What we’re looking for
Bring a clear founder audience, a useful outcome, and a credible plan to deliver. Your format and voice remain your own.
Who and where
- Design your event to create meaningful value for women building ambitious companies.
- Host in person in the San Francisco Bay Area during March 8–14, 2027. San Francisco venues are encouraged.
- Virtual events are not accepted at this time.
- Founder communities, investors, accelerators, companies, organizers, and allies of every gender are welcome to host.
Designed to create movement.
Every official event should make it possible for a founder to leave with something useful that she did not have when she arrived.
A defined founder audience
Tell us which women founders the event is designed to serve and why the room will be valuable to them.
A tangible intended outcome
Funding conversations, useful introductions, new knowledge, customers, collaborators, direction, or another meaningful next step.
Substance over performance
No disguised sales presentations, misleading promises of access, or programming designed primarily around the host’s visibility.
A credible plan to deliver
You do not need every detail confirmed, but you should have a real concept, a realistic audience, and the capacity to follow through.
In person in the Bay Area
Events must take place in the San Francisco Bay Area, with San Francisco venues encouraged. We are not accepting virtual events at this time: the week is about bringing people into the room together.
Choose the room only you can build.
Start with what your community needs. The format should serve the outcome, not the other way around.
Original formats are encouraged. Make it memorable, but keep the value clear and the opportunity real.
The First Check Dinner
An intimate dinner connecting early-stage founders with investors who can open the next door.
Find Your Cofounder
A curated matching experience built around complementary skills, working styles, and ambition.
The Customer Room
A focused showcase where founders meet potential buyers, partners, and early adopters.
Make the value specific
Describe what a founder can reasonably expect to gain. For example:
- Workshop: leave with a draft customer interview plan and feedback on the questions.
- Founder matching: meet people with complementary skills through structured introductions.
- Investor dinner: hold useful conversations with confirmed investors whose interests fit the room.
These are planning examples, not announced events or guarantees of funding, customers, or introductions. Keep claims aligned with what you can deliver.
Ready to prepare your event?
Follow the Luma setup checklist. Calendar submissions are coming soon; you can prepare now.
Prepare & submit your event