The $1M seed round for ShopLocket includes participation from Peter Thiel’s Fund Valar Ventures. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Three months after launching, ShopLocket raised $1M in seed funding from Rho Canada Ventures, Valar Ventures, BDC Capital, Relay Ventures, Extreme Venture Partners and private investors. Co-founder and CEO Katherine Hague aims to [...]
Posts Tagged "Toronto"
Toronto-Based ShopLocket, Co-Founded By Katherine Hague, Raises $1M Seed Funding For E-Commerce Disruption
August 1, 2012 – 3:57 pm
Now I’m Really An Entrepreneur
June 6, 2012 – 10:13 am
My purpose now is to find a repeatable and scalable business model – Steve Blank’s definition of a startup. By Heather Payne (Founder, Ladies Learning Code) I’ve wanted to be an entrepreneur for a long time. Not when I was in university (back then, I wanted to be CEO of a Fortune 500 company), but [...]
Startups (And Angel Investors) Are A Girl’s Best Friend
February 21, 2012 – 11:00 am
By Katherine Hague (Founder, ShopLocket) This is the story of how my startup, ShopLocket, found its first investor, Heather Payne. In startup land, we spend a lot of time thinking about that elusive first dollar. Whether it’s from a customer, a bank, or an investor, they often say that it’s the first dollar that’s the [...]
With Programs Like Codecademy, Women Are No Longer Accidentally Excluded From Learning Technology
January 16, 2012 – 11:00 am
By Blake Landau (Blogger, Artemis) “We’re hoping to make everyone literate about the basics of programming while creating a generation of new and talented programmers” Zach Sims, co-Founder of Codecademy told me in an email. Codecademy’s mission is to democratize coding in 2012. The startup has partnered with Girl Develop It, Code Year and was [...]
SkinnyScoop Powers Social Curation Platform
January 9, 2012 – 6:00 am
By Eden Godsoe (Co-Founder & CEO, SkinnyScoop) I was not one of those women who always knew she would be an entrepreneur. Around the time I became pregnant with my first child, I began looking into the dynamics of female purchase power and how women influence one another. What I saw was a huge, untapped [...]
Partner Event: Save 15% on Socialize: Monetizing Social Media (Jan. 27 in Toronto)
December 5, 2011 – 9:32 am
Join Mediabistro, SocialTimes, and AllFacebook on January 27 at Socialize: Monetizing Social Media (Toronto) and learn how all the social media pieces fit together to create a unified and profitable business strategy. You’ll have the chance to connect with over 30 of today’s most influential social media leaders including Fazila Nurani (Founder, PrivaTech Consulting), Susie [...]
Toronto: Mobilizing Ladies Learning to Code Python
June 27, 2011 – 8:32 pm
By Heather Payne and Melissa Crnić (Organizers, Toronto Ladies Learning to Code) Serious question here. Where are all the female programmers? Despite efforts over the past few years to increase the number of women in tech, the percentage of female Computer Science graduates is dropping. Of developers involved in open source projects, only 1.5% are [...]
