| Date | Title | Description |
| 14.10.2021 | New Seattle VC firm raises $10M fund to back women-led startups | The Graham & Walker team, from left to right: Amanda Eldridge, vice president of business development; Rohre Titcomb, COO; Leslie Feinzaig, founder & managing director; Es Famojure, program manager; and Divya Kakkad, vice president ... |
| 20.05.2021 | 2021 GeekWire Awards revealed: Big winners, surprise guests, and the best in Pacific NW tech | Some of the winners at the 2021 GeekWire Awards during their virtual acceptance speeches on Thursday. (GeekWire video screen grabs)
It’s been a tough year for people everywhere. But Thursday proved to be an inspiring day, as the 2021 GeekWi... |
| 02.04.2021 | Three ways VC firms can construct sustainably diverse portfolios | Leslie Feinzaig Contributor
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Leslie Feinzaig is the founder and CEO of the Female Founders Alliance.
Venture capital has a diversity problem: Data show that Black and Latinx founders received just 2.6% of overall funding in ... |
| 25.02.2021 | Register for TC Sessions: Justice for a conversation on diversity, equity and inclusion in the startup world | Diversity, equity and inclusion. These essential elements remain woefully lacking across the tech industry despite recent strides. Join us on March 3 — just one week away — for TC Sessions: Justice 2021. Hear from and engage with the top ex... |
| 19.02.2021 | Meet the Female Founders Alliance startups from TC Include at TC Sessions: Justice 2021 | We’re less than two weeks away from TC Sessions: Justice 2021, a day-long deep dive into the state of diversity, inclusion and equity in tech. March 3 is your opportunity to hear from and engage with the people who, through entrepreneurship... |
| 18.12.2020 | Meet the startups that just pitched at a virtual Demo Night hosted by Female Founders Alliance | Entrepreneurs selling everything from STI screening kits to skincare products to software tools pitched their ideas at the third annual Demo Night for Ready Set Raise, a startup accelerator run by Female Founders Alliance.
Seattle-based FFA... |
| 19.10.2020 | Ready Set Raise, an accelerator for women built by women, announces third class | In 2018, Leslie Feinzaig, the founder of Female Founders Alliance, launched a free, equity-free accelerator for women called Ready Set Raise. The goal was to provide under-networked female founders the coaching and connections needed to rai... |
| 19.10.2020 | FFA announces third cohort for accelerator program designed to help female and non-binary founders | Female Founders Alliance unveiled its third accelerator cohort as it looks to help more female and non-binary founders grow their companies and raise funding.
The Seattle-based organization this year is hosting a virtual version of its eigh... |
| 16.10.2020 | How COVID-19 and the resulting recession are impacting female founders | Last week The Exchange dug into recent data concerning the amount of venture capital raised by female founders. As a refresher, the numbers were not good.
In Q3 2020, PitchBook data reported that US-based female founders raised $434 million... |
| 15.10.2020 | Female Founders Alliance report measures impact of pandemic on women and entrepreneurship | (Female Founders Alliance Graphic)
Seattle-based Female Founders Alliance released a new report on Thursday that measures the effect of the pandemic on women and non-binary individuals and what the prolonged health and economic crisis is do... |
| 30.01.2020 | Houston's spike in VC deals, accelerator acquired, new coworking, and more innovation news | Houston has seen some big headlines this month when it comes to innovation news — and you could have missed something.
From a report on venture capital funding last year and new coworking coming to town to a Houston investor selling her acc... |
| 21.01.2020 | Female Founders Alliance absorbs Monarq accelerator to better promote women and non-binary founders | Seattle’s Female Founders Alliance, which runs the Ready Set Raise accelerator for women and non-binary founders, has acquired New York’s Monarq, an incubator with similar goals and origins. The latter will be integrated into the former, bu... |
| 21.01.2020 | Female Founders Alliance acquires Monarq Incubator to expand national reach | Female Founders Alliance CEO Leslie Feinzaig stands on stage with the program’s accelerator CEOs and mentors at the Ready Set Raise Demo Night in Seattle last year. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper)
Seattle-based Female Founders Alliance (FFA... |
| 19.11.2019 | Give InKind’s smarter giving platform brings in surprise $1.5 million in pre-seed funding | Helping out a friend in need online can be surprisingly difficult. While giving cash is easy enough, that’s often not what people need most — so Give InKind aims to be the platform where you can do a lot more than write a check. The idea is... |
| 18.10.2019 | Female Founders Alliance Demo Night: 8 women-led startups pitch their businesses | Female Founders Alliance CEO Leslie Feinzaig stands on stage with the program’s accelerator CEOs and mentors at the Ready Set Raise Demo Night in Seattle on Thursday. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper)
Workwear for women. Sustainable spirits. ... |
| 27.08.2019 | Female Founders Alliance unveils second accelerator class and partnership with Microsoft | The CEOs leading this year’s Ready Set Raise companies. (FFA Photo)
Female Founders Alliance is back with its second accelerator cohort as the Seattle-based organization looks to help another round of female-led startups grow their business... |
| 27.08.2019 | Ready, Set, Raise — the Y Combinator for female founders — announces second cohort | About one-fourth of the startups in Y Combinator’s summer batch had a female founder. Not the most disappointing statistic if you consider this: Companies with at least one female founder have raised only about 11% of venture capital fundin... |
| 21.08.2019 | Female Founders Alliance and Pioneer Square Labs launch challenge to help entrepreneurs test ideas | (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper)
Leslie Feinzaig knows how hard it is to let go of a failed startup idea. In 2016 she launched Venture Kits, a tech company that helped introduce entrepreneurship to kids. Even when it became clear that the bu... |
| 16.05.2019 | Krowdsourced aims to be the Amazon and more for commercial space design | Nicole Schmidt, left, CEO and founder of Krowdsourced, with customer Brittney Herrera of HBx Studio. (Krowdsourced Photo)
Nicole Schmidt describes herself as an “accidental entrepreneur.”
Her real expertise is in interior design for commerc... |
| 17.01.2019 | Female Founders Alliance raises cash from angel investors, inks deal with WeWork | The inaugural Ready Set Raise Demo Night for the Female Founders Alliance last year. (GeekWire photos / Taylor Soper)
It’s already been a busy year for the Female Founders Alliance.
The Seattle-based organization continues to march toward i... |
| 28.09.2018 | Inside the inaugural Female Founders Alliance accelerator: Eight startups, one hope for the future | Eight women CEOs pitched their startup ideas at the inaugural Ready Set Raise Demo Night for the Female Founders Alliance. (GeekWire photos / Taylor Soper)
Female Founders Alliance started as an online community for women CEOs and startup l... |
| 12.09.2018 | Female Founders Alliance reveals 8 startups in new ‘Ready Set Raise’ accelerator program | Female Founders Alliance CEO Leslie Feinzaig speaks at the GeekWire Summit 2017. (Photo by Dan DeLong for GeekWire)
Female Founders Alliance today announced the eight companies participating in its inaugural Ready Set Raise program designed... |
| 12.09.2018 | Ready Set Raise is a new accelerator built for women by women | Women in tech are not only significantly under-funded by venture capitalists, but they also often lack access to the early-stage support granted to their male counterparts.
To enroll in a startup accelerator like Y Combinator, for example, ... |
| 12.07.2018 | Tech journalist and Chairman Mom founder Sarah Lacy on the power of being polarizing | Pando and Chairman Mom founder Sarah Lacy. (GeekWire Photo/Kaitlyn Wang)
Sarah Lacy, a longtime tech journalist and columnist, knows the things she says can be controversial. Not that it’s stopped her from building two companies, or standin... |
| 11.07.2018 | Female Founders Alliance unveils immersive ‘Ready Set Raise’ program to help women land startup investments | Startup entrepreneur Leslie Feinzaig, Female Founders Alliance CEO and founder, left, at a recent event held in Seattle by the organization to connect its members with media representatives. (Female Founders Alliance Photo)
Female Founders ... |
| 25.06.2018 | 15 Incredible Women in Business to Watch in 2018 and Beyond | Much has been written about the tech industry’s sexist undertones. In 2017, Silicon Valley faced a “reckoning” for its gender-driven decision-making and tolerance of sexual harassment. From marginalizing women’s ability to contribute to the... |
| 15.05.2018 | Stats show drop-off in follow-on funding rounds for women-led startups compared to male peers | It’s a difficult funding environment for female entrepreneurs in today’s technology industry, where less than 3 percent of venture capital dollars went to all-women founding teams last year. But the imbalance is also evident for follow-on f... |
| 09.04.2018 | ‘Depressing and inspiring’: Study finds 5% of Washington tech companies founded by women | WTIA CEO Michael Schutzler. (Photo via WTIA)
New research from the Washington Technology Industry Association shows how wide the gender gap is among the state’s startup founders.
WTIA collected data on 400 active tech companies in Washingto... |
| 29.03.2018 | Be bombastic: Top investors share startup tips for female entrepreneurs | Female investors from the Pacific Northwest gathered at a “Meet the VCs” event in Seattle on Thursday. (GeekWire photo / Taylor Soper)
For female entrepreneurs, trying to pitch investors and raise money can be a tough proposition in a techn... |
| 20.04.2017 | ‘Failing, frustrated, and asking for help.’ How Techstars Seattle ended up with a male-dominated class — and what they’re doing about it | Redfin CTO Bridget Frey delivered the keynote before a class of male CEOs pitched during Techstars Seattle Demo Night. (GeekWire Photo / Monica Nickelsburg)
It’s no secret that tech has a diversity problem. In fact, the lack of gender equit... |
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