ANN ARBOR - Entrepreneur Monica Wheat, entrepreneur and investor, discusses her selection to the inaugural Visionary Voices speakers bureau, to amplify female and non-binary voices nationwide. Women and non-binary individuals are significantly underrepresented in conversations about tech and venture capital — both at conferences and in media coverage. This perpetuates a cycle where they don’t
ROYAL OAK - Tember Shea, Director of the inGAGE program at Inforum, talks about the success experienced in 2017 by the program that helps train second stage women entrepreneurs running companies get them to $1 million in revenue or ready for an angel investor. Started in August 2012, inGAGE’s first seven cohorts have incorporated 38
DETROIT - The Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation announced Wednesday that Carey Pachla as the nonprofit’s new president, and Rebecca Bray the new vice president. Pachla is also president of Fast Switch, Ltd., an IT consulting organization. She has been an active volunteer member of MCWT for more than a decade, and served in
LANSING - Michael Rogers, vice president communications for the Small Business Association of Michigan, talks with Cynthia Kay, a past chair of the association, about her new book Stop Wishing. Stop Whining. Start Leading.: A No-Nonsense, Straight-Talk Guide for Women Who Aspire to Lead. From the Amazon description: Authors Cynthia Kay and Doreen Bolhuis, both
SAN FRANCISCO - Only 7 percent of investing partners at the top 100 Venture and Micro-Venture firms are women, reports a new study, which also contends 12 percent of venture rounds and 10 percent of venture dollars globally between 2010 and 2015 went to startups with at least one woman founder. The report was done
DETROIT - Detroit is ranked second in the nation in the number of women-owned businesses created over the past nine years, while Michigan ranks fourth among the 50 states and Washington D.C. for the overall growth of women-owned companies. This news comes from a new report commission by American Express OPEN, analyzing data from the
FERNDALE – On November 30, M2 TechCast will debut its latest partner series when Diva Tech Talk takes to the microphones at the PodcastDetroit studio to talk about women entrepreneurs, women in technology and women in communications. M2 TechTalk is heard each Monday from 3 to 4 pm. To listen to podcasts of previous shows,
