Women in Technology
Female founders, product leaders and investors building the ecosystem
Women in AI spotlights the visionary female founders, product leaders, and investors shaping the future of artificial intelligence. This MozFest 2025 session explores how women are driving innovation, ethics, and inclusivity in the rapidly evolving AI ecosystem moderated by Mozilla Ventures as a part of the Mozfest Startup Track.
Originally recorded November 7th, 2025
Speakers Featured
Suba Vasudevan
As Mozilla’s Senior Vice President of Strategy and Operations, Suba Vasudevan is responsible for leading Mozilla’s operational strategy to bring better, more relevant products to new audiences. Suba spent well over two decades leading small and large teams in strategy, operations, analytics, customer support and trust & safety. She has nurtured and expanded critical global organizations within Meta (formerly Facebook), driving innovation and trust. Prior, she advised clients across industries at KPMG’s Advisory Services and began her career as a journalist in India, exploring the intersection of technology and business.
Saayeli Mukherji Bruni
Saayeli Mukherji Bruni is currently the Principal at Mozilla Ventures. Prior to that, she was a seed stage investor at Founder Collective (investors in Uber, Airtable, Cruise Automation) and made investments in mission driven founders in the Responsible AI space. She was previously the Head of Business Development at the Partnership on AI, the leading responsible AI nonprofit founded by Open AI, Microsoft, Google, Meta and the ACLU among others. She is a Bay Area native and grew up in the startup community, playing key operational roles at Elementum (Series D supply chain SaaS startup) and many others. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and was a Fulbright Scholar in Ethics.
Elana Berkowitz
Elana Berkowitz is a founding partner of Springbank. A serial social entrepreneur and policy wonk, she’s a former Obama Administration technology policy official who has worked across the Obama-Biden Transition Team, the FCC and Secretary Clinton’s office at the State Department. She also served as innovator-in-residence for CARE, one of the world’s largest humanitarian organizations. She’s acted as an advisor on strategy, user insights, and impact partnerships consulting for companies and organizations, including Etsy, Kickstarter, Google, and Code for America. She also worked at McKinsey as a technology, media, and telecom consultant across 10 countries.