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NEW YORK •  PALO ALTO •  SAN FRANCISCO • 

FEMALE FOUNDERS EDGE

Female Founders Edge is a nonprofit organization committed to empowering female founders by cultivating a select community of exceptional founders and providing resources, mentorship, and visibility.

A close-knit, select community of female founders who deeply learn from and support each other in building high-potential organizations.

The core group is mid-stage, venture-backed founders, but we encourage earlier-stage founders to collaborate and late-stage founders to inspire!

FOUNDER & FOUNDING COMMITTEE

  • Anna Chukaeva

    FOUNDER
    Co-Founder of Carta Healthcare, 
    Principal at Alta Holdings, Head of Corporate Development and Bioinformatics  at XCUR, Credit Suisse, Stanford MBA, MS Economics, BS Mathematics

  • Ellen Choi

    FOUNDING COMMITTEE
    Founder/CEO of Edgefield Group, Co-Founder of Aiwyn, Founder of CareerLark, Siri, Harvard MBA, Stanford BA/MS Economics, Management Science & Engineering

  • Joyce Zhang Gray

    FOUNDING COMMITTEE
    Head of Embedded Finance & Lending Visa NA, Founder Alariss Global, Microsoft, Dir Harvard Alumni Assoc., Council on Foreign Rel., Harvard AB, Princeton MS,
    Stanford MBA

  • Niki Santo

    FOUNDING COMMITTEE
    Co-founder/CEO Swaza, 
    Dir Harvard Alumni Assoc., President of Harvard Club of Silicon Valley, Harvard AB Biological Sciences, Univ of Cambridge MA

  • Amy Fan

    FOUNDING COMMITTEE
    Co-Founder of Twentyeight Health, Genentech, Sr. Assoc. at Bain, Unilever, C100 Fellows, UC Berkeley MBA and MPH, Bachelor of Commerce Queen’s University

INVESTMENT COMMITTEE

  • Fei Chen

    INVESTMENT COMMITTEE
    Vice President at TPG Capital, Associate at Altaris Capital, Analyst at Jefferies,
    Duke BA

  • Claire Zhang

    INVESTMENT COMMITTEE
    Principal at Sixth Street PE/Growth, Vice President at Goldman Sachs, Credit Agricole, ICBC, Chicago MBA

  • Jaclyn Baumgarten

    INVESTMENT COMMITTEE
    Managing Partner at IDC Ventures, Founder/CEO Boatsetter, Founder/CEO Cruzin, Consultant IBM, Stanford MBA, Wellesley BA

ENGAGEMENT

  • ALISON MUNDY

    DIRECTOR OF ENGAGEMENT
    Syracuse University
    Asian Art Museum - Senior Director of Development | Graduate Theological Union - VP of Advancement
    Holy Names University - Director of Advancement | Family Independence Initiative - Chief Development Officer | Changelab Solutions - VP of Development

  • ANNA CHENIUNTAI

    DIRECTOR OF PARTNERSHIPS
    Co-Founder/COO of Apis Cor, a construction technology company that builds state-of-the-art 3D printing robots for full-scale construction and holds a Guinness World Record for the largest 3D printed building on Earth, Founder of the STEM Access Foundation, TEDx speaker, Unreasonable Fellow, BA in Space Physics

  • Kelly Boyd

    LEGAL & STRATEGIC ADVISOR

    Attorney at Foley & Lardner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

    Group Director Product Planning/Strategy at Cadence Design Systems

    JD Chicago, BS Georgetown