HER Silicon valley pitch: AI edition

HER SILICON VALLEY PITCH — AI EDITION

Female Founders Pitch Competition | Silicon Valley

Calling all female founders building AI-powered startups! Join us for an evening of pitching, networking, and connecting with the Silicon Valley investment community at Silicon Valley AI hub.

This is an opportunity to put your startup in front of VCs, angel investors, and experienced venture professionals, receive feedback, and connect with a community of ambitious women building the future.

Join us to see what innovative startups are building in the age of AI.

Who is this for?

This event is designed for female founders and co-founders building AI startups who are ready to showcase their companies, meet investors, and expand their Silicon Valley network.

Whether you’re raising now or preparing for your next round, we invite you to apply to pitch (link below).

What to Expect

✨ Networking & Welcome: Meet fellow female founders, investors, and members of the Silicon Valley ecosystem.

🎤 Pitch Competition: 6 founders will pitch their startups live in front of an audience of investors and experienced venture professionals.

💬 Feedback & Connections: Hear perspectives from investors and connect with potential mentors, partners, and supporters.

🥂 Networking & Snacks: Continue the conversation, meet new people, and build meaningful connections. Light snacks will be provided.

Agenda

5:30 PM — Welcome & Networking

6:00 PM — HER Silicon Valley Pitch: AI Edition

7:15 PM — Investor Feedback & Closing

Pitching Founders
🎤 LucidCare.AI — Grace Chen
🎤 Greether — Vanessa Karel
🎤 Perforated — Erin Yanacek
🎤 AORA — Dara Tumenbayeva
🎤 OVYU — Leila Moussaoui & Rajeswari Vinayagam
🎤 Kedara — Savita Kini
🎤 AGIGA AI — Xiaoran Wang
🎤 Arithmedics — Renumathy Dhanasekaran
🎤 TheSprintFit — Kruti Baires

Investor Judging Panel

• AJ Thomas – Early-stage investor, founder advisor, and venture ecosystem leader. Mentor at Techstars, founder of Good Trouble Ventures, and advisor to AI startups, with a focus on backing bold founders and emerging technologies.

• Radhika Iyengar - VC @ StarChain Ventures | AI & Healthcare, Bio, Finance | 8x Founder | Top 100 Women of the Future, Author, TEDx & Keynote speaker

• Vandana Sunkara,  Hustle Fund and The Next 10, early-stage investor with an AI and operator perspective.

• Monique Barbanson - Founder & GP of Entelechy Venture, Venture Fellow at Hustle Fund | Early-stage investor backing bold founders building category-defining companies.

• Ella Shukho – Venture ecosystem leader and former Program Manager at 500 Global. Early-stage operator and startup growth strategist backing founders across AI, enterprise software, and healthtech.

• Holly Uber – Innovation Catalyst, public speaker, and startup advisor for How Women Invest. Human-centered technologist specializing in digital health products, AI accelerator mentorship, and public-interest systems.

7:30 PM — Networking & Snacks

🏆 Pitch Prizes 🏆

Personalized judge feedback packet Each founder who pitches will received a personalized packet combining the judges’ scores, comments, strengths, and recommendations.

Winning Pitch

• Two Tickets to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 The winning founder will receive a pair of tickets to Tech Crunch Disrupt.

• Personal Coaching Session from Lital Cohen
  Motivational Speaker at CORE | Communication Coach at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Public Speaking Instructor | Effective Communication & Career Development Coach +250 Clients say about her services on LinkedIn.

• AI Advantage Cohort Admission by WOMEN x AI
  In AI Advantage Cohort you'll get to level up in AI in a community of 30 women over the course of 2 hour live sessions over 5 weeks.

• Founder Growth Strategy Session from From Luminizing Growth: The top three founders will receive private GTM strategy sessions with Jenny Kay Pollock of Luminizing Growth. 2 hours for the first place winner and competition winner and one hour for second and third place founders.

• 3 Months of OpenWay AI + Setup , a $15,000 value (OpenWay AI is your growth team from day one: it learns your business as you build it and executes the full cycle, from research and landing pages to campaigns, deals and retention).

• Individual Coaching Session with Ella Morgulis, MBA, PCC, Leadership, Confidence and Mental Wellness Coach, Communication and Management  Expert.

• Carta: 20% off the first year of any Carta plan

• Backblaze credit package

• UPersona: 20% off any hair service with promo code SISTERS — a little self-care for the women building big things. Nicole Fike, Vidal Sassoon-trained stylist with 38+ certifications, specializes in low-maintenance blondes and dimensional color. https://upersona.studio/

🏛 About the Hosts

Sisters Female Founders is a global community empowering women founders to build globally competitive startups.

We connect founders to Silicon Valley expertise, capital, and networks through curated experiences, mentorship, and pitch opportunities.

📧Info@sistersfemalefounders.com

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SVAI Hub

Based in the heart of Silicon Valley, the SVAI Hub is a community-first space where AI builders, developers, startups, and executives come together to learn, connect, and shape the future of AI. Our 28,000 sq ft space is purpose-built for the AI community — not for vendor pitches or product demos, but for the conversations and connections that actually move the field forward.