3 Ways to Support #Womenterprise & 7 Women Founders of Seed Startups to Watch
Here at Work-Bench, we’re always looking to grow our #womenterprise community in an intentional, conscious effort to promote more inclusivity within the enterprise tech ecosystem. While there are many ways to do this, here are three ways we are supporting our community right now:
#1: Bring Great Women Together
Last week, we said goodbye to Zoom and safely brought together the top women founders and leaders across Product, Sales, Marketing, and more from NYC’s leading enterprise SaaS startups. It was terrific to see the #womenterprise community out in full force, and we’ve seen firsthand what connecting with a great community can do to help support, inspire, and raise others up. Sign up for our #womenterprise newsletter to join the community!
#2: Curate Our Founders of Enterprise Startups (Who Are Women) Database
We collate this Women Founders of Enterprise Startups Database as a way to provide visibility to women founders across all stages. Since launching this public database 3+ years ago, the database has been used countless of times by investors to identify founders to invest in, for conferences and events to invite founders as speakers, for press to write for coverage, and so much more. Read more here.
#3: Amplify Women Founders Whenever We Can
Today, we’re excited to highlight 7 women founders building seed-stage enterprise software startups across machine learning, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and more.
Kate Hiscox
About Kate: Kate is the co-founder and CEO of Sivo, having previously founded We are DRIVE, Venzee Technologies, and Bablingo.
What Does Sivo Do? Sivo provides debt as a service with an API that allows companies to access debt funding and lend money to their users at scale.
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Kris Bondi
About Kris: Kris is the co-founder and CEO of Mimoto and was previously Chief Marketing Officer at LogDNA and Bitnami (acquired by VMware).
What Does Mimoto Do? Mimoto is an AI-powered solution that proactively identifies and mitigates security breaches in real-time.
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Michelle Valentine
About Michelle: Michelle is the co-founder and CEO of Anrok and a former Product Manager at Airtable and investor at Index Ventures.
What Does Anrok Do? Built for SaaS businesses, Anrok unifies sales tax monitoring, calculation and remittance across your financial stack.
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Miryana Joksovic
About Miryana: Miryana is a co-founder and CEO of Blitzz and a former COO and Head of IT Solutions at Similarity and VP of Global Partnerships at YuME. What Does Blitzz Do? Blitzz is a developer of database replication platform designed to offer autonomous migration and cloud-neutral database replication.
Headquarters: San Mateo, CA
Shinji Kim
About Shinji: Shinji is the founder & CEO of Select Star and previously founded Concord Systems (acquired by Akamai in 2016).
What Does Select Star Do? Select Star is an intelligent data discovery platform that automatically detects documents for data engineers, scientists and everyone in between.
Headquarters: New York, NY
Somya Kapoor
About Somya: Somya is co-founder and CEO of TheLoops and previously held product roles at ServiceNow and SAP.
What Does TheLoops Do? TheLoops unites data across sources and streamline context bridging the gap between support and engineering, allowing CX leaders to transform support into a business driver.
Headquarters: San Mateo, CA
Olga Kundzich
About Olga: Olga is a co-founder at Moderne and previously led product management and engineering at Pivotal and Dell EMC.
What Does Moderne Do? Moderne is a semantic code search and transformation solution that enables developers to refactor their codes and accelerate software development.
Headquarters: Seattle, WA
If there are any enterprise women founders we should add to our database — please reach out!
Or if you’re an early stage woman founder building enterprise software yourself and looking for a community of peers to discuss building a product, securing enterprise customer traction, understanding GTM, recruiting a world class team, or fundraising — I’d love to talk to you!
