SPEAKER

I'm a serial entrepreneur.

I'm passionate about:  

solving hard, human problems,  

bringing more empathy to technology,

supporting women, LGBTQ+, minorities, 

sex positivity and access to pleasure education.  

• Pleasure as Resistance: SexTech, Queer Design, and Activism

  • Women in Tech Festival - VC Funding Successes and Challenges panelist - Mountain View, CA (March 2017)

  • United Nations: Commission on the Status of Women panelist - NYC, NY (March 2017)

    • Blog post about how we were invited

  • Lesbians Who Tech speaker - SF, CA (Feb 2017)

  • Middlebury College speaker - Middlebury, VT (Jan 2017) 

  • Creating Change - Philadelphia, PA (Jan 2017)

• From Vitamin to Painkiller: the Story of inDinero

  • ShiftSplit - Split, Croatia (June 2015)

  • BRNewTech - São Paulo & Curitiba, Brazil (Aug 2015)

  • MEST - Accra, Ghana (Sept 2015)

  • Startup Istanbul - Istanbul, Turkey (Oct 2015)

  • Hugething.VC - Poznan, Poland (Oct 2015)

Talk summary: My startup's journey through failure, burning $1M in funding, and bootstrapping back to profitability, generating $1M in ARR in less than a year.  

• Art of the Pitch / Fundraising for Early Stage Startups

  • She Leads Africa - Lagos, Nigeria (Sept 2015)

  • DEMO Africa - Lagos, Nigeria (Sept 2015)

  • MEST - Accra, Ghana (Sept 2015)

  • Startup Istanbul - Istanbul, Turkey (Oct 2015)

  • Hugething.VC - Poznan, Poland (Oct 2015)

  • TechWomen - Palo Alto, CA (Oct 2015)

  • Galvanize: Pitchers and Pitches - SF, CA (April 2016)

  • ArabNet - Dubai, UAE (June 2016)

  • ZINC - Amman, Jordan (June 2016)

  • NEST.vc / Metta entrepreneur event - Nairobi, Kenya (June 2016)

Talk Summary: Do's and Don't of Pitching, highly rated live and interactive mentoring workshops.

Other talks: 

• What I Learned as Venture Partner at 500 Startups

  • Startup Turkey - Antalya, Turkey (Feb 2016)

Talk Summary: Learnings from investing in emerging markets. 

• Fix your Diversity Debt

  • CASE "Conserte seu Débito de Diversidade" - São Paulo (Nov 2015) 

Talk Summary: Avoid building "diversity debt" in your company - best practices for building inclusive cultures and more diversity in early stage startups. Slides here. 

• How to Design Strong Accelerator Curriculum

  • VC Unlocked - San Francisco, CA (May 2016) 

Talk Summary: Best practices for accelerator managers and program designers. Slides here. 

Judging/Panels

• ShiftSplit - startup competition judge (June 2015)

• Africa Business Angel Network / DEMO Africa - foreign investors in Africa panel (Sept 2015)

• Startup Istanbul - finals and semifinals startup competition judge (Sept 2015)

• Startup Turkey - semifinals startup competition judge (March 2016)

• Seedstars World - panel on fundraising for early state startups (March 2016)

• Galvanize: Pitchers and Pitches - startup competition judge (April 2016)

• Africa Unplugged: Sparking Ideas, Unlocking Innovation panel on technology and startups in Africa at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business - panelist (April 2016)

• Defy Ventures: Solano State Prison competition judge (April 2016)

• Tech Inclusion 2016: What Accelerators are Learning Funding Diverse Founders (Oct 2016)

• Women's Entrepreneurship Day: Access to Capital, the New Face of Funding (November 2016)

• Women in Tech Festival: VC Funding Successes & Challenges, panelist (March 2017)

• Blackbox Fireside Chat: Female Founders Edition (May 2017)

• SVForum Female Founder Pitch Night, judge (May 2017)

Mentor

• 500 Startups/General Assembly Pre-Accelerator - SF, CA (June 2015)

• She Leads Africa - Lagos, Nigeria (Sept 2015)

• Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) - Accra, Ghana (Sept 2015) 

• Girls in Tech - São Paulo, Brazil (Aug 2015)

• TechWomen - US State Dept. sponsored program - Bay Area, CA (Oct 2015)

• Build.VC - entrepreneurship program for high school students - Oakland, CA (Dec 2015)

• Defy Ventures - Bay Area, CA & Solano State Prison (Dec 2015)

• 500 Startups London Distro Dojo - London, UK (Sept 2015) 

• StartPlanet - Belfast, Ireland (Feb 2016)

• 500 Nordics Oslo Pre-Accelerator - Oslo, Norway (Feb 2016)

• Seedstars World - Lausanne, Switzerland (March 2016) 

• 500 Startups LA Distro Dojo - LA, CA (May 2016) 

• NEST.vc / Metta entrepreneur event - Nairobi, Kenya (June 2016)

• TunaPanda.org - entrepreneurship program - Nairobi, Kenya (June 2016)

Testimonials