Founders Unfiltered: Meet Grace Brown

Founders Unfiltered: Grace Brown, Co-Founder & CEO of Andromeda

🌟 Founders Unfiltered is Stone & Chalk's flagship fireside chat series — a long-form, live conversation for founders, by founders. Each month, one founder shares insights on decisions, trade-offs, failures, and lessons learned, helping fellow founders progress faster.

This month, we feature Grace Brown, Co-Founder & CEO of Andromeda, a Melbourne-based deep-tech company behind Abi, an emotionally intelligent humanoid companion robot for aged care. Grace began building robots at 15 and created Abi's first prototype during COVID as a personal project. She co-founded Andromeda with Yan Chen in 2022 at just 22 years old and has since raised a $23 million Series A, valuing the company at $100 million, primarily backed by female investors. Grace is also a Forbes 30 Under 30 alumna.

🔍 No polished narrative. No pitch. Just an honest, founder-to-founder conversation about real decision-making, successes, failures, and what she would change.

Format:

• 1:00pm – 1:30pm: Arrival, lunch & networking
• 1:30pm – 2:15pm: Fireside chat
• 2:15pm – 2:30pm: Audience Q&A

This series prioritizes founder voices only — curated speakers with real, lived experience from the Stone & Chalk community and alumni network. Come ready to learn, compare notes, and leave with unique insights.

🔗 More on Grace: LinkedIn