Smart$ program informs, inspires, educates, and prepares business angels and venture capitalists for future investments in IT startups. By Pemo Theodore (Founder, Ezebis) Join us at the StartupMonthly Smart$ (SmartMoney) (November 12-15, 2012 in Silicon Valley). I am very excited to be asked to coordinate this program and it is shaping up to be an [...]
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Investing In Women (Infographic)
Women represent 15% of angel investors and 11% of investing partners at VC firms in the United States. By Pemo Theodore (Founder, Ezebis) I recently collaborated with the female founder of Piktochart to create this infographic about investing in women. Piktochart is an infographic editor that helps non-designers make information beautiful. Piktochart was launched in [...]
Choose Investors Thoughtfully: The Levo League Founders
Video interview with Levo League founders Caroline Ghosn and Amanda Pouchot. By Pemo Theodore (Founder, Ezebis) Founded in 2011, Levo League’s mission is to help young professional women to thrive in the workplace without compromising their identities as women. Caroline Ghosn is co-founder and CEO who spent over three years at McKinsey, where Caroline met [...]
Ezebis Interview With Angel Investor Christina Brodbeck About Investing In Women-Led Companies
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Editor’s note: Christina Brodbeck will a judge on February 14, 2012 at the Women 2.0 PITCH Conference – get your ticket now! Ezebis‘s Pemo Theodore interviewed Christina Brodbeck about angel investing and startups. The full interview is on Ezebis but we’ve extracted the parts about angel investing, [...]
The X Chromosome: What Is The DNA Of Women-Led Startups?
By Pemo Theodore (Founder, Ezebis) For over a year, I have been video interviewing venture capitalists, angel investors and women founders trying to investigate the apparent shortfall in funding for women led technology startups. My goal has been to listen to as many people as I could from both sides of the table, in order [...]
Interview with NY Entrepreneur Cindy Gallop by Pemo Theodore
By Pemo Theodore (Founder, Ezebis) I interviewed Cindy Gallop of IfWeRanTheWorld about the New York startup scene and funding for women. She also gave a great tip for those pitching for investment. Pemo Theodore: Cindy, lovely to meet you in person. Cindy Gallop: Lovely to meet you in person as well, Pemo. Pemo Theodore: I [...]
Crowdsourcing Conversation on the Startup Funding Gap
By J. Maureen Henderson (Contributor, Forbes) Australian entrepreneur Pemo Theodore spent five years in London trying to drum up venture capital funding for her digital matchmaking start-up. She came away empty-handed, but with a desire to explore the well-documented gender gap in funding for female-led startups. Theodore interviewed dozens of venture capitalists, female founders and tech industry experts [...]
Interview with Author Naomi Fine of Positively Confidential
By Pemo Theodore (Founder, EZebis) Showcase your startup in the Positively Confidential competition — The 3 best video pitches (no longer than 1 mnute) by women entrepreneurs showcasing your startup and why you would benefit from a complementary copy of “Positively Confidential”. Get cracking and post your video pitch on YouTube, tag it with “Positively [...]
Applying Rooney Rule to Women in Leadership (Just Win Baby)
By Laura Yecies (CEO, SugarSync) I’m a regular reader of Mark Suster’s blog “Both Sides of the Table”. He wrote a post last week on one of my favorite topics “Why Aren’t there More Female Entrepreneurs”. He brings up some interesting points on his women role models and positive experience with women entrepreneurs – so [...]
Why Aren’t There More Female Entrepreneurs
By Mark Suster (General Partner, GRP Partners) I’m often asked the question about why there aren’t more women who are entrepreneurs. On my blog I’ve been hesitant to take the topic head on. Somehow it seems kind of strange for a man to answer this question that obviously comes from a man’s point of view. [...]





