Female Founders Circle

Female Founders Circle (FFC) is a community programme for women and nonbinary technical founders who want to build a network in person in San Francisco. Cohorts meet in the Mission Bay neighbourhood. The Winter 2026 cohort ran from February to April 2026, and no later cohort is announced on the programme page, so it is between intakes.

What you get

• Eight weeks of in-person programming with a cohort of about 30 founders.
• Free participation: all FFC programming is free.
• Membership of a wider community that Pear describes as more than 350 technical female engineers and founders.

Who can apply

• Women and nonbinary technical founders, such as engineers and product managers, building in AI, part time or full time.
• Pre-product-market-fit, and not yet fundraising at scale.

How selection works: Pear prioritises applications that come through referrals or invitations, then invites some applicants to a short 10-minute interview. It receives many applications and takes about 30 founders per cohort.

How to apply: no open application link is shown right now. Pear asks interested founders to subscribe to its newsletter for updates on the next cohort.