GatherVerse Women's Innovation & Funding Summit 2027

March 23-24, 2027

8:00 AM PST

Women Building the Frontier

GatherVerse Women's Innovation & Funding Summit, a global gathering for women founders, entrepreneurs, researchers, innovators, investors, scientists, philanthropists, policymakers, and ecosystem leaders.

Across industries and around the world, one challenge has remained consistent. Women continue to create businesses, develop new ideas, advance research, and solve important global problems but still face greater barriers to funding, investment, strategic partnerships, and opportunities for growth.

Innovation and funding are closely connected.

Ideas need investment to grow. Investment depends on people building solutions with lasting value. Bringing both together strengthens businesses, expands opportunity, and contributes to stronger economies and communities.

The Women's Innovation & Funding Summit brings these conversations together, connecting the people building opportunities with those helping them move to scale.

About the Summit

Innovation has always driven progress.

Investment has always influenced which ideas have the opportunity to grow.

Women are contributing across healthcare, education, agriculture, climate, manufacturing, science, creative industries, and emerging technologies. They are building businesses, advancing research, developing products, and creating practical solutions to everyday challenges.

Many continue to face limited access to capital, investor networks, mentorship, and opportunities to scale.

The Women's Innovation & Funding Summit examines the relationship between innovation, entrepreneurship, investment, and sustainable growth while creating opportunities for collaboration across sectors and regions.

Our Approach

Supporting innovation requires more than great ideas.

It requires investment, collaboration, practical experience, and strong partnerships.

The summit brings together founders, investors, researchers, business leaders, policymakers, development organisations, universities, and ecosystem builders to exchange knowledge, strengthen relationships, and create opportunities that help ideas move further.

Why Women's Innovation & Funding Summit?

Women continue to make significant contributions across business, science, technology, healthcare, education, manufacturing, and social innovation.

Their work addresses challenges that affect communities around the world.

Expanding access to funding, strengthening innovation ecosystems, and increasing collaboration creates opportunities for ideas to become businesses, research to become practical solutions, and innovation to deliver lasting value.

Who Will Attend

Women founders, entrepreneurs, researchers, scientists, engineers, inventors, investors, angel investors, venture capitalists, private equity leaders, family offices, philanthropists, grant makers, financial institutions, corporate executives, product leaders, designers, educators, healthcare professionals, climate leaders, policymakers, development practitioners, nonprofit leaders, ecosystem builders, accelerators, incubators, students, and emerging entrepreneurs.

Focus Features

• Women Founders

Building and growing businesses across industries and stages of development.

• Innovation Across Industries

Exploring new ideas and practical solutions in healthcare, education, agriculture, manufacturing, climate, science, creative industries, and emerging technologies.

• Funding Pathways

Examining venture capital, angel investment, grants, blended finance, crowdfunding, revenue-based financing, and other sources of capital.

• Investment Readiness

Preparing founders for fundraising, due diligence, investor engagement, and sustainable growth.

• Women Investors

Expanding the role of women as angel investors, venture capitalists, fund managers, and capital allocators.

• Research and Commercialisation

Supporting the journey from discovery and research to products, businesses, and real-world application.

• Building Sustainable Businesses

Creating resilient organisations through strong business foundations, strategic partnerships, and responsible growth.

• Innovation Ecosystems

Strengthening collaboration between founders, investors, universities, governments, corporations, accelerators, and development organisations.

• Leadership and Economic Opportunity

Supporting women leading organisations, creating employment, strengthening local economies, and expanding opportunity for future generations.

Join Us

Progress depends on people willing to explore new ideas and those prepared to invest in them.

Join women from around the world who are building businesses, advancing research, supporting innovation, investing in the future, and creating opportunities that strengthen communities.

Whether you are launching your first venture, growing an established organisation, funding the founders, or contributing through research, policy, education, or philanthropy, your perspective has a place in this global conversation.

Together, we can strengthen the connections between innovation, investment, and opportunity, creating pathways for ideas with the potential to improve lives worldwide.