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.
As I began to dig deeper into understanding this huge disparity, I found a much larger systemic problem not only for tech female founders, but for women in business in general. Men still hold the majority of positions of power and leadership in the workforce today. And when it comes to corporate boards, more men than women hold those seats. If we want to level the playing field, we have a lot of work to do.
Introducing Sacramento Biz & Tech for Women meetup group! We’re kicking off our meetups with a Speaker Series on Thursday, July 26 from 6:00-9:00 pm at Cowo Campus in Midtown Sacramento.
Our first speaker is Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author Jennifer LeBlanc. Her new book, Changing Tides: Powerful Strategies for Female Founders, brings together experienced female venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and thought leaders who share their expertise and tactical guidance on securing funding through a collection of essays (to be released Fall 2018).
Join us as we begin to build a business and technology empowerment group for women right here in Sacramento! Whether you are male or female, technical or not, if you want to support women in business and technology, we’d love for you to join us! Membership is free at Sacramento Biz & Tech For Women.
Kicking off the Sacramento Biz & Tech For Women Is A Speaker Series: Changing Tides with Jennifer LeBlanc
When: Thursday, July 26, 2018
Time: 6:00-9:00 pm
Where: Cowo Campus, 1507 21st Street, 2nd Floor, Sacramento CA 95811
Tickets: In advance $10.00 on EventBrite, $15.00 at door
For more information contact Brenda Tello Horton at brenda@ProPlanr.com or 530-368-7251.
