Celebrating Google’s birthday – and the female founders acquired by Google over the last 14 years. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) This week, Google announced partnering with Women 2.0 with the launch of the new Google for Entrepreneurs program. We celebrated Google’s 14th birthday and reflected on the 118 mergers and acquisitions [...]
Posts Tagged "Wildfire Interactive"
Is It Time To Rethink The Stigma For Tech Companies Led By Couples?
August 6, 2012 – 7:00 am
Two other recent acquisitions by companies led by couples: Kush sold to Smule, and Yell bought Moonfruit. By Liz Gannes (Writer, AllThingsD) Romantically involved tech company co-founders are having a good year. In the past four months of big-ticket tech exits, Wildfire, co-founded and led by the engaged couple Victoria Ransom (CEO) and Alain Chuard [...]
Female Founders To Watch: Enterprise Social Marketing Companies
August 3, 2012 – 6:00 am
Social media marketing serving the masses means high-growth startups – creating lots of value and jobs. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) PITCH 2010 Startup Competition finalist Amita Paul pitched Objective Marketer onstage at the November conference. A few months later, Objective Marketer was acquired by Emailvision! This year, we’ve seen big exits [...]
Founding CEO Victoria Ransom And Wildfire Interactive Team Join Google In $250M Acquisition
July 31, 2012 – 11:52 am
Google beefs up their social efforts with acquisition of social marketing startup Wildfire Interactive today. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Google declared on its blog today that they will be “sparking better conversation with Wildfire”, announcing the acquisition of social marketing startup Wildfire Interactive today. Wildfire was co-founded by Victoria Ransom and [...]
