Women + Tech Meetup: From Startups to Unicorns: Christine de Wendel's Journey in Tech

Join us for a fireside chat featuring two dynamic leaders in the tech industry: Kathryn O’Day and Christine de Wendel.

Kathryn will dive into Christine’s amazing journey including:
- Raising $125M from top tier investors for Sundayapp
- Lessons from scaling multiple billion dollar companies
- Founder vs c-suite mentality
- Bringing European lifestyle to US startup culture
- Picking big markets, building product, growing teams, and much more!

Whether you’re an entrepreneur, business leader, or curious about tech startups, this event will
deliver inspiration, practical tips, and high energy fun!
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Christine de Wendel is the co-founder and CEO of sunday, contactless payments for restaurant customers in less than 10 seconds. Born and raised in Atlanta to a French mother and Austrian father, de Wendel spent 15 years in Paris scaling two e-commerce "unicorns" before returning to the US to start her own company. She founded sunday in 2021, raising $125M in Seed and Series A funding, and scaling to 2000+ customers in less than 3 years.

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Kathryn O'Day is a partner at Atlanta Ventures where she is passionate about helping entrepreneurs start, learn, and grow. Prior to becoming an early stage investor, she scaled multiple Atlanta tech companies, as a customer success leader and COO, with exits to large public tech companies. She shares practical advice for ambitious founders at kathrynoday.substack.com.

About the Series

Ladies of the Village, it’s time to come together to make the phrase “Women in Tech” obsolete! Join us as we openly discuss personal and professional growth, challenges in the workplace, community involvement, and whatever else is on your mind. Our Village can be the one to make women in tech the status quo.

Mission: To empower women in tech through a kick-ass network, intentional teaching & purposeful community because it does take a village. Our goal is to make to Atlanta the number one place for “women in tech” (because clearly it’s not Silicon Valley).