Category: Girls in Tech News

2012 GIT EURO 100: the top 100 women in tech in Europe

Yes, that’s right. We are pleased to be able to announce the top 100 women in tech in Europe.

100 women. 19 countries.

We’ve had literally hundreds of nominations from across Europe and we’ve nailed it town to the following women, which represent 19 different countries (including the UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Turkey, Greece and Israel.

THE LIST.

The top 100 are not ranked in any particular order. They’ve been selected because of their leadership and excellence in innovation and technology.

Veerle Pieters, Duoh !

Natasha Friis-Saxberg, Gignal

Tine Thygesen, Everplaces

Caitlin Winner, Amen

Claudia Helming, DaWanda

Verena Delius, Young Internet

Julana Chondrasch, Fashionism

Ann Marisa Freese, Pure Equity

Lydia Benko, Corporate Finance Partners

Paula Marttila, Startup guru and mentor

Verena Delius, Goodbeans/Panfu

Constanze Buchheim, i-Potentials

Stephanie Kaiser, Wooga

Catherine Barba, Cashstore.fr

Celine Lazorthes, Leetchi

Anne Sophie Pastel, Aufeminin.com

Marie Ekeland, Elaia Partners

Claire Houry, Ventech

Robin Chase, Zipcar/BuzzCar

Amelie Faure, entrepreuer and startup mentor

Lara Rouyes, Dealissime

Tiina Zilliacus, Gajarti Studios

Ela Medej, Applicake/FutureSimple/Credictive

Agata Mazur, Applicake/FutureSimple

Ola Sitarska, MyGuidie

Liz Fleming, Venture Lab

Raquel Iglesias, Totfan

Sandra Mesonero, Uniccos

Crsitina Galan, BitCarrier

Sylvia Diaz-Montenegro, Leelo

Barbara Labate, Risparmiosuper

Diana Saraceni, 360 Capital Partners

Juliette Bellavita, tipsandtrip.com

Viktorija Trimbel, Quantum Capital

Monika Garbaciauskaite, Delfi

Irina Anghel, South East European Private Equity and Venture Capital

Demet Mutlu, Trendyol

Kristin Skogen Lund, Telenor

Charlotta Falvin, TAT

Sara Ohlsson, HinnerDu

Elaine Coughlan, Atlantic Bridge

Julie Sinnamon, Enterprise Ireland

Helen Ryan, Creganna Tactx Medical

Marina Kolesnik, Oktogo

Elena Masolova, Pixonic

Alisa Chumachenko, Game Insight

Linda Summers, Skype

Moran Bar, VentureGeeks

Helena Chari, TSN ICAP

Baiba Kaskina, CERT/SigmaNet

Marina Tognetti, Myngle

Christine Karman, Stratix

Colette Ballou, Ballou PR

Eileen Burbidge, Passion Capital

Jessica Powell, Badoo

Joanna Shields, Facebook

Judith Clegg, Classhouse

Kathryn Parsons, Decoded

Nathalie Massenet, Net-a-porter

Rachel Bremer, Twitter

Reshma Sohoni, Seedcamp

Sherry Coutu, entrepreneur and investor

Wendy Tan White, Moonfruit

Bindi Karia, Microsoft

Clare Reddington, iShed

Deborah Rippol, Startup Weekend

Elizabeth Varley, TechHub

Jude Ower, Playmob

Martha Lane Fox, Lastminute

Sonali De Rycker, Accel Partners

Simone Brummelhuis, Astia/TheNextWomen

Nathalie Gaveau, Shopcade

Georgina Atwell, Apple

Tracy Doree, Llustre

Sabine Fillias, Chasson Finance

Jennifer Hicks, Forbes

Olivia Solon, Wired

Jamillah Knowles, The Next Web

Sarah McVittie, Dressipi

Ingrid Lunden, TechCrunch

Sofia Barattieri, Motilo

Rebecca Barr, LivingSocial

Erin Noordeloos, NBC Universal

Kresse Wesling, Elvis & Kresse

Sophie Cornish, Notonthehighstreet

Avid Larizadeh, Boticca

Orit Hashay, Brayola

Gali Ross, Razoss

Amit Knaani, ooVoo

Mel Exon, BHH Labs

On behalf of Girls in Tech, we’d like to congratulate everyone on the list and thank them for their amazing contributions to tech and innovation.

A huge thank you to our partner judges who helps us make the final list: Max Niederhofer (Accel Partners), Alex Farcet (Startupbootcamp), Patrick De Zeeuw (Startupbootcamp), Audrey Soussan (Ventech), Christian Thaler-Wolski (Wellington Partners), Paul Papadimitriou (Constellation Research), Marco Magnocavalo (Principia), Martin Kelly (IBM), Carl Sibersky (Poprigo), Cristobal Alonso (Bite Group), Oana Calugar (Neogen), Thibaud Elzière (Fotolia), Ciara Byrne (VentureBeat).

Girls in Tech London launch event: sign-ups now open.

So, without further delay we are pleased to announce the Girls in Tech London launch event on June 1st at Google Campus from 12pm-6pm. Our fabulous sponsors Google and Criteo have helped us line up some fabulous speakers. You can see some of the names here.

The GIT EURO 100: nominate the best women in tech in Europe.

For the occasion of our launch event, we’re also launching the first-ever list of the top 100 women in tech in Europe! If you know someone who should be recognised for their great contribution to entrepreneurship or the tech ecosystem, please feel free to nominate them!

Want to attend?

The event is FREE to attend and open to men and women alike. However, space is incredibly limited. Therefore, we ask that you introduce yourself if you’d like to attend and we’ll be in touch with an invite shortly.

Questions?

For any additional questions on sponsoring, speaking or whathaveyou, please feel free to get in touch.

It’s official. Girls in Tech London is finally here.

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That’s correct, it’s official. After months and months of talking about launching the group, we’ve finally lined up a fabulous team and are preparing for an amazing first event!

Meet the Girls in Tech London Team.

But before we get into the event details, I’d like to introduce myself, my co-founders for the London chapter and the organization itself.

Here’s are the 3 of us who are running the London Chapter of Girls in Tech. You can read more about us on the team page.

Girls in Tech, WTF?

For anyone who doesn’t know Girls in Tech, the group was started in 2007 in San Francisco by Adriana Gascoigne. Today there are chapters all over the world – in countries like France, Greece, Singapore, China, Taiwan, the US and more – and there are over 8,500 members across the globe.

Oh. Girl talk? Yuck.

The purpose of Girls in Tech is simply to promote the visibility of women in technology and entrepreneurship. We like to do this by hosting events where our speakers are primarily women. Impressive, tech women.

We don’t sit around complaining about why life is unfair for women, because it’s not! We’re not man haters or bra burners. We’re just girls who like tech and who want to encourage more women to join the fun. We hope that by sharing some of the insights of our best female examples, more women will be encouraged to participate in a sector that has traditionally been very masculine.

Now, if you’re wondering about the launch event, stay turned. We’ll be launching sign-ups shortly!