An award-winning kit of pre-assembled circuits that snap together with tiny magnets, littleBits gets ready to face the mass market having raised Series A funding and sealed a partnership with PCH accelerator. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) New York-based engineer and interactive artist Ayah Bdeir, founder of littleBits, has announced raising $3.65M [...]
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Ayah Bdeir’s littleBits (“Digital Legos”) Raises $3.65M Series A Funding, Partners With PCH Accelerator
July 18, 2012 – 9:59 am
Female Founders To Watch: Startups Catering To Moms
May 11, 2012 – 10:42 am
From subscription services for parents to circuit kits for children, there is plenty of options for Mother’s Day! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This week we think about moms – they have their choice of subscription services to products for them and their children. Moms also have daily deals sites catering to [...]
Female Founders To Watch Building Hardware Startups
April 13, 2012 – 4:03 am
Arduinos, circuits, and… robots? Women entrepreneurs push boundaries of devices, hardware startups. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) There are web startups, mobile startups, consumer electronics startups… Newest yet are the interesting device startups are cropping up at various intersections of previous industries, creating disruptive new technologies and businesses. We watched Square, the [...]
Joanne Wilson: An Angel Who Bets On Women-Led Companies
December 13, 2011 – 5:00 am
By Suzanne Axtell (Technology Evangelist, O’Reilly) Blogger, mother, foodie, and hardcore New Yorker Joanne Wilson (@TheGothamGal) is one of a few female angel investors. Her approach to investing is unabashedly women-centric. As she explains in the following interview, she’s a believer in the power of the startup ecosystem to influence the economies of New York [...]
Female Startup Founders, Female CTOs And Technical Co-Founders (Oh My!)
May 24, 2011 – 1:28 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This morning at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC, Julia Hu (Co-Founder & CEO of Lark) got engaged while presenting her startup onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC — her boyfriend inserted a proposal slide into her deck. Meanwhile, attendees at the National Center for Women in Technology annual summit were [...]
