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Irish and global female tech entrepreneurs you need to know about

They’re all on the up.

LAST WEEK, WE featured a list of young male international and Irish entrepreneurs who are shaking things up on the tech circuit.

This week, we have an all-female list, featuring some big hitters but also some names who will be making waves in the future.

Watch out for them.

USA: Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos (31)

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Holmes is the CEO of Theranos, which she founded at the age of 19. This innovative and smart blood test company is now valued at over $10 billion, and Holmes is now the youngest self-made billionaire on the 2014 Forbes 400 list.

USA: Julia Hartz, Eventbrite (35)

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President of Eventbrite, an online ticket selling agent (founded by Hartz, husband Kevin and Renaud Visage), Hartz is responsible for the company’s in-house strategy and growth, as well as sustaining its 500-strong team of ‘Britelings’ and ensuring the company culture remains award-winning.

At Eventbrite, you’ll find 45% female staff and 50% executive staff.

Canada: Heather Payne (27)

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The founder of HackerYou and Ladies Learning Code, Payne is spreading the message about coding and investment in a very inspiring way. Not one to rest on her laurels, she’s also an angel investor. “If I can do it, you can do it,” she says.

Kenya: Jamila Abass, Susan Eve, Linda Kwamboka

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These three women founded MFarm, which Forbes describes as ”a mobile software solution that connects Kenyan farmers with farm produce consumers in urban and export markets via SMS“.  MFarm won a €10,000 investment in the IPO48 competition for tech start-ups.

Jamila works on the apps side of things, Susan is the COO and Linda is in charge of product development and marketing.

Norway: Hanna Aase, Wonderloop 

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Aase created this invite-only video profile network, helping people create videos to network, connect, and spread their message in a new way. She launched her first social media company at 24.

“To start your own business you have to realise that sacrifices have to [be] made to do so, or you don’t want it enough,” she tells women. Interestingly, she even finalised funding over Snapchat.

Ireland: Cristina Luminea (28), Thoughtbox

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Luminea is Founder and CEO of Thoughtbox, a product based “on the very simple notion of letting your imagination run wild with a cardboard box”. The company aims to make learning fun for kids, and in order to make its games free to children, it partners with brands and NGOs to help build and distribute them.

USA: Jessica Mah, inDinero

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Started a small company? Need to look after the financial side of things, but need help? That’s where Mah’s company steps in. Its all about running the back-office side of things, but easily.

Ireland: Iseult Ward and Aoibheann O’Brien, Foodcloud

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Ever wonder what happens to the food left over in places like restaurants and delis – and if it’s just getting chucked in the bin?

This quandary inspired these two women to set up the not-for-profit Foodcloud, which lets businesses redistribute their surplus food to community groups who then use the food to help people in need. Their idea saves food, waste, and CO2 emissions, while helping those in need.

England: Kathryn Parsons, Decoded (33)

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Parsons founded Decoded because, much like Payne, she wanted to help people learn to code. The digital learning company trains people with no knowledge of computer programming how to code in just day. It also teaches people how to build an app, and Parsons says that the company is out to “demystify” coding

China: Zhou Qunfei, Lens Technology (45)

Qunfei is older than most of the other people on this list, but she’s truly a tech inspiration. This Chinese entrepreneur left school at 15 and became a migrant worker, but took part-time university courses. She went on to establish Lens Technology in 1993, and now has a net worth of $10 billion. You’ll see her company’s glass on the new Apple Watches (she already works with Apple, Samsung, and Huawei).

Emer, Kate and Aoibheann O’Daly, Love and Robots

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3D printing is relatively new, but it has already been harnessed to great effect by the O’Dalys, founders of Love & Robots. Their site offers a range of unique and personalised gifts, many of which are created using 3d printing. Every item is custom-made in Dublin, using high-quality materials.

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    Aug 28th 2019, 9:46 AM

    people can move all around ireland with guns and drugs and i bet if i drove one day without road tax i would be in court,

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    Aug 28th 2019, 9:50 AM

    @☘: and rightly so

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    Aug 28th 2019, 10:01 AM

    @Ed Collins: who is giving you thumbs up , have you 17 accounts? people really believe it should be easier move around Ireland with guns than a dodgy tax disc. No wonder we’re screwed

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    Aug 28th 2019, 10:03 AM

    @The long walk home☘️: no one said that though??

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    Aug 28th 2019, 10:08 AM

    @Ed Collins: shows where your priorities lie. We have a traffic corpin Ireland with poor resources to serious crime all the way up to the prison service & road tax is yours and the government’s priority. Orwell described you well. No louder voice to be heard defending an oppressor than that of the oppressed. It’s people like you who have the country and its people on it’s knees.

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    Aug 28th 2019, 10:19 AM

    @STOIC SAVAGE: that was his point or did it go way over your head?

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    Aug 28th 2019, 10:49 AM

    @☘: In fairness, it’s far easier to spot an untaxed car than it is to spot a car carrying guns or drugs. And just as an aside, if you end up in court for driving an untaxed car, it means your tax has been out of date for a hell of a lot longer than one day. You have one month from expiry date of your motor tax to get it renewed. Its written on your renewal notice. Go into a second month untaxed and you pay a penalty when you finally do tax it, and you may get an on the spot fine. 3rd month you’d certainly get a fine and theres a risk the car could be impounded. Purely anecdotal, but from what I’ve seen/heard you’d really need to be taking the mick to end up in court for non-payment of motor tax alone, ie, expired for a year or more.

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    Aug 28th 2019, 10:59 AM

    @Mjhint: We don’t have Traffic Gardai in Ireland. They are regular Gardai in cars marked Roads Policing.

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    Aug 28th 2019, 11:33 AM

    @Jesse James: incorrect. We have a dedicated Roads Policing Unit, they are appointed to those units and are no longer on the regular units.

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    Aug 28th 2019, 11:36 AM
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    Aug 28th 2019, 11:59 AM

    @The long walk home☘️: nah…. His point was both are illegal and rightly punishable by law… Think it was your head it went over pal

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    Aug 28th 2019, 12:12 PM

    @☘: they dont drive around with guns taped to the windscreen theyre a bit harder to spot than the lack of a tax disc

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    Aug 28th 2019, 9:54 AM

    life should mean life, some of these people are out after 11 years still young men.

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    Aug 28th 2019, 10:12 AM

    Another week another tragedy in Louth.. For the size of the county its never out of the news…

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    Aug 28th 2019, 10:39 AM

    @MickN: it’s a bid County :)

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    Aug 28th 2019, 11:46 AM

    How long is this feud going on. Like the kinehan hutch feud and it appears all the gardai are capable of is hiding on motorways catching you at 125 kph. Traffic corps are a waste of resource for the public. Fianna Gael love them . Revenue collection

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    Aug 28th 2019, 11:58 AM

    @Leo Lalor:
    The auld penalty points mounting up, are they? Try a simple solution – obey the rules of the road- it works!

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    Aug 28th 2019, 11:58 AM

    @Leo Lalor: Yawn

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    Aug 28th 2019, 12:54 PM

    @Leo Lalor: A good few of the Hutch/ Kinehan murders have been solved but don’t let that stop your bit of Garda bashing.

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    Aug 28th 2019, 1:37 PM

    @Leo Lalor: I’m sure more people die on the roads each year then to gangland violance. Maybe I’m wrong.

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    Aug 28th 2019, 1:06 PM

    The violence, not just in Louth, but across the country is directly related to the vast amount of money generated through using drugs for recreational purposes. It is for control of the area in which this money is spent that these gangs are fighting to control. Remember it always harms someone THINK BEFORE YOU BUY http://www.thinkbeforeyoubuy.ie

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    Aug 28th 2019, 2:04 PM

    I’m calling for a head banger hunger games this year.
    Let every wannabe lunatic in Ireland meet up in Longford on December 8th when it’s empty for Culchie Christmas…. No holds barred, no innocents hurt and less than 2k damage done. We can hold a mass funeral at 12 midnight for the fallen and crown the last standing survivor ‘Hardest Man in Ireland’.

    Danny Dyer can present the trophy to him moments before we fire both men into the surface of the moon.

    Then we take the homes of the losers and redistribute them to the homeless.

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    Aug 28th 2019, 1:18 PM
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