Seattle Female Founders
Empowering women entrepreneurs through community, resources, and connections.
Upcoming Events
Join us for workshops, networking, and learning opportunities.
Women Who Built It: Stories of Startups & Serenity
Join us for an inspiring fireside chat featuring SIX trailblazing female founders.
Graham & Walker x Silicon Valley Bank: Women Founders & Funders Brunch @ Seattle Tech Week
You're invited to a vibrant morning filled with great food, powerful conversations, and incredible networking—designed exclusively for women founders and investors to connect, collaborate, and thrive.
Backstage: Journey of a Female Founder
​Real, unfiltered conversation about the journey of a female tech founder.
Past Events
Check out highlights from our previous events and networking opportunities.
Seattle Female Founder Happy Hour
Connect with other female founders and entrepreneurs in the Seattle area.
Seattle Female Founder Happy Hour
Connect with other female founders and entrepreneurs in the Seattle area.
Featured Founders
Meet the inspiring women entrepreneurs building innovative companies in Seattle.
FlickBloom is an end2end AI social media marketing agency
Founder Story
Yinhan is an autodidact technologist who pioneered foundational NLP breakthroughs at Meta AI through the seminal RoBERTa paper (50,000+ citations), establishing data strategies that became the definitive standard for modern LLMs. As Co-founder and CTO of BirchAI, she secured $4M in funding, scaled operations to 5,000+ daily users, and engineered a proprietary ASR system outperforming industry benchmarks by 20% at minimal cost (~$1,000 training), culminating in the company's 2024 acquisition by Sagility. Currently, she leads Flickbloom—an AI-powered social media agency solving chronic marketing inefficiencies by delivering enterprise-grade visibility and sales conversion at fractional costs for over 10 clients.
Danielle Capers
Elicera PR
Public relations to maximize your media presence and elevate your thought leadership.
Founder Story
Danielle Capers is a seasoned PR consultant and founder of Elicera PR, renowned for enhancing startup visibility and credibility. Early in her career, she earned the moniker a relentless pitching machine, reflecting her tenacious approach to public relations. As Program Director at Voxus PR, based in Tacoma, Washington, Danielle specializes in B2B technology marketing, offering strategic insights on leveraging influencer PR and optimizing content for recruitment. Her work empowers startups to connect authentically with their audiences, fostering growth and meaningful relationships.
A recruitment platform helping startup founders build their core teams.
Founder Story
Susanna Niu is a serial entrepreneur and global business leader with deep expertise in cross-border ventures, talent strategy, and early-stage startup growth. She previously co-founded College Daily, a leading Chinese-language media platform that grew to over 5 million users and raised $4.2 million USD across three funding rounds. Under her leadership, the company became one of the most influential voices among Chinese-speaking students and young professionals in the U.S., generating substantial revenue through brand partnerships and native advertising.Today, Susanna is the co-founder of MeeBoss, a tech-driven hiring platform that enables startups to connect with top-tier talent through real-time direct chat. MeeBoss is redefining how fast-growing teams discover and engage with the right candidates—faster, smarter, and at scale.
Nicole A. Donnelly
Emotionality
Manage stress and improve your Mental Health through Personal and Professional Development Coaching, Lunch 'n' Learns, and Emotional Support Texts.
Founder Story
Nicole Donnelly is a dynamic entrepreneur and AI strategist who has transformed her journey from a professional snowboarder into a global business leader. As the founder of AI Smart Marketing, she specializes in helping companies integrate AI to enhance efficiency and drive growth. With nearly two decades of experience, Nicole has trained over 10,000 professionals worldwide, enabling them to streamline operations and embrace innovation. Her earlier venture, BabyLegs, became a global brand celebrated for its design excellence and workplace flexibility. Nicole's mission is to make AI accessible and impactful, empowering businesses to thrive in the digital age.
Bhavna Madappa
Chipp
Settle expenses effortlessly
Founder Story
As a governor of the company, she plays a pivotal role in shaping its strategic direction. Bhavna's commitment to innovation is further evidenced by her GitHub contributions, where she shares projects like ChippApp, reflecting her hands-on approach to product development. Her work underscores a dedication to creating practical solutions that enhance everyday financial interactions.
Monica (Zhuzi) Li
RockHood
Innovative solutions in the tech industry
Founder Story
Monica Li is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Rockhood.ai, the MLS-based real-estate intelligence and workflow platform. A former top-producing Seattle broker—and mother of two—Monica saw firsthand how much agent time disappears into data wrangling and repetitive work. Determined to reclaim those hours, she partnered with leading AI scientists and engineers to build Rockhood, a domain-specific system that delivers verified insights and end-to-end automates tasks such as CMAs, offer drafting, and market analysis for real estate agents and brokerages. Monica previously led growth initiatives at Flyhomes and enterprise sales at LinkedIn, combining deep industry expertise with a decade of SaaS experience.
Maggie Deng
Ginkgo Active
Ginkgo Active is the world's first virtual proactive health center.
Founder Story
Maggie Deng is a systems strategist turned founder who has built and scaled businesses from every seat at the table. As an investment banker, she advised global companies on growth and M&A, structuring capital strategies across industries. As a corporate executive, she led development and operational scale-up in complex organizations. At the VC level, she led investment in fintech companies, guided early-stage health and tech startups, shaping go-to-market strategies and enterprise partnerships, and realized exits through acquisitions. Now as founder and CEO of Ginkgo Active, she is building a scalable, AI-powered prevention platform that delivers personalized, daily movement prescriptions backed by validated evidence. Ginkgo is redefining health access for proactive care worldwide, with virtual solutions that starts before decline begins.
Twama Nambili
Aeone
AI Copilots for marketing teams and content creators.
Founder Story
Twama is a Seattle-based entrepreneur, product leader, content creator, and founder of Aeone, a startup building tools for creators, marketing teams, and talent agencies. She founded Aeone to solve a personal need. With an MBA from Brandeis and prior experience as a Senior Product Manager at Amazon, she blends corporate strategy with startup agility. Passionate about the creator economy, Twama champions digital entrepreneurship across the U.S. and Africa. She's a published author, frequent speaker, and advocate for embracing risk and fear as growth catalysts. Through Aeone and her writing, she empowers creators to build sustainable businesses, while fostering an inclusive, values-driven tech community.
Elizabeth Ruzzo, PhD
adyn
Changing the standard of care for birth control prescribing through data-driven precision medicine.
Founder Story
Elizabeth K. Ruzzo, PhD, completed her graduate work at Duke University and postdoc at UCLA. She has authored 35+ peer-reviewed publications garnering over 5,300 citations (including publications in Nature and Cell). Throughout her 10+ year academic career in human genomics and medical genetics, she discovered nearly 40 genetic causes for various human diseases. She has dedicated her expertise in precision medicine to closing gaps caused by historic inequity in medical research and demanding a new standard of care. She founded adyn with the mission of making scientific discovery more inclusive. Dr. Ruzzo took adyn through Y Combinator and has received the Charles J. Epstein Trainee Awardee for Excellence in Human Genetics Research, the Jo Rae Wright Fellowship for Outstanding Women in Science, the Neurobehavioral Genetics Fellowship, and the Ray J. Tysor Graduate Fellowship. Her work has also been recognized by CB Insights, Fast Company, Inc. Magazine, and Rock Health. adyn's 1st product is changing the standard of care for birth control prescribing; The Birth Control Test helps patients and physicians take a data driven approach to finding birth control without side effects.
Charlie Sun
InnoMat.AI
InnoMat.AI is an AI-powered platform for end-to-end materials innovation—from discovery and simulation to sourcing and supplier matching.
Founder Story
Charlie is a self-taught coder and mechanical engineer pioneering the integration of AI in materials science. As a former researcher in Dr. Justin Ye's NSF-funded lab, she explored how geometry and function inform material behavior—an insight that became the foundation of InnoMat.AI. After earning her Master's in information system from Northeastern, she launched InnoMat.AI to transform how R&D and supply chain teams discover, simulate, and source materials. With Microsoft as a strategic sponsor and early prototypes backed by National Science Foundation initiatives, Charlie's team built a cloud-native platform that delivers real-time simulations, optimal material recommendations, and verified supplier matches. Today, InnoMat.AI is helping innovators across industries cut prototyping costs, accelerate development, and source sustainably—all from a single AI platform.
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