Newsworthy

A sampling of stories, posts and tweets about our founders, our portfolio companies, and the issues that matter to us. If you see something that belongs on this page, please contact us at newsworthy@bbgventures.com

The Gap Table: a study by Carta on the effect of gender on equity

Carta

The Wing Gets $75 Million to Expand Its Working Women Collective

Bloomberg Businessweek

The Mom Project, a job site for moms returning to work, nabs $8M from Initialized and more

TechCrunch

The Mom Project

Future Family secures a $100M credit line to help more families with fertility care

TechCrunch

Glamsquad Just Launched Their Own Line Of Haircare Products

Forbes

How Infertility Catapulted One Entrepreneur From Clean Energy to Women’s Health

Fortune

Beautycon Founder Is Ready to Fearlessly Lead the Diversity Charge: “It’s So Not Hard”

The Hollywood Reporter

40 Under 40

Crain’s

The Mom Project

Meet the Plantfluencers

The New York Times

The Silicon Valley boys club confronts a powerful and well-connected network trying to debunk the male-founder myth

CNBC

The Wing’s Next Big Idea: Child Care Services for Moms

Glamour

Future Family raises $10M to make fertility treatments more affordable

TechCrunch

The Wing, a co-working space for women, opens its doors in San Francisco

TechCrunch

Pymetrics raises $40 million for AI-powered job recruitment

VentureBeat

Once a tender seed, The Sill is blossoming fast

CBS News

VENTURE CAPITALIST | SUSAN LYNE

Business of Home

Why BBG Ventures Backs Female Founders

Bloomberg

Getting talented mothers back to work, a project launching in Atlanta

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The Mom Project

Moneyball for business: How AI is changing talent management

Fast Company

Millennials are obsessed with raising plants, and one New York-based startup is poised to capitalize

Business Insider

Fighting food waste, Full Harvest raises $8.5m to bring excess produce to commercial buyers

TechCrunch

Imperial Pink? The Wing Gears Up to Go Global

Vogue

Zola’s plan to take on the $72 billion wedding industry

Fast Company

How the Entrepreneurs Behind Text-Based Wellness Brand Shine Find the Biggest Opportunity in Everything They Do

Entrepreneur

Beauty Is in the Eye of These Beholders

The New York Times

Spring Health raises $6M to help employees get access to personalized mental health treatment

TechCrunch

What It’s Like to Go ‘Glamping’ in New York City

Bloomberg

Collective Retreats

Winnie raises $4 million to make parents’ lives easier

TechCrunch

Glamping Slips Into the Mainstream

The New York Times

Collective Retreats

LOLA just raised $24M for a subscription service that ships tampons, pads and now condoms

TechCrunch

How the Founders of LOLA Learned to Talk up the Feminine Hygiene Market

Entrepreneur

Why New York beats Silicon Valley as a destination for some startup founders

The Verge

How the Founder of Modsy and Her Mentor Are Building a ‘Power Squad’ to Help Women in Business

Entrepreneur

Pymetrics open-sources Audit AI, an algorithm bias detection tool

VentureBeat

Women’s coworking space The Wing is expanding into media

Fast Company

Snag a pair of goTenna Mesh devices and stay in contact, no matter the cell service status

Mashable

Mented Cosmetics Raises $3 Million In Funding, Highlighting Opportunity For Multicultural Makeup Brands

Forbes

Mented Cosmetics

GoTenna Launches a Bitcoin Wallet That Works Without the Internet

CoinDesk

Cult ‘Fast-Beauty’ Brand Winky Lux Raises $6 Million In Series A To Fund Experience-First Retail Plans

Forbes

3D Designer Modsy Makes Home Decorating Idiot-Proof

Forbes

While Facebook Flounders, Women Build Their Own Social Networks

Fortune

Meet the Disruptors: 39 Women Who Are Spearheading a Revolution in Advertising, Media and Tech

Adweek

Why Comcast and Goldman Sachs Just Put $100 Million Into Cleaning Up Wedding Planning

Fortune

A Startup Tries to Make High Heels Less Painful

The Wall Street Journal

This Female-Led Startup Wants Women to Know What Their Condoms Are Made Of

Fortune

Report From Planet Beautycon: Diversity and Small Female-Owned Companies in the Spotlight

The New York Times

Meet the Venture Capitalist Backing Your Favorite Brands

Coveteur

‘Bridging the gender gap’ isn’t just about pay

Yahoo Finance

First “Uber for kids” ride service launches in Denver by three moms, including one who grew up here

The Denver Post

Managing human resources is about to become easier

The Economist

Self-care startup Shine raises $5 million Series A

TechCrunch

See who’s leading the charge in backing female-founders. And who has work to do.

PitchBook

The Three Mindset Habits That Helped This Scientist Launch A Startup

Forbes

Is a Revolution Finally Coming to Feminine Care?

The Business of Fashion

Emmy-Winning Producer Stephanie Laing To Partner With Norwegian For First Female Driven In-Flight Comedy Channel

Deadline

Be Heard women’s leadership series

Theory

Inside No Man’s Land: ‘The Wing’

MSNBC

Female-owned firms closing the VC gender gap

Crain’s New York Business

30 women in venture capital to watch in 2018

Business Insider

Founders of theSkimm, Rent the Runway, and Other Badass Women Share Their Top 5 Tips for Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Fortune

Using Artificial Intelligence to Find Your Perfect Job

Cheddar

Rising Stars Awards 2018

Global Corporate Venturing

Modsy’s CEO explains how she conquered the VC ‘boys club’

Yahoo Finance

A new market for old and ugly fruit and vegetables takes shape

The Economist

Success! How I Did It.

Business Insider

Interview with CEO of Modsy, Shanna Tellerman

Huffington Post

Some Things About Tech Were Good in 2017. No, Really.

The New York Times

Skype mobile users get ScribbleChat’s 3D handwriting and animated stickers

VentureBeat

This VC Says Stitch Fix’s IPO Paved the Way for Female Founders

Fortune

I Asked Glamsquad for a Nude Mani Pedi. Here’s What Happened.

NUDEST

Inspirational texts are the new self-help books

New York Post

Susan Lyne on addressing sexual harassment in business

CNBC

How Does She Do It: Eliza Blank of The Sill

Forbes

A Wedding Registry Specialist Shares Her Expert Advice

The Cut

What Kind of Plant to Get If You Literally Cannot Keep Plants Alive (And Why It’s Good for Your Health)

Thrive Global

HopSkipDrive raises another $7.4 million for its Uber for kids business

TechCrunch

Women’s Club The Wing Raises $32 Million Series B, Led By Competitor WeWork

Forbes

Taking The Intimidation Out Of Jewelry With Smart Subscription Services

PYMNTS

A mesh network spontaneously erupts in the US and helps connect Puerto Rico

TechCrunch

7 Killer Traits Female Investors Seek in Tech Startup Founders

Fortune

The Wing, a Chic Women’s Club, Is Going Wide

The New York Times

Women in Business Q&A: Eloise Bune, Founder and CEO, ScribbleChat

HuffPost

Reaction Commerce raises $8.5 million for a new soup-to-nuts e-commerce software

TechCrunch

Reaction Commerce

The Wing’s Chic New SoHo Space Will Make You Want to Join ASAP

Marie Claire

Want To Connect With Millennials? Chill With The Personalization

Fast Company

Stay in touch with your kids without adding screen time

Mashable

This interior design startup lets you try out furniture before you buy it — and it helped me make the most of my small apartment

Business Insider

Start-Ups Use Technology to Redesign the Hiring Process

The New York Times

Apple now sells a dissectable AR teddy bear named Parker

The Verge

Startup Raises $1.3 Million to Combat Food Waste

Inc.

Industrial Organic

How Would That Couch Look at Home? Check Your Phone

New York Times

5 mistakes to avoid when completing the FAFSA

Yahoo Finance

Zola Shakes Up The $19 Billion Wedding Gift Industry

Forbes

Here’s Why Zola Cherishes its NPS Detractors as Much as its Promoters

First Round Review

Pymetrics attacks discrimination in hiring with AI and recruiting games

TechCrunch

The Most Innovative Women in Food & Drink

Food & Wine

Women in Business Q&A: Shanna Tellerman, Founder and CEO, Modsy

HuffPost

“I was too much of a girl to fight it”: Media legend Susan Lyne on… everything

Pando

How This Female Venture Capitalist Is Creating Equality For Women And Girls

Forbes

Finding Potential in Oddly-Shaped Fruits and Vegetables

Bloomberg

This texting service is here for all your back-to-school worries

Mashable

Tour a glamping retreat in the bucolic Hudson Valley

Curbed

Collective Retreats

Why Is This VC Firm Doubling Down on Women Entrepreneurs? Because It’s Good for Business.

Entrepreneur

I Tested Out the World’s First Off-the-Shelf Mesh Net Creator

Motherboard

The Neuroscientist Using AI to Level the Recruiting Field

OZY

For Lola, Dropping a Tampon Into a Glass of Water During a Pitch Was the First Step to $11.2 Million in Funding

Inc.

How I Get It Done: Shan-Lyn Ma, Co-founder of Millennial Wedding-Registry Site Zola

The Cut

Winky Lux Is Releasing the Next Viral Lipstick

Us Weekly

“the iPhone created a sea-change for women—as consumers but also as entrepreneurs” says BBG Ventures’ Susan Lyne

Hunter Walk

The 25 Most Innovative Ag-Tech Startups

Forbes

Four Tactics To Find And Partner With The Best Investors For Your Startup

Forbes

Consumer goods giant Unilever has been hiring employees using brain games and artificial intelligence — and it’s a huge success

Business Insider

Flip

USV

Flip gets $2.2 million to grow its marketplace for long-term sublets

TechCrunch

The Brains Behind Beautycon: Moj Mahdara On Building A Media And Live-Events Startup

Forbes

Stem raises $8M to get music artists paid more seamlessly

TechCrunch

Why Women-Only Coworking Spaces Are on the Rise

Entrepreneur

Cannes Lions’ Innovation Lions Shortlist Is Here–See Who Made The Cut

Fast Company

Meet the Next Generation of Activists Making a Difference, From Innovative Designers and Models to Young Women in Tech

W Magazine

Brands, Take Note: Beautycon Has Cracked The “Pivotal Generation”

Fast Company

Ringly exchanges gems for stones on its latest smart bracelet

The Verge

This Ride-Hailing Service for Kids Unlocks Opportunities for Drivers

Entrepreneur

In 2017, only 17% of startups have a female founder

TechCrunch

‘We’re close’ —BBG Ventures President Susan Lyne on the future of women-led startups

Mashable

Betaworks-backed Shine raises $2.5 million to boost morale via text messaging

VentureBeat

Zola Moves to Take Over Wed-Tech

Fortune

Forget Oculus Rift, Meet The Godmother Of VR

Forbes

Emblematic Group

goTenna Series B fuels vision to make local communication possible anywhere on the planet

TechCrunch

Full Harvest raises $2 million to stop farmers from tossing ‘ugly’ fruit and veggies

TechCrunch

Women’s Club The Wing Raises $8 Million Series A, Adds 3 Locations

Forbes

Women are missing from the highest-paid jobs

USA Today

These $900 stilettos were invented by a former SpaceX exec — and they’re the most comfortable high heels I’ve ever worn

Business Insider

The Co-Founder of Gilt on What Her First Job at Ebay Taught Her About Running a Company

Entrepreneur

Project September

GoTenna Pro meshing radio aspires to deploy next to rescue, fire, and security teams

TechCrunch

Thirsting for a new media empire, Beautycon raises $9 million

TechCrunch

Investors Explain Why ‘Men Pitch Unicorns and Women Pitch Businesses’

Fortune

How Cognitive Diversity Is Making Comfortable Stilettos a Reality

Fortune

VC Nisha Dua: Investing in women is ‘a competitive advantage’

Glossy

We Tried It: The 3D Decorating Tool Everyone Will Use in the Future

People

Women Investors Who Lead Startups To Success

LinkedIn

LinkedIn is no longer the future of recruiting, according to a former LinkedIn executive

Quartz

Handwriting.io Launches ScribbleChat App to Personalize Mobile Communications

Yahoo Finance

How can you get women to switch tampon brands? Give them out at Equinox

Mashable

Designer Spotlight: Project September’s See Now, Buy Now App For Shopping Social Media Sites

Forbes

Project September

Why women entrepreneurs will be the economic force to reckon with in 2017

CNBC

Toymail adds an app store for its cuddly mobiles for kids

TechCrunch

This Weather App Will Make You Happy, Put You in a Better Mood, and Boost Your Productivity

Inc.

BBG Ventures’ Lyne: Women Are Natural Problem Solvers

Bloomberg

Stem Helps Split Royalties, and Takes Off as Music Distributor

The New York Times

Jonathan Simkhai Collaborates with Carbon38 for Athleisure Capsule

The Hollywood Reporter

Lyne: Traditional retail is in crisis

CNBC

Rockets of Awesome, which sends parents curated boxes of kid apparel, just raised $12.5 million

TechCrunch

Rockets of Awesome

Investors are pumping $25 million into millennial wedding registry startup Zola

Recode

Upstart Goby tries to shake up the sleepy electric toothbrush market

Fast Company

Organic Tampon Startup Lola Raises $7M Series A; Adds Pads, Liners (And Investor Lena Dunham)

Forbes

VR creators make content to put people into the news and natural disasters

TechCrunch

Emblematic Group

Postmates Veterans (and Moms) Aim to Shake Up Parenting Tech

The Wall Street Journal

How to Manage Millennials? Spoon University Cracked The Code And Is Reaping The Rewards

Forbes

Spoon University

This New Game From Seedling Lets You Build a Physical Maze and See It in Virtual Reality

Recode

Manhattan’s exclusive new club for women only is a modern take on a much-needed tradition

Quartz

The tampon delivery service of the future is here

Business Insider

Winnie grabs $2.5 million for its directory of family-friendly places

TechCrunch

Why it’s good business to invest in women-run startups

SiliconANGLE

Do Women Still Need a Space of Their Own?

NYMag

Shine is rolling out on-demand life coaching via text message

TechCrunch

Investing in women who are reimagining daily life

AOL

GoTenna Mesh keeps people connected even when they’re miles apart and off-grid

TechCrunch

Is This the Future of Furniture Shopping?

GQ

Black female founder raises $7 million for renewable energy tech startup

TechCrunch

From The Bachelor to #BuiltbyGirls: The Many Lives of Susan Lyne

Fortune

This new startup lets you try out furniture before you buy it — and it changed the way I see my home

Business Insider

How to break into Silicon Valley if you have no idea where to start

Business Insider

If you’re a woman starting a tech company, you need to know these four VC firms

Business Insider

Women leaning in on tech

CNBC

This Female-Led Startup Says It Knows How to Take the Bias Out of Hiring

Fortune

GoTenna lets you text when there’s no cell service

CNBC

When Women Engineer

Medium

Rockets of Awesome makes shopping for kids’ clothes easier with home try-on and a personalized site

TechCrunch

Rockets of Awesome

A Women’s History of Silicon Valley

Backchannel

Arch Enemies

The Atlantic

How McKinsey Alum Meaghan Rose Rents Jewelry To Millennials By Subscription

Forbes

An Entrepreneur Who Never Runs Out of Energy

Inc.

How Beautycon Stars Are Leading Conversations About Diversity

Fast Company

Ex-McKinsey consultant’s quest to fix ‘broken’ industry

CNBC

Susan Lyne on mentorship, getting funded, and the future of female entrepreneurs

The Broadcast

Menstruation Joins the Economic Conversation

The New York Times

Meet the $925 ‘Tesla of stilettos’

CNBC

Gilt co-founder launches photo-driven shopping startup Project September

TechCrunch

Project September

Ride-Hailing Start-Ups Compete in ‘Uber for Children’ Niche

New York Times

These 3 Women Defied the Odds to Make Bold Business Moves—and Now They’re Killing It

Marie Claire

Kids ride service HopSkipDrive launches in Orange County

L.A. Biz

Venture Capital Still Has a Big Problem With Women

Fortune

Uber-like ride service for kids comes to O.C.

LA Times

Sallie Krawcheck and Susan Lyne On How Getting Fired Can Help Your Career

Fortune

Shoowin lets you reserve playoff tickets to sports events on the cheap

Tech Crunch

BBG Ventures: Backing Female Disruptors

This is Story

Ringly’s CEO on her new Aries smart bracelet’s secret weapon

Wareable

Meet Aries: A New Way to Ringly

Ringly

How your ecommerce company can oust Amazon

Venture Burn

Modsy: A Home Décor App Especially Made For Your Own Home

Design & Trend

goTenna: How to communicate when all else fails

Network World

Crowdsourced weather app, Sunshine, now lets users train it to their temperature tastes

Tech Crunch

Toymail is reimagining the mobile phone for kids

Tech Crunch

Zola opens swanky ‘Townhouse’ in SoHo as retail experiment

Biz Journals

GM, Magic Leap CEOs Headline WIRED Business Conference 2016

Wired

The top 50 female founders in NYC

Built in NYC

GoTenna, the startup that lets you text without cell signal, raises $7.5M and launches with REI

TechCrunch

Jewelry Subscription Box Startup Rocksbox Dons $8.7 Million

WSJ

LOLA, the all-cotton tampon subscription service, soaks up $3 million in seed funding

TechCrunch

Craigslist founder backs national competition to help women fund their ventures

Biz Journal

Female founders grab record VC deal share—but still just 18% [datagraphic]

Pitchbook

Hayden Williams – JOINING BBG VENTURES

Howillia

26 great people spearheading change in tech investment

Silicon Republic

A SpaceX Veteran Puts High Tech in High Heels

Wall Street Journal

HopSkipDrive gives free rides to relocated Porter Ranch students

L.A. Biz

I Wore A Smart Ring For A Month And This Is What Happened

Buzzfeed

Meet Alexandra Wilkis Wilson, CEO of GlamSquad and a Woman of Influence

Biz Journals

Playing “fake VC” (or the portfolio approach to getting a job in venture capital)

Matt Turck

We love to invest in passionate entrepreneurs who are addressing a deep personal problem

Medium

A FORMER SPACEX EXEC AND A TEAM OF SCIENTISTS ARE BUILDING A FOUR-INCH HEEL THAT’S ACTUALLY COMFORTABLE

Harper’s Bazaar

Lauren Conrad debunks wedding registry myths

Examiner

Female Founders: The State Of The Union

Techcrunch

This week in N.Y.C. funding news: Vestorly, Grovo, Relativity

Biz Journals

Designer Spotlight: Ringly Releases New High-Tech Holiday Jewelry Redefining How Women Communicate

Forbes

How Uber-style service for kids, HopSkipDrive, is expanding to new markets

Daily Breeze

What Happens When Four 17 Year Olds Take Over Your VC

Medium.com

GoTenna: Smart and safe tool for adventurers

Nyoooz

HopSkipDrive – The Uber for Kids – Raises $10.2M and hires Former Uber L.A. GM

Nibletz

Meet Joanna McFarland, co-founder of HopSkipDrive and a Woman of Influence

L.A. Biz

We heart @ZolaRegistry - love being part of the team led by @shanlynm https://t.co/AdHkvhDmMv

Tweet

Do You Really Have A Year To Send A Wedding Gift?

Refinery29

The @BBGVentures site is live! 1 year from launch, 17 visionary consumer tech founders & counting #BUILTBYGIRLS http://t.co/H1gsdKBkin

Tweet

RT goTenna @gotenna: We're hiring like crazy here at @goTenna! Newest roles: Operations Manager and QA Engineering Intern. And lots more: http://t.co/I6D86Coec4

Tweet

Excited to partner with @GCTech’s #2XinTech: Female Founders Conference on 10/27! Check out http://t.co/vsv9f68DCP to apply #builtbygirls

Tweet

Female Founded Series A Rounds in NYC Double in 1H2015

Female Founders Fund

Welcome To The Unicorn Club, 2015: Learning From $B Companies

Tech Crunch

Introducing the Boardlist

Medium

RT @hunterwalk: Good chat w @smlyne re her #BuiltByGirls fund. Interesting early stage VC for co's w female founder(s) #NYC

Tweet

RT @smlyne: Making life simpler and BETTER attracts talent, builds a brand #BBGV Why I Joined Din” by @ceedub https://t.co/nL8ktPiE2P

Tweet

Female Founders On An Upward Trend – CrunchBase

Techcrunch

Why I Joined Din

Medium

Girls Who Fund interns discuss new #BUILTBYGIRLS program

HuffPost Live

Startups founded by women are doing way better than…

Business Insider

Board Leadership

AVC.com

RT @Forbes: In startups, only 7% of women co-founders receive funding & a mere 6% of all venture capitalists are women: http://t.co/P39IwFQ…

Tweet

Building A Diverse Board Makes Sense For Startups

Techcrunch

Ventures into women-led startups

Squawk Box CNBC

“I just always believed there was a bigger world out there”

Fastcompany

Empowering Female Entrepreneurs and Crushing Tech Sexism at SXSW 2015

Huffington Post

Female Founders Fare Much Better In 2014

Techcrunch.com

Susan Lyne’s Search for Female Tech Entrepreneurs

Bloomberg

Thrilled to be part of the @Guildery team. Congrats @shanereilly, Kelly Berger via @TechCrunch http://t.co/vE3KAW4X5r http://t.co/WCd1G14eFl

Tweet

How Susan Lyne found the next big thing

Fortune.com

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