Everyone tells you to get a seat at the table. Then they make you fly to it. FIRE brings the table to you instead: weekly webinars with industry Experts, a Monday update from Joelle, and the women who have already built what you're building to learn from and network with. The first FIRE meeting is October 5, 2026 at 1:00 PM PDT.
4%
of patents issued to
women last decade
1.9%
of VC funding
goes to women
Joining a movement of women founders, inventors, and experts.
The Founding Circle
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Joelle Flynn
Founder · Inventor · Advisor · Speaker · Author · Dragonfly
"FIRE is the trusted ecosystem of women I needed on my entrepreneurial journey and couldn't find in one place."
I kept meeting her. I am her.
The woman with the patent no one would fund. The founder with the idea that kept getting passed over. The inventor who was told to wait, shrink, or pivot, when really, she just needed to be in the right room and have a seat at the table.
I built FIRE because that room didn't exist, and no chair was offered.
Because when just 4% of patents and 1.9% of venture funding go to women, the problem isn't the women, it's the ecosystem.
→ Lifelong entrepreneur · Founder · 2023 Shark Tank winner (2025 exit)
Inventor · 11 U.S. patents + China PCT · Congressional speaker
Board member, United Inventors Association · Author · FIRE starter
What's next
Anyone can join Spark for free. Flame and Inferno are by application, and Joelle reads every one of them herself, with a follow up intro call.
Spark
Instant accessFree
No card. Accounts reviewed after you're in
The front door
Flame
Application only$111/mo
Or $1,199 a year, about 10% off, plus a special gift
Everything in Spark, plus
Inferno
Apply + interviewPersonal
Pricing set individually, by agreement
Everything in Flame, plus
The closest circle. Applications open October 5, 2026. Only 3 accepted at a time.
Applying is free, and you stay a Spark member with full Spark access while your application is read. You pick one tier to apply for, not both.
How joining works
A community anyone can buy into is just a directory. An ecosystem you are chosen for is a room. Approval is the gate here, not the credit card.
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Free, instant, no card. You're in right away and the account is reviewed afterward.
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For Flame or Inferno, whenever you're ready. Free to apply.
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Personally, every single one.
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From Joelle, not an automated form letter.
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Access unlocks on payment, once you're approved.
A seat at the table in the room has always meant a flight, a hotel, a conference badge, or a network you were born into. We stopped asking women to travel to the room and started bringing it to them instead. Your time and money should be invested in your business, not on travel.
The Room
Industry Experts run live webinars, and Joelle posts her own update every Monday. Each one carries its own distinct value, and each one is interactive and recorded.
The Library
Guides, templates, calculators, and checklists across 11 categories, from incorporation and fundraising to intellectual property, suppliers, and contracts. Previewable in-browser and downloadable.
The Directory
Searchable member profiles built around what each woman can help with and what she's working on, so introductions are real. Direct messaging for Flame members.
The Pods
Intimate group circles matched on stage and industry. Most platforms give you 1,200 strangers; a pod gives you 25 women who know what you're working on and are there to network and support. Flame members join one or lead one.
+ Monthly
Live competition
Flame members enter free
A live monthly competition where members pitch in front of operators, investors, and press. Real stakes, real exposure, real introductions. Not a pitch deck workshop.
Women-led companies raise just 1.9% of venture funding, not for lack of ideas, but for lack of being in the room. This is where FIRE moves that number: every month, women founders get the mic, the stage, and a direct line to the people who write the checks.
12
Per year
Live
In the room
Capital. Coverage. Introductions.
What winners walk with
Joelle Flynn
Founder, FIRE
It's time.
4% of patents. 1.9% of venture capital. Those numbers aren't just statistics. They represent thousands of brilliant women whose ideas never made it to market, whose inventions were never funded, whose voices were never amplified. Not because they lacked vision, but because they lacked a seat at the table in the room.
I was looking for that room. I searched for a community of women who were building, inventing, pitching, failing, and trying again. A room with women who understood the particular kind of fire it takes to create something from nothing while the odds are stacked against you.
I couldn't find it.
So I built it. An ecosystem.
That's why FIRE, Female Inventors & Rising Entrepreneurs, exists. Not as a networking group. Not as a support circle. But as a force. A MOVEMENT, and ECOSYSTEM of women who refuse to accept that the future of innovation and funding looked like the past.
You are here because you have an idea worth fighting for. Because you've felt the sting of being underestimated, underfunded, or overlooked…and you kept going anyway. Because somewhere inside you, there is a flame that hasn't gone out. But, you don't have to do it alone anymore.
Together, we are going to move the needles. We are going to change those numbers. We are going to make sure the next generation of women inventors and entrepreneurs don't have to search for a chair to pull up in the room, because we will have already built one.
Welcome to FIRE. You belong here.
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