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 leaders, a Monday update from Joelle, and the women who have already built what you're building. The first FIRE meeting is September 18, 2026.
4%
of patents issued to
women last decade
1.9%
of VC funding
goes to women
Joining a movement of women founders, operators, and leaders.
The Founding Circle
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The Founding Circle is the first 200 Flame members, and they carry the founding badge.
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Joelle Flynn
Founder · Inventor
"FIRE is the trusted ecosystem of women I needed on my entrepreneurial journey."
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 the right room.
I built FIRE because that room didn't exist.
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 · FIRE starter
What's next
September 18 is the first meeting, not a soft open. The weekly rhythm starts that week.
Anyone can join Spark for free. Flame and Inferno are by application, and Joelle reads every one of them herself.
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
Everything in Spark, plus
Inferno
Apply + interviewPersonal
Pricing set individually, by agreement
Everything in Flame, plus
The closest circle. Applications open September 18, 2026.
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 a directory. A community you are chosen for is a room. Approval is the gate here, not the credit card.
01
Free, instant, no card. You're in right away and the account is reviewed afterward.
02
For Flame or Inferno, whenever you're ready. Free to apply.
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Personally. Others may help review, but she has final say.
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From a person, not an automated form letter.
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Access unlocks on payment, once you're approved.
A seat at the table has always meant a flight, a conference badge, or a network you were born into. We stopped asking women to travel to the table and started bringing it to them instead.
The Room
Industry leaders run live webinars, and Joelle posts her own update every Monday. Each one carries its own distinct value, and each one is recorded. This is the product; everything else supports it.
The Library
Guides, templates, calculators, and checklists across 11 categories, from incorporation and fundraising to intellectual property, suppliers, and contracts. Previewable in-browser, 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
Small group circles matched on stage and industry. Most platforms give you 1,200 strangers; a pod gives you six women who know what you're working on. 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 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 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.
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.
We are here to fan it.
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 founders doesn't have to search for a room, because we will have already built one.
Welcome to FIRE. You belong here.
The Founding Circle · 99 spots left
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The first FIRE meeting is September 18, 2026. Weekly webinars start that week, and the monthly summits begin October 1.
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