Tag: Women in tech
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First Venture Fund for Black-Owned Health Startups Launches with $55 Million
By all accounts, these are heady times for health-tech startups. In 2020, as the pandemic raged, a record $28.5 billion of venture capital poured into the U.S. biotech startup scene, according to Pitchbook data. New dollars inflated valuations for tel…
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‘After I Complained of Sexual Harassment, I Was Demoted’: Blizzard Employee Speaks Out
A current Blizzard employee accused the company of ignoring reports of sexual harassment and of retaliating against her in a press conference outside the video game publisher’s headquarters in Irvine on Wednesday morning.Christine, who asked that repo…
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‘Look at It as a No For Now’: Halogen Ventures’ Jesse Draper on How to Handle Rejection as an Entrepreneur
As the founding partner of Halogen Ventures, Jesse Draper and her team are betting big on early-stage, female-founded companies with billion-dollar potential. In this episode of the Behind Her Empire podcast, Draper discusses how she deals with re…
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Office Hours Podcast: Greycroft’s Dana Settle on LA’s Booming Tech Scene
It was once a contrarian perspective to think a venture capital firm could survive outside of Silicon Valley. But Dana Settle moved to Los Angeles and tried it anyway.On this episode of Office Hours, co-founder of Zillow and dot.LA Spencer Rascoff tal…
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Goodbye, Diesel: Inside Romeo Power’s Plan to Electrify Trucks Nationwide
At a time when most electric vehicle manufacturers are struggling to deliver cars or finance their operations, electric battery maker Romeo Power is surging ahead. The five-year-old company founded by former SpaceX and Tesla engineers manufactures and…
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Behind Her Empire: How Natalie Gordon Took Babylist from a Side Project to an Industry Leader
Two weeks before her first son was born, entrepreneur Natalie Gordon became frustrated with the limited options for baby registries. So she created her own — as a side project.That side project is now a fast-growing, multimillion-dollar business known…
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Acelyrin Wants to Move LA Biotech Beyond the ‘Innovate and Exit’ Model
The reality for most bioscience startups developing drugs is that, if they don’t fail, they will be swallowed up by a pharmaceutical giant. After a decade in the pharmaceutical industry and being involved in developing several high-profile drugs inclu…
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Pediatric App Huckleberry Raises $12.5 Million in a Telehealth Boom
When Jessica Toh had her first child, who proved to be an erratic sleeper, she wanted to use her background in computer science and statistics to understand why.In 2017, she started Huckleberry, an app that aims to leverage AI to predict babies’ sleep…