Technology has always been the cutting edge of potential for the world. However, the famous female entrepreneurs that continuously push technology forward are the biggest driving forces of those advancements today.
Tech entrepreneurs come from backgrounds of all kinds, as it is a profession that is available to virtually anyone who can do the job well. There has been an impressive streak of female tech entrepreneurs recently, all of whom have made some impressive contributions to the industry.
The following list contains seven famous female entrepreneurs and their impact on the world of technology:
1. Alice Bentinck
It is only appropriate to kick things off with a famous female entrepreneur who is actively inspiring more diversity in the tech industry. As the co-founder of Code First: Girls, Alice Bentinck has played a large role in assisting thousands of women across the UK in learning to code.
Beyond that, she also is the co-founder of Entrepreneur First. This business was created in order to get many different people with similar ideas and goals into one place. From there, they could share their knowledge of tech and craft startups together. Due to her roles in both of these ventures, Bentinck has maintained a central position in shaping the future of the technology industry. Many startups in the Toronto tech industry, along with the rest of the world, were inspired by this famous female entrepreneur.
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2. Lauren Washington
Another famous female entrepreneur is Lauren Washington. It is no secret that the core of our identities have become ingrained in social media over the past decade. However, you may also notice that our personalities have also become splintered across the various forms of social media that we use every day. As such, it can be difficult to keep up with so many online interactions daily.
Lauren Washington realized this years ago, leading her to craft the idea of KeepUp. This app allows you to manage your various social media accounts across all platforms in a single place. As far as convenience goes, you simply can’t top that.
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3. Edith Harbaugh
Edith Harbaugh is rapidly emerging as one of the more famous female entrepreneurs in the tech industry in recent years. She has certainly made some large waves in a short time. Harbaugh launched her game changing management platform, LaunchDarkly, in 2014.
This was soon followed by the earning of about $21 million in venture capital funding soon after. Impressively, the platform supports software developers and has won customers ranging from GoPro to Microsoft and TrustPilot in the last two years.
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4. Louise Leolin
While there is a misconception that video games is a male dominated hobby, the reality is that 52% of gamers are women. This makes the face that only 14% of the people working in the video game industry in the UK identify as women incredibly strange. Fortunately, Louise Leolin is working to balance the scales a little by running an independent game design firm known as DinoByte Labs.
With Leolin in one of the lead roles at DinoByte Labs, the future projects of the firm are looking bright and promising.
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5. Leslie Feinzaig
Leslie Feinzaig is another entrepreneur who has spent most of her life exploring the various possibilities made available by technology. In 2016, Feinzaig created Venture Kits, a business created in order to help children become business leaders via in-depth gaming experiences. The next year, Leslie’s entrepreneurial spirit continued its hot streak, leading her to found the Founders Alliance (FFA).
For those unaware, the FFA is a private network of women leaders and founders in scalable tech and emerging businesses. The alliance is intended to help women leaders establish their brands in their industry of choice with the support of a dedicated community.
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6. Melanie Perkins
It is safe to say that most people have heard of Canva, which is an innovative online platform that allows users to easily edit photos for their websites, social media pages, and more. However, most of those people may not have heard of Melanie Perkins, the woman who ultimately helped the project take off. As CEO and co-founder of Canva, Melanie was inspired to present the world with an environment where graphic design and image editing could be much easier and comfortable than it was.
Perkins not only created Canva, but also launched another new company called Fusion Books, an online publishing system that allows people to create personalized yearbooks in mere minutes. The success of these projects are due in large part to her passionate goal of making technology more accessible to the masses that need it.
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7. Samantha Snabes
As co-founder of Re:3D, Samantha Snabes is helping to transform the manufacturing industry in a big way. The overall goal of Re:3D is to provide companies around the world with industrial-sized 3D printers. Naturally, these 3D printers can totally change how a company does business and manufactures products.
Snabes noticed the potential of 3D printing during her years working with NASA and Engineers without Borders. In that time, she realized that this new form of manufacturing should be available to many more companies. This has prompted the famous female entrepreneur to launch her own business to see this idea come to fruition.
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