Female Founder’s Day
3.13.2025
8am-6pm
It’s official: Female Founder’s Day is returning to New York City—the city where dreams take shape, deals get done, and futures are created.
Hop aboard THE EXPRESS to your destination, no detours required!
The Express is here. NYC's ultimate fast track for female founders.
Female Founder Collective’s hallmark event launched in 2018 as an immersive education-filled day including hands-on workshops and mentorship sessions, panel discussions, targeted networking, and tactical conversations all led by best-in-class entrepreneurs, industry leaders, and today’s biggest changemakers.
The day delivers actionable tools and information to create real ROI for women in their businesses. Female Founder's Day brings together like-minded entrepreneurs who have reached awe-worthy levels of success.
Tickets Now Available
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Hop on. We’ve got your ticket to growth, guidance, and a powerful network – all in one day, in the heart of NYC.
The Mission?
With your help, we will increase long-term success rates, get more female-founded businesses funded, and set up more women for lucrative exits.
The Express is pulling in – don’t miss it!
The day will bring to life what our community most deserves: actionable tools and information to create direct ROI for women in their businesses. Together, we will increase success rates, get more businesses funded, and set up women for lucrative exits.
HOW?
We are bringing together an influential roster of leaders across multiple industries to NYC with one shared goal: building women-founded empires that last for generations. Whether connecting with investors or learning actionable insights from today’s top teams, we are dedicated to powering us all to become the rich women we deserve to be.
THE LINEUP
SCHEDULE
4
Tracks
4
Stages
16+
Workshops
34+
Speakers
Customizable Tracks: Select from one of 4 breakout sessions to tailor the day to your business needs and long-term goals.
(2025 schedule coming soon - check back for the release!)
SCHEDULE
Choose your Track from these 4 options to customize your schedule
marketing, leadership, funding, growth
(2025 schedule coming soon)
MORNING
Check-in + breakfast
Opening Remarks + Performance
by Forward_Space
Stepping into Your Power with Melissa Wood
The Big Exit Panel
with Liz Elting, Sarah Chambless, and Suneera Madhani
Building Your PR Toolkit + Community
with Melissa Duren Conner (JBC)
How to Break Boundaries, Empower Yourself, and Amplify Your Voice and Brand on TikTok
With Allison Ellsworth (Poppi)
How to Create Partnerships That Drive Impact + Awareness
with Kim Chappell, Allie Brumel, and Paige More (Bobbie x The Breasties)
Igniting Your Leadership To Build Your Empire: Power, Pride, And Sustainability
with Megan Dolce (RIPE)
Leading to an Exit
with Suneera Madhani (CEO School)
Lunch
(*2023 Schedule)
SCHEDULE
Check out 2024’s schedule below
AFTERNOON
Bootstrapping without Being Strapped
with Rachel Krupa (The Goods Mart)
Landing Venture Capital: The What, Why, When, and How
with Anu Duggal (Female Founders Fund)
Understanding Your Funding Options: From VC, and Angels, to Non-Dilutive and Beyond
with Allison Cooper (Fenwick)
Unlocking Growth: Winning Financing Strategies for Profitability
with Melissa Mash (Dagne Dover) and Olivia Micallef (Settle)
Zero to Seed: Your Steps Towards Early Stage Growth
with Henley Vazquez (Fora)
Building and Managing Your Team at Scale
with Alison Wyatt (Female Founder Collective)
panel
The Power Of Being Purpose-Driven And Finding The Motivation To Stay The Course Panel by Mazda
keynote
with Chelsea Clinton and Elaine Purcell
Closing Remarks
Cocktails and connections
Strategic Networking
(*2023 Schedule)
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What You Can Expect:
A jam-packed day of interactive keynotes, panels, and workshops led by top industry leaders, founders, execs.
Candid conversations, tools, resources and tangible takeaways from female founders, key partners and industry experts to help take your business to the next level.
Endless networking opportunities with like-minded ambitious women.
Exclusive gift bags packed with the best of female-founded brands worth as much as the price of your ticket.
THE AUDIENCE
The next generation of female entrepreneurs and industry leaders
Including:
Female Founders at every stage of their entrepreneurial journey
Founders looking for a meaningful shift in the growth of their business
TESTIMONIALS
unsure? hear from our past attendees
“Buy the ticket. There is no substitute for an event like this! Imagine being surrounded by powerful, ambitious women who are putting their money where their mouth is. FFD will inspire you to think, reflect, and grow.”
-HANNAH S.
TICKETS
General Admission
$375
A jam-packed day dedicated to getting to know the women in attendance- the ones in search of support systems, honest advice, and new friendships, just like you – a sounding board as they navigate their big journeys
Delicious breakfast, lunch, and snacks will be provided by female-founded companies (and unlimited coffee, juice, and other goodies throughout the day)
Multiple networking opportunities to connect with like-minded women!
Happy Hour: Open bar with the perfect chance to mix and mingle with fellow attendees
Gift Bag packed with goodies from partners, friends & female-founded companies
VIP
$595
Early registration for all programming: you pick first!
Reserved seating
Fast Track Entrance
Exclusive VIP lounge with refreshments, snacks, and lounge seating throughout the day
Private lunch with VIP host (to be announced…)
Premium Gift Bag with goodies from partners, friends & female-founded companies
SPEAKERS
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ABOUT US
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We believe that by coming together, women will change the world. We seek to bring Female Founders together to educate them to drive one another’s collective success, on whatever terms they choose.
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FFC is a platform for connections, education and pathways to funding for over 20,000 women around the globe. From accelerator programs, to mini business schools to get your business off the ground, to daily programming to build skills, to grants - we connect founders and take them all the way through the journey to enabling their success.
In 2018, Rebecca Minkoff determined that she wanted to have a way for women to support women on a daily basis. She established the FFC seal, recognizing that a business is founded and owned, and or led by women to positively impact our communities, both socially and economically. The seal is now carried on over 3MM products around the globe, and FFC has started issuing grants to founders in 2021, alongside the Rebecca Minkoff brand. To donate to initiatives supporting women to advance their business, click here.
The FFC seal + FFC non-profit
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The 10th House is FFC’s way for female founders to harness their collective knowledge, connecting every single day via a private membership community. Founders can find each other by stage, by industry, by geography, and get access to weekly programming in the form of ask-me-anythings, skill-building workshops led by experts, and exclusive firesides with culture-shifting founders. Found out more about membership here:
