Event details
Enjoy some food, network with likeminded women, and hear great stories from three awesome startup founders. Our panel of speakers on the night includes Pilot founder Jessica McKellar, Modern Health co-founder Alyson Friedensohn and Kavi Bailey, founder of Grand Parade Coffee.
We'll cover a range of topics from product to recruiting to fundraising. Learn how they got into entrepreneurship, how they started, how they grew the team, how they fundraised, to the challenges they have overcome throughout their journey.
Agenda:
6:00-6:45 Networking and food
6:45-7:30 Panel discussion
7:30-7:45 Q&A
7:45-8:30 More networking
Terms and conditions
*GirlCrew and MNGO may take photographs and/or video recordings at the event and use them for promotional or advertising purposes.
*This event is 21+ as alcohol is being served.
Directions
The event will take place Runway, which is located at 1355 Market Street, Suite 488. A member of the team will be in the lobby to greet you upon arrival.
Event Partners
GirlCrewGirlCrew is a social networking app to make new friends and meet like-minded women for events and chats. Not keen on going to a concert solo? Find a crew with us. Want to book a vacation but your friends are all coupled up? Find a group of girls to travel with. Find out more at www.girlcrew.com or downloading the GirlCrew app from the App Store or Google Play Store.
MNGO
MNGO helps people achieve their health goals through small, coach-led peer groups. Dieting is hard. Don't do it alone. Join a group of like-minded people and get guidance, share your experience, crush your challenges, and celebrate your victories together. Currently we offer Keto and Whole30 programs. Find out more at www.getmngo.com
Featured Speakers
Jessica McKellar
Jessica McKellar is a founder and the CTO of Pilot, a bookkeeping firm powered by software. Previously, she was a founder and the VP of Engineering for a real-time collaboration startup acquired by Dropbox, where she then served as a Director of Engineering. Before that, she was a computer nerd at MIT who joined her friends at Ksplice, a company building a service for rebootless kernel updates on Linux that was acquired by Oracle. Jessica is also a former Director for the Python Software Foundation and PyCon North America's Diversity Outreach Chair. For her outreach efforts in the Python community, she was awarded the O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2013. Fun fact: Jessica is a technical advisor to the HBO show Silicon Valley.
Alyson Friedensohn
Alyson Friedensohn is a co-founder and CEO at Modern Health, a platform which aims to improve employee well-being and retention rates. A graduate of Y-Combinator, the company just closed a $2.26 million seed round. She was previously operations manager at employee engagement and benefits management platform Keas which was acquired by Welltok. She also oversaw product partner operations at Collective Health, a startup which gives companies a smarter way to provide healthcare coverage through technology.
Kavi Bailey
Kavi Bailey is the founder of Grand Paradé Coffee, a purveyor of premium and sustainably-grown coffees. Kavi’s approach to sourcing coffee is focused on uncompromising quality. Her story begins in Kenya on the coffee plantations where she spent her summers. She discovered that elevation degree, varietal choice, soil type and processing methods all intersect and influence a coffee's flavor complexity and intensity. Prior to running her own coffee company, Kavi worked as a senior investment manager at Charles Schwab Investment Advisory. She has also worked as an investment professional for Westcott Financial Advisory Group and Capital Analysts.
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Enjoy some food, network with likeminded women, and hear great stories from three awesome startup founders. Our panel of speakers on the night includes Pilot founder Jessica McKellar, Modern Health co-founder Alyson Friedensohn and Kavi Bailey, founder of Grand Parade Coffee.
We'll cover a range of topics from product to recruiting to fundraising. Learn how they got into entrepreneurship, how they started, how they grew the team, how they fundraised, to the challenges they have overcome throughout their journey.
Agenda:
6:00-6:45 Networking and food
6:45-7:30 Panel discussion
7:30-7:45 Q&A
7:45-8:30 More networking
Terms and conditions
*GirlCrew and MNGO may take photographs and/or video recordings at the event and use them for promotional or advertising purposes.
*This event is 21+ as alcohol is being served.
Directions
The event will take place Runway, which is located at 1355 Market Street, Suite 488. A member of the team will be in the lobby to greet you upon arrival.
Event Partners
GirlCrewGirlCrew is a social networking app to make new friends and meet like-minded women for events and chats. Not keen on going to a concert solo? Find a crew with us. Want to book a vacation but your friends are all coupled up? Find a group of girls to travel with. Find out more at www.girlcrew.com or downloading the GirlCrew app from the App Store or Google Play Store.
MNGO
MNGO helps people achieve their health goals through small, coach-led peer groups. Dieting is hard. Don't do it alone. Join a group of like-minded people and get guidance, share your experience, crush your challenges, and celebrate your victories together. Currently we offer Keto and Whole30 programs. Find out more at www.getmngo.com
Featured Speakers
Jessica McKellar
Jessica McKellar is a founder and the CTO of Pilot, a bookkeeping firm powered by software. Previously, she was a founder and the VP of Engineering for a real-time collaboration startup acquired by Dropbox, where she then served as a Director of Engineering. Before that, she was a computer nerd at MIT who joined her friends at Ksplice, a company building a service for rebootless kernel updates on Linux that was acquired by Oracle. Jessica is also a former Director for the Python Software Foundation and PyCon North America's Diversity Outreach Chair. For her outreach efforts in the Python community, she was awarded the O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2013. Fun fact: Jessica is a technical advisor to the HBO show Silicon Valley.
Alyson Friedensohn
Alyson Friedensohn is a co-founder and CEO at Modern Health, a platform which aims to improve employee well-being and retention rates. A graduate of Y-Combinator, the company just closed a $2.26 million seed round. She was previously operations manager at employee engagement and benefits management platform Keas which was acquired by Welltok. She also oversaw product partner operations at Collective Health, a startup which gives companies a smarter way to provide healthcare coverage through technology.
Kavi Bailey
Kavi Bailey is the founder of Grand Paradé Coffee, a purveyor of premium and sustainably-grown coffees. Kavi’s approach to sourcing coffee is focused on uncompromising quality. Her story begins in Kenya on the coffee plantations where she spent her summers. She discovered that elevation degree, varietal choice, soil type and processing methods all intersect and influence a coffee's flavor complexity and intensity. Prior to running her own coffee company, Kavi worked as a senior investment manager at Charles Schwab Investment Advisory. She has also worked as an investment professional for Westcott Financial Advisory Group and Capital Analysts.
Event details
Enjoy some food, network with likeminded women, and hear great stories from three awesome startup founders. Our panel of speakers on the night includes Pilot founder Jessica McKellar, Modern Health co-founder Alyson Friedensohn and Kavi Bailey, founder of Grand Parade Coffee.
We'll cover a range of topics from product to recruiting to fundraising. Learn how they got into entrepreneurship, how they started, how they grew the team, how they fundraised, to the challenges they have overcome throughout their journey.
Agenda:
6:00-6:45 Networking and food
6:45-7:30 Panel discussion
7:30-7:45 Q&A
7:45-8:30 More networking
Terms and conditions
*GirlCrew and MNGO may take photographs and/or video recordings at the event and use them for promotional or advertising purposes.
*This event is 21+ as alcohol is being served.
Directions
The event will take place Runway, which is located at 1355 Market Street, Suite 488. A member of the team will be in the lobby to greet you upon arrival.
Event Partners
GirlCrewGirlCrew is a social networking app to make new friends and meet like-minded women for events and chats. Not keen on going to a concert solo? Find a crew with us. Want to book a vacation but your friends are all coupled up? Find a group of girls to travel with. Find out more at www.girlcrew.com or downloading the GirlCrew app from the App Store or Google Play Store.
MNGO
MNGO helps people achieve their health goals through small, coach-led peer groups. Dieting is hard. Don't do it alone. Join a group of like-minded people and get guidance, share your experience, crush your challenges, and celebrate your victories together. Currently we offer Keto and Whole30 programs. Find out more at www.getmngo.com
Featured Speakers
Jessica McKellar
Jessica McKellar is a founder and the CTO of Pilot, a bookkeeping firm powered by software. Previously, she was a founder and the VP of Engineering for a real-time collaboration startup acquired by Dropbox, where she then served as a Director of Engineering. Before that, she was a computer nerd at MIT who joined her friends at Ksplice, a company building a service for rebootless kernel updates on Linux that was acquired by Oracle. Jessica is also a former Director for the Python Software Foundation and PyCon North America's Diversity Outreach Chair. For her outreach efforts in the Python community, she was awarded the O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2013. Fun fact: Jessica is a technical advisor to the HBO show Silicon Valley.
Alyson Friedensohn
Alyson Friedensohn is a co-founder and CEO at Modern Health, a platform which aims to improve employee well-being and retention rates. A graduate of Y-Combinator, the company just closed a $2.26 million seed round. She was previously operations manager at employee engagement and benefits management platform Keas which was acquired by Welltok. She also oversaw product partner operations at Collective Health, a startup which gives companies a smarter way to provide healthcare coverage through technology.
Kavi Bailey
Kavi Bailey is the founder of Grand Paradé Coffee, a purveyor of premium and sustainably-grown coffees. Kavi’s approach to sourcing coffee is focused on uncompromising quality. Her story begins in Kenya on the coffee plantations where she spent her summers. She discovered that elevation degree, varietal choice, soil type and processing methods all intersect and influence a coffee's flavor complexity and intensity. Prior to running her own coffee company, Kavi worked as a senior investment manager at Charles Schwab Investment Advisory. She has also worked as an investment professional for Westcott Financial Advisory Group and Capital Analysts.
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Enjoy some food, network with likeminded women, and hear great stories from three awesome startup founders. Our panel of speakers on the night includes Pilot founder Jessica McKellar, Modern Health co-founder Alyson Friedensohn and Kavi Bailey, founder of Grand Parade Coffee.
We'll cover a range of topics from product to recruiting to fundraising. Learn how they got into entrepreneurship, how they started, how they grew the team, how they fundraised, to the challenges they have overcome throughout their journey.
Agenda:
6:00-6:45 Networking and food
6:45-7:30 Panel discussion
7:30-7:45 Q&A
7:45-8:30 More networking
Terms and conditions
*GirlCrew and MNGO may take photographs and/or video recordings at the event and use them for promotional or advertising purposes.
*This event is 21+ as alcohol is being served.
Directions
The event will take place Runway, which is located at 1355 Market Street, Suite 488. A member of the team will be in the lobby to greet you upon arrival.
Event Partners
GirlCrewGirlCrew is a social networking app to make new friends and meet like-minded women for events and chats. Not keen on going to a concert solo? Find a crew with us. Want to book a vacation but your friends are all coupled up? Find a group of girls to travel with. Find out more at www.girlcrew.com or downloading the GirlCrew app from the App Store or Google Play Store.
MNGO
MNGO helps people achieve their health goals through small, coach-led peer groups. Dieting is hard. Don't do it alone. Join a group of like-minded people and get guidance, share your experience, crush your challenges, and celebrate your victories together. Currently we offer Keto and Whole30 programs. Find out more at www.getmngo.com
Featured Speakers
Jessica McKellar
Jessica McKellar is a founder and the CTO of Pilot, a bookkeeping firm powered by software. Previously, she was a founder and the VP of Engineering for a real-time collaboration startup acquired by Dropbox, where she then served as a Director of Engineering. Before that, she was a computer nerd at MIT who joined her friends at Ksplice, a company building a service for rebootless kernel updates on Linux that was acquired by Oracle. Jessica is also a former Director for the Python Software Foundation and PyCon North America's Diversity Outreach Chair. For her outreach efforts in the Python community, she was awarded the O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2013. Fun fact: Jessica is a technical advisor to the HBO show Silicon Valley.
Alyson Friedensohn
Alyson Friedensohn is a co-founder and CEO at Modern Health, a platform which aims to improve employee well-being and retention rates. A graduate of Y-Combinator, the company just closed a $2.26 million seed round. She was previously operations manager at employee engagement and benefits management platform Keas which was acquired by Welltok. She also oversaw product partner operations at Collective Health, a startup which gives companies a smarter way to provide healthcare coverage through technology.
Kavi Bailey
Kavi Bailey is the founder of Grand Paradé Coffee, a purveyor of premium and sustainably-grown coffees. Kavi’s approach to sourcing coffee is focused on uncompromising quality. Her story begins in Kenya on the coffee plantations where she spent her summers. She discovered that elevation degree, varietal choice, soil type and processing methods all intersect and influence a coffee's flavor complexity and intensity. Prior to running her own coffee company, Kavi worked as a senior investment manager at Charles Schwab Investment Advisory. She has also worked as an investment professional for Westcott Financial Advisory Group and Capital Analysts.
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