Women 2.0 - Where are the Women-Founded Startups?

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Where are the women-founded startups? Chris Shipley, Executive Director of DEMO, points out the painful lack of women founders who try to launch at their events. DEMO is the premiere semi-annual conference for launching tech products.

Out of the 30 web startups I have profiled since January 2008 for Pinoy Web Startup, a tech blog that features web techologies from the Philippines and Asia, I’ve listed less than 5 women principals.

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Posted on February 21, 2008 by Marie Casas

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  • Jon Limjap

    February 21, 2008 12:37 pm

    About the only female I know is involved in a startup that became big is Catherina Fake of Flickr, and incidentally she’s part-Filipina.

  • Marie Casas

    February 21, 2008 1:52 pm

    In the article, Chris Shipley lists a few including Gina Bianchini of Ning. Then there’s Leah Culver of Pownce and Aruni Gunasegaram of BabbleSoft… and Myla Villanueva too of Novare Tech, though they’re into mobile apps. And from the young ones, me and Kim Ting (Global Trade Phils)! Yay!
    There are girls… just maybe not usually founders. Check out DigATechGirl.

  • Ingrid

    February 21, 2008 5:25 pm

    There’s also Anne Wojcicki (sp?) who founded http://www.23andme.com…a really interesting service, in my opinion. Google has invested serious money into her project. She’s Sergie Brin’s wife, of course, so that raises some speculations.



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