VC Backed Moms

Love this. The 500+ founders in our @VCBackedMoms community have been building ambitious startups while raising kids on hard mode. Now there's another path. Thank you @jessegenet for showing what’s possible.

When @JenSiebelNewsom comes to your first ever fundraiser dinner and it SELLS OUT ✨ 🚀Thank you to @CooleyLLP, @SVB_Financial, @ChiefMamaOfficer for sponsoring, and @yanatweets @schmorak for co-founding this thing with me. 🙏 @VCBackedMoms keeps leveling up 💪Here’s to 2026!

What a night. So many incredible women building incredible businesses, all gathered to support @VCBackedMoms. It was especially inspiring to hear from @JenSiebelNewsom, First Lady of California, about her work to support female founders. I also shared a few words and reflected on how @linamelia, @schmorak, and I started VC Backed Moms in the middle of the pandemic lockdown. A brutal time to be a mother. A brutal time to be a founder. And an especially brutal time to be both at once. I remember trying to get @Kraftful off the ground while my two-year-old ran around me because schools had shut down, thinking: there’s no playbook for this. But surely I can’t be the only one going through it. The moment we announced VCBMs, it had instant PMF. Founder moms were asking the same questions: - How do I fundraise while pregnant? - When do I tell my investors I’m having a baby? - How do I navigate all of this without tanking my company? Having a space to talk about these very specific, very real issues ended up being critical in my founder journey. So years later, when I had my second child, I felt completely prepared. It wasn’t even a question. My baby was born one week after I started intense M&A negotiations to sell my company. I was able to stay focused on getting the best possible deal for my team, my product, and the company we’d built because I had real support on the founder-motherhood front. I’m incredibly excited that hundreds of founders now get that same support as this community keeps growing. Huge thank you to our incredible leadership team Sam Gardner, Laurel Hess, Dana Levin-Robinson, Kt McBratney, Sehreen Noor Ali, Ketki Duvvuru and our new Executive Director Sierra Alea for an incredible event.

Big week at @Amplitude. AI Analytics is live. Last night we celebrated with our friends from @Figma and an incredible group of product leaders over an amazing dinner, a live cooking show and a book signing with @TylerFlorence. Grateful to @frankdotlee and @ahhogan for co-hosting, and to our teams who made it all happen.

And we’re sold out! So excited to see everyone next week. If you didn’t snag a spot, stay tuned for the next dinner.

“Mom, how did we get so rich?” “Your mother started a company, worked relentlessly, convinced the <2% of VCs who back female founders to bet on her, and raised you at the same time.” Some founders are playing on hard mode 💪 Those founders are the 500+ members of the @VCBackedMoms community I started with my good friends @linamelia and @schmorak a few years ago. Last year, VCBM became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Next week, we’re hosting our very first fundraising dinner to support more incredible founders on this wild journey. Sponsored by @CooleyLLP, @SiliconVlyBank, and Chief Mama Officer — with a very special guest speaker 👀 We’re down to just a few spots. Grab one if you’re keen. Link in comments.

Female founders receive < 2% of VC funding. Securing funding with the odds stacked against you builds character. Particularly when, on top of growing a company, you’re also growing small humans. So, there’s really nothing this group of @VCBackedMoms can’t do 💪 They have the ultimate grit, resilience, and determination. 3 years ago, @linamelia, @schmorak, and I co-founded VC Backed Moms to create a space where founders on their motherhood journey could support each other through the unique challenges of building businesses while raising families. Yesterday, that vision came to life once again in San Francisco, as a subset of the 500 incredible members gathered to celebrate how far we’ve come. We recently incorporated as a nonprofit, solidifying our commitment to this amazing community. This network has become a powerful force—proving that startup success and motherhood can absolutely coexist. Thank you to @bfmuir and @anniesloan for organizing 🙌 And to everyone who came and made this event so memorable 🫶 Here’s to the next chapter of growth, support, and lifting each other up!

Can female founders operate in founder mode? @BChesky said founders’ intuition comes from being the parent of the company. As @VCBackedMoms, we know it well. As founders. And parents. Today we’re proud to announce our non-profit status, supporting nearly 500 badass founders🧵

“Pain and suffering” matters in success — Nvidia’s CEO tells Stanford students 👏 That's why I’m bullish on @VCBackedMoms founders. Sure, it was a pain to fundraise to get that 2% of VC funding as a female founder. But this group of founders have also given birth. Sometimes at the same time as fundraising 💪

@yanatweets @5harath @alexisohanian 🙌

@5harath @alexisohanian You just need to hang out with the right founders. In @VCBackedMoms, we have a few hundred founders building teams this way because those high performing founders themselves are also mothers 💪

A lot of high-performers have children. That means if you want to build a high-performing org, you have to build the best possible working environment for parents.

We're female founders. We work 100X for 2% of VC funding. We don't let statistics define us. We use it as fuel 🔥 We lift up other female founders - @VCBackedMoms, Alumnae of @YCombinator We solve real problems, for real people, getting real revenue. We don’t spend years building pet projects in stealth. We actually get sh*t done. We’re so much more than we tell others. We run lean, productive teams – encouraging them to recharge and spend time with family. We know there’s no right time to start a company, so we do it on hard mode – while pregnant or with little kids. We call out BS like “I can be a founder with little kids because of my amazing wife” because we’re both the wife AND the founder. We may also be a single mom! Mega hard mode 💪 We bite our tongue through investor advice like “never hire parents so the startup can be the employees’ baby” We raise kids who know what a fierce female founder looks like. We work hard to give other women the opportunities we never got.

Everyone should try starting a company while parenting small kids. It builds character 😅

There's a few hundred of those badasses in @VCBackedMoms 💪 Proud to have started this community with @schmorak and @linamelia a few years ago. x.com/yanatweets/sta…

So great bringing together the @VCBackedMoms community last night once again with @BernsteinPWM and @PrecursorVC - we are now 300+ strong and $2B+ raised! 👭

Stoked to work with @Dezbah as @Kraftful’s new VP of Engineering: kraftful.com/blogs/dez-vpe We're building a very different AI company at Kraftful. To truly disrupt how products are built and put users (or people!) at the center of product building, we need the most exceptional people on our team. Dez is a phenomenal engineer, product person, and entrepreneur. Watch her take kraftful.com to new heights! 🚀

The amazing Founders CEOs/CTOs in AI, who are also in VCBM & @GenAIFounders: @kelsey_pedersen of Capsule (YC S22) @micheleraevr of @drftwelll @yanatweets of @Kraftful (YC S19) Jackie Schafer of @Clearbriefai @linamelia of @HoneycombApp_

@david__booth 🙋🏼‍♀️ plus many other @VCBackedMoms

Thank you to @sukikwon @bonatsos and the whole @generalcatalyst team for the thoughtful gift for our new baby! So glad to have their support and note to all @VCBackedMoms about how founder-friendly these stellar investors are especially to mompreneurs!

One of the founders of @VCBackedMoms here🙋🏻‍♀️ Our community is a few hundred female founders of VC backed startups. Breakdown from our 2023 survey: 46% in Bay Area (26% in San Francisco) 9% in SoCal 6% in NYC 6% in Toronto The rest are in places like Seattle, Denver, Boston, Washington DC, Austin, Chicago, Philadelphia, London… Personally, I'd love for it to feel safer in SF & other big cities. But it doesn't stop me from building here.

@yanatweets yes, you and @linamelia! love the @VCBackedMoms representation