Meet three female CEOs of digital health companies that received over $2 million in venture funding recently. By Amy Puliafito (Research & Marketing Manager, Rock Health) Earlier this week, Tuesday, October 16, 2012 was Ada Lovelace Day, a day dedicated to supporting the accomplishments of women in technology and technology policy. Ada Lovelace is considered [...]
Posts Tagged "Sheila Lirio Marcelo"
Social Babysitting Marketplace UrbanSitter Raises $6 Million
October 15, 2012 – 10:41 am
Congrats to UrbanSitter on raising Series A for the social babysitting marketplace founded by four parents in San Francisco. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Social babysitting marketplace UrbanSitter co-founders include Andrea Barrett (Product), Lynn Perkins (CEO, both pictured), Hadar Wissotzky (CTO) and Daisy Downs (Operations). The $6 million Series A round was [...]
Female Founders To Watch: Women Entrepreneurs In Boston
September 7, 2012 – 8:00 am
Founder Friday launches in Boston this September 28! By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) We are excited to announce that Women 2.0 will be launching Founder Friday Boston on September 28 to celebrate women entrepreneurs innovating in the greater Boston area. Two of the five winners of the L’Oréal Women in Digital awardees [...]
Learn From Successful Women Entrepreneurs In Tech (Premium Videos From February’s PITCH 2012 Conference)
August 14, 2012 – 7:16 am
Get inspired by these women leaders sharing stories of fundraising, team building and more. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) The sound bytes that were tweeted from February’s PITCH 2012 conference were golden. “Know what you have to prove,” said ZipCar co-founder Robin Chase on building a minimum viable product. Just the minimum [...]
Care.com CEO Sheila Lirio Marcelo Raises $50M Series E Funding
August 8, 2012 – 6:00 am
Institutional Venture Partners and others invest $50M in Care.com, founded by Sheila Lirio Marcelo. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) PITCH 2012 conference speaker Sheila Lirio Marcelo, CEO of Care.com, raised $50M in Series E funding led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) with participation from existing investors Matrix Partners, NEA and Trinity Ventures. [...]
Learn From Leaders Of Product Innovation: Women 2.0 PITCH 2012 Videos Now Available Online
August 7, 2012 – 9:00 am
For $30, get full access to Women 2.0 premium videos for the next 30 days online. By Shaherose Charania (Co-Founder & CEO, Women 2.0) We have exclusive videos from PITCH 2012, our 1000 person conference last February in Silicon Valley. We recorded all the conference talks, panels and pitches for you so you can pop [...]
Entrepreneurs Work The Second Shift: Interview With Sarah McIlroy, Founder Of FashionPlaytes
March 29, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Doreen Bloch (Author, The Coolest Startups in America) Sarah McIlroy is an entrepreneur based near Boston (specifically Salem, MA) who launched FashionPlaytes over three years ago. FashionPlaytes’s first product enabled girls to design clothing through FashionPlaytes’s online tools and then purchase and receive the customized garments. She has raised over $5 million in venture [...]
Groupon Blog: Women 2.0 PITCH Conference
February 27, 2012 – 2:19 pm
By Emily Moss & Kathleen Meil (Product, Groupon) Last week, we visited the Computer History Museum in Mountain View for the fifth annual Women 2.0 PITCH Conference. PITCH is a conference for women in tech to gather and mingle and learn from one another. As Groupon employees we were excited to spend the day schmoozing [...]
Care.com CEO Sheila Lirio Marcelo At PITCH 2012 (Video)
February 23, 2012 – 4:39 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Sheila Lirio Marcelo, founder and CEO of Care.com, talks about Women 2.0 and female entrepreneurship. She admits it is a challenging and lonely road, and supports Women 2.0′s goal of cultivating a support network for early-stage entrepreneurs. Marcelo advises entrepreneurs not let challenges in one’s head overcome [...]
Lessons Learned From The 2012 Women 2.0 PITCH Conference
February 23, 2012 – 3:20 pm
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Thanks everybody for joining us at our fifth annual Women 2.0 PITCH Conference & Competition on February 14, 2012 at the Computer History Museum on Valentine’s Day. It was a sold-out success with 1000 women (and a few good men) strong. Special thanks to Tropo, Bing, [...]
