In the spirit of yesterday's new Female Founder Fellowship Program announcement, I thought I would highlight some of the female-led technology companies the Founder Institute has helped launch over our 2.5 years with a logo montage.
This isn't a complete list by any means - nearly 100 females have graduated from the program, and as a pre-seed incubator, most of our graduates have not yet publicly launched. But this should give you a taste of some of the great female-led startups coming out of the program.
And remember: applications are coming up in October for Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, San Diego/ Orange County, Jakarta, Chicago, Hanoi, Singapore, New York City, and Washington D.C. All female applicants to these semesters are automatically eligible for the Female Founder Fellowship.
And here are descriptions of the companies;
- 2RedBeans (Q Zhao, Silicon Valley Grad) - 2RedBeans is a place for Chinese singles to meet, connect and get to know each other.
- BeScrappy (Priya Sheth, San Francisco Grad) BeScrappy is an online marketplace that connects people who need tools for home improvement and building projects with lenders that have them.
- Cake Health (Rebecca Woodcock, Silicon Valley Grad) - Cake Health is an online system that helps users understand and manage their health care, by providing a central location to track and manage all your healthcare plans.
- CaringWise (Trevania Henderson, Boston Grad) - CaringWise is an online platform that makes it easy to organize health information and coordinate care giving among family, friends and professionals.
- CycleHarmony (Jing Jin, Los Angeles Grad) - Cycle Harmony is a global community for women to learn, share, and support one another to be free from PMS, depression and mood swings -- and to embrace a full and fabulous womanhood.
- Dress-Me (Silvie Lopes, Paris Grad) - Dress-Me is a social networking website meant for people who want to get the right look for the right occasion.
- Ecobold (Steffany Boldrini, Silicon Valley Grad) - Ecobold is a marketplace for natural, non-toxic and green products that showcases a new product every day via video reviews from green product experts.
- Ergolution – (Charissa Shaw, Los Angeles Grad) Ergolution is a platform for enterprises to manage their ergonomics programs and save on healthcare costs.
- EximFlow (Stacey Arbetter, Boston Grad) - EximFlow is a document management platform that makes completing your international trade documents simple, quick, and error-free.
- Fashioning Change (Adriana Herrera, San Diego Grad) – Fashioning Change is dedicated to creating shopping experiences that give you fashionable eco-friendly and ethical alternatives to popular name brands that lack transparency in their supply chains and that have yet to adopt authentic practices that protect the Earth and human rights.
- Feastie.com (Valerie Coffman, Washington DC Grad) - Feastie is a new and innovative recipe search engine that searches food blogs and high-quality websites to help you find the most delicious and well-tested recipes.
- HandThingsDown.com (Cheryl Marquez, Seattle Grad) - Hand Things Down is a social application that enables busy parents to post, trade and give away their kids’ old and outgrown clothing, furniture, toys and more.
- In The Door (Liz Carlson, Silicon Valley Grad) - In The Door is a social job search site that aggregates job listings and shows users opportunities where they have inside connections.
- Learnemy (Elisha Tan, Singapore Grad) - Learnemy is a web application that helps you find great instructors on anything you want to learn.
- Learning Yard (Joane Chen, San Francisco Grad) - Learning Yard aims to build a full curriculum of math games on mobile devices for kids to complement the K-4 academic curriculum. Their first game, Grow Your Garden, recenlty launch in the iStore.
- Memetales (Maya Bisineer, Seattle Grad) - Memetales is a platform for people to create, share, and read children's stories and ebooks.
- Micromobs (Himani Amoli, Silicon Valley Grad) - Micromobs is an online application that makes it easy for people to communicate in groups.
- Mona Lisa Style (Cha Chang, Silicon Valley Grad) - Mona Lisa Style is a B2B SaaS website that connects fashion designers with buyers and streamlines the wholesale buying process.
- Nelou.com (Regine Harr, Berlin Grad) - Nelou is an online news source and store for emerging, independent fashion.
- Skimble (Maria Ly, Silicon Valley Grad) - Skimble powers the mobile health & fitness movement through a platform of fun and interactive applications, for the iPad, iPhone, and Android.
- SnuggleCloud - (Emily Marshall, Seattle Grad) - SnuggleCloud is a private social network for couples to stay in touch.
- WatchMe911 - (Alice Armitage, Los Angeles Grad) - WatchMe 911 is a personal protection mobile application, with four customizable alert modes, seven alarm sounds, a flashlight and GPS tracking.
- ZebraMinds (Oza Klanjsek, Denver Grad) - The ZebraMinds framework provides children’s book publishers the ability to turn their books into mobile applications.
- Zirtual (Maren Kate, Silicon Valley Grad) - Zirtual connects busy people with personal, virtual assistants dedicated to making your life better by taking care of the tasks you don't want to.
