Kids Care Finder

??Join Our Journey!?? Kids Care Finder is expanding to all of California and beyond, and we want you to be a part of it! Visit https://lnkd.in/gc6aYhjf to find out how you can invest as little as $100 and own equity in the future of our revolutionary website to help ease the childcare crisis for America!???? Share any questions or thoughts you have! In the meantime, visit https://lnkd.in/gc6aYhjf to explore our page! #InvestInKidsCareFinder?#ChildcareEvolution?#JoinUsNow?#workingparents?#mom?#workingmom?#lifewithkids?#childcarecrisis?#kidscarefinder?#womeninvestinginwomen?#womenfounders?#femaleinvestors?#invest?#Wefunder

The Ad Astra Ventures portfolio is growing! We're excited to welcome Olivia Rutman, founder and CEO of San Diego based Kids Care Finder. Kids Care Finder is a comprehensive marketplace that connects parents with all the childcare, activities, and service providers kids need from birth to grown in ONE place. They serve kids of all ages, and parents at every stage of parenthood. Their proprietary technology also makes things easier for providers, offloading many tedious administrative tasks and handling marketing for them, enabling more caregivers to open childcare centers and with more confidence. Welcome, Olivia! Allison, Courtney, Maria, Silvia, Vidya

Our founder + CEO was featured in Bloomberg today!!! ?

Imagine a world where moms can bring their babies to work and have them cared for while they do their job? No separate drop off/ pick up. No funky hours that don't match up with your schedule. Ideally, even no additional cost. Even a private space to bond or nurse when needed. What a concept! Thank you to Allyson Felix for turning this #childcare #dream into a #reality for Olympic moms. What a step in the right direction. Let's do more of this. ??

Congratulations to Olivia Rutman, CTP, founder of Kids Care Finder, for winning first place at the #MoneyTalks Fast Pitch competition hosted by SoCal Startup Day and Tech Coast Venture Network! Here's her amazing pitch + Q&A for her startup that seeks to help make child care more accessible and stress-free. Stephen Silver Ryan Foland ??????? Anshuman Sinha Pat Hwang Mark Kapczynski Jerry Elliott

Irvine Tech Week did not disappoint! Kids Care Finder walked away with our second pitch competition #win of the week last night at the #moneytalks #pitchcompetition and this time we got bring home a little prize $$$! I've always wanted to come home with a large cardboard check and now I have ??! Thank you so much to Tech Coast Venture Network, SoCal Startup Day and the great Stephen Silver for putting on an amazing event (and for putting up with me and all my nagging ??). I also must thank our incredible emcee Ryan Foland ??????? for keeping energy high and for his fabulous Irvine Tech Week rap (PS sorry for scolding you during Q & A!!). #sandiego represented well up in OC taking home the #1 and #2 prizes!! If you missed out, you can catch me pitch again at SoCal Startup Day in June, or at the San Diego Angel Conference finale on May 9th!! ?? ?? ?? ?? #startups #angelinvesting #venturecapital #tech #womenintech #childcare #childcarecrisis #bigcheck #firstplace #pitchcompetition

Excited to take home the #win last night at the OC Price Is Right #pitchcompetition at Irvine Tech Week!! Thanks so much to Scott Fox ?? of the Orange County OC Startup Council and Ray Chan and Hayden Pimentel of TCA Venture Group for putting on an incredible event!! #startups #angelinvesting #womenintech #marketplaces #femalefounders #childcare #childcarecrisis #socal

The childcare crisis is preventing the American economy from being able to thrive. Costs are outrageous, and over a million parents are forced to leave their jobs each year due to lack of #childcare. Meanwhile, more than 77% of employers are struggling to recruit talent. Kids Care Finder is the only childcare platform tackling all three of the areas that make up the problem: Cost, access, and supply. If we don’t help in each of these three areas, we cannot move the needle. Join the #momvement and help us ease the #childcarecrisis in America. Gabriella Cruz-Martínez

Meet our third finalist for San Diego Angel Conference VI: Olivia Rutman, CTP of Kids Care Finder. Kids Care Finder is a comprehensive website that connects families with all of the childcare, activities, and service providers kids need from birth to grown in ONE place, serving kids of all ages, and parents at every stage of parenthood. Grab your tickets today to witness Olivia’s pitch and the investor deliberation unfold live on May 9th! Register now: https://tinyurl.com/sdacvi #SDAngelCon #InnovateSD #SDACVI Mysty Rusk - Stacy Mudd - Pena - Priscilla Luckhurst - Grayson Wolf Walker - Bobby Edelman - S'Marie Young, CPCC - Brian Engleman - Benton Moore - David Loseke - Silvia Mah PhD, MBA - Amy Duncan - Tripti Thakur - Michelle A. Youngers - Jonathan Irwin, MBA - Pankaj Kedia -Bonnie Shaw - Jaci (Feinstein) Sander - Rose Bowlus - Hans Baumgartner

DECISIONS HAVE BEEN MADE! Over 100 startups applied to the San Diego Angel Conference for funding this year, and we're pleased to announce our six finalists! Join us on May 9th to watch these diverse founders pitch live and connect with leaders from across the entrepreneurship ecosystem: https://tinyurl.com/sdacvi #SanDiegoConference #InnovateSD #Startups Mysty Rusk - Stacy Mudd - Pena - Priscilla Luckhurst - Grayson Wolf Walker - Bobby Edelman - S'Marie Young, CPCC - Brian Engleman - Benton Moore - David Loseke - Silvia Mah PhD, MBA - Amy Duncan - Tripti Thakur - Michelle A. Youngers - Jonathan Irwin, MBA - Pankaj Kedia -Bonnie Shaw - Jaci (Feinstein) Sander - Rose Bowlus - Hans Baumgartner