Today’s Women 2.0 Conference on February 14, 2013 is being livestreamed here today and video will be available post-event. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) “We were told by the smartest people in the Valley that this was a good idea but it wasn’t going to work,” said Jessica Scorpio, co-founder of Getaround. [...]
Posts Tagged "LUMOback"
Cowboy Ventures Founder Aileen Lee Leads Panel On Disruptive Women-Led Startups At Women 2.0 Conference 2013
February 14, 2013 – 3:52 pm
LUMO BodyTech Co-Founder Monisha Perkash Raises $5M Series A Funding, Speaking At Women 2.0 Conference On February 14
December 20, 2012 – 6:00 am
Smart sensor and big data company LUMO BodyTech raises Series A. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Good posture starts with the lower back, which is what the LUMOback sensor and mobile app monitors to track posture and activities, providing actionable feedback with real-time vibrations. LUMOback was co-founded by CEO Monisha Kerpash and [...]
Launching The Indiegogo Campaign For EnJai Earbuds
October 9, 2012 – 6:00 am
“With the help of my family and many years of R&D… over three additional years, we had a product that worked.” By Nancy Vartanian (Founder & CEO, shenYon) When I was 19 years old, I had a dream (literally) about a product idea. I quickly woke up and wrote it down in my notebook. I [...]
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 [...]
LUMOback Funded On Kickstarter – The Benefit Of Being Open
July 28, 2012 – 9:00 am
We have pre-orders of over $175,000, and counting (3 days to go on our campaign!) By Monisha Perkash (Co-Founder & CEO, LUMOback) My startup LUMOback, a smart posture sensor, recently launched a campaign on the crowd-funding platform Kickstarter. Our experiences thus far have reinforced my team’s deep belief in being open rather than stealthy. More [...]
Women Entrepreneurs Fundraise For Products, Companies (Ubeam, Love With Food, OUYA…)
July 11, 2012 – 7:00 am
Good news: women raise funding for companies, and women entrepreneurs make waves on Kickstarter. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) FUNDS RAISED: 22 year old Meredith Perry raising $1M from Founders Fund and other angels for her startup. The Ubeam founder and CEO gave a popular TEDx talk earlier this year on “how [...]
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 [...]
Female Founders To Watch: Health Innovation
January 20, 2012 – 7:00 am
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Rock Health hosted the 2012 Health Innovation Summit in San Francisco this week, showcasing a remarkably gender-balanced set of interdisciplinary innovators in the burgeoning health/tech space. As keynote speaker Mitch Kapor stated, “It is possible to go up the learning curve yourself without the basics of the [...]
LUMOback Founder Monisha Perkash Wins DEMOgod Award (Video)
September 16, 2011 – 7:40 am
By Monisha Perkash (Co-Founder & CEO, LUMOback) My startup went into the DEMO Fall 2011 Conference honored just to share our vision with such a large audience, and came out of it completely blown away when we received a DEMOgod award for our product LUMOback. While it’s very cool being immersed in emerging technologies, meeting [...]
Serial Entrepreneur Reframes “Having It All” (Work/Life Balance)
August 25, 2011 – 6:00 am
By Monisha Perkash (Co-Founder & CEO, LUMOback) “You can have it all, just not at the same time.” These were the words of advice from a well-intentioned mentor who was trying to help me figure out how to pursue an entrepreneurial career and also start a family. I knew she was trying to be reassuring, [...]
