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Neurogram, Doughlicious, OLarry & more raised $43M+ — plus Dorm Room Fund apps, a $20K hackathon, and fall internships!
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Kathryn Bricken, Founder & CEO of Doughlicious, a London-based frozen snack company, raised $5M in funding led by Rich Products Ventures.
Daniele De Mari, Founder & CEO of Neurogram, a Brazilian AI research company focused on neurological health, raised $3M in seed funding led by Headline.
Kathy Zhu, Co-Founder & CEO of Streamline AI, an AI-powered intake and matter management platform for in-house legal teams, raised $8.6M in Series A funding led by Blumberg Capital.
Becky Hobbs, Co-Founder & COO of OLarry, an AI-powered tax firm, raised $10M in Series A funding led by TTV Capital.
Johanna Cabildo, Founder & CEO of Data Guardians Network, an AI training data platform, raised $5M in pre-seed funding led by Hamoud Al-Rumayyan.
Shanna Watkins, Darean Rhodes, and Ashlyn Knox, Co‑Founders of Sensori, a U.S.-based non-alcoholic beverage brand, raised $100K in seed funding.
Gyri Reiersen, Co-Founder & CPO of Tanso, a Munich-based environmental management and compliance platform, raised €12M in Series A funding led by henQ.
Mehek Mohan, Co-Founder of Kahani, an AI-powered platform for eating disorder recovery, raised a pre-seed round led by Informed Ventures.
Dr. Sujitha Selvarajah and Amanda Cupples, Co-Founders of Hesta Health, a UK-based startup focused on revolutionizing postnatal care and women's health, raised £2M in pre-seed funding led by Eka Ventures.
👩💻 Daniela Andrade dropped a curated list of 15+ recently funded, female-founded startups actively hiring for women seeking roles at high growth, female-founded startups!
🧠 Dorm Room Fund is accepting applications for its 2%-acceptance Student Investment Team — undergrads, MBAs, and PhDs can join a 500+ alum network and get real capital to back top startups. East Coast & Midwest apps are due Sept 11; West Coast by Sept 25.
✈️ Delve is hosting a 36-hour hackathon this weekend in SF with $20K in prizes, all flights and meals covered, and a judging panel from Stanford, Founders Fund, Cognition, and more.
🎨 Alinea Invest is hiring fall Marketing/Graphic Design interns (with full-time potential!) — join a team scaling fast with $18M+ in revenue and help create visual content that pops.
💼 Tian Shi compiled 11 open VC fellowships and scout programs — from Pear, Khosla, and NFX to European analyst roles at World Fund and Sofinnova.
🏡 Nowadays is hiring fall interns for growth, product, and software — fully in-person in SF with housing included and direct access to the founders. Tech skills required, no age requirements.
📚 Keeley Bernard just dropped a list of scholarships, externships, and paid roles for HBCU students and faculty — from $50K ACLS fellowships to Procter & Gamble tour gigs to the fully funded HBCU Innovation Challenge.
📍 Khosla Ventures is hiring a fall intern for a dual software + operations role working directly with one of their senior MDs — in-person, full-time in Menlo Park.
🗂️ Fivefoottwo Marketing is hiring a remote Project Management Intern for Fall 2025 — work hands-on with their team managing creative projects inside a fast-paced startup agency.
💸 Comma Capital just launched Comma Zero — a first-check fund backing students, dropouts, and recent grads with no degree required and no accelerator strings attached.
📊 H/L Ventures is hiring Venture Fellows to help evaluate startups, support diligence and memos, and assist portfolio companies — paid, part-time, open to U.S.-based candidates (remote or NYC).
✈️ Samiksha Gaherwar is organizing an all-expenses-paid trip to NYC for 100 students to attend North America’s largest nonprofit undergrad business conference — with past speakers ranging from the CEO of YC to the President of the United States.
💬 Kirsty Macdonald and Hannah Bruce are offering free 1:1 pitch feedback sessions for female founders building in consumer or consumer tech.
💁♀️ Are you a young professional, college student, or graduate school student who wants to work at a startup or SMB? Apply to WWV Labs to get matched with freelance, fractional, and full-time opportunities at top startups & SMBs.
Olivia Moore (AI Partner at a16z) shared her personal “AI stack” — 10 tools she uses weekly to stay productive, from Comet and Gamma to Julius, Granola, and Krea.
Kathrin Folkendt warned that the femtech space is overcrowded and ripe for consolidation — with over 400 period apps, 500 fertility tools, and 160+ menopause startups all solving the same problems. Only founders with real IP, clinical data, or strong partnerships will survive the wave ahead.
Brooke Hill turned down a $200K job after Wharton to launch a luxury braid bar — and built Swella into a $1M+ brand with custom takedown tech, now scaling fast across the South.
Maggie Gao broke down McKinsey’s State of the Consumer 2025: Gen Z is anxious about money but still splurging on wellness and lifestyle, trust in social media is falling fast, solo spending is on the rise, and consumers are turning toward local, values-driven brand.
From breaking into VC to rethinking early career paths, a curated list of top LinkedIn voices just dropped — featuring Kt McBratney, Nicole DeTommaso, Mallory Contois, Hannah Zhang, and more.
Ume Habiba shared that she’s looking to make her first angel investment by year-end — with an open call for women-led startups in Fashion x Tech, EdTech, and FinTech.
Elana Gold says the celebrity founder era is already here — not just endorsements, but real companies, real equity, and real returns. Rihanna, Jessica Alba, and will.i.am are leading the way, with a quiet wave of new celeb-backed startups close behind.
Anthropologie just spun out Maeve as a standalone brand after becoming its most searched label.
Maria Clara Barros is launching the Chérie CEO LinkedIn Challenge — a low-pressure space for women to show up weekly (or more) to share their work, ideas, and win.
👯♀️ Girls Got Game Club is launching a Female Founder Circle — curated, in-person groups for female founders and VCs in NYC and Munich (with more cities on the way). Apply now to join the free soft launch.
Source: Christine Zhang Christine Zhang just left Harvard after a year to go all-in on her startup with co-founder Julia Hudson. After raising their pre-seed round, they turned down internships, moved to SF, and are now building full time!
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August 8 | 🧠 LangChain College Night (SF)
August 9 | 🌟 Chicago Tech Ladies Meetup (Chicago)
August 11 | ♠️ Learn How to Play: Ladies Poker Night (SF)
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August 11 | 🧘♀️ Reset: Builders, Backers & the Future of Wellbeing (NYC)
August 12 | ✨ Miss EmpowHer IT Girl Walk (NYC)
August 12 | 🎨 Sketch & Sip: It Girl Illustrations (NYC)
August 13 | 🧑🤝🧑 People Leaders Coffee Meetup (NYC)
August 14 | 🤖 Women in AI Panel with Dr. Fei-Fei Li & Lilian Weng (SF)
August 14 | 🌿 Gals & the Grapevine (Denver)
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