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Co-founder and CEO of Taya, a16z-backed AI wearable startup
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- Current founder and CEO of Taya, an AI wearable startup based in San Francisco.
- Past founder of Mobius Solutions, an engineering services company she co-founded in 2024.
- Taya has co-founders, as Elena is listed as Co-Founder CEO alongside at least one other founding team member.
- Elena Wagenmans has a Wikipedia entry confirming her public notability as a founder.
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- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Current founder and CEO of Taya, an AI wearable startup based in San Francisco.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Taya raised a $5M seed round led by MaC Venture Capital and Female Founders Fund.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Past founder of Mobius Solutions, an engineering services company she co-founded in 2024.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Elena Wagenmans has a Wikipedia entry confirming her public notability as a founder.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Taya has co-founders, as Elena is listed as Co-Founder CEO alongside at least one other founding team member.
What you likely need
You're a hardware-meets-AI founder with elite institutional backing and a compelling personal story — Festival events should put you in rooms where that story lands hardest. The highest-leverage gatherings connect you to Series A investors who understand consumer hardware unit economics, embedded-systems engineers you can recruit, and peer founders from the a16z and Female Founders Fund portfolios who've already solved the hardware-software scaling problems you're about to hit. You also need positioning reps: small rooms where you can sharpen the Taya privacy-first narrative before it goes wide in press.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA dinner with a16z speedrun and MaC Venture Capital portfolio founders who've crossed the seed-to-Series-A bridge in consumer hardware, focused on what retention curves and unit economics actually moved their investors
- introsA Female Founders Fund portfolio roundtable for hardware-software consumer founders to swap go-to-market playbooks and warm introductions to design-partner customers
- hiringA happy hour for Stanford engineering and Apple alumni who've gone deep on embedded systems and firmware, specifically to help early-stage hardware founders like Elena make their first critical technical hire
- positioningA small founder dinner with TechCrunch hardware beat journalists and privacy-focused AI wearable founders to pressure-test Taya's single-player, privacy-first positioning against the Limitless and Rewind narrative in real time
- tacticalA networking night connecting NCAA D1 athlete founders and performance-tech operators to explore hands-free voice capture use cases and seed Taya's first wave of high-discretion early adopters
- fundraisingAn office hours session with Series A investors who led consumer hardware rounds — specifically to workshop which retention, NPS, and cohort unit-economics cuts belong in a Taya-style data room 12 months before the raise
- hiringA dinner for Apple design and engineering alumni who've founded or joined early-stage hardware startups, giving Elena a warm room to recruit and trade notes on scaling a four-person hardware team