Founder Focus

About the Founders
Our celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month continues with three amazing Latinx founders, all transformative in their fields. Meet Frances Gonzalez, Owner & Founder of Vegan Wines! She’s a long time vegan wine lover with a focus on sourcing and sharing high-quality vegan wines, from soil to bottle. This week, we also want you to meet Sabrina Bethunin, Co-Founder & Co-CEO at MadeComfy, Australia's first performance-based home sharing partner and a fast growing disrupter in the Real Estate and Travel market. Finally, we want you to meet Carlota Pi Amoros, Co-Founder & Executive President at Holaluz! She’s leading a transformation of the energy sector by putting the customer in the centre of decisions and building a long-term relationship based on trust.
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About the Founders
As always, a new month equals a new theme for our Featured Founders Spotlight series from our InvestHer Directory. This time, we are honouring National Hispanic Heritage Month. Meet Lucia Rubio Zornoza, Co-Founder of @gazella.app, the number one running app for women! Gazella automatically adjusts your running training plan to your menstrual-cycle for the healthiest result possible. We also want to introduce you to Cristina Junqueira, Co-Founder of @nubank. By heading up Brazil's number one challenger bank, she is effectively combatting high fees and interest rates through technology and design. Finally, we want you to meet Julia Niiro, Founder & CEO at Farmstand (@localmilkrun)- This online marketplace and distribution technology makes it easy to buy food directly from local farmers.
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About the Founders
For our final week of Arts & Culture month we want to introduce you to three founders from the InvestHer Directory whom all place originality at the heart of their ventures. Karina Iskin, Co-Founder & CEO at Iskin Sisters is creating wearable art in the shape of customised jewellery, allowing for individuality in expression. Elizabeth Vargas, Founder & CEO at Edge Music Network, inspires originality via her interactive digital music network, providing live and on-demand content through her powerful video syndication platform. Finally, we have Morgan DeBaun, Founder & CEO at Blavity, the leading news company and media brand for Black millennials + Gen Z in the U.S.

About the Founders
This week our three featured founders are all tapping into their imaginations when it comes to promoting art! Angie Madara, Founder & CEO at Growd Global, is working with parents and children to find, design and match them to co-curricular activities such as music, sports and arts. Rebecca Hui, Founder & CEO at Roots Studio, is leading a collective of future-forward creatives, grassroots community organisers, and technologists reimagining cultural preservation. Julie Bonnecarrere, Founder & CCO at Northern Lights Entertainment, is currently developing Nebulae: a sci-fiMMO strategy game encompassing an integrated political simulator and 3D combat in space.
They are all pushing boundaries and using their imagination to find new creative ways to place art at the forefront in public debate.

About the Founders
A new month equals a new theme and during the month of September we will introduce you to some fabulous founders in the Arts/Culture/Entertainment industry from our InvestHer Directory. Renata Thome, Co-Founder & CCO, Alpha’a is making art accessible for all through her socially conscious, community-oriented online platform. Sarah Mak, Co-Founder & CEO, Folktale is on a mission to transform how organisations globally approach storytelling. Clothilde Chalot, Co-Founder & CEO, NomadPlay is making it possible to access thousands of interactive sheet music and play along with the best musicians.
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Art is truly at the centre of all heARTs this month, read on below to learn more about these passionate founders.

About the Founders
This week our featured founders from the InvestHer Directory all place connection at the core of great holiday moment and this means bringing people together through body and soul experiences. Cherae Robinson, Founder & CEO at Tastemakers Africa for instance is busy connecting travellers to creative entrepreneurs in African cities like Accra, Cape Town and Johannesburg. Our second founder this week is Emma Welsh, Co-Founder & CEO at Emma & Tom’s, help you to reconnect with your body and feel amazing while making healthy delicious. Finally we want to introduce you to Hyojeong Kim, Founder & CEO at NomadHer, empowering women globetrotters to travel solo by connecting them through her app!

About the Founders
Johanna Mukoki, Co-Founder & Owner of Travel with Flair is adding a little bit of sophistication to the world of corporate travel, making it the easiest it has ever been as clients now can book their routine travel online, whenever and wherever. In her search for excellence, Kristin Karst, Co-Owner & Executive Vice President of AmaWaterways ended up starting her own travel company, placing luxury at the heart of her riverboat holiday tours. On the other end of the travel spectrum is Aziza Chaouachi, Co-Founder & CEO at Leavy.co, offering millennials on a budget a way to use their homes as a means to a holiday end through her home rental platform.
Bon Voyage!

Welcome to this post showcasing the African and Asian women founders from the First 50 featured founders from our InvestHer Founder Directory. Check out the full list in our previous post here.

Let's start by saying that these great founders are only some of the founders that we feature in the Directory and there are many, many more women founders featured in the whole Directory.  To check out the full list of founders from each region please check here and note that we update the directory weekly.

​- African Founders from InvestHer Founder Directory
- Asian Founders from InvestHer Directory 

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