NY #TechWeek Female Founders and Funders Panel + Happy Hour
Come celebrate the brilliant female founders and investors in the city with us! Early stage tech-enabled startup founders and investors are especially welcome 👋
We will also have a short panel as part of the mixer. Current confirmed speakers:
Aleksandra Medina, co-founder of Frich
Tiffany Zhou, founder of OLEADA
Julia Peter, founder of LocalAway
moderated by Michelle Wang of Lair East Labs
Exact address to be updated closer to date! See you there 🥂
ABOUT:
🎤 Aleksandra Medina is an NYU alumnus with a degree in Interactive Media Design. She specialized in design and brand strategy, an expertise she honed while working across Europe, Asia, and the US with McCann. Her experience includes collaborating with global brands like Audi and Warner Music, with a particular focus on the Gen Z demographic. At Frich, Aleksandra is responsible for overseeing the full lifecycle of the product.
🎤 Tiffany Zhou is the co-founder of OLEADA, a venture-backed luxurious work bag brand (raised 1.5+ million). Her brand has been featured in Barron's, Forbes, Harper's Bazaar, L'Officiel, Glamour and ELLE, and supported by celebrities & industry leaders. She is formerly a portfolio manager in a New York-based private equity firm and a strategist at Cathy Pacific Airways. There will be gift cards for OLEADA!
🎤 Julia Peter has been working as a fashion technology and AI expert for over a decade and has worked on special teams and networks for Sony Design Center & Corp, Google Search, Google Travel, Facebook AI and previously her personal blog technicallysweet.com
🎤 Rachel Zhao’s passion in helping tech companies and founder led her career to Ventures team at PayPal. Previously, Rachel has been focusing on growth-stage Enterprise and Fintech investment. She is interested in infrastructure, cyber, privacy, SMB & Vertical SaaS, and e-commerce enablement. She believes strongly in the importance of privacy in the dilemma between owning personal data and e-commerce companies using personal data to train a more accurate model.
👋 Lair East Labs is a startup accelerator based in New York that empowers founders to expand internationally. Each year, 10 startups join our 4-month onsite accelerator and receive investments of up to $150K. The program combines learning from top alumni founders and access to a network of mentors and investors with extensive experience navigating the Asian markets.
We are very grateful for the support of:
🙏 ASCENDING is an AWS Certified Advanced Consulting Partner. ASCENDING provides AI and Cloud computing consulting service to SMB and startups.
🙏 Arcjet helps developers protect their apps in just a few lines of code. It allows developers to build security in from the beginning rather than bolting it on later and wasting time refactoring. This includes features like rate limiting, bot detection, signup form spam protection and attack detection. Check out example.arcjet.com to see it in action.
🙏 American Lending Center, LLC is a private non-bank lender headquartered in southern California, and a nationally recognized leader in commercial lending, providing capital to small businesses nationwide. We believe that the success of the small business community is built on access to fast, flexible credit.
🙏 OLEADA is a venture-backed luxurious sustainable handbag brand for modern professional women. We seek to bring a sense of weightlessness back to modern women by minimizing everyday hassles with quality multifunctional handbags - so women can live their life at ease.
This event is a part of #TechWeek - a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem.