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LAST WEEK, WE featured a list of young male international and Irish entrepreneurs who are shaking things up on the tech circuit.
This week, we have an all-female list, featuring some big hitters but also some names who will be making waves in the future.
Watch out for them.
USA: Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos (31)
Holmes is the CEO of Theranos, which she founded at the age of 19. This innovative and smart blood test company is now valued at over $10 billion, and Holmes is now the youngest self-made billionaire on the 2014 Forbes 400 list.
USA: Julia Hartz, Eventbrite (35)
President of Eventbrite, an online ticket selling agent (founded by Hartz, husband Kevin and Renaud Visage), Hartz is responsible for the company’s in-house strategy and growth, as well as sustaining its 500-strong team of ‘Britelings’ and ensuring the company culture remains award-winning.
At Eventbrite, you’ll find 45% female staff and 50% executive staff.
Canada: Heather Payne (27)
The founder of HackerYou and Ladies Learning Code, Payne is spreading the message about coding and investment in a very inspiring way. Not one to rest on her laurels, she’s also an angel investor. “If I can do it, you can do it,” she says.
Kenya: Jamila Abass, Susan Eve, Linda Kwamboka
These three women founded MFarm, which Forbes describes as ”a mobile software solution that connects Kenyan farmers with farm produce consumers in urban and export markets via SMS“. MFarm won a €10,000 investment in the IPO48 competition for tech start-ups.
Jamila works on the apps side of things, Susan is the COO and Linda is in charge of product development and marketing.
Norway: Hanna Aase, Wonderloop
Aase created this invite-only video profile network, helping people create videos to network, connect, and spread their message in a new way. She launched her first social media company at 24.
“To start your own business you have to realise that sacrifices have to [be] made to do so, or you don’t want it enough,” she tells women. Interestingly, she even finalised funding over Snapchat.
Ireland: Cristina Luminea (28), Thoughtbox
Luminea is Founder and CEO of Thoughtbox, a product based “on the very simple notion of letting your imagination run wild with a cardboard box”. The company aims to make learning fun for kids, and in order to make its games free to children, it partners with brands and NGOs to help build and distribute them.
USA: Jessica Mah, inDinero
Started a small company? Need to look after the financial side of things, but need help? That’s where Mah’s company steps in. Its all about running the back-office side of things, but easily.
Ireland: Iseult Ward and Aoibheann O’Brien, Foodcloud
Ever wonder what happens to the food left over in places like restaurants and delis – and if it’s just getting chucked in the bin?
This quandary inspired these two women to set up the not-for-profit Foodcloud, which lets businesses redistribute their surplus food to community groups who then use the food to help people in need. Their idea saves food, waste, and CO2 emissions, while helping those in need.
England: Kathryn Parsons, Decoded (33)
Parsons founded Decoded because, much like Payne, she wanted to help people learn to code. The digital learning company trains people with no knowledge of computer programming how to code in just day. It also teaches people how to build an app, and Parsons says that the company is out to “demystify” coding
China: Zhou Qunfei, Lens Technology (45)
Refined Currency / TwitterZhou Qunfei grew up in poverty,quit school at 15&owned her own business by 22.She is now the richest self made woman. pic.twitter.com/GnX1wiWKSP
— Rich Girl Chronicles (@RGChronicles) May 20, 2015
Qunfei is older than most of the other people on this list, but she’s truly a tech inspiration. This Chinese entrepreneur left school at 15 and became a migrant worker, but took part-time university courses. She went on to establish Lens Technology in 1993, and now has a net worth of $10 billion. You’ll see her company’s glass on the new Apple Watches (she already works with Apple, Samsung, and Huawei).
Emer, Kate and Aoibheann O’Daly, Love and Robots
3D printing is relatively new, but it has already been harnessed to great effect by the O’Dalys, founders of Love & Robots. Their site offers a range of unique and personalised gifts, many of which are created using 3d printing. Every item is custom-made in Dublin, using high-quality materials.
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I have been lost in penneys for days now, I have surrounded myself with ‘stuff’ bras and lady garments mostly creating a home. I have been sucking the moisture from the floor boards to stay hydrated and feeding on dull hypocritical conversations about the referendum..it’s the night I fear..
Best of luck wait till you go to county Tesco
Surely if you just walk for half an hour, you’d find a Spar or Centra!
Think if I was lost in Siberia or Utah or the Everglades I’d prefer “that eejit” Bear Grylls to be with me a thousand times more than this tv critic.
You would be wrong.
Bear Grylls is not an eejit!
If you’re lost on any mountain in Ireland, just walk until you find a stream and follow it downhill. It will eventually pass a house or village. You can try this in the safety of your own home with any OS map.
Makes sense if your in Everglades or something to call in to a random house and say your lost..knock on an Irish door and say your lost “f*ck off ye eegit how could ye be lost” haha
Following a stream downhill in fog is a risky occupation, you never know if there is a cliff ahead so beware! Slowly slowly is the way to go.
Walk 1 mile in any direction and order a pint!
Great advice For my trip to west cork Ireland’s answer to the middle of no where
Ha! Classic
Good advice, but if you think of going on a long hike into no mans land you would be a silly person not to bring some essentials.
Found myself on top of benbulben in Sligo after realising I forgot my water and had to drink from squeezing moss which grew out of the cliff face! twas nice :)
Drink your own p!ss !
Did you know a baked hedgehog is actually tasty? Just put it straight on the fire!
How bout just bringing your phone with you?
Phones aren’t guaranteed to work in many remote places.
Basically, this article is nothing but government PR designed to condition the Irish proletariat on what to expect their living conditions are going to be now that the Fiscal Treaty has been passed. We will see families up and down the land evicted from their homes and they will need these survival skills to eke out a basic existence in the hillsides and valleys. “Just collect a giant pile of stuff, and get in the middle of it”, the expert says. Boy, are we ever in the middle of a giant pile of “stuff” as it is and it will only become worse.
Oh FFS! Can we not talk about something else? There’s always one eejit banging on about politics when the subject is nothing to do with politics.
Bear Grylls, climbed everest, was in special forces, published a book, fittest, strongest most courageous guy we know…….
O’KELLY…… Em ….,who…..
Aebhric O’Kelly spent 10 years as a member of united states army special forces as opposed to grylls 3 years in the special forces Reserve. O’Kelly was an instructor in the tom brown school of survival(one of the top survival schools in the united states) while grylls goes on “survival expeditions” with a 5 star hotel to stay in at night. i think the difference may be fact and what makes good tv.
He parascended over Everest too! Think I would go with Bear every time!
What a silly article unless this is some joke. Yeah sure happens to me quite often to wakup next to dead seal which I could skin and put on as my wet gear then jump into freezing cold water and swim ahead maybe some vessel would pass by and see me… Thanks for tip!
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