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Women receive 2-6% of venture capital dollars, making alternative funding sources crucial for female entrepreneurs. Join Karen Cahn, Caroline Hoffman, & Maya Brooks for a discussion on how crowdfunding can be used as a fundraising, sales & marketing tool for launching & growing your business. You'll walk away with an understanding of the different types of crowdfunding & which is best based on your industry & business stage.
6:30pm Networking
7pm Panel
7:45pm Questions from the audience
Meet the Panel
Karen Cahn, Founder & CEO of iFundWomen
Karen Cahn is the Founder & CEO of iFundWomen, & is working on closing the funding & the knowledge gap for early-stage female entrepreneurs, empowering women to start & grow better businesses.
iFundWomen drives funding to women-led startups, small businesses, nonprofits, & side hustles through a flexible crowdfunding platform with a pay-it-forward model, expert crowdfunding & startup coaching, professional video production, & a private community for their entrepreneurs to talk openly about the wins, the challenges, & what actually works in the world of startup funding.
Karen is a pioneer in the digital media space, & was an early Google employee where she spent 10 years leading various monetization teams in search, display & video. Most notably, Karen started the Branded Entertainment business at YouTube, when back in the olden times of Youtube, 2007, she & a rogue group of sales & product people, made the connection between big consumer brands & video creators, thus creating the first, highly-monetized native video ad experiences on YouTube.
Most recently, Karen spent three years as General Manager of AOL Original Video, & was responsible for business strategy & strategic partnerships. In this role, Karen built AOL's female creative economy in video & as a result, nabbed AOL it's first-ever Emmy nod.
Karen is on the board of advisors of Girl Rising, an organization dedicated to girls education in developing countries. She is also on the Springboard Media Council, a highly respected group of experts across the world of digital content, who invest their human capital in Springboard & their pipeline of high-growth, women-led companies.
Karen holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, double majoring in African-American Studies & US History
Carline Hoffman, Chief Operating Officer at Republic
Caroline Hofmann is the Chief Operating Officer of Republic, an investment platform for startups to raise capital & for everyone to invest in startups. In this role, Caroline oversees the company's overall business operations & works alongside the CEO on all aspects of Republic's growth strategy on both the equity- & crypto-focused offerings. During her tenure, Hofmann has overseen & scaled operations for 3x investor base growth, 10x monthly transaction volume, 10x monthly increase in startups raising on the platform. Hofmann is a former associate principal for McKinsey & Company in New York & holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. She & her husband live in New York with their two young sons.
Moderator- Maya Brooks, Founder of Coffee & Coded
Maya Brooks is New York based Product & Web Developer, Educator, Speaker, & Entrepreneur. Maya enjoys finding ways to blend her creative passions with business strategy & has served as a freelance product consultant & developer, taking ideas from early-stage conception to creative product mock-ups & websites. Her constant craving to learn as much as teach, fuels her passion to develop new ideas, projects, & connections. Maya is also the Founder of COFFEE & CODED, a community for inventive, entrepreneurial, fearless women to learn to code, create, & challenge assumptions. A natural born creator, Maya's goal is to empower female entrepreneurs & increase the representation of women in the tech space. When Maya's not writing code or teaching code, you'll find her on her couch binge-watching anything on BRAVO!
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