Pooja Sankar Raises $6M For Her EduTech Startup Piazza

Pooja Sankar Raises $6M For Her EduTech Startup Piazza

By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Piazza Founder and CEO Pooja Sankar blogged on Women 2.0 a few months ago: “As a teenager, I never went outside alone, spoke to a boy other than my brother, or wore jeans or a short skirt.” The...
BeCouply Receives First Investment

BeCouply Receives First Investment

By Becky Cruze (Co-Founder, BeCouply) Today the BeCouply team is excited to announce that we’ve received our first investment! The investment is from Mitch Kapor of Kapor Capital. Mitch is perhaps best-known for creating Lotus 1-2-3 and co-founding the Lotus...
BeCouply Presents at NewME Accelerator Demo Day

BeCouply Presents at NewME Accelerator Demo Day

By Becky Cruze (Co-Founder, BeCouply) As detailed in a previous post, my boyfriend Pius Uzamere and I co-founded a tech startup called BeCouply. BeCouply is the mobile app that helps couples have epic social lives by making it easy to discover new date ideas, capture...
A Site for Sore Eyes: My Startup Story of Color P.I.

A Site for Sore Eyes: My Startup Story of Color P.I.

By Asmau Ahmed (Founder, color p.i.) My startup story begins long before color p.i. was chosen as one of a select few Astia clients, long before I built the technology, and certainly long before I wrote the business plan while I was at Columbia Business School. My...