Press release: Women Who Tech and Craig Newmark Announce the 4th Women Startup Challenge Pitch Competition to Fund Women-led Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence Ventures Judges to Include Robert Scoble, Lisa Stone, Lynne Johnson and Sandy Carter NEW YORK – Women Who Tech, a national nonprofit working to break down barriers to women …
WIVR Network UK is a networking group for women in the fields of VR, AR and other immersive technologies. \”We’ve had one meeting, during VRX Europe, and I’m working on organizing the next one, which we will take to the next level,\” said founder Luciana Se. The group is part of the wider WIVR network …
PitchBook just published a round-up of five U.S. venture capital firms that target female-led companies, which included BBG Ventures, BELLE Capital USA, Female Founders Fund, Golden Seeds, and the Women’s Venture Capital Fund. Read full report here. One firm, which is particularly focused on virtual reality, was missing from the list, and that is Rothenberg Ventures. They are a friend of WiVR, …
According to research at the University of Washington, without provision of information about candidates other than their appearance, men are twice more likely to be hired for a mathematical task than women. Read the full paper here.
