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 [...]
Posts Tagged "Julia Hartz"
Eventbrite, Co-Founded by President Julia Hartz, Raises $60 Million Funding
April 22, 2013 – 12:35 pm
Trend Spotting: Love and Startups
April 10, 2013 – 7:00 am
A growing high tech startup industry trend has little to do with tech, and a lot to do with togetherness. By Sramana Mitra (Founder, One Million By One Million) There was a time in Silicon Valley when VCs did not like the idea of funding couples. Nonetheless, Cisco and 3Com – two legendary Valley startups [...]
Five Mompreneurs Say You Can Do It All
February 27, 2013 – 6:00 am
Here are five “mompreneurs” who are charting their own ways in business while still raising a family. By Sramana Mitra (Founder, One Million By One Million) I frequently facilitate discussions of female entrepreneurs, and the company vs. children question, and I would like to do so again. We’ve seen through conversations with entrepreneurial women like [...]
Eventbrite’s Epic 2012 Raises IPO Flags For The New Year
January 10, 2013 – 7:22 pm
Eventbrite could be estimated at a $500 million market cap. By Meghan Casserly (Writer, Forbes) Ticketing agent Eventbrite released new numbers today showing gross ticket sales of more than $600 million for 2012, up $240 million in just one year and putting the total dollar amount on tickets sold through the six-year-old site at more [...]
Female Founders To Watch Disrupting The Entertainment Industry
July 20, 2012 – 11:00 pm
Where are the women disrupting the way entertainment is produced, consumed, distributed? By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Entertainment is a huge industry traditionally generated by Hollywood. From concerts to movies, we’re always looking for things to do, places to go, people to see. Museums, shopping, art galleries, even food are part of [...]
Female Founders To Watch: Literally Married To Your Co-Founder
May 4, 2012 – 9:54 am
From tech giants Cisco and VMware to startups ModCloth and Lynda, married co-founders are everywhere. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) We often joke about our “work husbands” and “work wives” but realized this week that we know a flurry of married startup co-founders. Both Founder Friday hosts (Julia Hartz of Eventbrite and [...]
Meet Your Founder Friday Hosts For May 2012 – New Cities Launching: Orange County, San Diego, Buenos Aires & Santiago!
April 20, 2012 – 11:39 am
11 cities will be hosting Women 2.0 Founder Friday events in May – find one near you! By Sepideh Nasiri (Director of All Things Offline, Women 2.0) We have some exciting news! We are launching new cities for Founder Friday! Founder Friday is a Women 2.0 networking event promoting the creation of new networks among [...]
To Be Or Not To Be A Woman Entrepreneur
April 19, 2012 – 7:00 am
Moving into management takes a shift in thinking, and new ways of finding self-actualization. By Gargi Nalawade (Founder & CEO, Sepalz) Successes such as Instagram has got the whole developer community up in restless excitement. At least two developers approached me the day the Instagram acquisition was announced. And they did their own announcements to [...]
5 Lessons Learned Expanding Internationally (Putting The “Brit” In Eventbrite)
April 18, 2012 – 8:00 am
Join us at Founder Friday San Francisco on May 4, 2012 with host Julia Harz from Eventbrite! By Julia Hartz (Co-Founder & President, Eventbrite) Eventbrite, the online service that people everywhere use to create, share, and join any event imaginable, has been used internationally. By creating an easy-to-use product and integrating with PayPal, we have [...]
Female Founders To Watch: 2012 SXSWi Speakers Edition
March 2, 2012 – 12:59 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) SXSW Interactive (SXSWi) will be taking place in downtown Austin from March 9-13, 2012. We at Women 2.0 will be there co-hosting meetups and parties, details TBA. Influential women in new tech, from former CMO of Mint.com and now CEO of online training platform Mindflash Donna Wells, [...]
