Alexandra Chong -- Founder and CEO of Luluvise(01 of08)
Open Image ModalChong is the founder and CEO of Luluvise, which The Good Web Guide described as a “male database which allows female users to shame or praise potential dates, exes or simply men they know.\" It\'s more colloquially known as a \"Yelp for Men\" and, according to Time, has been downloaded over 75,000 times. (credit:Twitter)
Poornima Vijayashanker -- Founder and CEO of Bizeebee(02 of08)
Open Image ModalBizeebee helps fitness studios and other membership based businesses across the world grow. According to Bizeebee\'s website, Vijayashanker was inspired to start the company after consulting with local businesses looking to improve their management practices. She is also a dedicated athlete -- she practices Bikram Yoga and runs half-marathons.\r\n (credit:Twitter)
Leah Busque -- Founder and CEO of TaskRabbit(03 of08)
Open Image ModalBusque describes TaskRabbit as a service \"for automating your most annoying errands and outsourcing your chores. Whether it\'s getting groceries, putting together furniture, or picking up a Craigslist purchase, Task Rabbit\'s network of reliable do-ers will take it off your hands.\" \r\n\r\nAccording to TaskRabbit\'s website, \"since bootstrapping TaskRabbit in 2008, Leah has expanded the company nationally, grown the team to more than 60 employees, raised nearly $40 million in venture funding.\" (credit:TaskRabbit.com)
Amy Sheng -- Co-Founder of CellScope(04 of08)
Open Image ModalAccording to its website, “CellScope builds disruptive hardware and software systems for mobile disease diagnosis.\" According to INC.com, CellScope \"also gives doctors the ability to capture a patient’s visual history over time…[it] ultimately aims to build a digital first aid kit for the home.\" (credit:CellScope)
Dr. Michal Tsur -- Co-Founder and Presidentof Kaltura(05 of08)
Open Image ModalKaltura, according to its website, is \"the world\'s first and only Open Source Online Video Platform.\" Tsur has also written for The Huffington Post about employing women in the tech industry and how video technology is the new frontier for schools. (credit:Kaltura)
Shikoh Gitau -- Founder of Ummeli(06 of08)
Open Image ModalUmmeli is \"a mobile network that helps communities create their own employment opportunities.\" Kenyan tech blog iHub called Gitau, \"passionate about technology especially mobile phones and their possible catalyst effect in empowerment and development,\" and wrote that, \"Shikoh provides mentorship and support to various start-ups and research efforts in Africa both in the academia and industry that strive to make technology relevant, usable and useful in the everyday life of African users.\" \r\n\r\nGitau was also the first African to win the Google Anita Borg award.\r\n (credit:LinkedIn)
Mary-Alice Brady -- CEO of MosaicHUB(07 of08)
Open Image ModalA graduate of Boston College and Boston College Law School, Brady worked as an attorney and in a venture capital firm before founding MosaicHUB. The Boston Business Journal described MosaicHUB as \"an online community created to help entrepreneurs find the people and resources they need to succeed.\" (credit:Twitter)
Prita Uppal -- Founder and CEO of Hooked(08 of08)
Open Image ModalHooked is a game recommendation app which, according to Forbes, \"uses machine-learning algorithms to suggest apps with the highest potential relevance to users up to an exact percentage.\" \r\n\r\nHooked has an impressive 24 percent conversion rate of apps suggested to its users (as compared to the more typical 3 percent response rate of mobile ads). (credit:LinkedIn)