Women's Entrepreneurship Day

3092 16th Street,San Francisco CA 94103

17 November, 2022

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Girls in Tech San Francisco is re-launching in person events and we are kicking off with a very special event in partnership with Women’s Entrepreneurship Day Organization (WEDO) Come join and celebrate with us for Women’s Entrepreneurship Day. Bring your energy ready to cheer for women who have built businesses, startup founders, girls and women in tech who have the side hustles and the big visions which will change our world for the better! This event is for you to connect with Girls in Tech, female founders, entrepreneurs, investors and allies, to learn from each other's experiences, and build meaningful connections. Tech has a new look and you are a part of it! For years, tech excluded many of us. Things are changing. Tech is evolving. And Girls in Tech is here to steer it in the right direction. This event will also be hosting a panel conversation from female founders who are disrupting tech, learn about how they got there, what are the challenges and opportunities and go home with a lot of new connections in your pocket. Meet our panelistsYannell Selman, Co-Founder and CEO of CultiveitYannell Selman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Cultiveit, a B2B HR tech platform that helps employees prevent burnout. Founded at UC Berkeley, Cultiveit's "Burnout Bot" Slack app leverages the latest management science research to nudge managers and employees to improve working norms based on their behaviors. Yannell is a 2x founder, having launched a social impact venture in 2017 (backed by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Walton Family Foundation) that still exists today. She holds an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and an MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Yannell is Latina, a "first gen everything" founder, and an alum of Camelback Ventures, New Profit, and Teach for America. Eliza Kosoy, Founder of E-liza DollsEliza Kosoy is a PhD student at UC Berkeley where she works with world renowned child psychologist Prof. Alison Gopnik where she works at the intersection of child development and Artificial Intelligence. She has also worked at MIT and Google. She is the founder of E-liza Dolls, a startup focused on completely demolishing the gender gap in STEM by exposing girls as young as 5 to coding and hardware through her E-liza dolls! Kelly Cure, Co-Founder of Skillful.lyKelly Cure is the Co-Founder of Skillful.ly, The Equitable Employment Marketplace, which she and her co-founders launched 1 year ago. Her professional journey includes working in local governments, renewable energy, management consulting and starting a micro-forestry venture in Africa. In hiring for her first venture, Kelly saw the benefits of skills-based hiring and became fixated on ways to move beyond academic pedigree and resume based hiring. This curiosity led to the launch of Skillful.ly, who have now welcomed over 3,500 learners. Kelly has lived and worked in 6 countries across Europe, the UK and most recently Africa and now lives in the Bay Area. She loves ultra distance trail running and teaches a monthly hip hop dance class. Tejal Shah, Chief Operating Officer of 555 Comic Coejal Shah is the Chief Operating Officer of 555 Comic Co, a startup that produces original anime stories and universes that fans can go anywhere within, with their own community-driven fanfic. Prior to 555 Comic, she has been in startups for over a decade having been a founder to an investor. Tejal was the Founder & CEO of KidAdmit, a US based marketplace for children’s schools & programs. She has raised funding from well known institutional venture capitalists. Tejal also co-founded Peninsula Wealth, an independent wealth management firm. She has 15+ years of professional experience to building successful businesses and her passion lies in consumer products and marketplaces. Tejal holds an engineering degree from University of Rochester as well as a 2nd degree black belt in Karate. Vanessa Karel, Founder and CEO of GreetherVanessa Karel, is a second-time Founder, Serial Entrepreneur, Storyteller, and Creative Producer. She was recently named as one of the 100 rising Latinx Startup founders to watch and currently is leading Girls in Tech San Francisco as their Volunteer Manager Director. Born in the USA, raised in Mexico City. Growing up constantly traveling, Vanessa always found an interest in exploring different cultures and expanding horizons. In 2020, she finally realized what had been lacking throughout her solo journeys, while traveling alone being stranded in Morocco in the middle of the pandemic. Which led to her founding a safety platform for female travelers around the world named Greether. The platform targets some of the most important SDGs and sustainable UN development goals, which are to reduce safety risks for women and to increase income opportunities for them through sustainable tourism. Having only worked on Greether for a year, the web application has organically grown users in over 80 countries and 300 cities around the world. “We connect female travelers to verified local women they can book wherever they go so they can have safer navigation from a local expert "we provide travelers with their local best friend” ABOUT GIRLS IN TECH SAN FRANCISCOEvent proceeds go to supporting our financial assistance ticketing program and allow us to continuing serving our Girls in Tech community. For more information on our nonprofit, check out our website here. To sponsor or partner Girls in Tech SF please reach out to [email protected] JOIN THE CHAPTER'S BOARDYou can support our cause by volunteering with us. Check out the opportunities available in our chapter operations and apply to become a Committee or Board member.