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<P>Startup founders face no shortage of challenges in running their companies. Recent news have served as a sobering reminder of the additional, sometime systemic, challenges women face in tech, whether as founders, employees, or investors.</P>
<P>Join 500 Startups and a panel of distinguished women founders and investors talk about their experiences and how they're working to level the playing field in tech.</P>
<P>You'll also get to meet 500 Startup's LA team and learn more about our local efforts. Drinks and light appetizers will be provided.</P>
<P><STRONG>PANEL MEMBERS:</STRONG></P>
<P><IMG SRC="https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/202775690/elizabethnew1.jpg"><BR><STRONG>Elizabeth Yin</STRONG>|<STRONG>Partner,<A HREF="https://500.co/" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="500 Startups (Mountain View, CA)" REL="noopener noreferrer noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow nofollow noreferrer nofollow">500 Startups</A></STRONG><BR>Elizabeth is a Partner at 500 Startups and runs the Mountain View accelerator. She previously was the CEO/co-founder of an adtech company called LaunchBit (acq '14). In a prior life, Elizabeth was a product marketing manager at Google. She has a BSEE from Stanford and an MBA from MIT Sloan. <BR><BR></P>
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<P><STRONG>Vanessa Dawson | Founder,<A HREF="http://www.vinettaproject.com/" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="Vinetta Project (Los Angeles, CA)" REL="noopener noreferrer noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow nofollow noreferrer nofollow">Vinetta Project</A><BR></STRONG>Vanessa is a serial entrepreneur and active angel investor with a background in digital development, retail finance and private equity. Vanessa's current role is as the CEO and Founder of The Vinetta Project, a high impact ecosystem that accelerates female founder's growth and facilitates access to capital. Vanessa began her career in retail finance and private equity in Vancouver and New York. Following that she worked at a top digital development agency consulting with fortune 500 companies and leading startups on their digital platform bids and roll outs. Vanessa launched her owntechnologyventure called Evry in 2010. Evry was a crowd-fundingplatform for groupactivities that enabled users to schedule group plans and collect payment moreefficiently.</P>
<P><SPAN><SPAN><SPAN>Vanessa has been featured in INC, Business Insider and CNNMoney's Upstart 30. She is also a member of the #UN70 a group of 70 global digital leaders nominatedto assist the UN in leveraging digitalopportunities.</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P><STRONG>Eva Ho | Managing Director,<A HREF="http://fika.vc/" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="Fika Ventures (Los Angeles)" REL="noopener noreferrer noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow nofollow noreferrer nofollow">Fika Ventures</A></STRONG><BR></P>
<P><SPAN><SPAN CLASS="m_-7064576200799834724gmail-il">Eva</SPAN> is a Managing Director at Fika Ventures, an</SPAN><SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN>LA-based seed fund that invests in founders solving meaningful, systemic problems through the use of data, related AI-enabled technologies, and automation<SPAN>.</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN> Prior, she was a founding GP at Susa Ventures. She is a serial entrepreneur and founder, most recently a founding executive at Factual, a leading location data provider in Los Angeles. Prior, she was a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Google and Youtube for 5 years. Prior to Google, she was the head of marketing for </SPAN><SPAN CLASS="m_-7064576200799834724gmail-il">Applied</SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN><SPAN CLASS="m_-7064576200799834724gmail-il">Semantics</SPAN><SPAN>, a company that sold to Google in 2003. She also co-founded Navigating Cancer, a health startup, in 2008 which is now based in Seattle. She is active in the non-profit sector, serving on the boards of California Community Foundation, Ocean Conservancy, First Descents, and Iridescent. She is currently the Entrepreneur-in-Residence for the city of Los Angeles working with Mayor Eric Garcetti and his team. </SPAN><SPAN CLASS="m_-7064576200799834724gmail-il">Eva</SPAN><SPAN> holds an MBA from Cornell and a BA from Harvard.</SPAN></P>
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<P><STRONG>Kara Weber | Managing Partner, <A HREF="https://www.brilliant.ventures/" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow nofollow noreferrer nofollow">Brilliant Ventures</A></STRONG></P>
<P>Kara is a serial tech/media entrepreneur and operator driven by a creative heart. A born marketer, she's been lucky or smart enough to be a founder and/or leader of many breakthrough companies - Adap.tv (sold to $AOL), Rubicon Project ($RUBI), Mogopop, Talking Panda, Streetmail (now Everyday Health), and Tripod (sold to $LCOS) - and still finds nothing as compelling as working with brilliant entrepreneurs and amazing companies. Her interests - beyond art, reading and travel - lie in developing innovative technology, scalable global platforms and revolutionary ideas.</P>
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<P><STRONG>Robyn Ward | CEO, <A HREF="http://www.fastforwardconsulting.co/about/" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow nofollow noreferrer nofollow">FastForward</A></STRONG></P>
<P>Robyn Ward is a 20-year veteran of the technology startup space. She is currently CEO of FastForward, a startup consultancy and founder coaching business. Prior to going out on her own, Robyn launched and ran the strategic investment fund at United Talent Agency. Before that, she served on early leadership teams at five venture-backed companies, including Docstoc which was acquired by Intuit.<BR><BR>Robyn co-teaches a class on Entrepreneurship at her alma mater USC, where she is also on the Advisory Council of the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. Robyn is also a mentor to several accelerators and has been named a Top Woman in LA Tech by DigitalLA and a Top LA Tech Ambassador by TechWeek.</P>
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<P><STRONG>Myriam Bocobza | Founder,<A HREF="https://shop.weareonyx.com/" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="We are Onyx" REL="noopener noreferrer noopener nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow nofollow noreferrer nofollow">We are Onyx</A></STRONG></P>
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