Tech startup founders who happen to be women come out for Silicon Beach Fest this weekend in LA.
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
We heard about Silicon Beach Fest, the first festival and hackathon organized by its tech community to celebrate LA tech, entertainment and startups running today and tomorrow in Venice and Santa Monica.
Where are the women in tech starting companies? We took a quick look at the schedule and zeroed in on the following speakers at Silicon Beach Fest representing LA's startup scene:
Former VP of business development at Scandinavian Design House, Allison Beal launched StyleSaint, a community-curated fashion platform for online fashion consumers. Follow her on Twitter at @stylesaint.
The Princeton-educated art impressario Bettina Korek left a career at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art to start ForYourArt, curating opportunities to see, collect and learn about art. Follow her on Twitter at @bettina_korek.
Serial social entrepreneur Elizabeth Stewart started up Los Angeles-based shared office and event space called The Hub LA. Prior to that, she started up CAUSEmopolis to enhance urban places worldwide. Follow her on Twitter at @elizinla.
Designer Holden Steinberg co-founded PageWoo to provide full circle mobile performance advertising, building sophisticated web applications and developing mobile designs for her company. Follow her on Twitter at @holdicon.
Serial entrepreneur Jean Chong built a company that provides B2B services to restaurants. Now she's working on Starbates, a platform for restaurants and customers to connect. Follow her on Twitter at @StarbatesApp.
Designer Joselle Ho co-founded music educational startup Miso Media, developing mobile and iPad apps. Miso Media is funded by Google Ventures. Follow her on Twitter at @joselleho.
An experienced public relations rofessional and style expert, Sarah Pollack started Simply Stylist to explore her passion for educating fashion and style enthusiasts by connecting them to style experts. Follow her on Twitter at @sarahpollack.
The talented Sophia Viklund can code in Python, Django, RoR, Unity3D, PHP and ArchiCAD. She runs BackCode, an app development company out of Pasadena. Follow her on Twitter at @backcode.
Social impact strategist Stacy McCoy started Give To Get Jobs as an information hub for jobs in the for-profit sector with a social and/or environmental mission. Follow her on Twitter at @stacymccoy.
Let us know if you're going to Silicon Beach Fest and who you're excited to meet!
This post was originally posted at Women 2.0.
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