventures.
By increasing the number of women investors, we unlock greater opportunities for female-founded companies — driving innovation, equity, and impact across industries.
Who should attend? Current PNW-based women investors (angel to venture), women who aspire to become investors, as well as our allies, who are passionate about and committed to building and growing an equitable startup ecosystem.
About the Hosts
Marty Collins is Head of M12 Portfolio Development, Microsoft's Venture Capital Fund, where she leads the portfolio management of M12 start-ups. She teaches entrepreneur classes at the University of Washington in the Foster School of Business.
Yoko Okano is one of the Founding Partners of First Row Partners, a pre-seed stage venture capital firm based in Seattle and investing across North America. First Row Partners invests in technology that empowers individuals and enhances human potential. Yoko is passionate about product-led growth, user delight, and empowering both founders and funders through education.
Rachel Chalmers is the co-founder of Generationship, a fund that writes early checks for technical women building software infrastructure around AI. She's an investor in Aviatrix Systems, LaunchDarkly and Honeycomb, all unicorns founded by women engineers.
Lana Zumbrunn is a software developer, startup ecosystem builder, and technical leader who has worked with hundreds of startups around the world. She invests in early-stage startups and founded Rooftop in 2023 — a global community focused on closing the gender wealth gap by helping women access emerging technologies and invest confidently in the startup ecosystem. Through her work, she champions inclusive innovation and empowers women to claim their place in the future of tech and venture.
Sarah Bell is Operating Partner at LeapSheep. She has supported hundreds of founders and their teams deeply understand how to identify the right Go-to-Market Strategy and find Product-Market Fit. She is a passionate advocate of founders completing customer discovery with a niche customer segment - the critical path to build a product that the market cannot live without.
This event is sponsored by Wells Fargo and Generationship. Wells Fargo provides banking, investment and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance. Generationship is an investment fund that writes early checks for technical women building software infrastructure around AI.