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, [...]
Posts Tagged "Aileen Lee"
Cowboy Ventures Founder Aileen Lee Leads Panel On Disruptive Women-Led Startups At Women 2.0 Conference 2013
February 14, 2013 – 3:52 pm
Today’s Women 2.0 Conference on February 14, 2013 is being livestreamed here today and video will be available post-event. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) “We were told by the smartest people in the Valley that this was a good idea but it wasn’t going to work,” said Jessica Scorpio, co-founder of Getaround. [...]
Cowboy Ventures Founder Aileen Lee Joins Women 2.0 Conference’s Disruption Panel (February 14)
February 12, 2013 – 9:00 am
This Thursday, join hundreds of entrepreneurial women building high-growth and high-tech companies at the Women 2.0 Conference – learn from the best and get mentored by investors and experienced entrepreneurs during lunch! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Women 2.0 welcomes Aileen Lee, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, onstage this [...]
Women At The 2012 Crunchies Awards, Tech’s Academy Awards
February 1, 2013 – 12:30 pm
Women took the 2012 Crunchies Awards stage as presenters, winners. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Attended by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (accepting the award for “Best CEO of 2012″) and kicked off by presenter and sponsor Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer, the 2012 Crunchies Awards in San Francisco last night did not disappoint. [...]
Crowdsourced Children’s Apparel Startup One Jackson, Founded By CEO Anne Raimondi, Acquired By TaskRabbit
November 15, 2012 – 8:00 am
Children’s clothing startup to shut down as team joins TaskRabbit. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Former SurveyMonkey VP of Marketing Anne Raimondi launched One Jackson earlier this year to disrupt the $1.5 billion kids clothing market by enabling independent designers to produce lines of clothes through design challenges and consumer voting contests. [...]
FLOODGATE Raises $75M Fund, Managed By Partner Ann Miura-Ko
August 1, 2012 – 7:00 am
Under Ann Miura-Ko’s management, FLOODGATE has invested in many women-led startups. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) VC fund FLOODGATE announced today closing a $75M fund for investment in early-stage high-growth ventures using technology to accelerate business. At FLOODGATE, Ann Miura-Ko led the investment in ModCloth (co-founded by CCO Susan Gregg Koger) and [...]
Can Mothers Found Startups? (Hint: Yes)
June 17, 2012 – 10:00 am
“People expect mothers to be less committed and therefore give them less responsibility and pay them less from the start.” By Joan C. Williams & Rachel Dempsey (Authors, The New Girls’ Network) An article in this weekend’s New York Times shed some more light on Silicon Valley’s worst-kept secret: it has a woman problem. Its [...]
Nurturing A Baby And A Startup Business
June 10, 2012 – 9:00 am
Looking ahead, investors may find themselves at a disadvantage if they don’t invest in companies run by women, including those with children. That’s because “women are going to be a huge force in developing Web and mobile companies,” says Ms. Lee at Kleiner Perkins. By Hannah Seligson (Contributor, New York Times) Fledgling companies are like [...]
True&Co Takes $2M Seed Funding From First Round, SoftTech, Others To Shake Up The Bra Industry
May 31, 2012 – 5:00 am
True&Co co-founders Aarthi Ramamurthy and Michelle secure funding from investors for bra shopping. By Ingrid Lunden (Writer, TechCrunch) The women’s liberation movement once taught ladies to cast off their bras in solidarity and empowerment; now a new startup, founded by two women, is inverting that formula to make sure that when you put it back [...]
Brit Morin Engages $1.25M From Marissa Mayer, Aileen Lee, Founders Fund And More To Launch Her First App, Weduary
April 30, 2012 – 10:49 am
This article has been syndicated from TechCrunch. By Alexia Tsotsis (Writer, TechCrunch) Brit Morin, the Martha Stewart of tech, is today announcing a $1.25 million seed round for her technology and content company Brit. The list of investors is actually pretty sympatico with “the next generation of lifestyle” branding of Brit & Co, with fashion-heavy [...]
