Simrat was born India and later moved to America for college. After graduating from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, Simrat moved to New York City to help launch Kinsa, a health technology startup that created the world’s first smartphone connected thermometer to track and stop the spread of illness. After four years at Kinsa, working out of New York, San Francisco and London, Simrat moved on to the London startup space, and currently heads Global Onboarding at Hostmaker, a fast-growing Series B prop-tech startup head quartered in London. Simrat is extremely passionate about using technology in innovative ways to create real impact and hopes to empower more young women in the UK to break into the tech and VC space through SoGal London. She has seen first-hand the massive underrepresentation of women at top positions at some of the biggest venture capital firms and has been determined to work towards bridging this gap. Simrat has become more involved in the social enterprise sector in the UK, and was selected to be a facilitator for Drivers for Change – an annual journey across the UK to creative social action.
Sam Smith is the founder and CEO of Vishion, a mobile app that allows interior designers and new homeowners to search for decor by color.
Head of Ops @ Zypsy. Former e-commerce founder.
Marisa worked directly with startup accelerators in Europe, UK and USA. She has been advising European Incubators and Chambers of Commerce in setting up their Incubators. Marisa has spent most of her career as an Immigrant in EU, US and UK, and has worked for numerous organizations throughout the world. Marisa has expertise driving revenue growth in the US, UK and EMEA markets, developing strategies, analyzing business markets and launching sustainable products. She has built global teams that have brought several products to global market and generated corporate revenues.
Allie Felix is the Director of Programming & Partnerships at Embarc Collective. Previously, Allie led community at Work-Bench, an enterprise technology venture fund, and business development at 37 Angels, a women’s angel investing network in NYC. Prior to that, Allie managed marketing and partnerships for Tim Draper’s pre-accelerator program in San Francisco, Draper University. Allie currently serves on the board of Emerging Technology Leaders Tampa Bay and previously with the Smith College Business Network Advisory Board. She is a graduate of Smith College and Tampa, FL native.
Amanda is a graduate of Stanford University’s Product Design program. Through Product Design, Amanda learned to integrate design thinking methodology and mechanical engineering to solve “wicked problems.” She is deeply passionate about designing tools and programs that work for diverse populations and providing great design to those who need it most. Amanda has worked across several non-profit initiatives, including working as a Design Fellow for TeachAIDS, improving mental health access at Stanford through iThrive, working at a grassroots organization in South India, and designing volunteer programs for the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula. She is also a founding member of Project Include, a non-profit working to provide transparency in hiring and benefits across Silicon Valley companies. Amanda’s passion for equity led her to Parity, where she is helping design and scale the growing Parity Professional Program (P3) for 2018.
Nicole first started her foray into finance as an indices trader with a local family office. She wore many hats which included but was not limited to managing the trading firm’s equity, training and guiding the traders as well as the family office’s asset portfolio which included equities, residential and commercial real estate both local and overseas. As a previous partner and the crypto arm lead for Vanir Investment, she was responsible for pitching retained projects the existing investor network. She is currently a founding Partner at a blockchain advisory firm, Athena Advisory that structures a project’s strategy to ensure they achieve their funding targets.