Nail Tech App Nailstry Founder Aurelia Edwards To Compete in Women’s Venture Summit Pitch Event

Six women founders, including an entrepreneur in the beauty business, will compete for cash and connections during the Women's Fast Pitch during the Women's Venture Summit, a conference that will be held Sept. 16-17 in San Diego.
 
One of the finalists is Aurelia Edwards of Nailstry, a Fort Lauderdale, FL-based app developer that provides users with a virtual measurement tool for sizing nails. The app showcases nail designers from across the world, providing users with reusable press-on nail options.
 

Sponsored by Cooley LLP and The Impact Seat Foundation, the Women's Fast Pitch competition made its way across five US regions this summer, and will conclude in San Diego where one founder will win $10,000 in seed money, approximately $30,000 worth of in-kind business services, and exposure to a new investor network.
 
“We purposefully selected the Women's Fast Pitch regions to address overlooked markets like the Midwest which received the lowest amount of VC funding in 2020,” said Raven O'Neal, CEO of Stella, the event organizer and a San Diego-based nonprofit organization that has helped more than 500 women launch and scale their businesses through courses, advisement and access-to-capital events. “Our mission is to help women get more access to funding opportunities and the Women's Fast Pitch competition and Women's Venture Summit are our biggest efforts to do so and have helped us connect women with more than $70 million in funding to date.”
  
Edwards will compete against makers of  lingerie and intimates for all different breast sizes and breast surgery outcomes; a healthtech startup that creates products to help prevent pressure injuries; femtech startup that makes underwear with heat and massage technology designed to soothe and comfort people's cramps; the developer of AI-powered analytics software that automates presentations from raw marketing data; and a gender-neutral clothing line.
 
Sponsors of Women's Venture Summit include UBS Paradigm Group San Diego, Cooley, The Impact Seat Foundation, DLA Piper, Ad Astra Ventures, Tagit, Knobbe Martens and The UC San Diego Rady School of Management.
 
The full speaker lineup for the two-day event is available here.