Tech AF Founder Academy

The Female Founders Dinner event is always a hell yes.

Once a year, women across our community come together during Venture Atlanta week to connect, share, and have real conversations.

At my table, we talked about unlearning, healing, shifting, and finding strength in change. No small talk — just truth, wisdom, and connection.

I left feeling grounded, inspired, and so grateful for this community.

Anyone else feeling this collective shift lately? ✨

✨ Big news ✨
I’m honored to have been named the Tech Disruptor Award winner at the first-ever Stella Awards.

When I walked on stage to accept, I completely blacked out and said something silly like “everyone should do tech, it’s beneficial” — not exactly my most profound public speaking moment, but maybe the most honest reflection of how humbled I felt. 🙏

Winning this award in San Diego was especially meaningful. It’s the city where my startup career began — full of the challenges and lessons that shaped me — and now, three years later, it’s where I’m beginning to re-emerge with new clarity.

I’ve spent the past season stepping back, traveling, grieving, and reflecting.
That pause hasn’t been easy for someone like me who’s always in motion.
But this recognition reminded me: stepping back is part of the work.

When you realign, you come back stronger.

For me, Stella’s isn’t just an event — it’s a community of women who show up with magic, vision, and collaboration. Every time I attend, I leave with new friendships and new fuel to keep building the future we all want to see.

I’m not quite ready to share everything that’s next, but this award feels like a line in the sand. Tech AF is evolving, and so am I.
More to come — soon.

Thank you to the for this honor and to everyone who continues to believe in this work.

Meet the founders who are going to tell it all tonight! 👀

These five powerhouse entrepreneurs have taken different paths—traditional VC, non-traditional funding, and bootstrapping—to grow their startups, and they’re ready to share the real, unfiltered truth about what it takes to get funded.

If you’re a founder needing some inspiration, looking for support on your raise, or just curious about how it all works, this is the event you’ve been waiting for.

With over 50 RSVPs, the energy is building, and it’s going to be an engaging, insightful, and of course - a fun conversation.

WHAT THE Funding?! isn’t just another happy hour —it’s your chance to get inside knowledge from those who’ve been in the trenches, made the tough decisions, and came out on top.

Join us for a night of honest conversations, actionable insights, and maybe a few surprises. 🎉

📅 Event Date: Tonight (9/24)
📍 Location: Tech Square ATL
🍸 Plus: Networking, drinks, and a community ready to celebrate and learn together.

Don’t miss out, link to the free registration is in the comments —see you there! 🙌

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Tired of the same old startup funding talks?

So are we.

Get ready to break through the noise at this in-person happy hour that dares to tell it like it is. At WTF, we’re pulling back the curtain on what fundraising really looks like these days.

🔥 Spoiler alert: it’s not all VC pitches and term sheets.

Join us for an unfiltered panel with founders who’ve walked every path—traditional, non-traditional, and those who’ve harnessed the power of EZ Innovation’s unique equity model to build serious traction.

You’ll leave with the clarity (and sass) to tackle your own funding strategy, whether you’re bootstrapping or gunning for that million-dollar check.

Our Rock-Star Panelists:

Kristin Slink - Tech AF Founder Academy: Serial entrepreneur who’s raised $55M and successfully exited two companies. She’s seen it all, done it all, and isn’t afraid to spill the tea on what really goes down in the world of startup funding.

Erica Tuggle - CookConnect: Just snagged $1M the traditional way. Techstars alumni who’s been there, done that.

Jenn Graham - Inclusivv: Recently secured Invest Atlanta funding and a line of credit after reaching profitability, proving there’s more than one way to scale.

Riean Knight - Honey to Cocoa: Founder & CEO of a Techstars portfolio company, Riean is a former Square maven turned beauty and style innovator, blending tech, customer success, and aesthetics to revolutionize how we see beauty and business.

And special guest Kyle Painting will share how EZInnovation’s equity model flips the script on startup funding.

Why Attend?

Because you’re tired of the BS around startup funding. It’s time to get real, get empowered, and finally create a funding plan that actually works.

All founders, dreamers, and doers are welcome. Grab a drink, bring your questions, and let’s turn those WTF moments into actionable plans.

Event Details: September 24 from 5-7pm at Tech Square ATL

Let’s get you funded—without the fluff. 🥂

RSVP at the link in our bio!

A book club for female founders? ✅ DONEEE!

Join us next week on April 25th for the kickoff discussion and celebration of the release of the new book “In the Future Built by Women” by Brooke Markevicius.

During the kickoff, our CEO Kristin Slink be joining Brooke on the cool new platform Gatheround to chat about their journeys as non-technical founders who learned “enough tech to be dangerous” to start, build, and ultimately sell their tech companies.

Then, you’ll have a whole month to read “In the Future Built by Women” on your own time and we’ll get back together again for our virtual wrap-up with a live interactive discussion with Brooke on May 22nd.

What do you have to do to join?!

Sign up for our FREE community via the link in our bio and add the events to your calendar. Brooke’s book is available on Amazon in both hard cover and digital.

Comment below if you’re going to be joining us and what you’re looking forward to 👇

It is not our fault that we strive for perfection.

We grew up with Barbie, participation trophies, and those dreaded standardized tests.

But, we have the ability to rewrite the narrative that our bodies, work, lives - all need to be perfect or else we’re failing.

That’s why we love this quote from badass Reshma Saujani, the Founder of AND 🔥

PERFECTIONISM holds us back from so much.

We THINK we need to be perfect, but we don’t.

Tag a friend who needs to hear this today 🪴✨

Stop letting venture capitalists live rent free in your head, instead focus on 👇🏼

✨ your customers

✨ the type of business you're building and life you want to live

✨ releasing the right tech features at the right times

✨ being smart about the different types of capital you use at the fundraising/building stages you're in.

If you're all "well all that sounds WAY easier than it is," then take your next $48 investment and put it into your business. That's less than half a month of a Nuuly subscription to make the most strategic choices for your business... even if your "business" is *just* and idea right now. Jump on this, because we don't release it every day.

Tech AF Founder Academy starts February 21st for $48. Hit the link in our bio for high quality education, a community of brilliant babes, and access to higher levels of badassery.

🚨 PSA: You do NOT have to do IT ALL. And you certainly don’t have to do it ALONE.

And we ESPECIALLY mean this when it comes to building a company.

We’ve built a whole community of women supporting one another as we build money making businesses and products our customers love 💕

Best of all? It’s FREE to join, thank you to amazing sponsors like

✨ Send this to a friend who needs a friendly reminder that she CAN ask for help! ✨

Love of love, badass 💋

Developers don’t take non-technical founders seriously…

Unless they do the work upfront to prove there is a viable market and KNOW what they want to build.

Very simply: THATS WHAT TECH AF DOES

We get non-technical founders to the point where they have tangible deliverables to share with tech teams to get their product built.

This includes 👇

🔥 Professional data room
🔥 User stories
🔥 Architecture map
🔥 Process flows
🔥 Wireframes
🔥 Clickable prototype
🔥 Clarity of the vision
🔥 Robust customer discovery

Not only this, but they graduate with the confidence to step into the role of Chief Product Officer.

But don’t take it from us, see what Keita Wangari has to say about her conversations with developers post graduation.

And if you’re like I NEED THIS. Then hell yeah!

I don’t know if you’ve heard but we’ve re-packaged Tech AF Founder Academy to be way more accessible.

Same content.

Same end goal.

New price.

Comment ⚡️ below and we’ll send you some info!

ME fangirling on YOU every day 💋
Send your favorite to that baddie in your life 😍🥰😘

⬆️ The countless reasons why women are a smart investment.

What surprised you or confirmed your beliefs from this article?

We’ll go first...

No evidence suggests that the women founders and business leaders who are outperforming men are working harder than them.

They’re just better. 💅🏽

Thanks for the article

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Tech AF is a community of women supporting one another in a safe space to build companies and products customers love so that we can live life on our own terms.

Join us!

On Wednesdays, we get together and do cool s**t that pushes us and our companies (or ideas) forward. 🩷💋

Don’t believe me?

Join us starting next Wednesday, January 24th for the launch of our Founder Starter Pack 🔥

This 3-week program includes weekly lessons with exercises and deliverables that can be completed at one’s own pace within a structured group setting (AKA your “founder pod”)

You’ll walk away with ⬇️

👉 Refined elevator pitch

👉 Compelling founder story

👉 A (realistic) plan on how to fund your business

All with a group of friends by your side! 👯‍♀️

This 3-week program (at the ridiculously low price of $24) is for YOU if you have an idea you’re newly exploring OR if you have been building your company for a few years.

We could all use a refresh, right?

Anyways, get in babe! We’re changing the world! 💕

Comment or DM us “IM IN” and we’ll send you the link to register.