Women Entrepreneurs and Venture Capitalists Honored

The Women’s Technology Cluster incubated MsMoney.com and continues to serve as a business accelerator offering services, resources and connections to women entrepreneurs with a technology focus who want to rapidly grow their businesses by raising venture capital.

Being part of an elite prescreened community of women who are at the top of their field was an empowering experience for me. Much of my success can be attributed to the WTC and their members.

During most of my career, whether it was starting my first Internet Consulting company 10 years ago, growing MsMoney.com or working on Thrive Media, I have relied on networking with women in women’s organization to enhance my skills and give me that extra ounce of confidence needed to reach for the stars.

Join the WTC in Celebrating Investment in Women-Led Companies.
On April 4th in Mountain View, California, eight venture capitalists will be awarded for their leadership in investing in women-led companies in 2004 and 2005.

157 companies with women CEOs received venture funding in these two years.

The WTC will be congratulating these Venture Capitalists and the companies they invested in.
ARCH Venture Partners
Cargill Ventures
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Enterprise Partners Venture Capital
Menlo Ventures
New Enterprise Associates
Versant Ventures

These Venture Capitalist had the:
- Largest Percentage of Investments in Women CEOs
- Highest Number of Investments in Companies with a Woman CEO
- Highest Number of Investments in Companies with a Woman Founder

Book tickets for the event or make a tax-deductible donation to the non-profit WTC so that they can continue to support women ventures and create diversity in the technology and business world. The WTC focuses on women with companies in Technology, Bio-Technology and Clean Technology.

The WTC's recent Stem Cell Research Conference was a huge success and one of kind. Leaders from academia, government, and the bio-tech industry discussed the opportunities for the commercialization of stem cell research and strategies for the successful creation of an industry.

Over 30 internationally renowned panelists (US, UK, Canada, Australia, Netherlands, Germany, Singapore, etc.) explored the potential challenges to commercialization and make recommendations for a successful and time effective transition from lab to patient. Speakers investigated how to effectively build alliances across key research and industry groups in the US and internationally.

I am a huge fan of the medical advances that stem cell research will bring and am thrilled to know that the WTC is has made one of the pioneering efforts to bring together the expert bio-tech community to facilitate collaboration that will go down in history.