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Female Founders to Watch in Mobile

The recent 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and the Mobile Premier Awards brought together the global mobile community from carriers to handset manufacturers — and the application developers. The most interesting to Women 2.0 are the innovative startups.

Here are 5 (women-founded) mobile startups making waves around the world to watch:

Lana Hijazi (Co-Founder, Souktel)
Souktel provides SMS based service connecting job seekers and companies in low income communities. Souktel is located in Palestine. Follow Souktel on Twitter.

Claudia Poepperl (Co-Founder, Yellix)
Yellix’s Caller ID 3.0 gives real-time status updates of your friends as the mobile phone is ringing to allow more contextual conversations. Yellix is located in Austria. Follow Yellix on Twitter.

Claire Boonstra (Co-Founder, Layar)
Layar is augmented reality software displaying real-time information on top of reality through your mobile phone’s camera. Layar is located in the Netherlands. Follow Claire on Twitter.

Silje Vallestad (Founder, Bipper Communications)
Bipper created a safety solution for children’s mobile phones that easily can be used with any phone. Bipper is located in Norway. Follow Silje on Twitter.

Jane Sales (Co-Founder, Flook)
Flook is a location browser for your mobile phone. Flook is located in the United Kingdom. Follow Jane on Twitter.

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

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Kathleen Gilroy
posted March 17, 2010 at 2:21 pm

I’ll throw my name in the hat. Kathleen Gilroy, CEO and founder of SwiftMobile, a mobile event platform gives venues and event producers a simple way to create customized—and monetized—event apps that help attendees network and navigate special events.

Holly Kolman
posted March 19, 2010 at 9:49 am

Congratulations to all of the fine women listed here!

While not quite in the startup phase, I have a number of mobile projects in the works. My mobile-focused blog is going strong at mobiEnthusiast.mobi, and it was just nominated for Blogger of the Year in the San Diego, California Champions of Social Media award. I am @mobiEnthusiast on Twitter.

Please also take note of Petra Soderling for Mobile Brain Bank in Finland, a think tank for mobile startups. She is @PetraHelsinki and @MoBB on Twitter.

Amber Zuckswert
posted March 27, 2010 at 11:57 am

Great business ideas. So happy to have found this incredible site. I’ll throw myself in the hat as well. My mind/body/spirit blog Epicself.com is a live and kicking with a live show every week. I also just launched a virtual pilates business where I teach clients virtually through skype! @epicself on twitter :D

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By Women 2.0 » Women 2.0 Founders Named “Most Influential Women in Technology 2010″ in Fast Company Magazine on April 26, 2010 at 12:53 pm

[…] Claire Boonstra (Co-Founder, Layar)Trained in civil engineering, Boonstra comes from a technical family and originally wanted to be a designer (she says in an interview that she wanted at one point to make the “Boonstra Bridge”). But when the world of architecture didn’t quite click, she veered into tech, starting at i-mode, an early precursor to cellphone internet browsing. … The idea for Layar was sparked. Read more at Fast Company.» We named Claire in Women 2.0’s “Female Founders to Watch in Mobile” here. […]

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