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) A recovering i-banker, Angela Raitzin is now an angel investor in New York. She is a Managing Director of Golden Seeds in New York, and a Managing Principal at [...]
Posts Tagged "Golden Seeds"
Barnard Program Expands Entrepreneurship Activities for Pre-College Girls
March 15, 2013 – 7:00 am
Barnard College launches 10-day residential Entrepreneurship Program for pre-college students. A Barnard parent discusses the new pre-college bootcamp on Women 2.0. By Adam Quinton (Barnard Dad ‘13 & Angel Investor) Being based in New York City it is no surprise that Barnard College, the most sought-after liberal arts college for women (full disclosure: my daughter [...]
Meet 8 Women Entrepreneurs Who Launched Beauty Startups (Colour Me Beautiful)
January 29, 2013 – 6:00 am
Beauty startups make sense for personalizing beauty to one’s individual skin tones, allergies, schedules and tastes – with technology. By Suhair Khan (Co-Founder, Developyst) As someone who panics regularly at Sephora and ends up with bags of beauty products that I don’t need and that do not work for me – bronzer that leaves my [...]
An Angel Investor’s 3 Rules For Investing
January 23, 2013 – 3:25 pm
New York angel investor reveals three personal, less standard, emerging “rules of the game” in investing in early-stage entrepreneurs. By Adam Quinton (Managing Director, Golden Seeds & Angel Investor) Pretty cool seeing two Women 2.0 posts on two companies I invested in (appearing on the same day) celebrating $1 million funding rounds for FlixMaster and [...]
FlixMaster CEO And Co-Founder Erika Trautman Secures $1.125M Seed Funding Led By Golden Seeds
January 23, 2013 – 12:01 pm
Before founding FlixMaster, Erika founded an Emmy-Winning production company and worked as a filmmaker. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) FlixMaster, a creative platform for enterprise online video, today announced raising $1.125 million in additional funding from a syndicate of investors led by New York-based Golden Seeds. Founded by CEO Erika Trautman, FlixMaster [...]
2013: The Year Of The Female Entrepreneur?
December 13, 2012 – 6:00 am
It is no surprise then that four of the major global consumer tech businesses – Facebook, Groupon, Zynga and Twitter – have more female customers than male. However, each suffers from a lack of female representation at board level, and this is true throughout the business world. By Wendy Tan White (Founder & CEO, Moonfruit) [...]
Get Introduced To Startup Ecosystem Leaders At PITCH NYC 2012 – NY Tech Meetup, 85 Broads, Girl Develop It, Springboard Enterprises, Pipeline Fellowship, Startup Weekend, Girls Who Code, Golden Seeds
November 6, 2012 – 7:00 am
Representatives from organizations will be attending PITCH NYC 2012. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) We are a little more than a week away from Women 2.0′s first PITCH Conference in New York – a full day of successful women entrepreneurs speaking about starting up and going big! Along with mentoring at lunchtime, [...]
Investors Share Advice With Entrepreneurs At Pipeline Fellowship Conference
October 10, 2012 – 6:00 am
Female angel investors come together to share expertise at first ever Bay Area conference. By Carolyn Gerin (Co-Founder, Adorii) “Never invest in anyone you wouldn’t have to your home for dinner,” quipped Cyan Banister, Uber and Zivity investor, setting the tone for an intensely fun and resonant day at the Pipeline Fellowship Conference, making one [...]
This Is What An Angel Investor Looks Like – Janet Hanson
September 5, 2012 – 9:00 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) Janet was recently recognized on Forbes for changing the world of business. In the profile, she states – “When somebody says, ‘Well, what do you invest in?’ I could [...]
This Is What An Angel Investor Looks Like – Sara Weinheimer
August 22, 2012 – 8:00 am
Women 2.0 profiles women angel investors in our “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 Sara Weinheimer finances women-led startups, with a keen interest in social media and cleantech. She has invested in about a dozen women-led companies through her participation [...]
