Take a look the 2021 Female Founders 100, the top women entrepreneurs you should know this year.
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With steel honed in the military, serial entrepreneur Phyllis Newhouse is giving financial power to those who've never had it. PHYLLIS NEWHOUSE HAS THE news on four TV monitors before her desk in a glass office tower. Through the window behind her, beyond the manicured gardens of a mansion once …
From a political movement to a fintech revolution, she finds her biggest ideas in the wake of the ones that don't work. STACEY ABRAMS HAS a knack for turning failures into successes. After losing a tight 2018 gubernatorial race in Georgia, the 47-year-old entrepreneur, lawyer, writer, and former …
Primary co-founders Christina Carbonell and Galyn Bernard hit on a simple idea parents loved: high-quality, gender-neutral essentials -- with none of the silly stuff. Galyn Bernard and Christina Carbonell met as executives in the marketing department of Quidsi, the parent company of Diapers.com. …
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Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code, calls her movement the Marshall Plan for Moms: She wants to see systemic change in how the country supports mothers. Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code, has long worked to close the gender gap in technology. But the early days of the pandemic -- …
Most jeans manufacturers rely on petroleum-based dyes and pollutants. Tammy Hsu and Michelle Zhu are on a mission to revolutionize the industry with planet-friendly, microbe-based dyes. About 20 percent of the world's industrial water pollution comes from textile dyeing. And the denim industry is …
Pharma giants like AstraZeneca use Michelle Longmire's drug-development software platform, Medable, to keep their clinical trials running remotely. Michelle Longmire co-founded Medable in 2015, but it wasn't until the Covid-19 pandemic that the drug-development software platform came into its own. …
When schools shut down, parents no longer needed Joanna McFarland's on-demand ride service for kids. Here's how her clutch pivot rescued the business. As Joanna McFarland, co-founder and CEO of HopSkipDrive, an on-demand ride service for kids, was steering the firm to its best year ever thanks to a …
