When the startup world placed a “boys only” sign on the front door, these trailblazing women built their own—welcome to FoundHer House.

The Builders

Behind FoundHer House is a team of trailblazing women who saw a lack of female empowerment in the startup space of Silicon Valley. Anantika Mannby and Miki S-Y, two USC sophomores, set out to challenge the status quo and carve out space for women in the unstated “boys club” of tech.

A Space for Female Founders

Imagine a full house filled with women with the shared goal of becoming unstoppable. It’s fun, motivating, inspiring. Women with different niches, specialties, interests, yet all with the same drive and energy. FoundHer House is exactly that. Built on the vision of creating a space for female founders to build, live, and connect.

They host networking dinners, exciting events, and even a demo day where you can pitch your idea to VCs. They welcome girls ages 18+ that are passionate about entrepreneurship and startups.

Not Your Typical Hacker House

Hacker houses have been around San Francisco for a while. Groups of tech enthusiasts with the hopes of turning their idea into a billion dollar business, solve the issue of expensive housing to place themselves at the center of the tech industry, Silicon Valley. 

But FoundHer House is disrupting the male-dominated space with an all-girls house. 

Like most great ideas, FoundHer started with a big dream, and a few unstoppable women asking: “Why not us?”

VC backed, they secured a house in the Bay Area, tapped into founder communities, and built an application process that welcomed high-potential women across industries. They filled the space with Wi-Fi, whiteboards, coffee cups, and women who dream loud. Soon after came the brand partnerships, the media coverage, and the community. 

No magic formula—just networking, tenacity, and a space where women could build unapologetically.

Meet the Residents

This wouldn’t be a full write about the FoundHer House without an actual intro of the amazing residents.

• Sonya Jin building Phinity Labs, a no-code platform for aligning LLMs with reinforcement learning and synthetic data.

• Ava Poole building Paygent, Apple Pay built for AI.

• Danica Sun building geospatial tech to de-risk clean energy development.

• Naciima Mohamed building Cartoon Care, the Pixar of pediatric health, to help children better understand their medical diagnoses and care journeys.

• Miki Safronov-Yamamoto building Veyra, an AI platform that detects and disputes medical billing errors.

• Anantika Mannby, Founder of Treffa, a personalized product recs platform.

• Fatimah Hussain building @fatimahs.guide, a digital platform supporting 100K+ student followers.

• Chloe Hughes building Abodex, an AI deal management platform for commercial real estate transactions.

Foundher house recently hosted their Demo day where they received over 350+ RSVP’ed to hear the eight women pitch their business decks to get feedback and funding. 

In a startup world dominated by men, eight women are showing up to fix the ratio—and rewrite the rules.

Gen Z founders are rewriting the playbook, bringing in new ideas, building in groups, faster, bigger, better … are you next?

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