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Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs

posted by CoolHand on Monday December 14 2015, @06:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the equality-for-all dept.

oaklandwatch writes:

Wednesday Google hosted a special edition of their annual "Demo Day" event featuring 11 early-stage startup companies founded by women from eight different countries. More than 450 women from 40 different counties applied for a spot, and the winner of the competition was Bridgit, a fast-growing Canadian company which provides a mobile communications platform for construction teams. Online voters also awarded the "Game Changer" title to KiChing, a startup that's actively addressing Mexico's unique e-commerce challenges. But all of the startups at Wednesday's event were already actively raising series-A funding, and "We aim to help connect them to mentors, access to capital, and shine a spotlight on their efforts," said Mary Grove, the director of Google for Entrepreneurs, addressing the Demo Day audience in San Francisco.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @08:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @08:00PM (#276289)

    And what is that percentage adjusted for amount of applications?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @08:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @08:09PM (#276291)

    The adjusted number would be 3 percent you dumbass.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @08:13PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @08:13PM (#276296)

      What he meant to say was, "What is the number if you adjust away all of the unstated advantages the system inherently awards men." Take away all of those and women are actually getting 100 percent! It is sooo unfair.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @08:41PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @08:41PM (#276310)

        What he meant to say was

        He?

        the system

        Yeah, fight 'the system'!

        But let's not ever state what it might be or otherwise we'll be exposed as fraudsters.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @08:43PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @08:43PM (#276315)

        "Let's use crooked numbers to 'prove' my narrative! People are dumb, that'll work. Oh shit, they're catching on! Quick, insult them!"

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @08:37PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 14 2015, @08:37PM (#276307)

      >the number of applications by women is lower
      >somehow that would make the percentage lower as well

      Hurr durr, I'm a fucking retard.

      t. you

    • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday December 14 2015, @11:01PM

      by tangomargarine (667) on Monday December 14 2015, @11:01PM (#276389)

      If only 3 percent of the applications for funding were submitted by women entrepreneurs, then getting 3 percent overall would be fantastic because that means 100% of them were approved.

      Probably not the case, though.

      --
      "Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"