Palo Alto Pitch Nights/Women-Led Startups Edition
The Bay Area's New Room for Early-Stage Breakouts
Join us for a special Women-Led Startups Edition of Palo Alto Pitch Nights where the most promising seed-stage companies led by women founders connect with active investors, top startup advisors, and a powerful founder network.
Expect an intimate, curated evening with real conversations, deal-making potential, and a celebration of the women shaping the next wave of innovation.
Evening Flow
🍽 Dinner & Networking (5:00 – 5:45 PM)
Arrive early, grab dinner from local women-owned caterers, and connect with founders, investors, and ecosystem leaders.
🎤 Panel: Leading the Way — Insights from Women at the Helm (5:45 – 6:15 PM)
Candid insights from women investors on:
Navigating bias & breaking barriers in fundraising
Scaling wins from seed to Series A
Building companies in high-growth sectors
What investors really look for in women-led ventures
Startup Pitches (6:15 – 7:30 PM)
5 curated women-led businesses take the stage with lightning pitches (3 min pitch + 3 min Q&A). Expect high-potential companies across AI, fintech, healthtech, climate, and consumer.
Curated Networking (7:30 – 9:00 PM)
Structured, high-signal networking designed for founders and investors to have the right conversations.
Who’s in the Room
Women founders building high-growth companies
Investors actively backing women-led startups
Ecosystem leaders from accelerators, venture firms, and community orgs
Startup allies committed to building an equitable innovation economy
Why Attend
✔ Meet vetted women-led startups raising now
✔ Learn from trailblazing women investors & operators
✔ Expand your high-quality founder/investor network
✔ Be part of Palo Alto’s fastest-growing founder-first series
Hosted by:
Snell & Wilmer LLP
Founded in 1938, Snell & Wilmer is a full-service business law firm with more than 500 attorneys practicing in 17 locations throughout the United States and in Mexico, including Los Angeles, Orange County, Palo Alto and San Diego, California; Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona; Denver, Colorado; Washington, D.C.; Boise, Idaho; Las Vegas and Reno-Tahoe, Nevada; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Portland, Oregon; Dallas, Texas; Salt Lake City, Utah; Seattle, Washington; and Los Cabos, Mexico. The firm represents clients ranging from large, publicly traded corporations to small businesses, individuals and entrepreneurs. For more information, visit swlaw.com.
Heizen
Heizen is an AI-powered software development firm helping companies build production-grade tools and products in a fraction of the time. Operating at the intersection of elite engineering talent and proprietary AI agent-based development workflows, Heizen enables innovation teams, founders, and enterprises to turn high-complexity ideas into scalable software - fast. Heizen serves clients across the U.S., delivering high-quality solutions through a unique blend of 10x engineers and a full stack multi-agent SDLC platform. For more information, visit heizen.work.
About the Moderator
Roger Rappoport, partner at Snell & Wilmer, has demonstrated that he is the go-to lawyer for startups. As a seasoned advisor to startups and emerging growth companies, Roger guides clients from inception through exit, assisting entrepreneurs develop proactive strategies to help maximize shareholder value and steering clients through critical legal and business events. With over two decades of experience in the startup ecosystem, he focuses on venture capital and angel investor financings, including convertible notes, SAFEs, and other debt financings. His knowledge extends to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, distribution, development, manufacturing, and licensing transactions, as well as executive compensation and the establishment of equity incentive plans.
If you wish to partner or volunteer for this event, feel free to reach out to nijansh@heizen.work