Congratulations to co-founders Sandy Jen and Elaine Wherry for the acquisition of Meebo by Google today! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Six years ago, we invited Meebo co-founders Sandy Jen and Elaine Wherry as speakers for the first Women 2.0 conference in April 2006. I remember how excited the Women 2.0 team [...]
Posts Tagged "Acquisition"
Meebo, Founded By CTO Sandy Jen And Developer Elaine Wherry, Acquired By Google For A Rumored $100M
June 4, 2012 – 3:21 pm
Salesforce Acquires Buddy Media, Co-Founded By COO Kass Lazerow, For $689M
June 4, 2012 – 10:18 am
The husband-and-wife entrepreneur team at Buddy Media celebrates yet another company acquisition today. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Social media management software company Buddy Media, co-founded by COO Kass Lazerow and her husband Michael Lazerow, had raised $54 million in Series D funding last year. Today, news broke that Buddy Media will [...]
Mobsmith, Co-Founded By CEO Ingrid Lestiyo, Acquired By Rubicon Project For $10M
May 23, 2012 – 12:14 pm
Mobile startup Mobsmith, co-founded by CEO Ingrid Lestiyo, was acquired for a rumored $10 million today. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Rubicon Project, an online ad tech agency in Los Angeles, acquired Mobsmith for $10 million today, according to AllThingsD. Mobsmith was co-founded by CEO Ingrid Lestiyo, an engineer and Harvard Business [...]
Female Founders Who Celebrated A Startup Acquisition
May 18, 2012 – 11:52 am
Startup acquisitions make news! Celebrate the women starting and exiting companies in technology. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) We at Women 2.0 are often asked for names of notable women for magazines (lists), newspaper articles (press), conferences (speakers), etc. We catalog lists of women entrepreneurs to watch each Friday, putting out a [...]
Wendy Tan White’s Moonfruit Acquired For $29M By Yell
May 16, 2012 – 10:49 am
Moonfruit took £1.57M in funding in 2010 from Silicon Valley angels including Dave McClure of 500 Startups. By Mike Butcher (Writer, TechCrunch) In the white heat of the current tech market it’s sometimes easy to forget that some companies, although taking their time, simply become viable businesses – instead of waiting for a call from [...]
LinkedIn To Acquire Rashmi Sinha’s SlideShare For $118M
May 3, 2012 – 2:47 pm
SlideShare co-founder and CEO @rashmi tweets “Yes it’s true” this afternoon. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) In breaking news, LinkedIn has announced plans to acquire SlideShare for $118.75M, in a combination of approximately 45% cash and approximately 55% stock. SlideShare was founded in 2006 by CEO Rashmi Sinha, who commented, “We built [...]
Eco-Friendly Flash Sales Site LovingEco Acquired By JP Selects
May 3, 2012 – 10:59 am
LovingEco acquired by JP Selects to further their mission of eco-friendly product discovery. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Congratulations to co-founders Justine Lassoff and Melinda Moore – their startup LovingEco was acquired by JP Selects, the largest digital platform for sustainable brands and products, for a reported $1M. By joining forces, the [...]
Redefining Success: The Disillusionment Of An Entrepreneur
April 30, 2012 – 12:20 pm
This article has been syndicated from TechCrunch. By Prerna Gupta (Co-Founder & CEO, Khush) When I became an entrepreneur at the age of 23, I began in earnest, as do all entrepreneurs, chasing a dream. My dream was clear. I would build a consumer technology company that reached 10 million people and sell the company [...]
Dropbox Acquires Online Collaboration Tool Cove, Co-Founded By Ruchi Sanghvi (AKA Facebook’s First Female Engineer)
February 28, 2012 – 6:00 am
By Samihah Azim (User Experience Product Manager, 6waves Lolapps) The past week has been a particularly exciting week for women in technology. First, mobile search engine startup Chomp, co-founded by CTO Cathy Edwards, was acquired by Apple. Then Dropbox announced their acquisition of Cove, an online collaboration tool for groups, co-founded by Ruchi Sanghvi. She [...]
Apple Acquires Chomp, App Search Engine Startup Co-Founded By CTO Cathy Edwards, For $50 Million
February 24, 2012 – 10:11 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This week, Apple confirmed the acquisition of app search engine startup Chomp for $50 million. Chomp was co-founded by Cathy Edwards. She is the CTO of Chomp, leading the engineering team to build the “proprietary algorithm [that] learns the functions and topic of apps”. She spoke at [...]
