Celebrating GHC attendees and women entrepreneurs who exit! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This week, Women 2.0 has been attending the Grace Hopper Celebration in Baltimore, Maryland alongside literally thousands of women engineers, ranging from college students and academics to working professionals. Amidst the throngs of tech-savvy women, we’ve spied a few [...]
Posts Tagged "Chomp"
Female Founders To Watch: Grace Hopper Celebration Attendees Celebrating Startup Acquisitions And IPOs
October 5, 2012 – 9:17 am
Women Executives Drive Successful Startups (Dow Jones Study)
October 4, 2012 – 10:44 am
Dow Jones study released today measures success of companies with more women in executive positions. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) A study released today, “Women At The Wheel: Do Female Executives Drive Start-Up Success?”, examined over 20,000 VC-backed companies and 167,556 executives, of which 11,193 were female. Results show that venture-backed startups [...]
Female Founders To Watch Creating Noteworthy iPhone Apps
September 21, 2012 – 9:23 am
Meet 5 women who created amazing apps for the Apple app store. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) As Leah Busque reminds us, you can skip the line at the Apple store by using her TaskRabbit iPhone app to summon a TaskRabbit to stand in line for your new iPhone 5. Here at [...]
11 Female Founders To Watch Running Successful Mobile Companies
July 6, 2012 – 6:00 am
From IPOs to acquisitions, these women entrepreneurs launched and grew successful mobile startups. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) A few women pointed out that the upcoming MobileBeat 2012 conference has practically no women on the speaking page. Well, we think there are plenty of successful women running mobile startups. Here are successful [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Female Founders to Follow (Women 2.0 Startup Weekend Mentors)
November 4, 2011 – 7:05 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Women 2.0 Startup Weekend (November 18-20, 2011 in San Francisco, CA) will host 150 hackers, designers, business and marketing people to build early-stage startups in 54 hours. Women 2.0 Startup Weekend 2011 MENTORS and their ventures: Sasha Laundy (Founder, Women Who Code) Sasha loves helping others learn [...]
Technical Tips for Early-Stage Startup CTOs
August 2, 2011 – 7:00 am
By Cathy Edwards (Co-Founder & CTO, Chomp) Chomp is an app search company that I co-founded with Ben Keighran. We let you search for apps based on what they do (e.g. “tip calculator”, “free puzzle games” or “to do list”) rather than needing to know the name of the app. As Chomp’s CTO, I’ve learned [...]
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 [...]
Partner event: APPNATION 2011 for Mobile Developers
April 27, 2011 – 7:56 am
APPNATION (April 27 – 28 in San Francisco) is an ambitious and bold thought leadership conference and exposition focusing exclusively on the consumer applications revolution and global app economy. Featuring speakers and exhibitors including Digital Chocolate, Marvel Entertainment, Jumptap, Nielsen Mobile, RIM, Intel, Outfit7, Sequoia Capital, WIP, Fox Broadcasting, Greystripe, Norwest Venture Partners, and Wall [...]
