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NEW YORK •  PALO ALTO •  SAN FRANCISCO • 

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 and Lending NA at Visa, Founder of Alariss Global, Microsoft, Director Harvard Alumni Assoc., Council on Foreign Relations, Harvard AB, Princeton MS,
    Stanford MBA

  • Niki Santo

    FOUNDING COMMITTEE
    Co-founder/CEO Swaza, 
    Director Harvard Alumni Assoc., President of Harvard Club of Silicon Valley, Harvard AB Biological Sciences, University 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
    Vice President 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