New Girls' Networks
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Najla Austin
Ethel's Club
She saw the need for an intimate club custom-made for people of color. It opens this year in Brooklyn.
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Carolyn Childers
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Audrey Gelman
The Wing
She created the leading co-working and community space for women—and inspired others to follow suit.
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Lisa Gelobter
tEQuitable
After experiencing workplace bias, she created software to report incidents and spot patterns.
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Cate Luzio
Luminary
Creating an inclusive space for women doesn’t mean you have to exclude anyone else, including men.
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Amy Nelson
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Leanne Pittsford
Lesbians Who Tech
"The tech industry doesn’t have a pipeline problem—it has an access problem."
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Alex West Steinman
The Coven
Because co-working members in the middle of the country need diversity and inclusion just as much as those on the coasts.
Money Movers
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Sheena Allen
CapWay
She is helping people without bank accounts enter the financial system--and go cashless.
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Cathrine Andersen
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Angela Ceresnie
Climb Credit
"Every dollar that we lend out is a dollar going to someone who's looking to better their life."
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Jennifer Fitzgerald
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Nicky Goulimis
Nova Credit
Moving abroad shouldn't shred your credit history. Her startup helps keep it intact.
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Sallie Krawcheck
Ellevest
"You can invest a penny, but I can't get you a diversified portfolio for that. For a dollar, I can."
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Ennie Lim
HoneyBee
She took on the payday lending industry, bringing affordable credit to those who need it most.
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Nichole Mustard
Credit Karma
This San Franciscan has guided Credit Karma's U.K. launch through the craziness of Brexit.
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Olivia Ramos
Deepblocks
Her A.I. software promises to take some of the cost out of real-estate development.
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Shivani Siroya
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Dawn Song
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Alexa von Tobel
Inspired Capital
After selling her financial planning company, she's backing tomorrow's entrepreneurs.
Food Revolutionaries
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Loren Brill
Sweet Loren's
She makes vegan cookie dough that's safe for consumers with most food sensitivites.
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Julia Collins
Planet FWD
Zume Pizza's co-founder aims to produce snack food using regenerative-farming techniques.
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Ariane Daguin
D'Artagnan
Her 35-year-old gourmet meat company anticipated--and shaped--the sustainable, locavore trends today.
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Lisa Fetterman
Nomiku Meals
After copycats moved in on her sous-vide machines, she began selling fancy frozen meals to cook in them.
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Kellee James
Mercaris
Farmers, bankers, and food companies rely on her agricultural data and analysis.
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Christine Moseley
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Julia Niiro
MilkRun
"I want to make it as easy to buy from local farmers as it is to book a stay in someone's house or call a ride."
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Lisa Sedlar
Green Zebra Grocery
She's making healthy food as easy to find as the local convenience store.
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Daina Trout
Health-Ade
In 2018 her kombucha became the fastest-growing refrigerated beverage in the U.S.
Fashion Forward
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Nadia Boujarwah
Dia&Co
She created a fashion brand--and a platform--to support a new generation of plus-size consumers and designers.
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Mariah Chase
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Fran Dunaway
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Sylvana Ward Durrett
Maisonette
With $15 million in capital, she’s curated a one-stop-shopping site for upscale kids clothes.
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Melanie Elturk
Haute Hijab
"We needed to show a different image to Muslim girls: You can be successful because of your hijab, and not in spite of it."
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Eileen Fisher
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Jeanne Foley
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Heather Hasson
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Christine Hunsicker
CaaStle
With her software, big brands can behave like hand-picked subscription services.
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Jennifer Hyman
Rent the Runway
Her $1 billion valuation proves renting fashion is as good as owning it.
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Rebecca Lacouture
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Sarah LaFleur
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Catherine Mahugu
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Tamara Mellon
Tamara Mellon
This Jimmy Choo co-founder is taking luxury shoe sales direct to consumer.
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Rebecca Minkoff
Rebecca Minkoff
She uses her platform as the founder of a $100 million fashion brand to support women-owned businesses.
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Rihanna
Fenty
The Grammy winner is also the first woman to create a fashion house with luxury behemoth LVMH.
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Julie Wainwright
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Serena Williams
Science Pioneers
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Lisa Dyson
Air Protein
One way to feed the world: edible protein made from thin air. Dyson’s other company, Kiverdi, spun off this one.
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Falon Fatemi
Node
Google hired her when she was 19. Other companies now hire her A.I. startup to find the best job candidates and business connections.
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Kathy Hannun
Dandelion Energy
She has made geothermal heating and cooling easy to install and pay for--rendering a moonshot technology accessible.
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Nicole Hu
One Concern
She uses AI to predict the severity of disasters and help authorities respond.
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Juliette Kayyem
Grip Mobility
Her company’s new software makes ridesharing safer by monitoring what happens inside the car.
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Daphne Koller
Insitro
Cutting-edge genome editing and machine learning help her develop drug therapies.
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Christina Lopes
One Health Company
She created a genetic cancer test for dogs. The resulting data could save people too.
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Daniela Perdomo
goTenna
She's upending telecom infrastructure by allowing devices to connect without a cell network or Internet connection.
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Steph Speirs
Solstice
"Ultimately, our obsession is: 'how do we make [solar energy] so easy and so affordable that everyone can do it?'"
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Melanie Stricklan
Slingshot Aerospace
The 20-year Air Force vet’s startup analyzes satellite images in real time for smarter disaster response.
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Andrea Thomaz
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Melonee Wise
Fetch Robotics
She’s making robots to tackle the tedious warehouse jobs that humans don’t want to do.
All Things Consumer
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Suzy Batiz
Poo-Pourri
Her product is the answer to a problem that everyone has but nobody wants to talk about.
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Nia Batts
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Lindsey Boyd
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Amy Errett
Madison Reed
"I'm hell bent on changing this industry, not just having the best product."
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Talia Frenkel
This is L.
Her company, now owned by P&G, makes its period products available to girls and women who once had to do without.
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Joanna Gaines
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Nicole Gibbons
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Shan-Lyn Ma
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Tiffany Masterson
Drunk Elephant
She just wanted her product to be effective. Now she has Sephora's fastest-growing skincare brand.
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Mariam Naficy
Minted
Forget the big brands. She raised nearly $300 million to license and sell independent art and design.
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Ju Rhyu
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Polly Rodriguez
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Jen Rubio
Away
She reinvented the suitcase and then sold a million of them. Now her company is worth $1.4 billion.
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Jaime Schmidt
Supermaker
She sold her personal care business. Now she invests in ventures of underrepresented entrepreneurs.
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Christina Stembel
Farmgirl Flowers
With a lot of pluck, she has boot-strapped her way into the male-dominated flower-delivery industry.
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Holly Thaggard
Supergoop!
She's leading the mission to end skin cancer with her line of mineral sunscreens.
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Trinity Mouzon Wofford
Golde
Her line of organic masks and superfood powders is poised for national distribution.
Fitness Nation
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Michelle Larivee
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Ran Ma
Siren
"I've had people tell me feet aren't sexy. Diabetes isn't sexy. My definition of sexy is creating a profitable business and saving lives."
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Judi Sheppard Missett
Jazzercise
She was a pioneer in understanding just how big fitness would become--and has stayed on top of her company for 50 years.
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Brynn Putnam
Mirror
Thanks to her, keeping fit at home is as easy as looking in your (smart) mirror.
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Christina M. Rice
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Katherine Ryder
Maven
Her digital health clinic has given two million women access to on-demand health care.
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Alli Webb
Squeeze
She's taking her successful Drybar model, of providing expensive beauty treatments at a reduced cost, to the massage industry.
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Holly Whitaker
The Platform Economy
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Ishveen Anand
OpenSponsorship
She carved out a niche in sports marketing, a business few women have broken into.
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Jaclyn Baumgarten
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Jean Brownhill
Sweeten
She's simplifying the process of finding a contractor, and closing the gender gap in construction.
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Courtney Caldwell
ShearShare
Beauty professionals use her app to find empty space in salons across the country.
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Nicole Carter
Diversity Photos
Her company ensures that stock-photo sites represent all the people in the world.
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Mathilde Collin
Front
Silicon Valley’s favorite next-gen email organizer has moved from buzz to reality.
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Felicia Curcuru
Binti
Her software has helped social workers approve foster and adoptive families for thousands of children.
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Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins
Promise
Non-violent offenders under community supervision can use her app to keep track of court dates and stay out of jail.
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Dr. Emily Feistritzer
Teach-Now Graduate School of Education
"We focus on preparing tomorrow's teachers for tomorrow's learning world."
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Melissa Hanna
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Julia Hartz
Eventbrite
She's one of the few female founders in tech who's taken her company public.
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Whitney Wolfe Herd
Bumble
Her ladies-first dating app expanded into networking and now has more than 65 million users.
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Marcela Sapone
Hello Alfred
"I'd like for us to be one of the generation-defining companies. There’s never been one run by women."
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Maxeme Tuchman
Caribu
Her app takes some of the sting out of geographic separations by letting you read and draw with your kids online.
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Sevetri Wilson
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Laura Behrens Wu
Published on: Sep 16, 2019