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SUMMARY:Springboard Enterprises - Securing Media Coverage in STAT News Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in learning more about how to secure media coverage in top tier publications? Join Lizzy Lawrence\, Health Tech Reporter at STAT News\, Reporting from the frontiers of health & medicine and Ariel Kramer\, Founder of Klover Communications\, a boutique PR firm focused on healthcare and life science for an engaging conversation on securing media coverage in STAT News. \n\n\n\n\nRSVP Today\n\n\n\n\nWhen and Where\n\n\n\nWednesday\, April 10th\, 202412:00 pm – 12:30 pm ET \n\n\n\nPlease note this will be a virtual event. Zoom link provided upon registration. \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nAriel Kramer\, Founder of Klover Communications \n\n\n\nLizzy Lawrence\, Health Tech Reporter at STAT News
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SUMMARY:Dolphin Tank: Heartland Women in Tech
DESCRIPTION:Springboard’s Dolphin Tank is a pitch event that brings the power of our collective community to women entrepreneurs innovating in technology. Our Dolphin Tank events showcase exciting women-led companies and provide them with the opportunity for connections\, capital\, and insight from our audience of investors\, advisors\, and industry leaders. \n\n\n\nJoin Springboard Enterprises and Dolphin Tank partners Wells Fargo and OneKC for Women\, for an exciting pitch event featuring women founders and entrepreneurs\, expert panelists\, and interactive audience participation! \n\n\n\n\nRSVP to Attend\n\n\n\n\nWhen and Where\n\n\n\nWednesday\, April 3\, 20245:00 PM-8:00 PM CT \n\n\n\nPolsinelli\, 900 W 48th St\, Kansas City\, MO 64112 \n\n\n\nPlease note: This will be an in-person event. \n\n\n\n\nRSVP to Attend\n\n\n\n\nMeet the Presenters\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShapree’ Marshall\, Founder & CEO\, A Traveled Path Homes \n\n\n\nA Traveled Path Homes: Simplifying housing solutions for traveling medical professionals on emergency contracts. \n\n\n\nShapree’ Marshall\, the founder and CEO of A Traveled Path Homes\, is a first-generation entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in the insurance and financial sector. Her personal battle and hospitalization with COVID-19 revealed the challenges faced by traveling medical professionals\, inspiring her to create A Traveled Path Homes to provide housing solutions tailored to their needs. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVanessa Jupe\, Founder & CEO\, Leva \n\n\n\nLeva is a comprehensive ecosystem that provides pregnant and postpartum employees with the support they need to thrive. \n\n\n\nVanessa\, CEO and Founder of Leva\, has spent over 20 years in internet technology\, innovating at giants like DIRECTV\, USAA\, and H&R Block. She is a leader in digital product management and driving profitable growth\, leveraging her expertise in human-centered design and data-driven decision making. Vanessa’s academic credentials include a BBA in Information Systems from the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio\, TX and a Master of Science in Technology Commercialization from UT Austin\, coupled with a Women’s leadership certificate from Cornell University. She is passionate about continuous learning\, her family\, and freedom. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAshley McClellan\, Founder & CEO\, MedCurate \n\n\n\nMedCurate is the Uber for Healthcare staffing matching nurses and hospitals for half the cost of traditional staffing agencies. \n\n\n\nAshley McClellan is an experienced senior executive with over 18 years’ experience in Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer roles across three organizations who transitioned into Founder and CEO of MedCurate in 2023. \n\n\n\nAshley attended Southern Methodist University (SMU) where she obtained her BBA in Finance and BA in Spanish. She received her Master’s in Hospital Administration and MBA from Texas Woman’s University. She is currently in her Doctoral Program for Health Administration (anticipated graduation in 2024). Ms. McClellan is a Fellow and Board Certified by the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) and serves on several boards including SMU Cox School of Business Alumnae Board. \n\n\n\nShe resides in Kansas City with her husband\, Brett\, and their two sons. Brett is an experienced mortgage lender with UMB Bank\, and they also own Sojourn Spa on the Plaza that opened January 2024. \n\n\n\n\n\nMeet the Panelists\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAviva Ajmera\, CEO & Founder\, SoLVE KC \n\n\n\nAviva is the CEO and Founder of SoLVE. A Kansas City Based consulting firm. After 25 years of leading strategy creation and implementation\, new product development\, brand management\, consumer marketing and organization re-design\, there’s no marketing problem Aviva hasn’t SoLVEd. \n\n\n\nAviva founded SoLVE with the mission to help Kansas City businesses grow. Offering a unique\, hands-on approach to business consulting\, SoLVE’s clients are both B2B and B2C. They range from $600M national corporations to $500M regional companies\, and also include local small business owners and start-ups. Aviva supports clients across numerous industries including Consumer Product Goods\, Construction\, Publishing\, Wealth Management\, Higher Education\, IT\, Manufacturing\, CCRCs and non-profit organizations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaria Flynn\, Founder & CEO\, Ambiologix \n\n\n\nLeveraging experience as an entrepreneur\, executive\, engineer\, investor and coach\, I work with select emerging and high-growth leaders\, startups\, investors\, and entrepreneurial support organizations\, helping them to make opportunity happen. \n\n\n\nAs CEO of Orbis Biosciences\, I built a technology company that improved pharmaceutical manufacturing\, won awards for its novel innovation\, and was acquired by Adare Pharmaceuticals. As Managing Director of Techstars Kansas City\, I invested in and coached startups across health tech\, biotech\, fin tech\, deep tech\, and consumer tech. I have been in the trenches with founders from over 30 companies and love being a business growth guide. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVercie Lark\, Author of Make It Rain & Small Business Investor \n\n\n\nVercie Lark\, formerly one of ten SBA Regional Administrators appointed by President Biden in 2022 to play an important role helping small business owners access federally backed loans\, contracts\, and training to start\, grow and expand. Although Mr. Lark is no longer working as a presidential appointee forthe SBA\, he continues to invest in and advocate for small businesses to help expand America’s economic\, education\, employment\, and entrepreneurial success. \n\n\n\nMr. Lark is the author of Make It Rain\, a simple self-help personal finance book created to help increase wealth\, jobs and financial security for hardworking Americans. Mr. Lark\, recently launched the Prosperity Fund\, a $20 million venture capital (VC) fund\, to help fuel growth of U.S. SaaS technology firms founded by women and minority entrepreneurs. Mr. Lark retired from a successful career as an entrepreneur and corporate executive rising up the ranks in several fortune 500 firms before leading a billion-dollar business at DST Systems in Kansas City\, MO. \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Dolphin Tank\n\n\n\nDolphin Tank participants will have access to learning opportunities\, mentorship\, and access to capital via: Funding Your Small Business\, Pitching to Investors\, and Equity Prep classes offered by the KCWBC. Funding Your Small Business is a one-hour workshop providing an understanding of debt and equity funding. Equity seekers are encouraged to take the next step with pitching to investors an orientation workshop. Debt funding candidates may be interested in a microloan or banker referral or one-on-one counseling with KCWBC’s Client Services Manager for potential financial preparation. Pitching to Investors is a two-hour orientation that introduces the business owner pursuing equity funding with terminology and the process that is necessary to attract investors. Equity Prep takes a deeper dive into raising equity funding. The program helps entrepreneurs get ready for several pathways\, including Digital Sandbox\, Dolphin Tank\, Angel Investors\, and Demo Days.  \n\n\n\nSpringboard Enterprises values diversity\, equity\, and inclusion (DEI) as essential to our mission and more broadly to a thriving\, equitable\, and just global community. We encourage women entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds to apply. \n\n\n\nHow Dolphin Tank Works\n\n\n\nWhile the venues and audiences may vary\, every Dolphin Tank shares these core elements: \n\n\n\n\nEntrepreneurs and their companies are selected via an application process.\n\n\n\nPresenters deliver a three-minute pitch addressing a challenge or unique opportunity.\n\n\n\nSolutions\, connections\, strategies\, and opportunities for investment are crowdsourced from the audience.\n\n\n\n\n\nRSVP to Attend\n\n\n\n\nEvent Partners\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you are interested in sponsoring\, please email:\n\n\n\nRachel Rong\, Director of Operations for Springboard Enterprises at rachel@springboardenterprises.org.
URL:https://sb.co/event/dolphin-tank-heartland-women-in-tech-april-2024/
LOCATION:Polsinelli Offices\, 900 W 48th St\, Kansas City\, MO\, 64112
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SUMMARY:ARPA-H and Springboard Enterprises - Sprint for Women’s Health
DESCRIPTION:Join representatives from ARPA-H and Springboard Enterprises to learn more about the ARPA-H Sprint for Women’s Health\, which commits $100 million to transformative research and development in women’s health. This webinar will cover the ARPA-H initiative and the process for applying for funding. \n\n\n\nThe Sprint for Women’s Health will utilize two funding tracks to foster research and development efforts: one for early-stage research\, or ‘Spark’ solutions\, and the other for later-stage development\, or ‘LaunchPad’ solutions. \n\n\n\nJoin us to learn more about this exciting opportunity! \n\n\n\n\nRSVP Today\n\n\n\n\nWhen and Where\n\n\n\nMonday\, March 25th\, 20243:00 PM-4:00 PM ET \n\n\n\nPlease note this will be a virtual event. Zoom link provided upon registration. \n\n\n\nPresenters\n\n\n\nNatalie Buford-Young – CEO\, Springboard Enterprises \n\n\n\nDr. Milad Alucozai – Expert in Residence\, Digitalis Commons \n\n\n\nDr. Jenica Patterson – Division Director for T3X at ARPA-H and lead for the Sprint for Women’s Health
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SUMMARY:Dolphin Tank at SXSW 2024
DESCRIPTION:Springboard’s Dolphin Tank is an event that brings the power of our collective community to women entrepreneurs innovating in technology. Our Dolphin Tank events showcase exciting women-led companies and provide them with the opportunity for connections\, capital\, and insight from our audience of investors\, advisors\, and industry leaders. \n\n\n\nJoin Springboard Enterprises and Dolphin Tank partner Female Quotient at SXSW 2024 for an exciting pitch event featuring women founders and entrepreneurs\, expert panelists\, and interactive audience participation! \n\n\n\nWhen and Where\n\n\n\nSaturday\, March 9\, 202410:30 AM CT – 11:30 AM CT \n\n\n\nFemale Quotient Equality Lounge Waller Creek Boathouse (74 Trinity St\, Austin\, TX 78701\, USA) \n\n\n\n\nRSVP to Attend\n\n\n\n\nMeet Our Presenters\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvelyn Mora\, Founder & CEO\, VLGE Inc. \n\n\n\nVLGE is a 3D immersive world creation tool that enables users to socialize\, gamify and monetize their real-time AI generated their experiences. \n\n\n\nEvelyn Mora is an awarded inventor\, tech entrepreneur\, and sustainability strategist based in France. She is the Founder of VLGE Inc.\, a groundbreaking start-up that offers an AI Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform connecting people to the immersive web through the physical world. The company empowers communities\, creators\, and brands to create\, monetize\, share\, and connect in the immersive spaces seamlessly. Her start-up is backed by the likes of BOLD by Loreal Group\, Venture Reality Fund\, British Fashion Council\, and Venrex. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArion Long\, Founder & CEO\, Femly \n\n\n\nMeeting the demand of period equity legislation\, Femly provides smart restroom dispensers and eco-friendly period care. \n\n\n\nArion Long is not just a CEO; she’s a visionary who is revolutionizing the FemTech industry. As the Chief Estrogen Officer of Femly\, Arion has transformed a subscription box service into a multi-million-dollar enterprise with patented technologies. She is the mastermind behind the world’s first touchless pad and tampon vending machine\, a game-changing innovation that is increasing period care access in restrooms across the nation. More than 25 states require access to period supplies in restrooms around the U.S Unlike public faucets and hand dryers\, Arion’s invention uses sensors that work for Black & Brown skin and allow women to wave “hello” to access organic sanitary products from Femly. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGerry Poirier\, Founder & CEO\, AngeLink \n\n\n\nAngeLink is the world’s first AI-Driven crowdfunding platform developed and powered by women. \n\n\n\nGerry Poirier is the Founder and CEO of AngeLink\, the world’s first crowdfunding platform powered by women. Visionary thought leader\, champion of female empowerment and financial equity\, Gerry is a diversity change agent with agility born from over 2 decades in finance. FinTech experience with leadership roles at Credit Suisse\, Lazard Freres and Equity Growth Partners. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBriana Franklin\, Founder & CEO\, Cadet Prosparette \n\n\n\nClosing the knowledge gap that turns debt from a tool into a trap. \n\n\n\nBri is the living embodiment of resilience and distance traveled. In 2017\, she began her foray into life under the weight of debt constraints following her graduation from Dartmouth College with $100K in student debt principle (eventually $123K + interest and other forms of debt) and channeled her lived experience into action through meeting the moment of summer 2020 by forming The Prosp(a)rity Project. \n\n\n\n\n\nMeet Our Panelists\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArlan Hamilton\, Founder\, Managing Partner\, Backstage Capital \n\n\n\nArlan Hamilton built a venture capital fund from the ground up\, while homeless. She is the Founder and Managing Partner of Backstage Capital\, a fund that is dedicated to minimizing funding disparities in tech by investing in high-potential founders who are people of color\, women\, and/or LGBT. Started from scratch in 2015\, Backstage has now raised more than $15 million and invested in more than 170 startup companies led by underestimated founders. In 2018\, Arlan co-founded Backstage Studio which launched four accelerator programs for underestimated founders in Detroit\, Los Angeles\, Philadelphia\, and London. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShelley Zalis\, Founder & CEO\, The Female Quotient \n\n\n\nShelley Zalis is the CEO of The Female Quotient\, a woman-owned business working with companies and conscious leaders to curate experiences\, thought leadership\, and solutions designed to achieve gender equality in the workplace and beyond. The FQ’s end-to-end equality platform includes co-branded research\, content campaigns\, and partnership opportunities at its signature Equality Lounges®. Visibility is further driven through The FQ’s robust social\, media\, and editorial channels. The FQ approach is intersectional\, inspirational\, and inclusive\, working with leaders and rising stars in every industry and around the world. \n\n\n\nZalis is a pioneer for online research\, becoming the first female chief executive ranked in the research industry’s top 25. Today\, Zalis works with Fortune 500 companies\, impact organizations\, and conscious leaders to advance equality in the workplace. A firm believer in giving back with generosity\, Zalis is a proud mentor to women around the world. \n\n\n\nZalis authors a Forbes column that provides virtual mentorship for women in middle management. She is co-founder of #SeeHer\, a movement led by the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) to increase the accurate portrayal of women and girls in advertising and media. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNneka Ukpai\, Head of Financial Innovation\, Better \n\n\n\nNneka is the Head of Financial Innovation at Better. In her current role\, Nneka advises the tech unicorn on business and legal strategy\, new financial technology products\, and strategic investment. In addition\, Nneka has created and operationalized new affiliates like the Better Opportunity Fund\, a nonprofit arm focused on closing the racial and gender wealth gaps. In her prior role as Senior Director of Business and Legal Affairs\, Nneka led cross-functional teams developing solutions to eliminate friction in homeownership and align the right incentives for borrowers to have the best customer experience imaginable. \n\n\n\nPrior to Better\, Nneka was a senior associate at a global law firm where she specialized in defending large corporations\, boards and individual members of the C-suite in multi-jurisdictional enforcement actions. When Nneka is not practicing law\, she is a two-time tech founder\, angel investor\, and advisor to startups and accelerators. \n\n\n\nNneka is a proud graduate of Howard University and Harvard Law School\, where she currently serves on the distinguished teaching faculty of Harvard’s Trial Advocacy Workshop. Nneka also serves on the Board of Better UK\, London’s largest digital mortgage broker\, and on the Advisory Boards of Brex\, Dandi\, and Arara.io. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKerry Rupp\, General Partner\, True Wealth Ventures \n\n\n\nKerry Rupp is General Partner at True Wealth Ventures\, an early-stage VC fund investing in women-led businesses that are improving human and/or environmental health\, where she sits on six company boards. For five years\, she also taught for the National Science Foundation’s I-Corps innovation program. Kerry was previously CEO at DreamIt\, a Top Ten US startup accelerator and VC fund. Before that\, she founded Holiday Golightly\, a group travel service for women\, and held leadership roles at various startups and larger corporations. Kerry serves on several non-profit/advisory boards for organizations focused on healthcare\, entrepreneurship and other civic improvement initiatives. Kerry holds an MBA from HBS and a BA from Duke. \n\n\n\n\n\nMeet Our Moderator\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna Consani\, Head of Community\, Goodwater Capital \n\n\n\nAnna Consani is Head of Community at Goodwater Capital\, the largest consumer tech focused VC fund in the world. Goodwater’s mission is to empower exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere to change the world for good. At Goodwater\, Anna works within Portfolio Services to better connect the Goodwater community of founders and support the growth of portfolio companies which range from seed to pre-IPO. Prior to Goodwater\, Anna was Vice President of Community and Partnerships at Springboard Enterprises\, a global network for women-led tech and healthcare companies. Anna led the Springboard Dolphin Tank program\, a “friendly-feedback” pitch session for entrepreneurs as well as the Women’s Health Innovation Coalition. She has hosted and moderated pitch events in over 30 cities\, across 6 countries and 50+ virtual events. Anna has worked for Members of Congress in both Washington\, D.C.\, and California\, and was a Panetta Congressional Fellow in 2012. Anna holds a B.A. in Political Science with a Minor in Sociology from Cal Poly\, San Luis Obispo\, and is currently based in Sacramento\, CA. \n\n\n\n\n\nCheck Out Our 2023 SXSW Dolphin Tank Event Video\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Partners\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInterested in partnerships or have any questions?\n\n\n\nEmail Rachel Rong\, Director of Operations for Springboard Enterprises at rachel@springboardenterprises.org.
URL:https://sb.co/event/dolphin-tank-at-sxsw-2024/
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