Sentences with phrase «women founders in»

In a women - backed community, Gouw, a FORBES Midas lister, says it's easier to see the opportunities that exist there — and the number of women founders in venture - funded companies is climbing.

That's according to new research presented at a recent conference in San Francisco organized by Women 2.0, a media company devoted to women founders in the tech industry.

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.

Julie Sweet, CEO of Accenture North America and Reshma Saujani, Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code speak at Fortune Most Powerful Women NextGen WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2016: Laguna Niguel, CA 11:00 AM BREAKOUT CONVERSATIONS THE FUTURE OF TALENT Hosted by Toyota How to retain and best and brightest — and how to triple the pipeline of women in Women NextGen WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2016: Laguna Niguel, CA 11:00 AM BREAKOUT CONVERSATIONS THE FUTURE OF TALENT Hosted by Toyota How to retain and best and brightest — and how to triple the pipeline of women in women in tech.

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.

This is founder Loni Edward's third startup and she won the Woman In Business award at this year's TechDay NY event.

«The reason for this pushback lies in many of the unconscious assumptions we all hold about women and men,» Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook and the founder of Lean In, wrote for The Wall Street Journain many of the unconscious assumptions we all hold about women and men,» Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook and the founder of Lean In, wrote for The Wall Street JournaIn, wrote for The Wall Street Journal.

A quarter of the women in the survey are in the highest executive ranks, 11 percent are founders, and 11 percent are in venture.

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.

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.

While working in the UN community in Geneva, founder Cynthia Salim noticed it was difficult to find high - quality women's workwear.

Chip Wilson, Lulu's founder, built his empire on a story about women and yoga and looking really great in clothes that also felt really good.

Raise a fund that invests in companies founded by underrepresented entrepreneurs, including women, people of color, LGBTQ company founders, or any combination of the three.

Necole Parker (woman in the front row, on the left, in a suit), the founder of The ELOCEN Group, with her team.

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

Jameela Nishat, founder of the Shaheen Women's Resource and Welfare Association, a non-profit shelter in Hyderabad, India, believes that such online social media platforms can be of great use to vulnerable wWomen's Resource and Welfare Association, a non-profit shelter in Hyderabad, India, believes that such online social media platforms can be of great use to vulnerable womenwomen.

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.

More troubling was that the stage held just just one black person, representing his company's founder, and two women: TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde and a performer in a circus act.

The app was designed by three women founders to provide information from a multitude of services and agencies in a one - step, one - stop fashion.

«The conflation of STEM experience with ability to be «in tech» is something that seems to happen far more frequently (and reflexively) where women are concerned — yet it's a standard that is not similarly imposed on the many, many male entrepreneurs and VCs who participate in the industry,» wrote Rachel Sklar, founder of TheList.

United in purpose and passion, their focus is working together to close the gender gap for female founders, smash the glass ceiling and rewrite the conversation surrounding women entrepreneurs for the better — and once and for all.

At only 25 - years - old, award - winning producer and founder of Black Bicycle Entertainment, Erika Olde is one of the youngest and most successful women in Hollywood.

When women founders are asked the same question, however, 29 % attribute the disparity to unconscious bias in hiring and promotions, with another 23 % blaming the lack of role models.

While 23 % of women founders agree that there are not enough women in the pipeline, the inclusion of implicit and systemic factors as perceived contributors suggests that we must go beyond the number of women at the table and consider how the table itself is constructed.

New research from Female Founders Fund confirms a trend that first popped up about six months ago: Relative to women entrepreneurs raising money in other parts of the country, women in New York are killing it.

We can use the tech sector as an example: when asked why women and minorities are underrepresented in tech startups, 49 % of male founders say that there aren't enough women in the pipeline with another 8 % of male founders blaming low recruitment into college STEM programs.

Based in NYC, the women's activewear brand founder says her mother taught her not to chase monetary success.

The author of Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead (Knopf, March 2013) and founder of LeanIn.org, Sandberg spoke this morning at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference in MinneapoliIn: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead (Knopf, March 2013) and founder of LeanIn.org, Sandberg spoke this morning at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference in Minneapoliin Computing conference in Minneapoliin Minneapolis.

The Vancouver, Canada - based company's fall from grace began with the embarrassing revelation that some of its pants were see through and the non mea culpa of founder and chairman Chip Wilson, where he claimed in November that «some women's bodies just don't actually work» for the clothing.

«Women make the majority of purchase decisions for almost every product category in the marketplace, and that includes automotive, electronics, and insurance,» says Kat Gordon, founder and Creative Director of Maternal Instinct, a marketing agency focused on helping brands connect with the mom market.

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.

«Women can now make potentially life - defining decisions about how to proactively plan for the family they want to build and be more efficient in overcoming fertility difficulties they are experiencing using better, more personal, information than age,» founder Piraye Beim shared earlier this year in TechCrunch.

To alleviate many of the problems in the world, Dermalogica founder Jane Wurwand boldly suggests giving women entrepreneurs a hand up.

«In order to be eligible, at least one of your founders has to be a black or Latina woman, and she has to be an equal or majority owner.

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 sessions.

«Sexism is one of the most socially accepted forms of discrimination and a pervasive disease in the film and television business,» the founders of Shit People Say to Women Directors said in an email to Fortune.

Kelly Azevedo, founder and systems expert for She's Got Systems in Woodland, Calif., says there's confusion over what's a bossy woman as opposed to an assertive leader and this can prompt women to shy away from the spotlight.

According to research conducted by economist Alicia Robb, founder and CEO of Next Wave Ventures, and University of Hartford finance professor Susan Coleman, men and women differ in the forms they adopt to raise capital, how much capital they seek, how much of that capital they procure, how much of it they spend and the ways they choose to spend it.

Sarah Schupp, founder of UniversityParent in Boulder, Colo., doesn't believe companies should give women specific opportunities.

Susan LaMotte, principal consultant and founder of exaqueo in Alexandria, Va., finds that baby boomers and traditionalists aren't accustomed to seeing women advance in the workplace and often don't understand their personal needs, which stifles their professional growth.

In the United States, 1,864 male founders have received VC funding, compared to only 141 women.

«I would implore [Trump] to please listen to the women in this country,» said Curtis, founder of Curtis Financial Planning.

With that as her goal, Herrera was accepted into the Founders Institute incubator — the only woman in her 2010 class.

Those are some of the findings from the latest research conducted by the Female Founders Fund, an early - stage, New York City - based fund that invests only in women entrepreneurs.

And the information that they'll need will not only cover the basics but also emphasize «more relationship - oriented and life - stage topics than bottom - line transactions,» says Liz Davidson, founder and CEO of Financial Finesse, a company in San Francisco that's dedicated to serving women's investment needs.

«Women founders are starting companies because they have a certain issue they encounter in their life and they think they can create a better experience,» says Zak.

Tommy Hilfiger, Founder / President, Tommy Hilfiger Worldwide, discusses mentoring young women in the fashion industry and what it's like to work as part of the PVH Group.

Whether you look at straight demographic statistics, listen to the testimony in the recent sexual harassment suit against storied VC firm Kleiner Perkins, or talk to female founders about their experiences fundraising, the picture you get of the industry's openness to women isn't the rosiest.

In this episode, we spoke to Evolvin» Women founder Assia Riccio, who shares with us her thoughts on starting up a social enterprise, and how Dubai Startup Hub's Market Access program helped open doors for her in terms of taking her business forwarIn this episode, we spoke to Evolvin» Women founder Assia Riccio, who shares with us her thoughts on starting up a social enterprise, and how Dubai Startup Hub's Market Access program helped open doors for her in terms of taking her business forwarin terms of taking her business forward.

There is an upward trajectory in the percentage of startups with woman founders who receive funding.