It’s that time of the year again: Y Combinator’s Winter 2020 Demo Day. We’ve attended this for the last couple of years, and this year was an entirely different experience in light of our current WFH situation brought about by Coronavirus. Instead of having...
We got to check out Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 cohort this week – the biggest one yet, with 189 companies – a 25% increase compared to last year. Unfortunately, the increase in companies didn’t result in an increase in companies with a female...
We had the pleasure of attending Backstage Capital’s Investor Day, where their portfolio startups meet investors in a speed dating type of format. Arlan Hamilton started things off by leading an impressive panel of female investors, including Ellen Pao, Monique...
Women 2.0’s team headed to Y Combinator’s Demo Day to cover startups founded by at least one female founder or co-founder. There are 23 startups on day two, and 16 on day one, which equals to 39 startups in total (out of 132 startups). Fun fact: since late 2017, YC...
We had one of our Women 2.0 team, Alison Cheung, out at Y Combinator’s Demo Day at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View to speak with the female founders in the YC Summer 2018 batch. The Women 2.0 team was especially excited about covering this event, as YC...