We Build Anyway: Creating Our Future on Our Terms (LA Edition)
The future isn’t something we wait for—it’s something we build. Join us for a powerful conversation with innovators in investing and business who are using their platforms, resources, and bold ideas to shape the future they want to see. This event highlights those who are investing in possibility—on their own terms.
In our very first Patternist LA event, we welcome you to join the conversation with light bites, drinks, and amazing group of people!
Your Panel
Courtney Hohne spent 17 years in leadership roles at Google, including 10+ years building the Google X “moonshot factory.” She’s now the founder of un/owned, a new kind of innovation lab that specializes in driving traction on “ownerless problems” – issues like microplastics, fashion waste or digital mental health that exceed the responsibility and capability of any one organization or industry. un/owned brings together innovation methodologies from Google X, NASA, US Dept of Defense, and Nat Geo Explorers (among others) to create a platform built specifically for problems that can’t be solved by traditional market-based or tech-based approaches.
Your Host
Victoria Kennedy is a product leader turned investor. She was a founding partner at Seed to Harvest Ventures, a pre-seed/seed stage fund that invests in women of color building software enable businesses using our product first approach. She is currently the founder of Patternist, an organization dedicated to uniting blended capital in order to build companies that solve big societal problems, tying financial return to solving these problems.
Our Sponsors
All Raise is a non-profit that is here to move money, shift power, and change culture through the tech ecosystem. We are committed to propelling the success of women and nonbinary founders, operators, and investors to change the culture and composition of venture capital and believe that to change who gets funding, you must change who writes the checks.
At The Malin, we built the kind of place where you would actually want to work. A neighborhood hub designed for focus and familiarity—where connections happen naturally, not through performative gestures or forced programming.