Check out these five women-powered productivity app companies that boost your productivity! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Who doesn’t love a good list, especially a list of to-do’s? Now add the power of new technology to the traditional to-do list and productivity guidelines – and some women entrepreneurs – and you have [...]
Posts Tagged "Angie Chang"
4 Women Present and Accounted for SIlicon Valley Movers & Shakers List
April 27, 2013 – 8:00 am
High-flying entrepreneurs Clara Shih, Gina Bianchini, Priya Haji and Rebecca Woodcock recognized as Silicon Valley Movers & Shakers. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) In the Silicon Valley, venture capital firms and high-tech management teams are often a sea of men. So it’s nice when the women movers & shakers are not filtered [...]
5 Ways Men Can Advocate for Women in Technology and the Workplace
April 26, 2013 – 7:00 am
We’ve cherry-picked the top 5 tips and tricks for male advocates for women in tech, educated by NCWIT’s 45 in-depth interviews with male employees in technology organizations or departments. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) The LGBT community have many allies. Conferences produced by an organization named Black Founders are incredibly ethnically and [...]
Little Girls Are Better at Designing Superheroes Than You
April 25, 2013 – 11:56 am
Invent your future! Encourage kids to imagine their strongest, wildest selves regularly with superhero costumes and power poses. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Over spring break, undergraduate biology student and artist Alexandria Law started a mini art project. Her new blog Little Girls Are Better at Designing Superheroes Than You features pictures [...]
Top 10 Technovation Challenge World Pitch Teams Announced, Will Pitch Next Week at Twitter HQ in SF
April 24, 2013 – 9:00 am
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) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
