Female Founders
Demo Day

This invite-only event will help investors connect with TCN Fellow Alums currently raising capital for their startups!

The Fellowship

Every year we run our Fellowship For Female Founder to help more womxn ‘Own Their Raise’. We’ve run this program since 2016. Since then 60+ Female Founders (50% BIPOC) have collectively raised $20M in 1st outside capital. Note applications for the next cohort are open March 1st - April 1st! More about the fellowship and how to apply here.

The ‘Demo Day’

We’ve often heard there is a ‘Pipeline Problem’ when it comes to Female Founders. Well…not here! Our 1st ever ‘Demo Day’ is to connect investors and key mentors to past Fellow alums to help them raise their next round. Some have raised already and want to finish out their round, some have just started the process. Come meet them on March 24th!

The Details

This Event Is For Investors & TCN Partners & Is Invite-Only!

March 24th 2021

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2PM - 4PM ET

Questions? [email protected]

EVENT HELD IN PARTNERSHIP WITH:

A Demo Day… With A Twist!

We love founders, but we don’t love typical Demo Days - they tend to focus more on performance than individuals. So we’re trying something a little different!

We’ve asked fellows to bring a champion along to the event, someone who believes in them and their business. We’re also partnering with Scroobious (a platform created by one of our 2020 Fellows Allison Byers) for fellows to record a 5 minutes pitch video investors can review ahead of time.

Why have a champion and a video? So the founders won’t need to worry about pitching live & or being the only one up there. They’ll have a trusted Champion in their corner introduce them and ask them questions during a brief Q&A.

Investors will get to know a bit more about the business and their leaders and why their champion believes so strongly in it and its leader. This should be a joyous event to make that 1st connection as simple and supportive as it should be!

Marie Meslin

Executive Director

The Startups

Riff Analytics

Founder: Beth Porter

Riff Analytics is a startup out of MIT Media Lab that helps people communicate and collaborate better with their teams using Riff’s research-backed AI-enabled feedback, which is shown to improve interactions. Better Interactions, Better Meetings, Better Outcomes.

Contact Beth

The BOM

Founder: Michelle Dalzon

theBOM is a curated shopping destination that makes buying from Black-Owned brands convenient. Includes our E-Commerce platform and Subscription box options. Finding Black-Owned brands shouldn’t be a hassle!

Contact Michelle

Scroobious

Founder: Allison Byers

Scroobious is a video-based platform for investors to efficiently source the diverse deal flow they’re missing out on and a humanized way for underrepresented founders to establish investor relationships.

Contact Allison

Hilltop BioSciences

Founder: Amanda Drobnis

Hilltop Bio is a veterinary biotech company bringing exosome-based regenerative therapies to our four-legged friends. These therapies are room temperature, making them one of the first regenerative therapies that our vets can keep on the shelf!

Contact Amanda

Pretzel Kids

Founder: Robyn Parets

We are the Zumba of kids yoga. We offer a subscription-based, branded platform empowering members to teach our licensed yoga and mindfulness classes in their communities and online.

Contact Robyn

EverMind

Founder: Claudia Zayfert

Effective mental health treatment, accessible from anywhere. We use NASA technology to recreate the warmth and support of live therapy in a scalable platform.

Contact Claudia

Power of Patients

Founder: Lynne Becker

Power of Patients is an education and health informatics company that is building a platform to collect Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) patient data giving drug makers access to a complete dataset on TBI patients they currently do not have.

Contact Lynne

Goalden Hour

Founder: Karthy Chandra

Goalden Hour is a tech startup building a productivity tool with a personal development twist. We enable people to bring their goals & good habits to the forefront of their planning process. We’re focused on helping college students succeed in school, grow professionally, and cultivate healthy lifestyle habits at an early age.

Contact Karthy

not just co.

Founder: Catherine Smart

We are a digital-first food CPG brand. Our plant-based, modern, multi-purpose meal-starting pantry staples are designed to help busy people juggle real-life and feeding their families well.

Contact Catherine

Little Pickins

Founder: Kelly Wannier

Little Pickins makes organically certified pre-cooked and frozen meals in a bite for kids. Sold at Wholefoods and online, they are picky eater approved!

Contact Kelly

InnoTech Health

Founder: Roya Khosravifar

Liquid Biopsy Based Precision Diagnostics; Making Autonomous Laboratories A Reality. Currently also developing of a multimodal platform for oral screening of COVID-19.

Contact Roya

SiNON Therapeutics

Founder: Afreen Allam

SiNON Therapeutics has developed a novel method of crossing the Blood Brain Barrier, which is effective, non-invasive, and most importantly can be utilized by almost all drugs (making even retroactive application possible). Our patented nanoparticles, the Carbon Nano Dots (CNDTM), will enable pharmaceutical companies to encapsulate their drugs in a way which dramatically improves drug-localization to the brain.

Contact Afreen

Hello Healthy

Founder: Kerry Gould

Hello Healthy Company is a health tech startup and personal nutrition business. Tele-medicine and home delivery are changing health care - we are transforming nutrition health with Hello Healthy Box, a diet-clinic-in-a-box. “Best Work from Home Diet 2020, Personalized Diet Service of the Year.”

Contact Kerry

Enlingos

Founder: Alejandra Tejada

A Stitch Fix inspired, try-before-you-buy service offering personalized selection of Spanish and bilingual books for young language learners 0-7 years old.

Contact Alejandra

The (Awesome) Founders

Beth Porter

Founder - Riff Analytics

Michelle Dalzon

Founder - Our BOM (Black Owned Market)

Allison Byers

Founder - Scroobious

Amanda Drobnis

Founder - Hilltop Biosciences

Afreen Allam

Founder - Sinon Therapeutics

Claudia Zayfert

Founder - Evermind

Lynne Becker

Founder - Power Of Patients

Karthy Chandra

Founder - Goalden Hour

Catherine Smart

Founder - Not Just Co.

Kelly Wannier

Founder - Little Pickins

Roya Khosravi-Far

Founder - Innotech Precision Medicine

Robyn Parets

Founder - Pretzel Kids

Kerry Gould

Founder - Hello Healthy Company

Alejandra Tejada

Founder - Enlingos

Happy Fellows

Being a founder is a lonely job. Being a female founder is even more isolating as there are fewer of us around to connect with. TCN brought a group of female founders at similar stages of business together and helped us connect in a meaningful and supportive way. Having this network of peers has been crucial for me on both professional and personal levels.

Allison Byers

Scroobious

As a founder, I was trying my best to avoid fundraising as much as possible. However, there is no way to build a healthcare startup with grant money alone, and I had to find a way to conquer my biggest fear — an inexplicable fear of fundraising and speaking to investors. After going through the TCN Fellowship, I now embrace the fundraising process and the many “NOs” from investors. Those NOs were crucial and valuable lessons to getting to YES.

Mai Le

Haystacks Diagnostics