HealthyOut was a finalist at the PITCH SF 2013 Startup Competition. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) With two-thirds of American adults struggling with overweight and obesity issues, developing solutions to help people eat healthier has never been more important. Mobile app HealthyOut, co-founded by CEO Wendy Nguyen raised a $1.2 million round [...]
Posts Tagged "500 Startups"
PITCH SF 2013 Finalist Wendy Nguyen, CEO and Co-Founder of HealthyOut, Raises $1.2 Million Seed Funding
April 29, 2013 – 3:56 pm
Where Are the Women in Venture Capital That Blog?
April 16, 2013 – 7:00 am
As gatekeepers of venture capital, where are the women in venture capital who blog? By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Thought leadership in technology, entrepreneurship and business is established by blogging and tweeting. Unfortunately, the blog rolls of venture capitalists are filled with mostly, well, men ranging from the partners at Andreesseen Horowitz, [...]
Vietnam-Based Greengar, Co-Founded by CEO Thuy Truong, Joins 500 Startups in Mountain View
April 15, 2013 – 9:00 am
PITCH SF 2013 Startup Competition finalist company Greengar, based in Vietnam, lands in Mountain View to begin the 500 Startups accelerator program today! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Most know her as “the girl in the white dress” at the Women 2.0 Conference a few months ago. Greengar CEO and co-founder Thuy [...]
How I Met 75 Investors and Raised $650,000 For My Startup
March 18, 2013 – 8:00 am
There is no cookie cutter formula to fundraising but I believe the common denominator in fundraising is perseverance. By Aihui Ong (Founder & CEO, Love With Food) Love With Food graduated from 500 Startups accelerator program about a year ago and we raised $650,000 in June of 2012. It was 3 painful months of fundraising. [...]
2013: The Year Of The Female Entrepreneur?
December 13, 2012 – 6:00 am
It is no surprise then that four of the major global consumer tech businesses – Facebook, Groupon, Zynga and Twitter – have more female customers than male. However, each suffers from a lack of female representation at board level, and this is true throughout the business world. By Wendy Tan White (Founder & CEO, Moonfruit) [...]
Mexican Female Illustrator Aleksa Delsol Leads Booming Mobile-Education Market With Yogome
November 9, 2012 – 10:00 am
Aleksa Delsol is the lead illustrator at Yogome, a Mexico-based startup and iOS gaming company to help kids globally learn through play. By Erin Swanson (Director of Digital, The Way Women Work) Education for kids is going mobile, and it’s booming. We recently caught up with Aleksa Delsol, the lead illustrator at Yogome, a Mexico-based [...]
Slowly, Slowly: Growing From Side Project To Funded Startup
November 7, 2012 – 10:22 am
The startup seems to move very fast. But actually, it is a slow story. By Natalie Gordon (Founder, BabyList) My company, BabyList, is part of the fall batch of 500 Startups. I decided that 500 was the perfect accelerator for BabyList, saw that they had open enrollment, spent two days on my application, had an [...]
Female Founders To Follow: 500 Startups’ Women Entrepreneurs
November 2, 2012 – 6:00 am
Out of the 33 companies selected for 500 Startups’ fifth class, 7 companies boast at least one female founder on the team. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) An early-stage seed fund and incubator program in Mountain View, California, 500 Startups invests primarily in consumer and SMB internet startups, and related web infrastructure [...]
Santa Monica-Based Serial Entrepreneur Tracy DiNunzio Launches Tradesy, Announces $1.5 Million Series A Round
October 24, 2012 – 2:52 pm
When her first company hit profitability, she looked to build again for a bigger market: meet her second company, Tradesy. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) The proprieter of Recycled Bride, founder and CEO Tracy DiNunzio launched Tradesy for clothing resale today on web and mobile. She also announced a $1.5 million Series [...]
CEO Danielle Morrill Raises $1 Million In Seed Funding For Referly
October 15, 2012 – 9:52 am
Congrats to CEO Danielle Morrill for raising funding for Referly, an easy way for people to earn affiliate revenue for recommendations. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) “Funding is not actually success. Success is being cash-flow positive, especially if you’re in a transaction-based business,” co-founder and CEO Danielle Morrill said. Today, Referly announced [...]
