NYC-based Wantworthy graduates from TechStars, raises seed funding to accelerate product development. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Wantworthy announced raising $1M in seed funding, led by RRE Ventures, Google Ventures, Quotidian Ventures, and several NYC-area angels also participated. 2011 NYC TechStars graduate Wantworthy aims to help you keep track of everything you [...]
Posts Tagged "Wanelo"
FLOODGATE Raises $75M Fund, Managed By Partner Ann Miura-Ko
August 1, 2012 – 7:00 am
Under Ann Miura-Ko’s management, FLOODGATE has invested in many women-led startups. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) VC fund FLOODGATE announced today closing a $75M fund for investment in early-stage high-growth ventures using technology to accelerate business. At FLOODGATE, Ann Miura-Ko led the investment in ModCloth (co-founded by CCO Susan Gregg Koger) and [...]
What Is The Problem With Shopping?
June 11, 2012 – 7:00 am
The data science-driven approaches that work are actually rooted in social context. Wanelo links products, stores and people in a single network. By Deena Varshavskaya (Founder & CEO, Wanelo) Human beings are fundamentally social. We’re born into a rich set of cultural notions that range from when it’s appropriate to yawn to our definitions of [...]
Stop Reading Startup Advice – Learn By Doing!
December 1, 2011 – 9:16 am
By Deena Varshavskaya (Founder & CEO, Wanelo) Startup culture encourages startup advice. Entrepreneurs want to write it. Other entrepreneurs want to read it. You can read all sorts of things from people who know exactly what they are talking about. Don’t raise funding. Raise as much as you can. Build an amazing product and they [...]
From Siberia to Silicon Valley: Wanelo’s Deena Varshavskaya Shares Five Startup Lessons Learned
July 18, 2011 – 6:05 am
By Deena Varshavskaya (Founder & CEO, Wanelo) I like to think that my entrepreneurial training started when I was born in the far east of Siberia, Russia — one of the coldest places on Earth where humans live (see #5 on this list). My family had been adventurous enough to willingly move to Siberia for [...]
