Sentences with phrase «female founder of»

the female founder of the countrys biggest dating website, knows.

From the ostracized female founder of Tinder is Bumble.

As a female founder of a finance focused startup, I spend a lot of time talking to women about money and business.

At the time, I was looking for more female founders of coworking spaces.

So, to that end, we'll break down investment into companies with female founders of one particular stage.

The female founders of super-successful SoulCycle and BBG Ventures, who require at least one female founder, participated in its seed round.

The two female founders of the new travel clothing company called Unique Travel Set should know what they're talking about.

Ms. Senft was also a member of the Class of 2009 Leadership Maryland, and in 2012, Ms. Senft was invited into the Women Presidents Organization, Inc. for female founders of multi-million dollar companies.

Not exact matches

Only 2 % of venture funding went to female founders in 2017, and just 8 % of partners at the top venture capital firms are women.

Stats tell how rare those companies are: Of U.S. startups that landed an initial funding round between 2009 and 2014, only 15.5 percent had a female founder, according to CrunchBase.

It's a paltry number, but a noticeable improvement from 10 years ago, when female founders were involved in just 2.95 % of deals.

Vision and grit helped founder Tonia Jahshan build an Earl Grey empire and earn the title of Canada's Top Female Entrepreneur for 2016

One of the reasons why Stitch Fix is an important IPO is because [CEO Katrina Lake] is the first of this new wave of female founders to take her company public.

The new one bills seven female keynote speakers out of 23 total, including Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen; Jane McGonigal, a game designer; and Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code, a non-profit organization that teaches software development to women.

To prompt her almost all - female team to share accomplishments, Amy Laski, the president and founder of Toronto PR agency Felicity, created several brag - friendly platforms, including a private Facebook page and a biweekly internal newsletter, and actively solicits her staff to fill them with good news.

Theresia Gouw, once a partner with Accel Partners, and Fonstad, formerly managing director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, founded Aspect Ventures; Aileen Lee left Kleiner Perkins to launch seed fund Cowboy Ventures; Gilt Groupe's former CEO Susan Lyne hatched AOL's BBG (Built by Girls) Ventures; serial entrepreneur Anu Duggal launched the Female Founders Fund with the express purpose of investing in women.

«As a first - time, young female founder who quickly grew from three people on a couch to a team of ten, we love how this book clearly outlines so many tactical approaches to communication, being a good leader, and building trust on the team.»

Today, she wants to send a message to female founders that they should try to dismantle stereotypes and show that women are capable and not to be dismissed, regardless of what color they're wearing.

For Julie Wainwright, founder and CEO of consignment website The RealReal, it comes down to the lack of female VCs.

She was one of many accomplished female founders who'd converged to talk about what's needed to grow women - led businesses.

To find those traits, we polled a sampling of successful female founders at the event, from Wurwand to an 11 - year - old lemonade entrepreneur who snagged a sweet offer on Shark Tank and an El Salvadoran - immigrant - turned - millionaire - waste management mogul who «turns trash into treasure.»

Part of the reason I chose to do this job is because I really care about the tech community, and I want there to be more female investors and more female founders, and I am committed to making a difference.

In 2017, TechCrunch reported that only 17 % of the 43,008 venture - funded companies in its directory CrunchBase have at least one female founder.

When it comes to financing business growth, the stats are grim: «Women raise 50 % less capital than men do,» explained Geri Stengel, president and founder of digital media and market - research agency Ventureneer and a Forbes columnist whose writing focuses on successful female entrepreneurs, during a breakout session, «And, often, capital means success.»

NEW EVENT ALERT... Female Founder Office Hours is coming to Los Angeles with a who's who of women VCs, including Sequoia's Jess Lee, USV's Rebecca Kaden, and Forerunner's Kirsten Green.

Canadian companies even have a new resource to turn to in their quest for female candidates: a recruiting firm launched last year by Pamela Jeffery, founder of the Women's Executive Network.

There is still a staggering low number of female founders in the tech industry.

Industry - wide, female founders received 2 % of all venture funding last year.

Venture capital firms, in particular, have long been overwhelmingly averse to funding female - run enterprises, «and I don't see a trend line for any significant change,» added Trish Costello, CEO and founder of Portfolia, a platform designed to help women invest in entrepreneurial enterprises.

«The small number of venture firms with female founders and / or an unusually high percentage of female partners invest at elevated levels in female entrepreneurs,» according to a 2016 CrunchBase report on venture capital funding.

And that type of statistic was hardly an isolated one: Just this month, we were the only female founders at the coworking space pitching at a startup night.

There's no definitive answer as to why female founders raise less venture capital than male founders, but one of the main theories is the lack of female VCs.

«I feel like we're missing out on this major opportunity to market to 51 % of the population, to 60 % of the wealth and to 80 % of consumer spending,» says Meltem Demirors, founder of Athena Capital, referring to the world's female population, who control the majority of American wealth and household spending.

Only 2 % of venture funding went to female founders, and just 8 % of partners at the top venture capital firms are women.

(Female Founder Office Hours is a series of events at which investors will talk with and advise women entrepreneurs in one - on - one sessions.)

According to First Round Capital's analysis of its own portfolio, companies with at least one female founder provided them with 63 % better returns on investment than companies with all - male teams.

Female founders received 2 % of all venture funding last year.

On the stage of Inc.'s Women's Summit, we hosted the great Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx and the youngest self - made female billionaire in history.

So we're seeing this tidal wave of female founders.»

Only 14 % of venture - backed companies have a female founder.

The round, which was announced Tuesday, is one of the largest series B fundraising efforts ever by female founders, according to Audrey Gelman, The Wing's cofounder and CEO.

• Karin Klein of Bloomberg Beta writes that LPs should force their GPs to report data on how many female founders they back, how many female non-partner investors the firm hires, the number of female partners, and the composition of VC - backed startup boards:

(For context, female founders received 2.19 % of venture capital funding in 2016.)

As a father of girls he felt remorseful for the comment and ended up talking with Crosby about championing female founders.

Here's her advice for other female founders who also think venture capital might be the best source of funds for their companies.

Las Vegas has the honor of the highest percentage of venture - backed companies with at least one female founder: 26 percent.

That's unusual for any entrepreneur — but especially for a female founder, given the tiny percentage of venture dollars that go to women.

Female founders in particular contribute some of the most eye - popping stats around growth in revenue, growth in employment, financial efficiency, and entrepreneurial spirit.

The cities with the shrimpiest numbers of female founders, by percentage, are Silicon Valley's Palo Alto and San Jose, California.

Almost half - of female founders (48 percent) cite a lack of available mentors or advisers as holding them back.