Sentences with phrase «on female founders»

Crunchbase's inaugural study on female founder representation of U.S. - based companies was published in May 2015.

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«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.»

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.»

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.»

«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.

«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.

(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.

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.

• 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:

Glassbaby Founder Lee Rhodes speaks on the unique challenges facing female entrepreneur, and how she overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

Rethink Impact is the largest venture capital firm in the U.S. focused on woman founders, according to Forbes, which is incredibly impactful for female founders who aren't being recognized by most venture capitalists.

Case in point: Arlan Hamilton, the founder of Backstage Capital, an early stage tech investment fund that focuses on three underserved markets in the world of venture capital: black, female, LGBTQ company founders, or any combination of the three.

The first Female Founder event will help hone the pitches of entrepreneurs whose companies are at the seed stage, with two more events focusing on firms at the Series A and growth stages scheduled for February and March, respectively.

Along with other female venture capital partners, Lee is launching Female Founder Office Hours — a series of events at which investors will talk with and advise women entrepreneurs in one - on - one sesfemale venture capital partners, Lee is launching Female Founder Office Hours — a series of events at which investors will talk with and advise women entrepreneurs in one - on - one sesFemale Founder Office Hours — a series of events at which investors will talk with and advise women entrepreneurs in one - on - one sessions.

We are focused on investing in founders who have a diverse skillset and if that means a female founder, we don't shy away.

Jess Lee, the former CEO of fashion shopping site Polyvore who was named Sequoia Capital's first U.S. female investing partner last year, is on Monday unveiling a networking initiative for female company founders.

Once we identified that Mann Deshi — which focuses on female entrepreneurship in India — was the foundation we wanted partner with, we reached out to the founder, Chetna Sinha, but she was, understandably, wary of us.

With five months into this year, U.S. firms with at least one female founder have raised about $ 4.4 billion in funding based on data from Pitchbook.

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.

With the number of female founders on the rise, it is no longer uncommon to publicly discuss the challenges of raising capital while visibly pregnant, how long one can put off starting a family, or what constitutes an appropriate maternity leave plan for businesses that are not large enough to require adherence to the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).

The brave stand to go on the record by three female founders is forcing the venture capital & start up community to take a hard look at why unwanted sexual advances toward women in the workplace continue to be an issue.

I put a message out on the Coworking Google Group and asked any female founders to contact me because I wanted to do a blog post and put them all in it.

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BBG Ventures, MergeLane, the Female Founders Fund, Rivet Ventures, Halogen Ventures, Scale Investors, Fierce Capital and The Perkins fund are all early - stage funds focused on female - founded compFemale Founders Fund, Rivet Ventures, Halogen Ventures, Scale Investors, Fierce Capital and The Perkins fund are all early - stage funds focused on female - founded compfemale - founded companies.

In any case, based on this subset of data, there is evidence that, as the influence of female investors in partnerships expands, there is likely to be a benefit for female founders.

-- Seed investors follow the same pattern as venture investors when it comes to the percentage of female partners overall and their impact on a firm's investments in startups with female founders.

Women aren't showing up on crowdfunding sites to back just any kind of business — they are specifically seeking out those with female founders.

I've talked to other folks there who say they're really working hard on this and there're female founders who speak very highly of Sequoia.

We talked with the group yesterday to learn more about the day, which is primarily designed to give female founders a chance to talk one - on - one with the VCs for at least 30 minutes, though networking and broader - based fundraising advice is also a key feature of the program.

The annual Female Founders Conference, hosted by the Mountain View startup accelerator Y Combinator, usually features feel - good speeches from female industry leaders on their professional joFemale Founders Conference, hosted by the Mountain View startup accelerator Y Combinator, usually features feel - good speeches from female industry leaders on their professional jofemale industry leaders on their professional journey.

To track this, we launched an annual study in 2014 on the state of affairs for female founders raising institutional capital.

At Loukoumi's home they discover Fistiki's Aunt Cat Cora, a character based on celebrity chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author Cat Cora, the first and only female Iron Chef, and President and Founder of Chefs for Humanity, which works to reduce hunger around the world.

She is the founder of the non-profit Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, which engages film and television creators to dramatically increase the percentages of female characters — and reduce gender stereotyping — in media made for children 11 and under.

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.

A recent study by Joan Y. Chiao, then at Northwestern University, a founder of the new field of cultural neuroscience, found that voters perceive male candidates as more competent and dominant than female ones, based on facial features alone.

What advice can you offer female founders on raising capital?

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!!).

And an unpublished analysis carried out at my request by Johns Hopkins University psychologist Robert Slaving — a co-author of a number of these studies, and the founder of Success for All — found that, on average, black males participating in Success for All gained between one month and four months of reading ability (a level of improvement comparable to that of black females).

TappyToon founders Ernest Woo and Sun Bang chat with TheOASG on their webtoon service, reaching out to the female audience, and more.

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This led her to become one of the founders of A.I.R. Gallery in New York in the 1970s, which was the first to exhibit female artists on a male - dominated scene.

Article on Wilhelmina Cole Holladay Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, a founder and chairman of the first museum devoted exclusively to female artists, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, was honored at the fifth anniversary of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum.

The show, curated by Postmasters founder Magda Sawon, gathers works with female subjects from a disparate group of artists on the loose theme of the ubiquitous social media phenomenon.

Dwyer, who is an assistant deputy minister at the Indigenous Education and Well Being division at the Ontario Ministry of Education and founder of the Black Female Lawyers Network, would go on to study economics and political science, earning a bachelor of arts degree from McGill University, and then going on to graduate from the University of Windsor Law School.

Events like Fast Company's Women in Tech help shed light on the successes of female founders to inspire the next generation.

Last week, a group of smart, successful female founders and CEOs gathered on the 15th floor of the New York Times building in NYC for «10 Things Every Female CEO Should Know,» a panel organized by development consultancy Cyrus Innovation, along with co-sponsors Brand Foundry, Dev Bootcamp, New York Angels, and Bella Minds, as part of Cyrus's Female Founders prfemale founders and CEOs gathered on the 15th floor of the New York Times building in NYC for «10 Things Every Female CEO Should Know,» a panel organized by development consultancy Cyrus Innovation, along with co-sponsors Brand Foundry, Dev Bootcamp, New York Angels, and Bella Minds, as part of Cyrus's Female Founders founders and CEOs gathered on the 15th floor of the New York Times building in NYC for «10 Things Every Female CEO Should Know,» a panel organized by development consultancy Cyrus Innovation, along with co-sponsors Brand Foundry, Dev Bootcamp, New York Angels, and Bella Minds, as part of Cyrus's Female Founders prFemale CEO Should Know,» a panel organized by development consultancy Cyrus Innovation, along with co-sponsors Brand Foundry, Dev Bootcamp, New York Angels, and Bella Minds, as part of Cyrus's Female Founders prFemale Founders Founders program.

After that, ten partners will host one - on - one, thirty - minute office hours with 40 female founders.

«Even though VC can be kind of competitive sometimes,» Lee said, «we could have a broader impact if we brought together a collection of female partners to have a greater impact on helping female founders.»

The first event, on November 30 in San Francisco, will be geared toward helping seed - stage female founders finesse their pitches.