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Female Founders to Watch

Female Founders To Watch: Chief Product Officers

By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Do you remember when serial tech entrepreneur Caterina Fake graced the cover of Newsweek magazine for founding Flickr?

Women are often identified as consumers of market goods, but seldom recognized for their ability to create products – from consumer goods like Giddy Snacks in Whole Foods stores to venture-funded tech startups like Songkick.

We at Women 2.0 are celebrating product innovators that happen to be women on Valentine’s Day – join us for a day of speakers on product innovation. Read More »

Female Founders To Watch (Health Innovation Summit 2012)

By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Rock Health hosted the 2012 Health Innovation Summit in San Francisco this week, showcasing a remarkably gender-balanced set of interdisciplinary innovators in the burgeoning health/tech space.

As keynote speaker Mitch Kapor stated, “It is possible to go up the learning curve yourself without the basics of the domain you’re in.” The health tech space is still very new, he reminded the audience, and recommended for early entrepreneurs to educate yourself of the ecosystem, overcome your fears and find a way to “dive in” – find advisors that know about the space, can help you learn, and figure out how to build the right partnerships. Read More »

Female Founders To Watch: Rock Health’s Second Batch Of Women Entrepreneurs in Health Innovation

By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Rock Health announced their second batch of health tech startups. Here are the women working on ground-breaking innovations in health, utilizing their domain expertise in analytics to Arduino-based motion-detection tools to create the next big healthtech startup.

Rock Health is a five month program and seed accelerator targeting health-related mobile and web applications and the entrepreneurs who are interested in building them.

Here are the women entrepreneurs in Rock Read More »

Where Are The Women In Forbes “30 Under 30″?

By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

This morning, Forbes announced their annual “30 Under 30″ lists, launching a cavalcade of public congratulations for the named, and also leaving many women in tech wondering “where are the women?” in Forbes lists?

24-year old Danielle Fong holds top billing in the “30 Under 30″ for energy (and will be speaking at Women 2.0′s PITCH Conference). In the “30 Under 30″ for social & mobile, 29-year old Clara Shih (Co-Founder, Hearsay Social) announced her seat on Starbuck’s board last week. No doubt women are blazing trails in technology, business and innovation. Read More »

Female Founders To Watch In Forbes “Impact 30″

By Elissa Rose (Assistant Editor, Women 2.0)

Forbes has created their Impact 30, a list of social entrepreneurs, defined by Forbes as “people who use business to solve social issues.” They have chosen their 30 entrepreneurs, nine of whom are women, with a panel of diverse experts.

These are the people using business and non-profits to solve real world social problems in innovative ways. They give healthcare to freelancers, keep babies warm without electricity, provide affordable housing, and offering high value advice to promising businesses in low income areas. These are people who Read More »

Women 2.0′s Female Founder Sucesses of 2011

By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Every year, Women 2.0 makes a list of the year’s landmark successes for women entrepreneurs. We celebrated the milestones and accomplishments of 130 women entrepreneurs in 2010 successes, and 125 women entrepreneurs in 2009.

You will want to watch these women grow and their startups evolve. Looking back to 2009, we recognize a handful of female founders from their early days — and now nearing the end of 2011, we recognize these same founders and startups as more refined over time and LOTS of grueling, hard work. Read More »

Naturally Gifted Female Founders to Watch In Tech

By Elissa Rose (Assistant Editor, Women 2.0)

This week at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, there was a panel titled “What if you could create a startup?” The panel was made up of women, one of which was a Partner at the VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. She said, as paraphrased by Forbes, “she thinks that women should work on things they are naturally gifted at, and she believes shopping is one of them.”

Here at Women 2.0, we believe the best response is to give some notable counter-examples to her assertion. The following are naturally gifted female founders doing what they’re best at and making money doing it — and none are limited to the pink ghetto. Read More »

Leah Busque, TaskRabbit Founder, Interview with Foundation

By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief)

Kevin Rose interviews Leah Busque (Founder, TaskRabbit) for his new series Foundation. She talks about a love for efficiency, math and computer science, and going to a small women’s college to be one of six computer science majors.

After graduating, she worked at IBM as a software engineer where she had to decide between a career at IBM or starting her own startup. The real prototype came when she left IBM and spent her summer coding — she calls it one of the funnest summer of her life. Read More »

First Round Winners for Rapleaf Personalization Fund

By Caitlin MacDonald (Head of Marketing, Rapleaf)

rapleafWe are officially announcing our first round winners for the Rapleaf Personalization Fund -– a fund dedicated to supporting developers interested in creating projects built around data and personalization.

We’re extremely excited to showcase the first round of winners. We’ve already received over 85 applicants in the first month, covering a wide breadth of personalization and data-related services, ranging from highly targeted daily deal sites to event recommendation services.

The following winners are now live with Rapleaf data in their platforms to get their startups up and running — check em out: Read More »

15 Female Founders and CEOs to Watch at the Springboard 2011

By Amy Millman (Co-Founder & President, Springboard Enterprises)

Springboard 2011Last week, Mark Suster and Gina Bianchini called attention to some of the most frequently asked questions when it comes to women in tech: “Why Aren’t There More Female Entrepreneurs?” and “Is there a Female Mark Zuckerburg?”

Whenever this happens, we know Women 2.0 will respond with a list of female founders to watch.

This time, we thought we’d help by announcing 15 female founders of digital media and technology companies Read More »

Female Founders to Watch in Mobile

By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

Earlier this year, Women in Wireless selected a panel of women founding and leading wireless startups. From commerce to location-based services, these women-founded startups have high powered innovation in common.

From technical woman leader Asa Kalavade of Umber Systems to mobile marketing guru Maya Mikhailov of GPShopper, here are some amazing founding executive women from the Startup Powerhouse Women Executive panel at this year’s CTIA Wireless conference:

Asa Kalavade (Founder & CTO, Umber Systems)
Asa founded Umber Systems, a mobile data analytics company providing visibility into mobile data usage. In July 2011, Umber merged with Ground Truth, raising $8M in funding. Read More »

Female Founders to Watch in Singapore

By Aihui Ong (Founding CEO & CTO, Love With Food)

Did you watch The Social Network? Where is Eduardo Saverin, co-founder of Facebook? He’s in Singapore, investing in startups. Even Plug and Play recently opened their Asian Headquarters in Singapore.

With a business-friendly environment and attractive tax incentives for investors, Singapore is quickly becoming one of the hot startup scenes in Asia. Whether it’s using technology to educate children or provide entertainment, these female entrepreneurs in Singapore are definitely creating a stir in Asia! Read More »

Female Startup Founders, Female CTOs, and Technical Co-Founders (Oh My!)

By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)

This morning at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC, Julia Hu (Co-Founder & CEO of Lark) got engaged while presenting her startup onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC — her boyfriend inserted a proposal slide into her deck.

Meanwhile, attendees at the National Center for Women in Technology annual summit were not pleased with the lack of technical women leading startups and companies. TechCrunch contributor Vivek Wadhwa tweeted “Sarah, there are very few women CTOs.” Developer and advocate Sarah Mei tweeted back, “I thought there were a few. Pointers plz.”

Every time this happens, we at Women 2.0 put our heads together and come up with a handy list of women CTOs of tech startups for anyone who asks. From writers for magazines to conference organizations, we all want to know — where are the technical women of startups? Why are they not more frequently featured on magazine covers and quoted in newspapers?

No more excuses. Let’s get these technical women leaders exposure.

Here is a list of female startup founders who are also CTOs — and a few more for good measure:

Mariya Genzel (Co-Founder & CTO, SayGent)
Saygent started as Ultimate Hire at Women 2.0 Startup Weekend in 2009. Saygent recently raised $1M in funding. Follow her on Twitter at @mashagenzel and her startup at @saygent.

Leslie Ikemoto (Co-Founder & CTO, Animeeple)
Leslie co-founded Animeeple, a 3D character animation tool. She wrote Hako in 24 hours and also created Hipnoz. Follow her on Twitter at @leslieikemoto and her startup at @animeeple.

Cathy Edwards (Co-Founder & CTO, Chomp)
Venture-funded startup Chomp‘s proprietary algorithm learns the functions and topics of apps helps you find the apps you want. Follow her on Twitter at @cathye and her startup at @chomp.

Aihui Ong (Founding CEO & CTO, Love With Food)
Aihui launched Love With Food to combine her passions two: coding and fooding, her MacBook Pro and her KitchenAid mixer. Follow her on Twitter at @aihui and her startup at @lovewithfood.

Sarah Allen (Co-Founder & CTO, Mightyverse)
Sarah co-founded Railsbridge to increase diversity in engineering, consults at Blazing Cloud, and co-founded Mightyverse. Follow her on Twitter at @ultrasaurus and her startup at @mightyverse.

Notable technical women leaders include the following technical leaders at startups:

Niniane Wang (CTO, Minted)
Niniane currently leads the engineering team at Minted, having 11 years of experience at Google and Microsoft. Follow her on Twitter at @niniane and follow her startup at @minted.

Liz Crawford (VP Engineering, Birchbox)
Liz is currently VP of E at Birchbox. Previously, she co-founded and served as CTO of Aprizi. Follow her on Twitter at @liscrawford and follow her startup at @birchbox.

Mary Lou Jepsen (Founding CTO, One Laptop Per Child)
Mary Lou is currently Founder & CEO of Pixel Qi, producer of low power, sunlight readable displays. Previously, she was founding CTO of OLPC. Follow her startup at @pixelqi.

Beth Marcus (Founder & CEO, Playrific)
Beth founded and served as CEO for startups, most notably EXOS, which was VC-backed and sold to Microsoft in 1996. She served as CTO at Zeemote. Follow her on Twitter at @startupdoc.

Ning Ning (VP Engineering, Perfect Market)
Ning Ning has served as VP of E at multiple tech startups, contributing to the sale of three of these to Salesforce, MEI and AskJeeves. Follow her startup at @PerfectMarket.

Daisy Itty (VP Engineering, DataStax)
Daisy has served as Director of Engineering of Responsys, BlueRoads and Selectica where she was one of the first engineers. Follow her startup on Twitter at @datastax.

Kate Matsudaira (VP Engineering, SEOmoz)
Kate has been holding engineering positions of increasing responsibility, and currently runs engineering at SEOmoz. Follow her on Twitter at @katemats and her startup at @SEOmoz.

Meg Withgott (Co-Founder & CTO, Panafold)
Meg co-founded Panafold, the knowledge attraction company. She co-founded ePlanet, and led research at Xerox PARC, Interval and Sun Labs. Follow her on Twitter at @megwith.

Innovation comes in all sectors and stripes:

Dr. Vivienne Ming (Co-Founder, Chief Scientist & Executive Director, Socos)
Dr. Ming is a theoretical neuroscientist launching an edu-tech startup building cognitive analytics for the classroom. Follow her on Twitter at @neuraltheory and her startup at @socos_me.

Julie Yoo (Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Kyruus)
Julie built the first version of the company’s data mining platform. She leads the product team at Kyruus, which received $5.5M Series A in 2011. Follow her on Twitter at @julesyoo.

Email submissions to foundrtickr@women2.org. Thank you for helping us grow this list!

Female Founders to Watch in the Facebook Ecosystem

By Angie Chang (Co-Founder, Women 2.0)

Who doesn’t have a love and hate relationship with Facebook? Love it because it can be a source of business and new job creation by female founders!

Here are 5 female founders of tech startups making money off Facebook:

Annie Chang (Co-Founder & Head of Products, LOLapps)
“Don’t be fooled by the name of her startup” warned Fast Company. Annie Chang co-founded LOLapps, a leading yet under-the-radar social-apps publisher. Follow her on Twitter at @lolapps.

Carina Koo (Co-Founder, Momentus Media)
Former Microsoft software engineer Carina Koo co-founded Momentus Media to build software tools helping brands connect with fans virally. Follow her on Twitter at @carinacarinakoo.

Lucy Zhang (Co-Founder & President, Beluga)
Former Google software engineer & mobile developer Lucy Zhang co-founded group messaging app Beluga (acquired by Facebook in March). Follow her on Twitter at @lucidlogic.

Victoria Ransom (Founder & CEO, Wildfire)
Wildfire was founded by serial entrepreneur Victoria Ransom to build a platform for companies to run interactive promotions on the social web. Follow her on Twitter at @victoria_ransom.

Do you know more female founders of Facebook-related startups? Let us know about them in the comments below.

5 Female Angels and Investors to Watch

By Angie Chang and Shaherose Charania (Co-Founders, Women 2.0)

This week, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. That’s good news because a venture capital team with a woman invests in more female-founded startups than venture capital teams without a woman as partner.

Here are 5 female angels and investors to watch this year:

Ann Miura-Ko — “There aren’t as many female entrepreneurs playing the game, so you don’t see them as often. People ask me, Are there really awesome female entrepreneurs out there? Yes we have a ton of them in our portfolio.”1 Follow her on Twitter at @annimaniac.

Christina Brodbeck — “Wishful thinking and arguing about female founders, entrepreneurs or gender roles is overriding recognition of the powerful role that the female consumer is already playing in technology.”2 Follow her on Twitter at @jellyfishbloom.

Cindy Padnos — “I strongly recommend entrepreneurs interview, screen and reference their investors in the same way investors are doing with them. Call not just the entrepreneurs whose boards they currently sit on, but those who failed.”3 Follow her on Twitter at @IlluminateVC.

Jenny Fielding — “Entrepreneur, investor, lawyer, tech geek, yogi, global nomad…”4 Since the sale of her VoIP company, Jenny provides advisory services to early stage emerging growth technology companies, focusing on business development, strategic partnerships and strategy.

Marya Stark — “These ideas made me think about the wide world of products and services that have not yet been dreamed up because women aren’t around to have their unique ‘a-ha’ moments. Times are a-changing.”5 Follow her on Twitter at @maryastark.

Female entrepreneur looking for seed funding? Apply to join us at April 2011′s Women 2.0 Angel Investor & Entrepreneur Roundtable – deadline to apply is Sunday, April 3.

Female Founders at Women 2.0

Everyone always asks “Where are the women founders?” or “Where are the female founders of tech startup?” We compiled some lists and publish new ones regularly.

Here are some of our lists of female entrepreneurs of tech startups:

2010 Female Founder Successes
2009 Female Founder Successes

Founder Labs 002: The Founders
Founder Labs 001: The Founders

Female Founders from TechCrunch Disrupt 2010
Female Founders from Women 2.0 Startup Weekend 2009
Female Founders to Watch from Startup Weekend

Female Founders & COOs
Female Founders in Social Gaming
Female Founders in Mobile

Check out our In Conversation video with female founders like Alexis Ringwald (Valence Energy), Annie Chang (LOLapps), and Julia Hartz (Eventbrite) at http://video.women2.org/.

Also don’t forget to apply for the Women 2.0 FoundersCard.

Women 2.0′s Female Founder Successes of 2010

We celebrated an impressive number of female founder succeses in 2009.

While 2010 has remained challenging amidst the recession, we have been recognizing Female Founders to Watch on a monthly basis here at Women 2.0.


Are you a female founder with a success to celebrate in 2010?

To join the list of female founders, send an email to foundrtickr@women2.org with:

  • A 140 character description of an accomplishment in 2010.
  • Your full name, startup name, and position at the startup.
  • Your headshot, a link to your company/startup website, and your Twitter account.

How do I qualify to make the Women 2.0 list of Female Founder Successes?

  1. You must be a female founder of a technology company, defined as a company with an engineer/technologist on the founding team.
  2. A “success” for this list is a company launch, significant product launch, significant milestone reached, angel/venture funding received or similar success.

Female Founders of Tech Startups Share Their 2010 Successes

Alexa Andrzejewski (Founder & CEO, Foodspotting)
Foodspotting, a website & iPhone app for finding & recommending dishes, reached 500,000 app users, and closed a $750k angel round. Follow her on Twitter at @ladylexy.

Leah Busque (Founder & CEO, TaskRabbit)
Moved TaskRabbit‘s headquarters from Boston to San Francisco and raised $1.8M in venture funding. Follow her on Twitter at @labusque.

Alexa von Tobel (Founder & CEO, LearnVest)
Closed $4.5M in funding from Accel Partners, expanded team to 25 people, and LearnVest is now seeing over 500k visitors a month. Follow her on Twitter at @alexavontobel.

Cathy Edwards (Co-Founder & CTO, Chomp)
Built and launched the Chomp search engine, letting you search for apps based on what they do (not what they’re called). Follow her on Twitter at @cathye.

Patricia Calfee (Co-Founder, Bergine)
Her luxury flash-sale deals site Bergine was acquired by Gilt Groupe only ten months after launching. Follow her on Twitter at @PatriciaCalfee.

Claire Boonstra (Co-Founder & VP Platform & Community, Layar)
The augmented reality platform and browser Layar reached over a million active users and raised $14M funding led by Intel Capital. Follow her on Twitter at @claireboo.

Christy Liu (Co-Founder & Director of Marketing, Wanderfly)
Launched Wanderfly and raised venture financing for the travel recommendation engine that is reinventing the industry. Follow her on Twitter at @wanderfly.

Laura Fitton (Founder & CEO, oneforty)
oneforty raised $1.82M Series A funding, and became a “social business buying guide” where 600+ toolkits connect brands to social tools & experts. Follow her on Twitter at @pistachio.

Alicia Morga (Founder & CEO, Consorte Media)
Consorte, a Hispanic focused ad network, was acquired by Audience Science, and Alicia is launching a new venture. Follow her on Twitter @AliciaMorga.

Jane Hoffer (Co-Founder & CEO, BrainRewards)
Launched BrainRewards private beta connecting families through fun & educational games and raised additional $275K in seed capital. Follow her on Twitter at @brainrewards.

Stephanie Robesky (Founder & CEO, Grows Up)
Launched Grows Up, a children’s goods marketplace that supports mompreneurs, built an all female team, and raised $1M+ in VC funding. Follow her on Twitter at @nerdgirl.

Michelle Zatlyn (Co-Founder & Head of User Experience)
CloudFlare raised funding by top VCs, won TechCrunch Disrupt’s “Most Innovative Company” and scaled from zero to >1B page views in 3 months. Follow her on Twitter at @zatlyn.

Jules Pieri (Founder & CEO, Daily Grommet)
DailyGrommet raised $2.7M of a total $3.9M Series A, built a team of 15, launched a new site, and increase revenues 10X. Follow her at @julespieri.

Helen Zhu & Corinne Chan (Co-Founders, Chictopia)
Chictopia, the leading online fashion network, reached 150k registered users and 10M monthly pageviews in 2010. Follow them on Twitter at @helenzhu and @corinney7.

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.

Elizabeth Yin & Jennifer Hsieh (Co-Founders, DressMob & LaunchBit)
Launched DressMob, a social shopping site for dresses and LaunchBit, an online resource hub for new web entrepreneurs. Follow them on Twitter at @launchbit.

Annie Chang (Co-Founder & Head of Product, LOLapps)
LOLapps launched Ravenwood Fair, which was named a top social game of 2010 by Gamasutra and played by over 5 million monthly active users.

Deena Varshavskaya (Founder & CEO, Wanelo)
Deena launched Wanelo (from Want Need Love) in December 2010 for bookmarking, organizing and sharing your favorite products from any website. Follow her on Twitter at @siberianfruit.

Elizabeth Muse & Cathy Jolly (Co-Founders, A Day’s Outing)
A Days Outing expanded nationwide and released an iPhone app so users can find the best local events and destinations. Follow them on Twitter at @adaysouting.

Aihui Ong (Founder/CEO & CTO, Love With Food)
Built and launched Love With Food, a smarter and fun way to connect food brands with foodies. Follow her on Twitter at @aihui.

Alicia Roisman Ismach (Co-Founder & EVP Business Development, SeerGate)
SeerGate signed a partnership with Integrated Bank Technologies to distribute its A2A real-time payment system to financial institutions. Follow her on Twitter at @aliciarismach.

Cheryl Yeoh (Co-Founder & CEO, CityPockets)
Launched CityPockets, a real-time merchant CRM platform providing follow-up offers and helping users manage daily deal vouchers. Follow her on Twitter at @cherylyeoh.

Wendy Tan White (Founder & CMO, Moonfruit)
Moonfruit, the design-led self publishing for SMB’s & artisans, raised $2.25M for international growth. Follow her on Twitter at @wendytanwhite.

Karen Miller (Co-Founder & President, DK Pictures)
DoInk created 1.2M drawings and animations, while the DoInk iPad App was named in Level Up News’s holiday app gift guide. Follow her on Twitter at @kdmiller4.

Alexis Ringwald (Co-Founder, Valence Energy)
Valence Energy was acquired by Serious Materials. Alexis won a prize at Startup Weekend and spoke at TEDxWomen for her SMS mobile app, MarketYoYo. Follow her at @alexisringwald.

Victoria Ransom (Founder & CEO, Wildfire)
Wildfire raised $4M Series A funding, served tens of thousands of paying customers, grew from 10 to over 70 team members and remained profitable. Follow her on Twitter at @wildfireapp.

Marissa Evans (Founder & CEO, Go Try It On)
Go Try It On reached 100k mobile app users and closed a seed venture round from Index Ventures in 2010. Follow her on Twitter at @mevans1.

Pooja Nath (Founder & CEO, Piazzza)
A free Q&A platform for classrooms, Piazzza is taking over Stanford computer science & math classes by storm and raised ~450k in angel funding, launching in Stanford University.

Sophia Perl (Founder, Eventabulous)
Developed and launched her Startup Weekend idea Eventabulous in December 2010, an iPhone app that helps you find events near you. Follow her on Twitter at @sounalath.

Maria Ly (Co-Founder, Skimble)
Skimble launches to power the mobile fitness movement with fun and interactive apps including Workout Trainer. Follow her on Twitter at @marialy.

Stacy Roderick (Co-Founder & CFO, GotoBilling)
GotoBilling launched a new reseller program that increased its number of active resellers by 325% in the first quarter of the launch. Follow her on Twitter at @stacyroderick.

Elena Haliczer (Founder & COO, Adaptive Semantics)
Adaptive Semantics was acquired by the Huffintgon Post in June 2010. Follow her on Twitter at @EllieSemantic.

Erica Dublin (Founder & CEO, See Jane Fly)
SeeJaneFly grew to more than 50+ high-profile travel blogs, formed a partnership with Federated Media Publishing, and grew our business at Kicklabs SF. Follow her at @seejaneflyinc.

Sumaya Kazi (Founder & CEO, Sumazi)
Launched Sumazi at TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield & won the Omidyar Network award for “Startup Most Likely to Change the World”. Follow her on Twitter at @Sumaya.

Veronika Miller (Founder & CEO, Modenus)
Presentation site launched in March, secured $450k funding, and Modenus fully launched in August. Follow her on Twitter at @modenus.

Kerry Bannigan (Founder & CEO, GlobalFashionBrands)
Launched GlobalFashionBrands for personalized shopping social e-commerce, connecting consumers to independent fashion designers/retailers. Follow her on Twitter at @missnolcha.

Erin DeRuggiero (Co-Founder & CMO, Social Reality)
Social Reality secured VC-funded Causes app on Facebook, reaching 140M users and selling more than two dozen digital cause marketing campaigns on the Causes platform alone.

Jessica Scorpio (Founder & Director of Business Development, Getaround)
Launched and raised a seed round for Getaround, a peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace in San Francisco and San Diego. Follow her on Twitter at @jessicascorpio.

Joselle Ho (Co-Founder & Creative Director, Miso Media)
iOS music education app Miso Music won People’s Choice at TechCrunch Disrupt, and Miso Media raised $600k in seed funding led by Google Ventures. Follow her on Twitter at @joselleho.

Bettina Hein (Founder & CEO, Pixability)
Raised angel funding for Pixability, expanded team to 10 individuals, and grew revenue 7x in 2010. Follow her on Twitter at @pixability.

Tracy Kobeda Brown (Founder & CEO, Evil Genius Designs)
Evil Genius Designs named to the PepsiCo10, a program that pairs the most innovative emerging technology companies with PepsiCo brands. Follow her on Twitter at @ticorah.

Lisa Holton (Founder & CEO, Fourth Story Media)
Fourth Story Media‘s The Amanda Project was named a 2010 Webby honoree in the youth category, and featured on NPR’s Morning Edition. Follow her on Twitter at @amandaproject.

Jen Consalvo (Co-Founder, Shiny Heart Ventures)
Thankfulfor, a gratitude journal application, launched an iPhone app and some major updates creating a more robust and connected community. Follow her on Twitter at @noreaster.

Ellie Cachette (Founder & CEO, ConsumerBell)
Launched a mobile app RingTheBell, helping consumers upload photos and submit issues with food products online. Follow her on Twitter at @ecachette.

Tara Hunt (Co-Founder & CEO, Shwowp)
Launched Shwowp, a tool to gather your purchases in one place, in closed beta after being one of the TechCrunch Disrupt 24 finalists. Follow her on Twitter at @missrogue.

Lynn Jurich (Co-Founder & President, SunRun)
SunRun brought affordable solar to over 7,000 customers, raised $400M in project financing, and experienced 300% growth. Follow her on Twitter at @SunRun.

Amanda Steinberg (Founder & CEO, DailyWorth)
DailyWorth, a daily email about money management tailored to women, passed 52,000 members in 2010. Follow her on Twitter at @AmandaSteinberg.

Julia Hartz (Co-Founder & President, Eventbrite)
Eventbrite reached $300M in gross ticket sales, raised $20M in funding and expanded team to 100 britelings. Follow her on Twitter at @juliahartz.

Alexis Tryon (Co-Founder & CEO, Artsicle)
Built and launched a beta of Artsicle, a web application to sell original contemporary art online. Follow her on Twitter at @AlexisTryon.

Terry Redfield (Founder & CCO, Real Life Plus)
Real Life Plus built and launched Style Studio on Facebook, a web based 3D clothing, textile and outfit creation application. Follow her on Twitter at @reallifeplus.

Kimberly Deas (Founder & President, Promozilla Marketing)
Designed software helping small business owners market their business for less than a dollar a day at Promozilla Marketing. Follow her on Twitter at SBHBTools.

Saroj Yadav (Founder, Kreeya)
Launched Kreeya to connect independent fashion designers with busy, fashion-forward, locally-minded professionals. Follow her on Twitter at @sarojyadav.

Louise Campbell & Alice Elizabeth Still (Co-Founders, CraftNation)
Built and launched CraftNation, an e-commerce platform crowdsourcing designer accessories and redefining the supply chain. Follow them on Twitter at @Craft_Nation.

Sarah Jordan (Founder & CEO, Aesir Metals)
Aesir Metals beta tested the new material COEDI as tooling and for mining drill bits, replacing expensive heat treated metals. Follow her on Twitter at @AesirMetals.

Sarah Allen (Founder, Blazing Cloud)
Blazing Cloud, a San Francisco consulting company, shipped 8 iOS apps in 2010 with two cross-platform mobile apps. Follow her at @ultrasaurus.

Neng Bing Doh (Co-Founder & CEO, HealthCrowd)
Built and launched HealthCrowd, connecting consumers who need care with qualified health practitioners, anytime, anywhere. Follow her on Twitter at @healthcrowd.

Morgan First (Co-Founder & CEO, Second Glass)
Second Glass was named Inc’s 30 Under 30 Young Entrepreneurs, and will be expanding nationally in 2011. Follow her on Twitter at @morgan1st.

Silje Vallestad (Founder & CEO, Bipper)
Launched Bipper to make mobiles safer for kids, opened US office, and won Mobile Premier Award. Follow her on Twitter at @bippermom.

Cindy Gallop (Founder & CEO, IfWeRanTheWorld)
Launched IfWeRanTheWorld: Facebook = social graph; Twitter = interest graph; IfWeRanTheWorld = action graph. Follow her on Twitter at @cindygallop1.

Erin McKean (Founder & CEO, Wordnik)
Wordnik the smallest company to demo at WSJ’s D8 conference, with API users growing over 5x in the past year. Follow her on Twitter at @emckean.

Michelle You (Co-Founder & Head of Product, Songkick)
SongKick is the #2 live music destination on the web after Live Nation, having raised investment from Y Combinator and Index Ventures. Follow her on Twitter at @wreckingball37.

Poornima Vijayashanker (Founder & CEO, BizeeBee)
Built and launched BizeeBee to simplify yoga studios across the nation, and generating revenue. Follow her on Twitter at @poornima.

Jessica Bishop (Founding Member & VP of Business Development, Prepay Nation)
Prepay Nation participated in this year’s Women 2.0 Pitch Night in San Francisco in November and was selected as the Mobile Track Winner.

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.

Nazila Alasti (Founder & CEO, Jooners)
Jooners, online signup sheets to help organizers with group coordination, grew subscriptions and groups served in 2010 by 133% and 152%, respectively. Follow her on Twitter at @jooners.

Jenn Vargas (Founder, 101in365)
Launched 101in365 to help people develop, track, and accomplish goals in a single year with nearly 14k completed goals so far. Follow her on Twitter at @jennjenn.

Swathy Prithivi (Co-Founder, Present Bee)
Launched Present Bee for social gift recommendation engine, and generated revenue in 2010. Follow her on Twitter at @swathyprithivi.

Shawna Simpson (Co-Founder & President, Moxie Software)
Moxie Software launched Diner Connection, a software-based wait list management and text-based table notification system for restaurants. Follow her on Twitter at @ShawnaSimpson.

Shruti Challa & Amara Humphry (Co-Founders, Pinchd)
Re-launched Pinchd for adventure and friend discovery, getting offline and into the world. Follow them on Twitter at @pinchd.

Taisiya Kudashkina (Founder & CEO, tulp.ru)
tulp.ru, a Russian Yelp, was released on July 2010, and raised $3M from a private investor. Follow her on Twitter at @kudashkina.

Sasha Pasulka (Co-Founder & Director of Marketing, Maptini)
Launched Maptini, a cloud-based, real-time collaborative mindmapping product available on the web, iPhone and iPad. Follow her on Twitter at @evilbeet.

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.

Linlin Wills (Co-Founder & VP of Marketing, Soovox)
Launched Soovox public beta, received the Red Herring 100 Global Award, and raised an additional $750K in seed capital. Follow her on Twitter at @linlinwills.

Yasmine Mustafa (Founder & CEO, 123LinkIt)
123LinkIt launched software for blogs to become money-making enterprises, and won First Place at Temple University’s Business Plan Competition. Follow her on Twitter at @myasmine.

Jennifer Wong (Co-Founder & CEO, Alt12 Apps)
Alt12 Apps launched two award-winning apps in iPhone, Palm and Android stores: BabyBump (#1 paid pregnancy app) and Pink Pad (top 25 apps). Follow her on Twitter at @jennwong4alt12.

Prerna Gupta (Co-Founder & CEO, khu.sh)
Led khu.sh (developing intelligent music applications like LaDiDa) to profitability and closed funding with 500startups with 65M YouTube views. Follow her on Twitter at @prernagupta.

Mona Abdel-Halim (Co-Founder & Director of Business Development, Careerimp)
Careerimp was co-founded, secured seed capital, and launched its first product, RESUNATE, an intelligent resume builder. Follow her on Twitter at @Careerimp.

Brittany Laughlin (Co-Founder, gtrot)
Launched gtrot, a social travel platform connecting friends to find out where they’re going, with who, and when. Follow her on Twitter at @br_ttany.

Susan Hunt Stevens (Founder & CEO, Practically Green)
Launched Practically Green to motivate people to live healthy and green, signed partnership with NBC Universal, and closed a $750K seed round. Follow her on Twitter at @huntstevens.

Wendy Troupe (Founder & CEO, Terametric)
Terametric launched Twitter Optimizer for SMBs and enterprise product marketers, providing social media marketing tools to maximize ROI. Follow her on Twitter at @wendytroupe.

Sol Tzvi (Co-Founder & CEO, Genieo)
Launched Genieo, a personalized way to catch up with your online world and get interesting tweets and articles. Follow her on Twitter at @soltzvi.

Beth Marcus (Founder & CEO, Playrific)
Playrific secured seed funding, assembled an awesome team, and released product for children under 6 to safely interact, learn and play on the Internet. Follow her on Twitter at @startupdoc.

Marina Krutchinsky (Co-Founder & Head of User Experience, BrainRoll)
Designed and launched BrainRoll, an interactive system for Universities to streamline graduate school admissions and candidate evaluation. Follow her on Twitter at @webhues.

Hilary DeCesare (Co-Founder & CEO, Everloop)
Launched Everloop, a social “looping” site for tweens, raised venture funding, and won DEMOgod Award, and AlwayON’s Global 250. Follow her on Twitter at @everloopnews.

Emily Chiu & Chiara Piccinotti (Co-Founders, Apply in the Sky)
Apply in the Sky won Women 2.0′s web award for its beta addressing key pain points in higher education admissions. Follow them on Twitter at @ApplyintheSky.

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.

Yuan Zhang (Co-Founder, Lookville)
Launched Lookville, a fashion social network for the fashion minded that lets users ask questions and get feedback in minutes. Follow her on Twitter at @yuanzhang.

Alice Rathjen (Founder & President, DNA Guide)
Genome software DNA Guide demoed at Harvard Medical School Personal Medicine Lab Symposium, and Mark Boguski joins as advisor. Follow her on Twitter at @dnatimes.

Sarah Gray (Co-Founder & Programmer, MercuryApp)
Launched MercuryApp, a change-management decision-making tool for individuals and businesses, with co-founder Corey Haines. Follow her on Twitter at @fablednet.

Carrie Chitsey (Founder & CEO, 3 Seventy)
Build 3 Seventy, a mobile platform with integrated SMS, mobile web and app development, increased revenue 3x, raised $800K and obtained patent. Follow her on Twitter at @cchitsey.

Debra Lin (Co-Founder, Yapsie)
Launched Yapsie, the online community that connects pets and their people with local pet-friendly people, places and events. Follow her on Twitter at @yapsie.

Tracy Lee (Founder & CEO, Dishcrawl)
Dishcrawl came to life in 2010 with the mission to bring people together over food, launching in San Francisco, San Jose, Montreal and New York. Follow her on Twitter at @dishcrawl.

Ferial Moloo (Founder & CEO, 365Hangers)
Lead411 recently named 365Hangers on VentureBeat as a tech company with upward growth, ranking #18 of 50 promising startups in 2010. Follow her on Twitter at @365hangers.

Maria Martinez (Founder & CEO, Iwannagothere)
Iwannagothere won the 2010 Webby Award for “Best Travel Website” and was a Travolution Awards finalist for “Best Travel Information Website”. Follow her on Twitter at @iwannagothere.

Angela Conley (Co-Founder & COO, Mom Trusted)
Launched MomTrusted, a platform for finding child care and preschools, and expanded to 395 cities. Follow her on Twitter at @momtrusted.

Diana Espino (Co-Founder & CTO, PeBe)
Built and beta launched PeBe‘s first product, a simple way for Hispanic & Latin American SMBs to take their business online. Follow her on Twitter at @heydluv.

Priscilla Fung (Founder & CEO, Toppbuzz)
Built and launched Toppbuzz, a social network for knowledge sharing and marketplace for original digital content, in private beta. Follow her on Twitter at @toppbuzz.

Dina Kaplan (Co-Founder, blip.tv)
blip.tv doubled video views and increased ad revenue 5x in 2010, which means a lot more of money going to Web show producers (rev share is 50/50). Follow her on Twitter at @dinakaplan.

Maria Zhang (Founder & CEO, UrbanQ)
Launched UrbanQ iPhone app, a personalized local discovery engine, featured in iTunes as New and Noteworthy iPhone App. Follow her on Twitter at @MariaRenhui.

Liz Fraley (Founder & CEO, Single-Sourcing Solutions)
Single-Sourcing expanded services, launched advisory line, and was recognized by Everything Channel’s Magazine as a top woman on the channel. Follow her on Twitter at @lizfraley.

Tara Cousineau (Founder & CEO, BodiMojo)
Launched Bodimojo with seed funding from National Institute of Health, and secured funds for new mobile app to promote healthy lifestyle/body image. Follow her on Twitter at @taracousphd.

Supriya Gupta and Ayo Suber (Co-Founders, WedDone)
Launched WedDone, a social wedding planning site. Follow them at @supriyagup and @helloayo.

Alexandra Szczerban (Co-Founder & Chief Designer, KeyLog App)
Designed and launched KeyLog App, an easy and elegant app to log, save and share experiences via iPhone and iPod touch. Follow her at @keylogapp.

Campbell McKellar (Founder & CEO, Loosecubes)
Loosecubes raised $1.2M funding and launched global network of shared workspaces that makes it fun and easy to find a place to work. Follow her on Twitter at @cmckella.

Danae Ringelmann (Founder & COO, IndieGoGo)
IndieGoGo campaigns now in over 150 countries, and placed in the top 3 Finalists in British Air Competition. Follow her on Twitter at @gogodanae.

Liz Crawford (Co-Founder & CTO, Aprizi)
Launched Aprizi, a highly curated “Pandora for shopping” with a focus on emerging designers and independent brands. Follow her on Twitter at @liscrawford.

Lindsey Harper (Founder & CEO, Swayable)
Launched Swayable in October 2010 to help you make decisions online or on the go. Follow her on Twitter at @harperlindsey.

Nadya Jahan (Founder & CEO, Mandala)
Launched Mandala‘s first facebook game “Divinitiz” which was awarded by the French Ministry of Culture. Follow her on Twitter at @nadyajahan.

Jo White (Co-Founder & CMO, TribeVibe)
Launched private alpha of TribeVibe, a social media analytics company, and currently has 5k people signed up for the public release. Follow her on Twitter at @Mediamum.

Aditi Talreja (Founder & Director, Delivery Chef)
Launched Deliverychef.in, an online food ordering platform that enables users order food from over 200 of Mumbai’s finest restaurants and more. Follow her on Twitter at @mydeliverychef.

Limor Elkayam (Founder & CEO, Dealery)
Launched Dealery, a daily one-stop-shop deals aggregator for all the deals in your city. Follow her on Twitter at @LimorE.

Jen O’Neal (Co-Founder & CEO, Tripping)
Launched Tripping, a social travel site with users in 100+ countries, built a great team, and partnered with 20 top organizations. Follow her on Twitter at @jenoneal.

Jane Allison Fleck (Founder & CEO, ClubPonyPals)
ClubPonyPals hit 160k members in 165 countries, quadrupled revenues, launched a Facebook app, and published an e-book. Follow her on Twitter at @ClubPonyPalscom.

Elina Arponen (Founder, Tribe Studios)
Tribe Studios won the Bootcamp of Aalto Venture Garage, the local Y-Combinator, and raised some seed funding. Follow her on Twitter at @yonder_.

Stella Huh (Co-Founder, Fruxar)
Launched mmula which helps lower-income professionals transition into better paying and skilled jobs, and closed seed funding with AngelPad. Follow her on Twitter at @spicietx.

Vero Pepperrell (Co-Founder, Running with Crayons)
Launched Alfred, a beautiful Mac productivity and quicklaunch app in 2010. Follow her on Twitter at @vero.

Margot Eiran & Lauren Kelley-Chew (Co-Founders, HomeEnergySaver)
HomeEnergySaver hit milestone revenue in 2010 following launch of beta site and Facebook App. Follow them on Twitter at @EasyGreener.

Betsy Huigens (Founder, Bluelight)
Developed and launched Bluelight, an iPhone safety app which offers a discreet way to avoid the obligatory “call me when you get there” request. Follow her on Twitter at @bluelightapp.

Millie Tadewaldt (Co-Founder & CTO, Doggyloot)
Launched doggyloot, a daily deals site for pooches and people, with support from Sandbox Industries. Follow her on Twitter at @milliemay.

Carole-Ann Matignon (Co-Founder & CEO, Sparkling Logic)
Launched Sparkling Logic, co-created patents that revolutionize how business automate & improve decisions, and raised $600k to prove it. Follow her on Twitter at @CMatignon.

Bethanye McKinney Blount (Co-Founder, MailRank)
MailRank secured seed funding and kicked-off work solving email overload. Follow her on Twitter at @mailrank.

Hallie Steube (Founder & President, BookYap)
Launched BookYap, the place where readers go to find a new book. Follow her on Twitter at @BookYap.

Founder Labs 002: Meet the Founders of Fall 2010

Women 2.0 Founder Labs is a pre-incubator for people with ideas or those looking to meet co-founders. During the 5-week program participants validated their ideas, created rapid-prototypes, and evaluated potential co-founders. 5 groups worked in parallel on different ideas, ranging from a dating site, to a mobile payment system. Some will continue together, others will choose to regroup.

Meet the founders that came out of the Women 2.0 Founder Labs (Fall 2010):

BranchPage: Meet The Women 2.0 Labs Team

A website and service that allows users to create and display their portfolio without creating their own website.
Items can be organized into logic groups by the user, and can be built into “views” showing a subset of the material at a custom URL. Users can import job information from LinkedIn, code samples from GitHub, blog posts from RSS feeds, etc. Check out BranchPage at www.branchpage.com. You can follow BranchPage on Twitter at @branchpage.

Sela Davis
Engineer and game designer
Follow her on Twitter at @sela_davis or check out her LinkedIn Profile

Kris Robison
Product and database developer
Check out her LinkedIn Profile

Jason Poyner
Designer
Check out his LinkedIn Profile

Irene Fehr
Busness
Check out her LinkedIn Profile

Spoondate: Meet The Women 2.0 Founder Labs Team

A dating website for food lovers.

A website that allows singles with a similar taste in food to meet and eat together. Check out Spoondate at www.spoondate.com. You can also follow Spoondate on Twitter at @spoondate or like the Facebook page.

Raissa Nebie
Business development with an expertise in strategy and finance
Follow her on Twitter at @thriftygourmet or check out her LinkedIn Profile

Van Nguyen
Engineer
Follow him at @thegoleffect or check out his LinkedIn Profile

Ryan Richards
Engineer
Follow him on Twitter at @rsandor or check out his website.

Jenn Vargas
Designer
Follow her on Twitter at @jennjenn or check out her LinkedIn Profile

Frankenfun: Meet The Women 2.0 Labs Team

Play addictive location-specific trivia on your phone to win prizes and coupons
A smartphone app that connects users with venues by offering a range of randomised questions while people wait in line or for their coffee; if you win the game, you win a prize. The more you play, the harder it gets to win — but the better the rewards! Get your friends to play for extra rewards. Check out Frankenfun at www.frankenfun.com. You can also follow Frankenfun on Twitter at @frankenfun or like the Facebook page.

Jen Costillo
Firmware engineer and consultant
Follow her on Twitter at @r0b0ts0nf1r3 or check out her LinkedIn Profile

Jennie Lees
Serial startup founder with solid engineering and business chops
Follow her on Twitter at @jennielees or check out her LinkedIn Profile

Alissa Briggs
User experience design and research
Follow her on Twitter at @alissadesigns or check out her LinkedIn Profile

Mike Risse
Engineer
Follow him on Twitter at @rissem or check out his LinkedIn Profile

StyleGroupie: Meet The Women 2.0 Labs Team

Plus size women vote on clothing items they want us to make.
Plus size women do not have enough choice when it comes to on-trend clothing. At StyleGroupie, users vote on clothing items they want us to create and then we sell those items in plus sizes. Check out StyleGroupie at www.stylegroupie.com. You can follow StyleGroupie on Twitter at @mystylegroupie or like the Facebook page.

Rebecca Rauth
Business
Check out her LinkedIn Profile

Clay Kramer
Business with expertise in customer behavior, finance and SEO
Follow him on Twitter at @claykramer or check out his LinkedIn Profile

Jenn Chen
Engineer
Follow her on Twitter at @jenshine or check out her LinkedIn Profile

Amanda Bradford
Designer
Follow her on Twitter at @pearlouise or check out her LinkedIn Profile

Shantanu Bhalerao
Engineer
Follow him on Twitter at @sabhalerao or check out his LinkedIn Profile

TxtMeMoney: Meet The Women 2.0 Labs Team

Enable distribution of welfare funds through a mobile payments service.
Validate mobile payments as a viable method to get government, charitable and non-profit dollars efficiently to needy segments of society, while simultaneously enabling control over where the dollars can be spent and providing electronic payment tracking for auditing purposes. Check out TxtMeMoney at www.txtmemoney.com. You can follow TxtMeMoney on Twitter at @txtmemoney.

Madhavi Jagdish
Web and user interface designer
Follow her on Twitter at @emstar or check out her LinkedIn Profile

Stewart Webb
System design engineer specializing in high speed communication links
Check out his Twitter at @7839 or check out his LinkedIn Profile

Hitin Mutneja
Engineer
Follow him on Twitter at @sfinnovator or check out his LinkedIn Profile

Female Founders to Watch from 2009′s Women 2.0 Startup Weekend – We Created 19 Startups!

As this year’s Women 2.0 Startup Weekend is coming up on November 19-21, 2010 in Mountain View, we decided to take a look at what attendees of last year’s Women 2.0 Startup Weekend have been up to since that muggy August weekend in San Francisco.

Here are some attendees from Women 2.0 Startup Weekend 2009, and what they are doing now!

Alexa Andrzejewski (Founder, Foodspotting)
Follow her on Twitter at @ladylexy and her startup at @foodspotting. Foodspotting still looks as tasty as it did in 2009, but now with a lot more functionality — and $750k in seed funding!

Mariya Genzel (Co-Founder & CTO, SayHired)
Follow her on Twitter at @mashagenzel and her startup at @sayhired. SayHired started as Ultimate Hire at Women 2.0 Startup Weekend in 2009. Mariya will be speaking next Friday night.

Cindy Alvarez (Head of Product, KISSmetrics)
Follow her on Twitter at @cindyalvarez. Cindy worked on Professional Poke at last year’s Startup Weekend, and was “preggers and pitching!” Cindy blogs at Experience is the Product.

Sue Kim (Founder, Dress Me Sue)
Follow her on Twitter at @suesunmi and her startup at @dressmesue. Sue came to 2009 Women 2.0 Startup Weekend with her idea, and is still working on Dress Me Sue – coming soon!

Sarah Mei (Software Engineer, Pivotal Labs)
Follow her on Twitter at @sarahmei and her startup at @pivotallabs. She is currently at Pivotal Labs and is active in the SF Ruby community as well as Ruby on Rails workshops for women.

Jen-Mei Wu (Consultant, Blazing Cloud)
Follow her on Twitter at @jduboak. She is currently at Blazing Cloud doing Ruby and iPhone software development, and works with clients like Get Satisfaction.

Sumaya Kazi (Founder, Sumazi)
Follow her on Twitter at @sumaya and her startup at @sumazi. Sumaya came to 2009 Women 2.0 Startup Weekend to work on “I Give a Damn!”. Today, Sumaya is now heading up Sumazi.

Join us for Women 2.0 Startup Weekend this year — November 19 thru November 21 in Mountain View, CA — Calling all developers, designers, marketers, PMs, etc. Start projects, start companies!

Did you attend the 2009 Women 2.0 Startup Weekend? Please keep in touch!
Let us know how you’re doing in the comments below, or shoot us an email at women2.0@gmail.com.

Female Founders to Watch: TechCrunch Disrupt 2010

While the TechCrunch Disrupt panel on Women in Tech was deflating, the female founders pushed forward onstage and delivered strong pitches. We at Women 2.0 excitedly look forward to their success in the coming months.

Here are some female founders to watch from TechCrunch Disrupt 2010:

J’aime Ohm (Founder, WiseDame)
Follow her on Twitter at @jaimeohm and her startup at @wisedame. TechCrunch covers her win at TC Disrupt 2010: “WiseDame Wins The TC Disrupt Hackathon, A Black Box For Real Life”.

Julia Hu (Founder, Lark)
Follow her startup at @ourlark. TechCrunch covers her appearance at TC Disrupt 2010: “Lark Will Wake You Silently Without A Jarring Alarm”.

Melanie Moore (Co-Founder, ToVieFor)
Follow her startup at @toviefor. TechCrunch covers her appearance at TC Disrupt 2010: “ToVieFor: Entertainment Shopping Meets High Fashion (With Cheap Handbags Galore!)”.

Michelle Zatlyn (Co-Founder, CloudFlare)
Follow her at @zatlyn and her startup at @cloudflare. Cloudflare won “Most Innovative Award” at TechCrunch Disrupt 2010.

Sumaya Kazi (Founder, Sumazi)
Follow her on Twitter at @sumaya and her startup at @sumazi. TechCrunch covers her appearance at TC Disrupt 2010: “Sumazi, A Connection Recommendation Engine”.

Tara Hunt (Founder, Shwowp)
Follow her on Twitter at @missrogue and her startup at @shwowp. TechCrunch covers her appearance at TC Disrupt 2010: “Shwowp Wants To Change The Way You Shop”.

Female Founders to Follow at PITCH Night

Diane Greene (VMware), Carol Realini (Obopay), and Lynn Jurich (SunRun) will be giving keynotes at PITCH Night in San Francisco on November 4.

The 2010 finalists of the Women 2.0 Startup Competition will also be pitching live for top prize.

Here are some female founders to follow who will be at Women 2.0 PITCH Night on November 4, 2010:

Carol Realini (Founder & CEO, Obopay)
A pioneer in mobile payments, Carol has been named to the inaugural AlwaysOn Top 25 Women in Technology to Watch for 2010 for her work with Obopay. Follow her on Twitter at @carolrealini.

Diane Greene (Founder, VMware)
A household name in the Silicon Valley, Diane is a high-tech entrepreneur now serving on the boards of Intuit, Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST), and MIT. She is also an investor.

Ellen Pack (Founder, Women.com)
In the early 1990s, Ellen founded Women.com, which grew into the largest internet destination for women. Today, Ellen is VP of Marketing at Elance, an online talent marketplace.

Julia Hartz (Founder & President, Eventbrite)
Eventbrite was originally founded and bootstrapped by husband-and-wife team Kevin and Julia Hartz in 2006, and is currently venture backed. Follow her on Twitter at @juliahartz.

Lynn Jurich (Founder & President, SunRun)
Fortune named her one of 2009′s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs and she is a 2010 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Northern California. Lynn co-founded SunRun in 2007.

Women 2.0 Labs: Meet the Founders of Summer 2010

Women 2.0 Labs is a pre-incubator for people with ideas to validate their ideas and rapidly prototype. After the 5-week program, we launched 5 startups who were subsequently covered by TechCrunch.

Here are the founders that came out of the Women 2.0 Labs (Summer 2010):

Cake Health: Meet The Women 2.0 Labs Team

Health Care Made Simple and Sweet.
Cake Health makes it easier to understand health care coverage and how to take advantage of it. Check out Cake Health at www.cakehealth.com. You can also follow Cake Health on Twitter at @cakehealth or like the Facebook page.

Rebecca Woodcock
Strategic business with expertise in market dynamics and user behavior
Follow her on Twitter at @rebeccawoodcock or check out her LinkedIn Profile

Sarah Kling
User experience designer with expertise in software systems and web apps
Follow her on Twitter at @UEVision or check out her LinkedIn Profile

Renuka Wariyar
Engineer with expertise in software architecture, development and web frameworks
Follow her on Twitter at @renukawariyar or check out her LinkedIn Profile

Adrien Arculeo
Engineer with expertise in data warehousing, data quality and cloud computing
Follow him on Twitter at @arculeo or check out his LinkedIn Profile

FreezeFare: Meet The Women 2.0 Labs Team

Freeze Your Fare, Not Your Plans.
FreezeFare keeps travel planning stress-free. Check out FreezeFare at www.freezefare.com. You can also follow FreezeFare on Twitter at @freezefare or like the Facebook page.

Clay Kramer
Business
Follow him on Twitter at @txnskr or check out his LinkedIn Profile

Yuri Parsons
Front end engineer
Follow him at @ninjakttty or check out his LinkedIn Profile

Jenn Chen
User experience designer
Follow her on Twitter at @jenn__chen or check out her LinkedIn Profile

Anna Billstrom
Engineer
Follow her on Twitter at @banane or check out her LinkedIn Profile

GeoQuish: Meet The Women 2.0 Labs Team

Save Time and Drive Customers to Your Business.
GeoSquish saves time and drives customers to your business. Check out GeoSquish at www.geosquish.com. You can follow GeoSquish on Twitter at @geosquish or like the Facebook page.

Lin Tam
Business
Follow her on Twitter at @tam55947 or check out her LinkedIn Profile

Nicole Dun
Engineer
Follow her on Twitter at @FunnDun or check out her LinkedIn Profile

Priya Sheth
Designer
Follow her on Twitter at @priyasheth or check out her Website

Tiem Song
Backend engineer
Follow him on Twitter at @tiembo or check out his LinkedIn Profile

Mikko: Meet The Women 2.0 Labs Team

The Beauty Genome Project.
An intelligent beauty recommendations site based on real reviews and a smart matching system matching “like-featured” women. Check out House of Mikko at www.houseofmikko.com. You can follow House of Mikko on Twitter at @houseofmikko or like the Facebook page.

Kimberly Dillon
Business development and market research
Follow her on Twitter at @prettylittleceo or check out her LinkedIn Profile

Erica Yamada
User experience design
Check out her LinkedIn Profile

Vida Ha
Engineer
Follow her on Twitter at @vidaha or check out her LinkedIn Profile

She Who Will Not Be Named
Algorithms engineer
Follow her on Twitter at @inventiongirl

Tripku: Meet The Women 2.0 Labs Team

Connect Today. Travel Tomorrow.
We connect your networks the world over so you can discover new cultures, meet new people and enjoy healthy travel discounts, together. Check out Tripku at www.tripku.com. You can follow Tripku on Twitter at @tripku or like the Facebook page.

Beatriz Cardona Tamayo
Business development
Follow her on Twitter at @beatrizcardona or check out her LinkedIn Profile

Tiffanie Kong
Product and database developer
Check out her LinkedIn Profile

Adam Silverman
Backend developer
Check out his LinkedIn Profile

Jeff Lagasca
Designer and frontend developer
Check out his LinkedIn Profile

Female Founders & COOs to Watch

Here are some female founders to watch. They are also the Chief Operating Officers at their startups! Check them out:

Elena Haliczer (Co-Founder & COO, Adaptive Semantics)
Elena’s startup Adaptive Semantics was acquired by the Huffington Post in June 2010. Follow Elena on her Twitter @elliesemantic and on Tumblr as startupgirl!

Laney Whitcanack (Co-Founder & COO, Big Tent)
Laney previously co-founded The Princess Project. Laney currently serves as COO of Big Tent, a women-led startup funded by Mohr Davidow and Menlo Ventures. Check out their team here!

Christine Lemke (Co-Founder & COO, Sense Networks)
Christine is an early-stage startupper. Prior to Sense Networks, she co-founded Channel Velocity and was the first employee at Returns Online. Follow Christine on her Twitter @cklemke!

Dina Kaplan (Co-Founder & COO, Blip.tv)
Dina oversees industry marketing, public relations, finance, key partnerships and human resources for blip.tv. Follow Dina on Twitter @dinakaplan and on Tumblr as dinakaplan!

Susan Coelius-Keplinger (Co-Founder & COO, Triggit)
Susan co-founded Triggit, a venture-funded online advertising technology company. Follow Susan on Twitter @sueck!

Do you know more female founders of startups that are currently serving as COO? Let us know in the comments below.

Female Founders to Watch from Startup Weekend

Women 2.0 is a frequent partner for Startup Weekend events in the Bay Area. Here are some female founders to watch that have launched ideas from Startup Weekends:

Sophia Perl (Co-Founder, Eventabulous)
Sophia leveraged the Startup Weekend process and participants to vet and build an idea. Today, she and a team member are developing a working prototype for Eventabulous.

Jennie Lees (Co-Founder & Developer, Project 42)
Project 42, or www.icanhassocialskills.com, came out of the recent South Bay Startup Weekend. Other female co-founders included Vivian C. Chien, Amy Piazza, and Adina Simu.

Alexa Andrzejewski (Co-Founder, Foodspotting)
Alexa brought her idea to Jumpstart Your Startup and then Women 2.0 Startup Weekend in 2009. Fast forward to 2010: Over 45,000 foods have been spotted around the world!

Mariya Genzel (Co-Founder & CTO, SayHired)
Recruiting was a pain point for her startup so Mariya came to the Women 2.0 Startup Weekend. She found a team member and created an innovative tech platform at SayHired.

Sue Kim (Co-Founder, Dress Me Sue)
Sue kick started Dress Me Sue at the Women 2.0 Startup Weekend. She found that the community support and friendships have lasted way beyond the weekend.

Do you know more female founders of startups that came out of a Startup Weekend? Let us know in the comments below.

Female Founders to Watch in Social Gaming

In anticipation of the Women 2.0 event Social Gaming 101 for Fun and Profit on April 15, here are 6 women-founded social gaming startups to watch:

Amy Jo Kim (Co-Founder & CEO, Shufflebrain)
Shufflebrain builds smart games for a connected world. They’ve helped design games including Bejewelled 2, The Sims, and Rock Band. Follow Amy Jo on Twitter!

Emily Greer (Co-Founder & VP of Marketing & Finance, Kongregate)
Kongregate has thousands of free Flash games you can play online. Kongregate also allows users to upload games created in Adobe Flash or Director. Follow Emily on Twitter!

Shanna Tellerman (Founder & CEO, Wild Pockets)
Wild Pockets is building the next generation platform, designed for independent game developers. Follow Shanna on Twitter!

Sue Zann Toh (Co-Founder & CFO, TheBroth)
The Broth is the social game company that makes popular Facebook games, like Barn Buddy. Read Sue Zann’s blog!

Susan Wu (Co-Founder & CEO, Ohai)
Ohai builds massively multiplayer games for everyone. Ohai’s first game is the world’s first major MMO set in the dark world of modern vampires. Follow Susan on Twitter!

Terry Redfield (Founder & CEO, Real Life Plus)
Real Life Plus is creating a virtual world that is fun, immersive, and simple to use. Follow Real Life Plus on Twitter!

Do you know more female founders of social gaming startups? Let us know in the comments below.