Plug and Play International Women's Month Lunch and Learn

​We cordially invite you to join us and continue the celebration and accomplishments for International Women’s themed Lunch & Learn. Please join us for lunch and to hear pitches from the most promising women-led tech entrepreneurs and an insightful discussion on the tech industry with a panel of dynamic female leaders. This private pitch session will bring together venture capitalist, angel investors, and corporate executives to see presentations of leading startups interested in the LA technology ecosystem.

***The session will be hosted at the first floor Lobby in the Theater Room.***

​Agenda:

• ​10:30AM - 11:00AM: Networking

• ​11AM - 11:10AM: Opening Remarks

• ​11:10AM - 11:45AM:  How to Plug and Play Corporate Innovation Panel

• ​11:45AM - 1:05PM: Startup Pitches (4 min pitch & 4 min Q&A per startup)

• ​1:05PM - 2:00PM: Lunch + Networking

​Panel Overview

​Aryana Hosseinkhani

​Aryana Hosseinkhani is the Senior Director of Product Marketing in Patient Cloud and AI at Medidata, a Dassault Systemes Company. Not only is driving go-to-market innovation strategy at Medidata, she has startup experience where she launched Science 37, a technology-based clinical research company as the founding partner. Aryana focuses on disruptive and innovative technologies that can simplify clinical trials for patients, physicians, and pharmaceutical companies.

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​Katherine Zhang

​Katherine Zhang is an early-stage investor at Upfront Ventures. Prior to Upfront, Katherine began her career at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, running the Fed’s annual stress test for the largest financial institutions in the Fed’s portfolio. Katherine also worked at Boston Consulting Group. Katherine is passionate about founders solving problems around inclusion and equity, particularly in fintech and women's health.

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​Carolina Toro-Gerstein

​Carolina Toro-Gerstein is recognized as a Senior Business and Product Executive with 15+ years creating revenue-critical products with more than $1B in combined revenue for Fortune 500 companies and high-growth startups. I develop game-changing consumer and fintech strategies by connecting the business goals with the customer's needs. 

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​Zhen Cao

​Zhen Cao is the Asia partner of Republic.co - Investing platform with over 2.5M users, $2.5B in investment volume in 1000 companies. The mission is democratizing private market investing. She was a partner at JLAB, the cryptocurrency venture arm of JD Capital, the only publicly traded PE firm in China with peak $9B AUM. Early involvement portfolios include The Graph, Flow, Star Atlas, Dodo, 1inch, Manta, Ontology, Acala, Oasis, etc. Republic Capital growth stage Deals: Robinhood, SpaceX, Brex, Plaid, Carta, LTSE, Credit Sesame. She has a master's degree from New York University.

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​Startup Overview

​Carbon Zero Financial - Carbon Zero Financial is a B2B fintech building white label ESG features that can be added to any credit card product, ensuring all cardholders can automatically calculate, offset, and reduce their carbon footprint as they spend.

​Wander Health - Wander Health is a concierge startup that connects travelers to vetted, English-speaking healthcare services while abroad, prioritizing service and price transparency. We offer quick medication delivery, seamless urgent care appointment coordination, and an educational hub for healthcare needs.

​ViralMoment - ViralMoment redefines the way that enterprises understand and create short form video. Our proprietary AI shows brands trends as they unfold, and helps them deploy hyper-targeted, generated-at-watch creative.

​Fanfare - Fanfare is a rapidly scaling marketing technology company that provides innovative solutions to transform customer experience and data strategy. We exist to unlock powerful consumer interactions with the brands they love. Using our proprietary engagement tools combined with our post-blockchain data ledger, we help brands, events, teams, and cities create a higher-quality, higher ROI supply chain of first-party data, so they can get closer to their fans while helping those fans become a more awesome version of themselves.

​Point - Point is a SDK (software development kit) that connects end-users health data from various connected devices and provides bespoke insights and recommendations on how to improve health outcomes using machine learning & artificial intelligence. What traditionally would take a company months to build themselves, their solution can be integrated in minutes with just a few lines of code and saves tremendous time, money and resources.

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​​About Plug and Play: Plug and Play is the leading innovation platform, connecting startups, corporations, venture capital firms, universities, and government agencies. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, we are present in 40+ locations across 5 continents. We offer corporate innovation programs and help our corporate partners in every stage of their innovation journey, from education to execution. We also organize startup acceleration programs and have built an in-house VC to drive innovation across multiple industries where we've invested in hundreds of successful companies including Dropbox, Guardant Health, Honey, Lending Club, N26, PayPal, and Rappi. For more information, visit https://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com/