HealthyOut was a finalist at the PITCH SF 2013 Startup Competition. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) With two-thirds of American adults struggling with overweight and obesity issues, developing solutions to help people eat healthier has never been more important. Mobile app HealthyOut, co-founded by CEO Wendy Nguyen raised a $1.2 million round [...]
Posts Tagged "Funding"
PITCH SF 2013 Finalist Wendy Nguyen, CEO and Co-Founder of HealthyOut, Raises $1.2 Million Seed Funding
April 29, 2013 – 3:56 pm
Entefy Co-Founder Brienne Ghafourifar, 18, Raises $1 Milllion In Funding
April 29, 2013 – 6:00 am
18 year old Entefy co-founder Brienne Ghafourifar raises $1 million in funding for startup based in Palo Alto. By Insiyah Saeed (Founder, TheLipGloss) Brienne Ghafourifar, 18, and co-founder brother Alston, 20, are not targeting a market of billions with their startup Entefy, but a “market of trillions.” Brienne, who graduated with a B.A. in Economics from [...]
Crowdfunding: A Safe Space for Female Entrepreneurs
March 27, 2013 – 11:00 am
A banker turned crowdfunding executive explains why new financing models are leveling the playing field for female-owned businesses. By Heather Schwarz-Lopes (Co-Founder & CEO, EarlyShares.com) The crowdfunding space is emerging as a progressive place for women entrepreneurs and business managers alike. Once the SEC finalizes its rules, equity crowdfunding — a subset of crowdfunding that [...]
How to Raise Funds From Your Friends and Family
March 27, 2013 – 10:00 am
Sqeeqee Founder Jenny Q. Ta (pictured) talks about fundraising from your loved ones and other survival tips for aspiring entrepreneurs. By Insiyah Saeed (Founder, TheLipGloss) The worsening of the “Series A Crunch”, and the stresses involved in managing professional investors, has some entrepreneurs wishing for a more “friendly” source of funds. Sqeeqee founder Jenny Q. [...]
Women 2.0 Conference 2013 Speaker Paula Long Raises $30 Million Series B Funding For DataGravity
January 30, 2013 – 8:00 am
VC is not dead – CEO and co-founder Paula Long raises Series B for her big data startup DataGravity. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) After selling her previous company EqualLogic to Dell for $1.4 billion in 2007, Paula Long is at it again with big data startup DataGravity. She will be joining [...]
CEO And Co-Founder Pilar Manchón Raises $5M For Indisys
December 3, 2012 – 9:00 am
Spanish dialogues systems startup Indisys raises $5 million Series A. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Spanish entrepreneur Pilar Manchón co-founded Indisys (Intelligent Dialogue Systems). She raised $5 million in Series A funding from Intel Capital and Inveready Group recently to go international with their natural language and dialog management products. “With Intel [...]
Female-Founded New Zealand Startup Scrattch Makes GEW 50 Finalist
October 25, 2012 – 9:00 am
Seed funding in New Zealand is something that is rather illusive unless you are in Biotech or are developing something that will be used by farmers or sheep! By Lou Donnelly-Davey (Founder & CEO, Scrattch) I had the idea for Scrattch a year ago in the shower one morning – thinking how cool it would [...]
How Can We Increase Venture Capital Investments In Women-led Businesses?
May 31, 2012 – 11:55 am
“Women are really good managers. People love working for them … Women attract teams that are very driven. That’s because they subvert their egos and allow other egos to shine,” said Tim Draper, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson. By Geri Stengel (Contributor, Forbes) Gender matters. It impacts the type of businesses entrepreneurs start, their aspirations [...]
Kleiner Perkins And Sequoia Fund $6.5M Round For Cross-Device Ad Targeter Drawbridge
May 10, 2012 – 1:00 pm
This article has been syndicated from TechCrunch. By Anthony Ha (Writer, TechCrunch) When two of the biggest names in venture capital (arguably still the biggest) both invest in a startup, you know it’s probably time to take notice. So yes, take notice: A cross-device ad targeting startup called Drawbridge has raised a $6.5 million Series [...]
Silicon Valley Attracts Major Share Of VC Funding, But Silicon Alley Is Rising
February 13, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Grace Nasri (Managing Editor, FindTheBest) Venture capital firms invested $28.4 billion into 3,673 deals last year, with the majority of deals going into the software and biotechnology industries. This year’s VC funding figures represent the third highest annual investment numbers in dollar terms of the past decade. The annual figures represent an increase of [...]
