Hi Tyana! 👋  We’re thrilled to host you at Embarc Collective’s Glaring Gap Summit on October 23, 2024 in Tampa, FL 🌴

<aside> 📲 DAY OF POINT OF CONTACT: Evan Erickson at 813-679-2358

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SPEAKING SESSION OVERVIEW


EVENT PURPOSE: This is our fifth annual Glaring Gap Summit, made possible with support from ReliaQuest, and has trained over 200 women to date. This event exists to help Florida-based women amplify their investing skills, secure startup advisory roles, and become better champions of women entrepreneurs.

ATTENDEES: An audience of 50 Florida-based women across 3 demographics: college students, rising young professionals, and accredited investors.

PRESENTATION DETAILS:

ELLIE BIO:

Ellie Bahrmasel is the CEO of Further Faster Ventures. Throughout her career, Ellie has leveraged human centered design and systems thinking to advance collaborative initiatives in the private, public and nonprofit sectors with partners domestically and abroad. From venture-backed startups to Fortune 100’s, her prior work includes collaborations with The Kennedy Forum, Comcast, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, The Roddenberry Fellowship, and a number of internationally celebrated startup accelerators.

Ellie and the Further Faster team spend their days working with today’s pioneers at the forefront of shaping our future through venture creation, helping them build startups, funds, accelerators, and other vehicles for change. Since they’re founding, Further Faster has worked with over seventy early stage ventures, designed six accelerator programs, and reconstructed one fund thesis.

Previously, Ellie co-founded New Founders, a tech startup and PAC that organized emerging grassroots organizations to coordinate efforts with established institutions to advance democracy.

Outside of Further Faster, Ellie is an adjunct faculty member at the Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship at Illinois Tech. She is a member of the BMW Herbert Quandt Responsible Leaders Network, and a delegate to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Young Diplomats Seminar. She was a member of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Emerging Leaders 2022 cohort. Ellie also serves on the steering committee for the Chicago Chapter of All Raise, an organization committed to achieving gender parity for startup founders and investors.