11/18/2025
✨ Women aren’t just pitching better futures… they’re building them. 🚀🔥
This week at Pitch Competition, I witnessed an extraordinary community of women student founders, organizers, and investors committed to closing the funding gap and expanding what’s possible when women lead.
These founders are creating real solutions in:
💊 healthcare & palliative care
🧬 drug discovery & AI
🌿 nutrition & fungi-based food systems
🩸 menstrual health
🩹 skin cancer prevention
🧠 ADHD & neurodiversity support
…and more.
🌿 Congratulations to the winners:
🥇 APERIS – implantable device supporting palliative care patients
🥈 VoiceBack – voice-cloning for speech-loss patients
🥉 Mycology Foods Inc. – fungi-powered nutrition tied
🥉 Astrid Athletics – athletics designed for women’s bodies
To the Princeton women who organized this with so much heart: thank you for creating a space where women founders were seen, championed, and taken seriously — not as exceptions, but as the standard. 🧡
Women lead some of the most impactful innovation of our time, yet still receive under 2% of VC funding. That’s not a talent gap — it’s a funding and belief gap.
When we fund women founders, we’re not just backing companies.
We’re building a more equitable, caring, and thriving world. 🌍🌱🩷
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