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NEW YORK •  PALO ALTO •  SAN FRANCISCO • 

FEMALE FOUNDERS EDGE is a nonprofit organization committed to empowering female founders by cultivating a select community of exceptional founders and providing solidarity, resources, and visibility.

Our growing list of recognition from seasoned supporters of female founders: Ganesh Bell Managing Director Insight Partners Ambar Bhattacharyya Managing Partner Maverick Ventures Keting Chu Founder/Chair/CEO Bluejay Tx Tim Draper Founding Partner Draper Associates Naomi Fried Founder/CEO Pharmstars/Ventures Anne Margaret Glover CEO Amadeus Capital Lila Hope Partner Cooley James Huie Corporate Partner Paul Hastings Brian Jacobs VC, GSB VC Lecturer Paul Kang CIO Alta Margaret King Innovation Hub Franklin Templeton Fran (Alloca) Maier Founder BabyQuip Co-founder Match.com Ronjon Nag Founder R42, Inventor Thara Pillai Director HBS Entrepreneurship Center Adeo Ressi CEO Decile Group, Founder Institute Regina Ryan President Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs

FOUNDER & FOUNDING COMMITTEE

  • Anna Chukaeva

    FOUNDER
    Founder & CEO Intercellular, Co-Founder Carta Healthcare, 
    Principal Alta Holdings, Head of Bioinformatics at XCUR, Credit Suisse, Stanford MBA, MS Economics, BS Mathematics

  • Ellen Choi

    FOUNDING COMMITTEE
    Founder/CEO Edgefield Group, Co-Founder Aiwyn, Founder 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 Twentyeight Health, Genentech, Sr. Assoc. Bain, Unilever, C100 Fellows, UC Berkeley MBA/MPH, Bachelor of Commerce Queen’s Univ

INVESTMENT COMMITTEE

  • Fei Chen

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

  • Claire Zhang

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

  • Jaclyn Baumgarten

    INVESTMENT COMMITTEE
    Managing Partner 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

  • EMILY PUENTE

    DIRECTOR OF ECOSYSTEM BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

    Sr. Director, Farmer’s Business Network

    Head of Mexico/N Latam, First Solar

    Consultant, BCG

    MBA Stanford, BS UPenn

  • 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

  • ANNA CHENIUNTAI

    HEAD OF PARTNERSHIPS
    Co-Founder & CEO Apis Cor, state-of-the-art 3D printing robots for full-scale construction with Guinness World Record for largest 3D printed building, Founder STEM Access Foundation, TEDx speaker, Unreasonable Fellow, BA in Space Physics