As a female founder of a tech startup, I am excited to be building my company, ProPlanr Inc.. There’s one other thing I am equally excited about – empowering women in the business and technology ecosystem right here in Sacramento.
After attending many tech startup conferences, events, workshops, and summits throughout the Bay Area and the United States, I found that something was missing from most of these gatherings. They did not include programming, education, and resources specifically for female founders.
When attending these startup events, I’d look around the room and discover I was one of very few women present and usually the only woman of color in a sea of young white men. I thought to myself, “surely there are resources and technology events that are diverse and inclusive of women?” But I found it to be not so. To make it even worse, less than 2% of venture capital funding was given to female founders in 2017.
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