Women Startup Challenge Podcast

The winner of the first season of the Women Startup Challenge Podcast is Andrea Higuera, Founder of Yask! Yask combines a global community of native speakers with cutting-edge AI technology to offer human quality translations and proofreading in real time. Listen to this final episode to learn what advances Yask has made since we recorded their episode and how they'll be using their $5,000 grant. Find them online at Yask.ai Thanks to all who support Women Who Tech and the Women Startup Challenge!

Vote for your favorite contestants in The Women Startup Challenge Podcast today! The winner will be announced in the final episode of Season 1 on July 26, 2018. http://womenwhotech.com/women-startup-challenge/podcast

The tenth and final contestant in the Women Startup Challenge Podcast is Andrea Higuera, Founder of Yask. Yask combines a global community of native speakers with cutting-edge AI technology to offer human quality translations and proofreading in real time. It helps people and businesses to cross borders by communicating correctly and effectively in foreign languages. You can find them online at Yask.ai and rate Andrea's pitch at https://www.womenwhotech.com/vote

The ninth contestant in the Women Startup Challenge Podcast is Rafaela Cavalcanti, Founder of CloQ. CloQ provides easy to reach nano-credit, via app, to the poor and the unbanked while educating them to make better financial decisions. CloQ uses AI to improve results, increase the reach and scalability and minimize the cost of traditional microcredit. You can find them online at CloQ.eu and rate Rafaela's pitch at https://www.womenwhotech.com/vote 

The eighth contestant in the Women Startup Challenge Podcast is Faith Kimeu, Founder of Dial A Pad. Dial A Pad is a multifaceted platform that employs hardware and software solutions to holistically tackle lack of menstrual equity and sexual reproductive health for Kenyan women through e-commerce, chats with gynecologists, and smart pad dispensers. You can find them on Twitter and WhatsApp at @dialapad. Rate Faith's pitch at https://www.womenwhotech.com/vote 

The 7th contestant in the Women Startup Challenge Podcast is Camilla Olson, Founder of Savitude. Savitude’s comprehensive, AI-based solution makes buying decisions easier. With Savitude's SaaS technology, shoppers answer 6 simple questions, then Savitude's Knowledge Base and machine learning automatically curate goods into personalized collections for each shopper’s individual shape and proportion. You can find them online at Savitude.com and rate Camilla's pitch at https://www.womenwhotech.com

The sixth contestant in the Women Startup Challenge Podcast is Patricia Lopez, Founder of NotesFirst. NotesFirst is a smartphone and cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) platform designed for doctors and healthcare providers in emerging markets to capture, access, and curate patient information at the point-of-care. It is an intuitive, customizable, and quickly deployable platform. You can find them online at NotesFirst rate Patricia's pitch at https://www.womenwhotech.com/vote 

The fifth contestant in the Women Startup Challenge Podcast is Rachel McCrickard, Founder of Motivo. Motivo is an online platform providing remote consultation services to mental health professionals. In the past, these consultation hours have occurred through expensive in-person sessions. Motivo provides access to a robust network of mental health professionals through secure video conference. You can find Motivo at Motivo and rate Rachel's pitch at https://www.womenwhotech.com/vote 

The fourth contestant in the Women Startup Challenge Podcast is Sarah Goodman, Founder of VitalSines. VitalSines creates products that empower individuals to live longer, healthier lives. Their popular device iHeart Internal Age revolutionarily measures arterial stiffness to provide consumers with an affordable way to monitor and improve their overall health.

The third contestant in the Women Startup Challenge Podcast is Abigail Edgecliffe-Johnson, Founder of RaceYa. RaceYa educates, entertains and inspires kids through play. Their customizable, programmable radio-controlled car is a hands-on vehicle for STEM connected to a digital community that lets kids share their creations and challenges them to develop skills from engineering to robotics.

The second contestant in the Women Startup Challenge Podcast is Estella Gabriel, CEO of Second Screen. Second Screen is a curated social platform streaming bite-sized sophisticated series for the mobile culture. We rebrand and repackage good-but-unseen independent feature films to view just like a high-quality cable series of 10-minute episodes.

The first contestant in the Women Startup Challenge Podcast is Abi Ramanan, CEO of ImpactVision. ImpactVision's software combines hyperspectral imaging with machine learning to provide information about the quality of foods non-invasively and rapidly for food supply chains. For example, the tenderness of meat, the freshness of fish or the presence of contaminants, from images. You can find ImpactVision at www.impactvi.com and rate Abi's pitch at https://www.womenwhotech.com/vote 

Women Who Tech's Women Startup Challenges have enabled more than $20 million raised for women founders. Each episode of the Women Startup Challenge Podcast will feature one of ten woman-led startups competing for a $5,000 grant. We’ll hear from the founders, ask some tough questions, and give you the opportunity to vote for your favorite. Subscribe now to hear every episode and help select the winning pitch! To apply to be a contestant visit https://www.womenwhotech.com/women-startup-challenge/podcast