One of the benefits of the Founder Institute's standardized test-based applications process is bias-free admissions. Approximately 25% of FI graduates are women, and we are constantly trying to get more women to apply and help that number grow.
Women 2.0, a Founder Institute partner, is one organization that has helped us recruit more women to the Founder Institute. Their mission is to increase the number of female founders of technology startups, and this week they published a list of the Female Founder Successes of 2010. Four Founder Institute graduate companies were featured on this list, including;
- Himani Amoli (Co-Founder, Micromobs) - Launched Micromobs, a tool to share your life privately with the groups you care about most, and featured on TC, RWW, NYTimes, PCWorld & Lifehacker. Follow her on Twitter at @himania.
- Maya Bisineer (Founder & CEO, Memetales) - Launched Memetales, a platform for writers and illustrators to publish children’s stories to mobile platforms and into games like reading mobile app. Folow her on Twitter at @thinkmaya.
- Leslie Ikemoto (Co-Founder & CTO, Animeeple) - Animeeple launched two iOS games (Hako and Hipnoz) and raised seed money from the National Science Foundation. Follow her on Twitter at @leslieikemoto.
- Rachelle Palmer (Co-Founder, Giv.to) - Successfully launched Giv.to and pivoted with campaignify product, got great new subscribers and are looking forward to a funding round in 2011. Follow her on Twitter at @techbelle.
Congratulations!
