Yale Women Innovators is a speaker series designed to foster community discussion, idea sharing, and networking in support of women and non-binary femme innovators across Yale's campus. Kick off your day with breakfast, a welcoming community, and inspiring innovators and entrepreneurs.

Join us for breakfast and a conversation with Hallie Meyer '15, founder of 

Hallie is a lifelong ice cream fanatic who has cooked in Southern Italy, at the Rome Sustainable Food Project and in the beloved Roman gelateria Otaleg. Opening its doors in September 2019, Caffè Panna is her NYC ice cream shop that combines elements of both the Italian gelato and American ice cream traditions (panna means cream in Italian). The shop scoops new original flavors of ice cream each day, all churned in-house, along with offering special sundaes, affogato sundaes, soft serve flavors and pints. Ingredients for her creative and ever-changing menu are either made in-house or sourced from a combination of local farmers and producers, specialty Italian purveyors or favorite artisans around the country. For those not in NYC (or fans who just want more ice cream), pints of Caffè Panna’s memorable flavors are now available nationwide via Goldbelly. Caffè Panna has been featured in The New York Times, Eater, People and INSIDER Food. New York Magazine’s Grub Street named their affogato sundae the best new dessert of 2019, calling Meyer’s ice cream “weirdly, extraordinarily great”.

Brought to you by WE@Yale, a joint initiative of the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY) and the Yale SOM Program on Entrepreneurship.

WE@Yale Women Innovators Speaker Series with Hallie Meyer of Caffè Panna

Yale Women Innovators is a speaker series designed to foster community discussion, idea sharing, and networking in support of women and non-binary femme innovators across Yale's campus. Kick off your day with breakfast, a welcoming community, and inspiring innovators and entrepreneurs. 

We strive to foster innovation within the community of Women at Yale and support entrepreneurial-minded Yale students, and we are proud to welcome our speaker: Lindsay Siegel. Lindsay is the Head of Impact for 

, a NYC-based, seed-stage venture firm. Join us for a conversation based around venture capital, Company Venture’s successful programming, and advice from Lindsay Siegel. 

Company ventures invests across industries, with a focus on digital health, fintech, and enterprise software. Company Ventures is the home of a residency program, where they gather 30 pre-series A companies and founders in NYC, providing free rent and entrepreneurial expertise for a year with no equity commitment or strings attached. 158 of Company Venture’s Alumni companies have gone on to raise $3B+ in top-tier venture funding. 

is working to shift the culture of tech for a more equitable and sustainable future. She oversees Company's North Star program, supporting founders to codify their values and purpose, and runs two fellowship programs with the City of New York supporting social entrepreneurs and underrepresented founders. She’s spent her career at the intersection of social good, business and technology, notably as an executive coach to startup founders and leading the Zahn Innovation Center at The City College of New York (CUNY). Throughout her career she worked across sectors in the US - corporate, nonprofit, university, government - and managed an ecolodge in Ecuador. She holds an MBA from Yale School of Management and a BS from Northwestern University, and sits on the advisory board of CUNY Tech Prep.

rought to you by WE@Yale, a joint initiative of the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY) and the Yale SOM Program on Entrepreneurship.

WE@Yale Women Innovators Speaker Series with Lindsay Siegel of Company Ventures

3:00-5:00 pm: Thorne Prize for Social Innovation in Health or Education (

6:00-8:00 pm: New Haven Civic Innovation Prize

9:00-11:00 am:  Miller Prize & Sustainable Venture Prize

11:30 am - 1:30 pm: Rita Wilson Prize in Support of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Health Technology

 (this will be held at the Yale School of Management in Zhang Auditorium)

2:30-4:30 pm: Yale Innovators Prize & Manolo Sanchez Prize

Come watch the 2023 Startup Yale pitches in person at Tsai CITY! The teams selected to pitch at Startup Yale are some of the most developed ventures and innovative projects in Yale’s Innovation Ecosystem. See what others are working on, connect with other Yale innovators, and vote for the best pitch for each of the Startup Yale prizes. Every prize will be awarded a $2,000 audience choice winner!

Stop by for food, drink, and fun at each Startup Yale pitch. We can’t wait to see you there! Please check the 

 website for detailed information and an overview of all prizes.

2023 Startup Yale

Yale Women Innovators is a speaker series designed to foster community discussion, idea sharing, and networking in support of women and non-binary femme innovators across Yale's campus. End your day with a welcoming community as inspiring innovators and entrepreneurs share their stories. Refreshments will be provided. 

We strive to foster innovation within the community of Women at Yale, and we are proud to welcome our speaker, who we feel embodies our vision: Clara Lucio. Join us for a conversation based around start-up marketing strategy, careers in marketing, and Yale tips with Clara.

 is a marketing and communications lead specializing in the start-up space. She has led brand and content, experiential marketing, and communications teams at two Y-Combinator Series A start-ups, where she led rebranding and repositioning efforts, achieved triple-digit engagement growth, and exceeded growth metrics. Clara is currently the Head of Marketing at a travel tech VC fund and venture studio. She oversees the VC's marketing and consults the studio's founders on their positioning and marketing strategy. Clara started her career at PepsiCo, Fusion- an ABC and Univision Joint Venture, and Buzzfeed. She spearheaded a series of editorial, business development, and consumer marketing efforts, winning an EPPY and D&AD award for her work in media.

She is passionate about high-impact marketing efforts that strike chords in national cultural conversations. Clara spearheaded the first Latinx professional stock photoshoot, which depicted young Latinxs in modern and professional settings, a gap often found in broader Latinx representation efforts. The shoot garnered 100s of millions of views and 10s of millions of downloads, even making it into a billboard in Tokyo!

Clara was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and has a BA from Yale University in Religious Studies and Political Science and now lives between New York City and San Juan, Puerto Rico, and enjoys dancing, cardio boxing, and mezcal drinks. She is also involved with ConPRmetidos, a not-for-profit focused on Puerto Rico's socio-economic advancement. 

WE@Yale Women Innovators Speaker Series with Clara Lucio of Trip Ventures

Get to know Tsai CITY and what we offer.  You'll learn about our story, and get an overview of our programs! Students from across Yale — and from all backgrounds and disciplines — are encouraged to attend. 

This orientation will have a specific focus on our Venture Development Programs and how to dive in. Hear from Tsai CITY's Director of Student Programming, Matt Gira, and Associate Director of Student Programming, Sade Owoye to learn more about the Launch Pad and Accelerator programs. 

 program takes early-stage founders and their ventures to the next level through immediately applicable asynchronous and synchronous teachings.

 program guides students and teams with innovative ideas through the process of building effective organizations, projects, and ventures through workshops, mentorship, and funding.

Join us for lunch and a conversation on innovative thinking as we kick off a new semester of community and impact!

Tsai CITY Orientation with a Focus on Venture Development Programs

, taking place in-person at Tsai CITY on Thursday, March 30 and Friday, March 31. At this orientation, you will learn about the application process and all the different prizes! The Startup Yale team will be available to answer all your questions related to the application or the event itself. Come prepared with questions and big ideas! Refreshments will be provided.

Startup Yale Orientation

Yale Women Innovators is a speaker series designed to foster community discussion, idea sharing, and networking in support of women and non-binary femme innovators across Yale's campus. End your day with a welcoming community as inspiring innovators and entrepreneurs share their stories. 

Join us in conversation with Ann Miura-Ko (Yale '98), Co-Founding Partner at 

, one of the NY Times' "Top 20 Venture Capitalists Worldwide," and cofounding member of 

! We'll touch on her background—from cybersecurity researcher to entrepreneurship lecturer to venture capital pioneer—and talk about how she's thinking about the future.

Refreshments will be provided. Enter our event giveaway (ft. Ann's recommended stationary, pens, and a book) 

 is a Co-founding Partner at Floodgate. A repeat member of the Forbes Midas List and the New York Times Top 20 Venture Capitalists Worldwide, Ann was also named the “Most Powerful Woman in Startups” by Forbes. Ann is well-known in Silicon Valley as a pioneer investor in the pre-seed and seed stage companies because of her background as a Ph.D. in math modeling of infosec at Stanford. Her deep interest in technology began as a child – her father was a NASA rocket scientist – and her expertise developed as an undergraduate at Yale, where she participated in the RoboCup Competition in Paris, France. Ann has also made significant investments in consumer (commerce, curation), marketplaces, and software for SMBs and solopreneurs. Some of Ann’s investments include Lyft (where she is still a board member), Xamarin, Monthly, Popshop, Poparazzi, Emotive, and Refinery29. Ann is also a lecturer in entrepreneurship at Stanford, a co-director of the Mayfield Fellows Program at Stanford, a member of the Board of Trustees for Yale University, and a cofounding member of All Raise, a nonprofit committed to improving diversity in funders and founders. Prior to Floodgate, Ann worked at Charles River Ventures and McKinsey and Company. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband and three energetic kids.

WE@Yale Innovators Series: Ann Miura-Ko, Co-founding Partner at Floodgate 

Yale Women Innovators is a speaker series designed to foster community discussion, idea sharing, and networking in support of women and non-binary femme innovators across Yale's campus. Kick off your day with a welcoming community as inspiring innovators and entrepreneurs share their stories.

Join us in conversation with Dawn Leaks, Executive Director, and Caroline Smith, Co-Founder and Director of External Affairs & Organizing, of 

. Hear about their journeys building collective power and wealth in the New Haven community, guided by a values-aligned, collaborative, heart-centered approach. Breakfast will be provided.

Collab offers business accelerator programs to empower New Haven entrepreneurs. Ever since the organization was founded in 2017, graduates of Collab's programs—83% of whom are founders of color and 74% of whom are women—have created hundreds of jobs for the local community and generated millions in revenue. 

 is the Executive Director of Collab. Before Collab, she was the CEO of Lioness For The Female Entrepreneur, an online digital media company geared toward women entrepreneurs. While at Lioness, she achieved profitability by increasing revenue by 200%, expanded their global audience to over 100,000, and led the startup’s exit in 2020. Before Lioness, she was the Director of Communications at the American Red Cross of Massachusetts, where she led statewide disaster communications, public relations, and fundraising efforts. She received an MBA from Bay Path University and has served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at the UMass/Valley Venture Mentor Collegiate Summer Venture Program and Visiting Assistant Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at Hampshire College. She has also served as a Facilitator of entrepreneurship programming at reSET, an accelerator in Hartford.

 is a Co-Founder and Director of External Affairs & Organizing of Collab. Outside of Collab, Caroline co-founded New Haven Bike Month, a citywide volunteer-led transportation justice effort, and is an organizer with aapiNHV, a collective of Asian-identifying individuals advocating around local issues in New Haven. In addition, she serves on the Boards of local non-profits including the New Haven Free Public Library Foundation, DataHaven, and Liberty Community Services. For her work, she has received the Yale-Jefferson Award for Public Service, Connecticut Magazine's 40 Under 40, City of New Haven Individual Innovator Award, Yale University Seton Elm-Ivy Award, and one of the New Haven Independent's Millennials Persons of the Year.

WE@Yale Innovators Series: Empowering New Haven Entrepreneurs: A Chat with Dawn Leaks and Caroline Smith (Yale '14) of Collab.

Get to know Tsai CITY and what we offer. You'll learn about our story, get an overview of our programs and how to dive in, and have a chance to connect with our team. Whether you have an existing idea you're eager to build on, you're looking to create change in your field, or you're just curious about the skills and mindsets of innovative thinking, orientations are a great starting point. Students from across Yale — and from all backgrounds and disciplines — are very welcome.

Tsai CITY Orientation

Tsai CITY is 5! We are so thankful for the students, alumni, partners, staff, and mentors who’ve helped make Tsai CITY what it’s become over these past five years. We will continue to support this growing and thriving community and strengthen the student entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem on Yale’s campus.

While the party goes from 2pm-5pm, we will have entertainment, games, food, and prizes throughout the afternoon. We want to celebrate with you, so drop by anytime you are free! 

Come out and recognize this incredible milestone with us. See you there!

Tsai CITY's 5th Birthday Bash

Join us Wednesday, September 28, 2022, for a WE@Yale networking breakfast, as we kick off a new year focusing on community and connection, inspiring innovators and entrepreneurs, skill-building, story-telling, and more! 

Women Entrepreneurs and Innovators at Yale (WE@YALE) is a cross-campus community for women and non-binary femme entrepreneurs, innovators, scientists, and creatives at Yale. 

Launched in 2017, We@Yale has a mission to empower student leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs at Yale to launch and lead their startups, projects, and organizations. We seek to empower our community and show them that they should follow their passions and they can make a difference. 

WE@Yale Networking Breakfast

Yale Entrepreneurship and Innovation Expo

 brings together Yale’s many entrepreneurial organizations and clubs under one (literal) tent so that all students may learn more about the innovative resources and ecosystem available to them at Yale University. This is an opportunity to find out about the latest Yale entrepreneurship prizes, programs, workshops, hackathons, classes, and opportunities. Come by and connect with entrepreneurial organizations, clubs, and other fellow classmates. All are welcome to help us kick off a new year of creativity and impact! 

This event is brought to you by the Yale Entrepreneurship Collaborative, a network of centers that provides gathering points for innovators across Yale’s campus.

Yale Entrepreneurship & Innovation Expo 2022

Come watch the 2022 Startup Yale pitches in-person at Tsai CITY. The teams that are selected to pitch at Startup Yale are some of the most developed ventures and innovative projects in Yale’s Innovation Ecosystem. See what others at Yale are working on, connect with other Yale innovators, and vote for the best pitch for each of the Startup Yale prizes. Every prize will have a $500 audience choice winner.

For detailed information on Startup Yale, please go to 

Food & drink and fun giveaways will be provided at each watch party during Startup Yale. The in-person watch parties are only open to the Yale community at this time. This is a mask optional event. For those who are uncomfortable and/or unvaccinated, please continue mask wearing. For more information on Yale’s mask guidance, 

5:30 pm-7:30 pm: New Haven Civic Innovation Prize

The New Haven Civic Innovation Prize awards up to $10,000 to the best student- or community-led venture or project focused on benefiting the City of New Haven. Join us for the New Haven Civic Innovation Prize Watch Party (*The in-person watch parties are only open to the Yale community at this time).

9:00 am-11:00 am: Rita Wilson Prize Fund in Support of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

The Rita Wilson Prize Fund in Support of Innovation and Entrepreneurship is a $10,000 cash prize awarded by InnovateHealth Yale to the best student-led venture focused on creating a technological solution to address a health disparity in the United States. Join us for the Rita Wilson Prize Watch Party (*The in-person watch parties are only open to the Yale community at this time).

1:00 pm-3:00 pm: Thorne Prize for Social Innovation in Public Health or Education

The Thorne Prize for Social Innovation in Health or Education is a $25,000 cash prize awarded to the best student-led venture focused on social innovation in health or education for underserved communities in the United States or low-resource countries. Yale students Join us for the Thorne Prize Watch Party (*The in-person watch parties are only open to the Yale community at this time).

The Miller Prize awards a $25,000 cash prize to a student-led venture working on innovative tech or tech-enabled solutions that has a definable go-to-market strategy. In addition to the potential prize money, the competition provides opportunities for mentorship, feedback, and networking. Join us for the Miller Prize Watch Party (*The in-person watch parties are only open to the Yale community at this time).

9:00 am-11:00 am: Sustainable Venture Prize

The Sustainable Venture Prize, managed by the Yale Center for Business and the Environment, awards $25,000 to a promising student business venture that advances environmental sustainability. Join us for the Sustainable Venture Prize Watch Party (*The in-person watch parties are only open to the Yale community at this time).

The Manolo Sanchez Prize awards $25,000 to a for-profit or non-profit student-led startup with the potential to help improve the financial health of the financially underserved. Join us for the Manolo Sanchez Prize Watch Party (*The in-person watch parties are only open to the Yale community at this time).

The Yale Innovators Prize is a $15,000 cash prize awarded to the for-profit or non-profit startup that has the potential to produce the greatest impact (financially, socially, or otherwise). The Yale Innovators’ Prize is open to any project, campaign, solution, venture, or non-profit led by a current Yale student(s). Join us for the Yale Innovators Prize Watch Party (*The in-person watch parties are only open to the Yale community at this time).

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