Sentences with phrase «including female founders»

Silverton Partners led the round and was joined by investors including Female Founders Fund and Lakehouse Ventures.

Investors include Female Founders Fund, Greycroft Partners, and Lakehouse Ventures.

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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.

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.

Revolution Growth led the round and was joined by investors including IVP, Data Collective, Lowercase Capital, Ribbit Capital, and Female Founders Fund.

Sweet Capital Investment and the Female Founders Fund led the round, and investors include Greycroft, Sound Ventures, NEA, Felix and Partech.

She recently quit to launch Thrive Global, a health and wellness startup, with backers including Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Female Founders Fund, and Greycroft Partners.

IVP led the round, and was joined by investors including Marc Benioff, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Greycroft Partners, Blue Pool Capital, Advancit Capital, Canvas Ventures and Female Founders Fund.

In the course of an interesting discussion jam - packed with advice from the young founder, including tips on successfully bootstrapping and recommendations for some of her favorite tools for entrepreneurs, she offers young women like herself some advice on how to face their well - founded anxieties about the additional challenges that female founders still face.

From a deal volume perspective, Q1 2018 saw 14 percent of venture deals include at least one female founder.

Leading seed investors in companies with at least one female founder include Y Combinator with 28, SOSV with 10 and BBG Ventures and Innovation Works at five investments each.

Some of these events include the Out for Undergrad (O4U) annual Tech Conference, which allowed us to connect with many high - achieving LGBTQ + undergraduates from across the country, as well as the Y Combinator - hosted Female Founders Conference, or even SF Pride last month!

As the Founding Partner of Female Founders Fund, Anu believes that the next generation of successful venture - backed entrepreneurs will include talented female fouFemale Founders Fund, Anu believes that the next generation of successful venture - backed entrepreneurs will include talented female fFounders Fund, Anu believes that the next generation of successful venture - backed entrepreneurs will include talented female foufemale foundersfounders.

The plan recruits female founders and founders of color to the region and includes a call to action for strategic investors and advisors to participate in the movement.

This year's class included six teams from the Carolinas and Virginia and four from Austin and half of them had female founders.

March 12: Since first meeting on this day in 1912, Girl Scouts have fulfilled founder Juliette Low's mission of getting out of the home and into the world, and even farther: Nearly all female astronauts, including Eileen Collins, are former Scouts.

SoulGeek aims to eliminate fanboy (or fangirl) loneliness by offering a dating site specifically tailored for geeks, according to founder Dino... female roles on South Park (including the Blame Canada song!!).

Behind The Screens: Panels Master Classes Conversations MVFF38 hosted a total of six panels, which included such luminaries as Ed Arentz, Managing Director Music Box Films; Ira Deutchmann, Founder Fine Line Features; production designer Judy Becker; director Valerie Weiss; Russ CollinsFounder / Director Art House Convergence; producer / writer Komal Minhas; and director Christopher Coppola as well as three master classes, including Bobby Roth: A Director Prepares, a Conversation with Catherine Hardwicke and The Heroine's Journey: Writing and Selling the Female - Driven Screenplay, led by screenwriter Pamela Gray and story consultant Tom Schlesinger.

This fall, the first group of 12 teams arrived, half with female founders, including one Ed School team: Taylor Percival, Ed.M.»

We chatted with art consultant Andi Potamkin, the founder of private design advisory Le Mise, about some of highlights she's looking forward to at Frieze this weekend, including eight of her favorite female artists below.