#WomenTechOver - Females @Founding Startups
Discussion about women in tech.
Panelists:
* Natascha Otero-Santiago, Co-Founder, Parranda.org
* Nerma Albertorio, StartupWeekend Organizer
* Maritza Ramirez, Co-Founder, Crowdville
One of the actors who has taken a leadership role in boosting female tech entrepreneurship is our presenting sponsor, The Founder Institute. Its Female Founder Fellowship program provides free Course Fees to its best female applicants in each city. The stated goal of the program was to increase the number of female applicants to program, and in turn, graduate over 30% female-founded companies across the globe.
Since the program began, we have seen a 62% global increase in our percentage of female graduates, which has now reached 26% worldwide.
Our most recent Spring and Summer 2012 Graduating classes consisted of 36% female founded-companies. We have now graduated over 150 female-led companies across the globe, including notable ones likeCakeHealth,Zirtual, Fashioning Change, Skimble, Memetales, Ecobold, Kindara, Piggybackr, and 2RedBeans.
Join the movement! Find out how these female leaders are teching over.
Platinum Partners
The Founder Institute is the world’s most proven network to turn ideas into fundable startups, and startups into global businesses. Since 2009, our structured accelerator programs have helped over 7,800 entrepreneurs raise over $1.85BN in funding. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 100 countries, our mission is to empower communities of talented and motivated people to build impactful technology companies worldwide.
