Join us for a high-energy evening at Venture Café Phoenix where the trailblazing hosts behind inaugural Arizona Tech Week take the stage for rapid-fire pitches. You’ll get a first look at the events, ideas, and innovators driving Arizona’s tech ecosystem forward.
Expect:
⚡ 2-minute lightning pitches
🤝 Curated networking with founders, investors & ecosystem leaders
🎯 Early access to the most anticipated Tech Week events
If you’re building, investing, scaling, or simply tech-curious — this is your inside track.
Come meet the hosts.
Discover what’s ahead.
Plug into the momentum.
#ArizonaTechWeek #VentureCafePhoenix #ArizonaChamberofCommerce
Sponsored by the Arizona Commerce Authority and Arizona Tech Week
As women entrepreneurs scale their businesses, success increasingly depends on their ability to build trust and influence across teams, leadership, and key stakeholders, including investors. Drawing from her book Sway and decades of experience working with founders, start-ups, and executive teams, Christina Del Villar explores how women can strengthen alignment internally and externally, in order to scale their businesses, positioning their companies for outside investment, make clearer strategic decisions, and build the confidence needed to guide their company to the next level. Attendees will leave with practical frameworks they can apply immediately within their own organizations.
Sponsored by: Arizona Commerce Authority & Center for Entrepreneurial Innovation
In Partnership with: Alimental Business
Arrive early to Venture Café Phoenix for your chance to connect with Armando Roman, Founder and CEO of Axiom Founders Family Office, during Mentor Hours. Meetings begin at 4:30pm and run in 15-minute slots.
Please note: Mentor Hours are first come first served and must be done on-site at the event. A sign-up sheet will be located at the room where the mentor is stationed, so be sure to stop by early to secure your spot.
In this workshop, we will dive deep into defining the core aspects of your business to help provide you with the critical tools needed to be successful. This session with focus on unit economics, cost basis, pricing, and revenue streams.
Join us for a high-energy evening at Venture Café Phoenix where the trailblazing hosts behind inaugural Arizona Tech Week take the stage for rapid-fire pitches. You’ll get a first look at the events, ideas, and innovators driving Arizona’s tech ecosystem forward.
Expect:
⚡ 2-minute lightning pitches
🤝 Curated networking with founders, investors & ecosystem leaders
🎯 Early access to the most anticipated Tech Week events
If you’re building, investing, scaling, or simply tech-curious — this is your inside track.
Come meet the hosts.
Discover what’s ahead.
Plug into the momentum.
Sponsored by the Arizona Commerce Authority and Arizona Tech Week
#ArizonaTechWeek #VentureCafePhoenix #ArizonaChamberofCommerce

Christina Del Villar is a growth strategist, advisor, investor, and fractional CMO with over 30 years of experience working with startups and growth-stage companies across FinTech, EduTech, and B2B services. She partners closely with founders, executive teams, and investors to build trust and influence inside organizations, creating the alignment needed to shape effective go-to-market strategies and drive exponential growth.
Christina’s work centers on helping leaders align teams, strategy, and execution as companies scale and prepare for investment. She is the author of Sway, a practical exploration of how trust and influence enable better decisions, stronger alignment, and sustainable growth. Known for her operator-first perspective, Christina brings clarity to complex challenges and helps organizations turn strategy into action.
