High school girls have prototyped game-changing mobile apps for the Technovation Challenge. The best teams will be flying in from all over the world – New York, Texas, Nigeria, Brazil and England – to compete on May 2 at the World Pitch 2013 event in San Francisco. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) [...]
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Top 10 Technovation Challenge World Pitch Teams Announced, Will Pitch Next Week at Twitter HQ in SF
April 24, 2013 – 9:00 am
This is What an Angel Investor Looks Like – Eva Ho
April 24, 2013 – 7:00 am
Women 2.0 profiles women angel investors in our weekly “This Is What An Angel Investor Looks Like” series. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Los Angeles-based angel investor Eva Ho is currently a VP of Marketing and Operations at Factual. A tech founder herself, she co-founded Navigating Cancer in 2008 to empower cancer [...]
PITCH Finalist Mavatar, Co-Founded by Susan Akbarpour, Raises $1 Million Seed Funding
April 23, 2013 – 12:24 pm
Menlo Park-based Susan Akbarpour, co-founder and president of Mavatar, raised $1 million in seed funding this week! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Smart comparison shopping company Mavatar was co-founded by Stanford Graduate School of Business grad Susan Akbarpour, who presented at Women 2.0 PITCH SF Startup Competition as a finalist earlier this [...]
DailyWorth CEO and Founder Amanda Steinberg Raises Additional $1 Million Funding
April 23, 2013 – 9:00 am
New York-based entrepreneur Amanda Steinberg nabs an additional $1 million in funding in an additional Series A raise led by DFJ Gotham. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Financial media company DailyWorth announced this week that they have raised an additional $1 million in Series A funding led by DFJ Gotham. Previously, the [...]
How to Acquire Loyal Customers with Minimal Social Media Investment
April 23, 2013 – 8:00 am
Once you understand how to efficiently utilize each social media marketing channel, there’s no end to the successful marketing campaigns you can create at a minimal cost. By Lindsey Guest (Founder & CEO, Beauty Army) Entrepreneurs are a unique breed. We’re opinionated, motivated and impatient. That’s why we get things done. Where others see barriers, [...]
Eventbrite, Co-Founded by President Julia Hartz, Raises $60 Million Funding
April 22, 2013 – 12:35 pm
Ticketing platform Eventbrite raises $60 million in Series F funding. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Eventbrite, the leading self-service ticketing company co-founded by president Julia Hartz, announced today raising $60 million in financing led by Tiger Global Management. Eventbrite also announced new investment partner T. Rowe Price this week. The company’s total [...]
Investor Comedy Relief: the Missed Investment Opportunity
April 22, 2013 – 8:00 am
Best market sizing analysis on earth, via Ali G, for the ice cream glove market analysis. By Lisa Suennen (Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Psilos Group) Have you seen Shark Tank? Seriously, who comes up with this stuff? Someone should do a study matching the city of origin of some of the crazier ideas with the [...]
Los Angeles Girl Scouts Add Game Developer Patch to Encourage Girl Game Developers
April 22, 2013 – 7:00 am
In addition to Girl Scout programs and badges designed to pique girls’ interest in STEM, the Los Angeles Girl Scouts have a new patch for video game programmers! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) The Girl Scout Council of Greater Los Angeles announced, in partnership with Women in Gaming International, that there will [...]
HTC Chairwoman and Founder Cher Wang Donating 100,000 HTC Tablets to Empower Women
April 19, 2013 – 9:55 am
“I strongly believe there should be a much greater role in technology for women, not only as users but also as innovators, business owners and industry leaders,” said HTC chairwoman and founder Cher Wang. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This week in Washington DC, a World Bank roundtable included UC Berkeley grad [...]
Female Founders to Watch Changing the World with Civic-Minded Startups
April 19, 2013 – 8:00 am
Itching to fix problems and create efficiencies? Civic hacking – we can do it! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Help solve big problems with new technology and drive big changes in the city you live in, maybe even the government! Here are some ways to get involved! Apply to join the National [...]
