Podcasts about women who tech

On this episode of the Startup of the Year Podcast, our host, entrepreneur, and investor, Frank Gruber (https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankgruber), is joined by Allyson Kapin.   Allyson Kapin, the Founder of Women Who Tech, Co-Founder of Rad Campaign, and a General Partner and Co-Founder at W Fund, leads grassroots movements to bolster diversity in the tech and startup sectors; she is an active investor in tech startups, especially women-led and BIPOC startups.   Her work draws global attention to significant gender bias in tech and venture capital by shaking up the culture and economy, making it exceedingly difficult for women to launch and scale startups. Her fund W Fund and nonprofit Women Who Tech provides capital and advises startups building the most innovative tech companies, ultimately closing the funding gap for good.    We invite you all to join our Startup of the Year community today to access the support, expert advice, and resources you need to elevate your startup by going to: www.est.us/join   Thank you for listening, and as always, please check out the Established website and subscribe to the newsletter at: www.est.us   Subscribe to the Startup of the Year podcast: https://podcast.startupofyear.com/   Subscribe to the Established YouTube Channel: https://soty.link/ESTYouTube …… Startup of the Year helps diverse, emerging startups, founding teams, and entrepreneurs push their companies to the next level. We are a competition, a global community, and a resource. Startup of the Year is also a year-long program that searches the country for a geographically diverse set of startups from all backgrounds and pulls them together to compete for the title of Startup of the Year. Check out Startup of the Year at: www.startupofyear.com   The program includes in-person and virtual events, including our annual SXSW startup pitch and competition. All of this culminates at our Startup of the Year Summit, where the Startup of the Year winner is announced and has an opportunity at a potential investment.   Established is a consultancy focused on helping organizations with innovation, startup, and communication strategies. It is the power behind Startup of the Year. Created by the talent responsible for building the Tech.Co brand (acquired by an international publishing company), we are leveraging decades of experience to help our collaborators best further (or create) their brand & accomplish their most important goals. Check out Established at: www.established.us Connect with us on X - @EstablishedUs and Facebook - facebook.com/established.us

Our special guest this week is Victoria Hajjar! Victoria is a community leader, business enthusiast, and active supporter of female founders across the country. She co-leads the Sogal Foundation in Miami and is an Advisor at Women Who Tech. Prior to settling in Miami, Victoria helped build successful businesses in Shanghai, Dubai, and Mexico in the lifestyle, hospitality, a technology spaces. She has been featured on CNN.com as a marketing leader and has spoken at conferences around the country. She is deeply passionate about developing strategic sales, marketing, and operational solutions to foster sustainable growth for organizations. She has a results-driven approach with over 10 years of experience servicing startups, boutique hospitality & e-commerce brands to create and execute compelling, comprehensive marketing programs. In this episode we're diving into the power of systems. We see systems every day and learning those systems is a part of life. Systems bring success and we can only have a successful system if we have consistency - and that can be difficult. Victoria Hajjar and Linda discuss about starting a business, the pitfalls we put ourselves in, and the idea of perfection Check out Victoria's links below! Instagram @ugliventures Victoria's Website Victoria's Program Check out our links below! Join The Lila Life Collective today Follow us on IG

In this episode we switch it up! I pass the mic to disability advocate Tinu. Later, I chat with Christine about her work as a transformation coach. Rest assured, I pick the mic back up to share Twitter gems and life lessons! Be sure to listen and follow us on social media kaewhocreates_ on Twitter and Instagram! Tinu Abayomi-Paul is a writer, disability advocate, a Black Women's rights activist, and the founder of Everywhere Accessible. She maintains a master list of Twitter chats and patient-facing hashtags, to help the disabled and chronically ill community find easily resources and each other. She is also a member of Global Healthy Living Foundation's COVID-19 Patient Leadership Council Board, as well as the Women Who Tech's US Start-Up Advisory Board. Social Links: Twitter.com/Tinu Instagram.com/AskTinu Medium.com/@Tinu Ko-fi.com/TinuWrites Christine Christine is a transformation coach and consultant with a mission to empower people to live a life aligned with who they are so they can lead consciously and create impact on their own terms. She is the founder of Conscious Thrive LLC., established with the belief that when we are thriving consciously, we make better choices and when we make better choices, it ripples to our family, community and to our society. Social Links: Instagram: consciousthrive

A survey released this month by Women Who Tech, which includes responses from 1,003 tech employees, founders, and investors, globally found that nearly 50% of women founders and women working in tech have experienced harassment — a statistic that has barely budged since 2017. When asked what kind of sexual harassment, 65% of women founders said they were propositioned for sex. In addition: • 59% of women experienced unwanted physical contact • 56% of women had sexual slurs directed at them • 32% of women were groped • 24% of women were sent graphic photos On this episode, Justyn Hintze, Director of Women Who Tech, will share the report findings and help explain why there has been such little progress when it comes to creating a safe, welcoming work environment for women in technology.

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation to create expert networks which promote thought leadership, increase revenue, and build engagement and trust. My guest is Charles Thiede, Co-founder and CEO ZapnitoCharles who was born in the USA, studied at the San Francisco State University and achieved a Bachelor of Arts degree in Design and Industry. His previous roles have included the Interim Chief Product Officer and Digital Systems Director at Nature Publishing Group, Chief Technology Officer and Group Operations Director at Informa and Product Manager at Blue Shield of California. He has also acted as a Mentor for Women Who Tech.Today he is the CEO and Co-Founder of London-based, Zapnito, a Software as a Service (SaaS) knowledge-sharing and expert community platform. Zapnito helps event organizers, expert networks, membership and subscription businesses to deliver expertise on‐demand and to build sustainable communities.And this resonated with me, and hence I invited Charles to my podcast. We explore the growing challenge that the noise on the internet is just getting louder and louder. It’s harder to have a voice. It’s harder to create and share collective knowledge and intelligence. And it’s harder to create trusted places. We discuss why it’s so key to bring that original premise of the internet back in order to solve the new challenges ahead of us, deliver remarkable value, and create sustainable advantage on the back of that.Here are some of his quotes:I was very much impacted by a talk, I heard from a guy named Gerd Leonhard who’s futurist. And I was seeing social media creating a lot of noise out there. This is back in 2010/2011. And it was bothering me. The noise was getting heavier and heavier.And so, one of the things that was bothering me in that model is this idea of trusted collective intelligence being lost in that noise. And actually, at that time, I was working for a trusted business information company. And they were really struggling with this new paradigm. And I thought, well, in the heart of what they’re doing is about trust collective intelligence, but the way they’re delivering it is totally old school and archaic.So, the big idea was to help return the internet back to its original premise, which was around collective intelligence from experts sharing with each other.During this interview, you will learn four things:How the power of communities can help to push boundaries and avoid the risk of so-called echo chambers.Why trust, quality and diversity are essential ingredients for success in creating expert communities that have staying powerHow switching your approach from being a vitamin to being a painkiller can become the tipping point for your software businessHow having a sense of humour and fun helps you get through tough times in a much easier way. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, is part of our Women in Tech and features Women Who Tech's Allyson Kapin. Kapin is  the founder of Women Who Tech, the largest network of women-led startups, investors, and allies working to increase diversity and funding in tech. Women Who Tech is a nonprofit organization working to build a culture and inclusive economy focused on accelerating women tech entrepreneurs and closing the funding gap.   Women Who Tech conducted The State of Women in Tech and Startups 2020 research study to identify what barriers and challenges people face in the tech sector, and also to help track whether the systemic sexism and racism that respondents experience have shifted since the organization's 2017 survey. Did the #MeToo movement play a role? What happened to gender parity, or investors' perceptions around gender parity in tech and whether investors believe gender plays a role in access to funding? Has anything changed since 2017?   You can get The State of Women in Tech and Startups 2020 Report here.   Disclaimer: This show is for information and entertainment purposes only. While we will discuss publicly traded companies on this show, the contents of this show should not be taken as investment advice.

topic: a conversation with the quintessential philanthropist bio: Craig Newmark Founder of craigslist and Craig Newmark Philanthropies Craig Newmark is a Web pioneer, philanthropist, and leading advocate. Most commonly known for founding the online classified ads service craigslist, Newmark works to support and connect people and drive broad civic engagement. In 2016, he founded Craig Newmark Philanthropies to advance people and grassroots organizations that are “getting stuff done” in areas that include trustworthy journalism & the information ecosystem, voter protection, women in technology, and veterans & military families. At its core, all of Newmark’s philanthropic work helps to strengthen American democracy by supporting the values that the country aspires to – fairness, opportunity, and respect. Newmark serves on the board of directors of a number of organizations, including Blue Star Families, the Center for Public Integrity, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, Girls Who Code, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of American, Poynter Foundation, Sunlight Foundation, VetsinTech, and Women in Public Service Project. He also serves on the Board of Overseers of the Columbia Journalism Review and on the advisory board of nearly twenty other nonprofit organizations, including DonorsChoose.org, EFF, New America Foundation, Voto Latino, Wikimedia Foundation, and Women Who Tech. In 1995, Newmark started curating a list of San Francisco arts and technology events, which he personally emailed to friends and colleagues. People were soon calling it "Craig's List," and when Newmark turned it into a company, he monetized it minimally, opting for a business model that prioritized "doing well by doing good." Today, more than 5 billion ads have been posted on the site, the vast majority for free. Newmark has not been involved in the day-to-day management of the company since 2000. Born in Morristown, New Jersey, Newmark earned degrees in computer science from Case Western Reserve University. He lives in San Francisco and New York City and enjoys birdwatching, science fiction, and Dad jokes. Newmark travels the country speaking about the initiatives he supports, and he uses Twitter to further get the word out – and share photos of birds.   In this wide ranging interview, we cover:   1. Being a Nerd 2. Hebrew school lessons 3. computer programing 4. craig's list/no banker's please 5. allergic to money for monies sake 6. elections 2020 7. philanthropy/giving pledge   And much much more!-- -- 

Two Queens talk tech! Episode 32 is PART 2 of a 2-part lightning talk series exploring Stephanie Benedetto’s journey from corporate attorney, to sustainability tech entrepreneur. She is the co-founder of the Queen of Raw solution: a B2B platform for businesses to recapture value from their wasted materials and touts an impressive list of recents awards including MIT Solve Global Challenge Winner, LVMH Innovation Award, Google Women Who Tech Fashion Group International Rising Star, and thredUP Circular Fashion Fund Recipient. Technology and the future of fashion includes assuring brand identity and ethical supply chains with provenance. How does technology like blockchain, AI, deep ML, analytics, and digital supply chains bring us closer to sustainability and circularity in fashion? This episode explores the nitty-gritty of fashion supply chains and technology, including predictions for the future of fashion. Most notably, we break down how to monetize waste streams and optimize fashion supply chains from acquisition to manufacturing, to creating a brand that meets the triple bottom line: people, planet, profit. Learn about entrepreneurship in an age of Amazon: the Queen of Raw saw an opportunity in the B2B space and created a private portal to cater to large volume buyers and sellers and launched a partnership with SAP. And for Queen of Raw, fashion and textiles is just the beginning. Looking across industries and around the world, it has found the $1 trillion thread to solve the world’s water crisis.   Learn about using blockchain to rescue fashion’s dead stock: the Queen of Raw uses blockchain technology to provide transparency around wasted inventory and turn that pollution into profit by integrating with its global marketplace. Queen of Raw secures and verifies supply chain data to help companies save significant time and money. Blockchain is the new reality for wholesale and retail. Learn more about Stephanie here -  http://www.queenofraw.com  Industry: SaaS Software, Supply Chain, Textiles, Blockchain, Machine Learning/AI, Marketplace Launched: Q3 2018 Find us, connect, and explore at https://www.supplychainrevolution.com/

Emma Yang is the fifteen-year-old Founder of Timeless, a mobile app that helps Alzheimer’s patients stay engaged and connected to loved ones. In September 2017, Timeless was selected as the winner of the MIT Solve Brain Health Challenge and designated as one of the 38 Solvers out of nearly 1,000 solutions from 103 countries. Most recently, Emma was named the Grand Prize Winner of the Women Startup Challenge hosted by Women Who Tech and Google. On this episode, I chat with Emma about challenges she faced raising money as a 13-year-old, the influence of her parents and her transition from Hong Kong to New York. Enjoy!

Last year, women-led startups received just 2.2% of $130 billion in venture capital funding. Allyson Kapin, Founder of Women Who Tech, talks to Yahoo Finance's Alexis Christoforous about how her organization is working to change that statistic and ways that the investing community can be more inclusive. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Just 2.2% of all investor dollars go to women-led startups. Allyson Kaypin, CEO of Women Who Tech, is trying to change that. She speaks with Yahoo Finance’s Alexis Christoforous about her annual Women Startup Challenge and how venture capitalists are starting to pay attention. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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!

What tech will change the way we do business? And how is the tech industry changing (slowly) to bring in more diverse perspectives? Meghan M. Biro interviews Women Who Tech founder Allyson Kapin to talk all things modern tech.

At a time when we are becoming more acutely aware of the level of harassment endemic in American businesses, government, and the entertainment industry, we must pay particular attention to women working in technology fields. Some new research conducted by the non-profit organization Women Who Tech, revealed the full story of the level of harassment which is going on in tech industry. We need to encourage more women to enter technology fields, and play a part in the rapid growth and cutting edge developments. Women have something to add to this industry. But it is difficult for women to break into the field, and then to stay in the field because of an often hostile work environment as well as rather significant levels of sexual harassment. Because of the "brogrammer" atmosphere, women are being left out of this sector of the economy and limited in their potential for professional growth. Listen to our discussion with Justyn Hintze from Women Who Tech as we discussed their research on women in tech and the shocking level of harassment they face.

In my discussion with Justyn Hintze from the non-profit Women Who Tech, we unpack the various forms of cyber harassment and the various platforms in which women are most likely to become victims of cyber harassment. The anonymous nature of the cyber environment can contribute to a willingness to push boundaries of appropriate behavior, sometimes becoming abusive, hateful, or even dangerous. Justyn helps debunk some myths about cyber harassment, and what you can do if you are the recipient of harassing online messages. She also offers some tips on how to protect yourself from unwelcome and often abusive exchanges in the online environment.

Allyson Kapin, founding partner of Rad Campaign (http://radcampaign.org) has been named one of the “Top Tech Titans” by the Washingtonian, one of the Most Influential Women In Tech by Fast Company and one of the top 30 women entrepreneurs to follow on Twitter by Forbes for her leadership role in technology and social media. Founder of Women Who Tech in 2007(http://womenwhotech.com), Allyson champions women who are inspiring change and transforming technology.