Inger McDowell-Hartye is the founder and creator of With Love, From PDX and With Love, From Reno, two companies built...
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Freada Kapor is a longtime investor and advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion. The Kapor Center, which she founded, invites...
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Heidi Metz is the founder and CEO of IMANI, a platform enabling banking for the unbanked through a safe, inexpensive,...
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Linh Ho, Founder OmNummy, Co-Founder and CMO conDati It might seem obvious now, but back when I first came up...
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Dennis Joyce is an early-stage investor with over 15 years of experience. He has been a key ally and close...
Continue ReadingInger McDowell-Hartye is the founder and creator of With Love, From PDX and With Love, From Reno, two companies built on creating local gift collections and meaningful relationships. Inger launched With Love, from PDX in 2015 and was able to combine her passion for community and locally-made goods into a successful company, despite the many [...]
Freada Kapor is a longtime investor and advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion. The Kapor Center, which she founded, invites us to understand the specific needs that different groups of women, trans and non-binary individuals face and to challenge solutions that only benefit the most privileged among us. It’s a lofty and difficult goal, but [...]
Heidi Metz is the founder and CEO of IMANI, a platform enabling banking for the unbanked through a safe, inexpensive, cloud based mobile payment system. She has an MBA in International Marketing and Finance, and has 13 years of experience in global senior leadership roles. Connect with Heidi on LinkedIn. Tell us about your company. [...]
It might seem obvious now, but back when I first came up with the idea for the Champion Awards in mid-2017 — the “Oscars™ of women’s allyship” — the whole thing was honestly preposterous. FFA was tiny. We had $0. Nobody beyond a few founders in Seattle and my personal network had any idea who [...]
Dennis Joyce is an early-stage investor with over 15 years of experience. He has been a key ally and close friend of FFA. Tell us about the professional journey that took you where you are today. What major lessons did you learn along the way? I started my career as a real estate manager, developer [...]
Gabriela Alban Hidalgo is the CEO and Co-Founder of Capuli Club Tell us about your company. What inspired you to start it? My first passion, architecture, helped me cultivate a longing to make people happy with my work. In learning more about entrepreneurship I became convinced that business can be so much more than an [...]
The Female Founders Alliance has a brand new home. Today, we are thrilled to announce a broad national partnership with WeWork Labs, setting the stage for a meaningful collaboration that will benefit all our members — and every female entrepreneur who is a WeWork member, too. Together, FFA and WeWork labs will build a more [...]
January has always been a time of renewal for me. Last January, I made the decision to turn the Female Founders Alliance from a hobby to a mission. In the months that followed, FFA evolved from a small Facebook group to a social impact corporation running a national accelerator for female-founded, venture-scale companies. With the [...]
Juliet Horton is the Founder & CEO of Everly. Armed with a wealth of experience in technology and finance, Juliet launched her entrepreneurial career with Everly after realizing something was missing from her career – passion. Everly is completely changing how couples plan their wedding by providing all the personalized support of a wedding planner [...]
If I had to summarize 2018 in one word, it would be gratitude. This time last year, FFA was little more than a Facebook group that met in person every so often. I was focused on Venture Kits for the holiday season, but slowly coming to the realization that my company and my passion project [...]
