Inside Build in Tulsa’s 13th Female Founders Pitch Night
Over the last five years, BIT has hosted 13 female founders pitch nights, featuring nearly 80 contestants, and awarding more than $300,000 to 32 winners.
Written by Build in Tulsa
Last updated Jun 17, 2026
A former school counselor turned tech entrepreneur takes the top prize at Build in Tulsa’s 13th Female Founders Pitch Night. C’Lenna Mack, founder of Flowvio, also was the audience favorite, picking up an extra thousand dollars, on top of her first-prize $10,000 check. Mack recently completed Build in Tulsa’s startup school, Build Up, showcasing the power of the network effect. She took the skills gained during Build Up’s month of workshops and leveraged it for a spot in the pitch competition. After another eight weeks of training, she walked away with two checks.
Ashli Sims, managing director of Build in Tulsa, kicks off Female Founders Pitch Night.
The competition highlighted the economic impact of regional ecosystem of acceleration, just steps from the historic Greenwood District. Build in Tulsa highlights female founders in an attempt to address the persistent venture capital allocation gap—where less than 2% of domestic startup capital reaches women-led teams—the initiative functions as a high-fidelity launchpad for underrepresented innovators. Over the last five years, BIT has hosted 13 female founders pitch nights, featuring nearly 80 contestants, and awarding more than $300,000 to 32 winners.
Aujena DuPree, founder of Menovē, presents her startup to the Tulsa community during Female Founders Pitch Night.
The Winners
1st Place ($10,000) C'Lenna Mack founder of Flowvio
2nd Place ($5,000): Ashley Keyes founder of Axis Wallet Co.
3rd Place ($2,500): Aujena DuPree founder of Menovē
Audience Choice ($1,000): C'Lenna Mack founder of Flowvio
About The Founders
C'Lenna Mack founder of Flowvio: Streamlines overwhelming school counselor caseloads with an enterprise productivity platform, replacing fragmented manual tracking to ensure vulnerable K-12 students don't fall through institutional cracks.
Ashley Keyes founder of Axis Wallet Co: Integrates a white-label B2B SaaS governance layer into existing banking infrastructure, establishing clear multi-party permission hierarchies to protect families from elder financial fraud.
Aujena DuPree founder of Menovē: Bridges the data gap between perimenopausal patients and physicians with a sophisticated symptom correlation engine designed to eliminate systemic clinical misdiagnosis.
Nesha Brown founder of PurposeMint: Disrupts the predatory lending cycle by embedding automated micro-savings tools into enterprise banking software, allowing unbanked households to build financial stability from zero.
Koddi Dunn founder of Love Mobile: Financializes the ubiquitous telecommunications utility into an Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) infrastructure that routes a percentage of monthly subscriber fees directly back to non-profits as recurring revenue.
Loretta Harrison founder of ProofLayer LLC:Replaces unverified resumes with a structured career intelligence platform that dynamically catalogs auditable work history so professionals can definitively validate their organizational value.
From left, Jaslyn Ferguson, director of programs and experience at Gradient; Lizzy Duda, CFO of Amtra Capital Partners Inc.; and Kanicka Joseph, founder of K&K Smiles, ask questions of the founders during Female Founders Pitch Night.
The Judges
Jaslyn Ferguson — Director of Programs & Experience, Gradient
Lizzy Duda — CFO, AMTRA Capital Partners, Inc.
Kanicka Joseph — Founder, K&K Smiles
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