Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.
There's an assumption that women don't start companies that earn more than X amount of dollars, or that have more than X amount of users, and Bumble is now really growing into one of the main players if you look at all the mainstream social-media platforms.
We need to have more women founders stepping up to kind of own their own story and ask for what they want and tell success stories and start really building confidence that these stories are out there.
I think, so often, female cofounders are positioned in this competitive, catty way. It's just awful. It's not reality.
There are not enough female VCs in an industry so traditionally dominated by males. There are not enough female mentors who are actively engaged with female founders. We need women VCs and entrepreneurs to stand up, get loud, and help guide their peers.
Something like a quarter of the founders that have gone through Excelerate and Techstars are women. I'm incredibly proud of that.
If you're not funding female-founded firms, you're leaving behind half your talent.
As a female founder and CEO, it is important to me to support other women as they build their businesses.
I think if you're out there trying to raise capital, and you're a woman, and you're in tech, I think what you need to do is find people to work with who know you and believe in you.
When choosing vendors for my wedding, I intentionally searched for women who were at the beginning of their own founder journeys.
