Pickles, Phia, Plastics
AllRock $50M, Remedio $65M, MoldCo $8M, Phia $8M — plus Bonobo Alliance tackles the Red Zone, 2048 Ventures launches fast-track funding, and fresh roles at Good Girl Snacks + The Collective!
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Catherine Pearce, Co-Founder & CEO of AllRock Bio, a developer of therapies for cardiopulmonary and fibrotic diseases, raised $50M in Series A funding co-led by Versant Ventures and Westlake BioPartners.
Tal Kollender, Co-Founder & CEO of Remedio, a Tel Aviv–based cybersecurity company providing proactive remediation for device posture management, raised $65M in a funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners.
Rebecca Schwartz, Co-Founder of Tabs, an AI-native revenue platform automating finance teams’ contract-to-cash cycle, raised $55M in Series B funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Dali Rashid, Co-Founder & CTO of Genomines, a Paris-based startup producing plant-sourced battery-grade nickel for cleaner, cheaper, and faster metal extraction, raised $45M in Series A funding led by Engine Ventures and Forbion BioEconomy.
Ariana Thacker, Founder & CEO of MoldCo, a digital health platform standardizing mold detox as preventative care, raised $8M in seed funding co-led by Cantos and Collaborative Fund.
Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, Co-Founders of Phia, a fashion tech startup, raised $8M in seed funding led by Kleiner Perkins, with investors including Hailey Bieber, Kris Jenner, Sheryl Sandberg, Sara Blakely, and Michael Rubin.
Upeka Bee, Founder & CEO of DianaHR, an AI-powered HR-as-a-Service platform for SMBs, raised $3.7M in seed funding led by SNR Ventures with participation from General Catalyst and Y Combinator.
Rachel Williams, Co-Founder & President of Rec, a platform helping communities manage sports programs and recreation bookings, raised $11M in Series A funding led by Crosslink Capital, with participation from athletes including Kevin Durant, Larry Fitzgerald, and Joe Montana.
Tina Keshani (CEO) and Sophia Richter (COO), Co-Founders of Seven Starling, a maternal mental health platform supporting women through fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenthood, raised $8M in funding led by Rethink Impact.
Shen Ming Lee, Co-Founder & CEO of Terra Oleo, a Singapore-based startup developing microbes to convert agricultural waste into sustainable oils and bioplastics, raised $3.1M in seed funding from ADB Ventures, Better Bite Ventures, and Elev8.vc.
Maha Shahzad, Founder & CEO of BusCaro, a Pakistan-based platform connecting schools and companies with safe commuting buses, raised $2M in seed funding led by Daman Investments.
📱 Fizz is hiring iOS Engineers, Growth Engineers, Social Media Specialists (100k+ followers), and Growth Analysts in NYC, as the private, verified social app for college communities expands nationwide.
🥒 Good Girl Snacks is hiring a Head of Operations to help scale its viral pickle brand into a household name and keep making pickles sexy.
🎥 The Collective is looking for a Videographer/Editor (students welcome) in NYC or SF to create startup content for launches, demos, and events across its 3,000+ founder and investor community.
📲 ForUs Apps is hiring a part-time student or recent grad to support creator marketing and relations, with hands-on experience working directly with creators on TikTok/IG.
📡 A stealth AI governance & data security startup is hiring an Engineering Intern to work on observability, governance, and system reliability.
🚀 Paradigm is hiring a Founding Growth & Ops team member to scale its customer base, run growth experiments, and help shape the company’s product-led growth strategy.
💸 2048 Ventures launched a Pre-Seed Fast Track to fund Vertical AI, Deep Tech, Health, and Bio startups raising $500K–$1.5M, with money wired in as little as 10 business days.
👩💻 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!
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An OpenAI study analyzing 1.1M+ ChatGPT conversations from 700M users found AI isn’t replacing jobs — it’s helping people think better. Top uses: practical guidance (28%), writing edits (28%), and seeking information (21%), with work-related chats dropping from 47% to 27% in a year. Under-26s now send nearly half of all messages, while usage is surging fastest in low-income countries. Read the full paper here.
Emma Pratt left Uber to go full-time on Girl Math Capital, the women-focused investing community she co-founded. In just nine months, they’ve grown to 200+ members, hosted 25+ sessions, and facilitated $200K in investments.
Retro Biosciences, funded by Sam Altman, will begin first human trials of its anti-aging pill by year-end. Early traction includes AI-designed proteins with a 50x boost in stem cell reprogramming, 30% of AI variants outperforming natural ones, and a $1B Series A raised this January.
Anna Sun, Co-Founder of Nowadays (YC S23), says one of the startup’s biggest superpowers is being female-founded — attracting a more diverse applicant pool, serving a customer base that’s 80% women, and showing teammates who never thought startups were “for them” that they belong.
After raising £1.3M for Unfabled, Hannah Samano was told the round was “too small” to announce. She did it anyway — and the news was picked up by Business Insider, covered by 18 outlets, and reached 1M+ people on LinkedIn, outshining fundraises 20x the size. As she put it: “Newsworthiness isn’t about the numbers. It’s about the story, the fight, the movement behind the money.” In a world where female founders get <2% of VC and women’s health <3% of digital health funding, that story matters.
The Bonobo Sisterhood Alliance is tackling the “Red Zone,” the period from August to Thanksgiving when more than half of campus sexual assaults occur — more than in the rest of the school year combined.
September 19 | ☕ Austin Female Founders & Friends Coffee (Austin)
September 23 | 🌍 Female Founders & Funders Gathering @ NY Climate Week (NYC)
September 23 | 🌱 VC Founder’s Market: The Future of Products for People & Planet (NYC)
September 24 | 📈 Growth Hacking in Consumer Tech (NYC)
September 25 | 💡 Early Stage Founders Night: Women in Entrepreneurship (Virtual)
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