Women in B2B tech to follow

♀ THREE LISTS WITH NO WOMEN. ♀ I've just come across yet another list of brilliant minds to follow that includes no women. It's the third one I've seen this week. 🙄 Clearly the LinkedIn bros have all reached the list-and-tag portion of whatever overpriced course they're taking right now—but what bothers me more than the generic redundancy is the fact that they didn't include any women. One even went so far to say that gender wasn't an issue that crossed his mind. Yeah, buddy, we see that. Since the fellas are giving each other plenty of air time, I'd like to share a list of brilliant, witty, talented women who bring plenty of insight and fun to my feed. ♀💡🧠🎤 Feel free to follow them. And feel free to engage with this post so they get even more air time. ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ 🌴 Alisha Conlin-Hurd is incredible in every way. She grew up in a small-town Australia, built a business from nothing with her partner Matt, and now travels the world teaching people how to create sales funnels that convert. She's also funny as hell and once rode a hippo. No further explanation will be given. 🎓 Jackie Coley, PhD is the person to follow if you need someone to tell you it will all be okay while also kicking your butt a little bit and motivating you to solve your problems. She's a confidence coach with a PhD and just about everything she says makes me go "dang, that's smart." ✨ Sara Stella Lattanzio is a crackerjack B2B content pro who shares substance, not fluff. She's damn good at what she does and she keeps me on my toes because she makes me feel just a liiittle bit nervous that we serve the same ICP lol (no shade though though because there's enough cake for everyone to eat). 🏋♂️ Vianka Cotton is a fitness instructor turned marketing pro who takes a building-in-public approach. It's been fun watching her journey through transitioning to a new industry, looking for that perfect job, and building her career. She brings energy and enthusiasm to everything she does and it's refreshing, to say the least. 📄 Rachel Ciervo is a talented B2B copywriter who's got a knack for sharing insight in a funny, approachable way. She makes me chuckle on the reg and she keeps my feed interesting. Follow her if you're tired of buzzwords. 🤹♀️ Amanda Natividad is a modern legend in the B2B marketing world. She keeps it real in her content, often talking about balancing career with family. And her advice goes beyond marketing to touch on leadership, personal branding, and just generally maintaining sanity when we're juggling a lot. 😂 If you want to laugh out loud, Sara Richmond is the person to follow. She's a remarkably talented copywriter who often shares personal stories with unparalleled panache. Think David Sudeikis meets mom life. It's gooood stuff. If you've got some other must-follow women we need to know about, please share them in the comments!

From cloud computing to cybersecurity, here are the women shaping the future of tech 👇🏽 Although women make up just 28% of the workforce in STEM, the proportion of women in tech has gradually been on the rise since 2016, according to the World Economic Forum. And at the world's leading tech companies, women make up between 29-45% of the workforce. So although the road ahead is long, we’re marching along with strides of pride. In my new article for AllBright, I shine a light on a few of the trailblazing women imagining and innovating the future of technology. 1️⃣ Manasi Sharma Sharma is a full stack engineer at Microsoft, a member of Forbes’ technology council and a dedicated advocate of diversity and inclusion in tech. She leads innovation for data-intensive web applications and microservices as well as AI in enterprise systems. 2️⃣ Layla Shaikley After building robots at NASA and studying architecture at MIT, Shaikley co-founded a last mile AI and autonomous delivery startup Wise Systems, Inc. As a proud Muslim-American, she speaks openly about the careers of thought-leaders and visionaries in the Muslim community on her podcast Muslims Doing Things. 3️⃣ Brigitte West West is leading the charge to apply AI in healthcare, making the NHS more cost effective, efficient, productive and ultimately stronger for patients. As an executive director at healthtech startup DrDoctor, West’s project aims to eliminate instances of ‘did not attend’ for the NHS, a problem which costs UK taxpayers £1 billion each year. 4️⃣ Sylvia Acevedo Hailing from New Mexico, Acevedo built her career at organisations like NASA, Apple, Dell and IBM and she served as CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA. Named by Forbes as one of the top women in tech and an award winning cybersecurity leader, Acevedo now serves on the boards of Qualcomm and Credo. 5️⃣ Magda Jary Jary earned her stripes at Google over 16 years, most recently as the global head of cloud credentials and certifications. She built and scaled the company’s portfolio of industry leading cloud and AI credentials offers and go-to-market initiatives, growing the credential ecosystem from zero to more than two million. Read the full article — link in the comments. Who else should be on this list? Tag the women who are shaping the future of tech 👇🏽

I'm privileged to meet and know amazing women breaking barriers in technology in so many different ways. I haven't paid it forward here in a while, so here are just a few that inspire me in how they navigate a landscape often designed to hold us back. Give them a follow as well: - Denise Gosnell, Ph.D. - Graph leader and technology executive with both technical and business acumen. Also author of the wonderful book: https://lnkd.in/gE-_AmqP - Rachel Chalmers - Partner-in-crime and Venture Capital guru (less than 11% of partners in VC firms are women, and only ~2% of companies funded are women founders). If you want to know more about AI and infrastructure investments, or a humanistic view of AI, check out the podcast she's hosting with Generationship and Heavybit. - Melody Meckfessel - Technology executive and current CTO at Jasper, Founder of Observable, and an incredible athlete. - Ellie Huxtable - Founder of Atuin - go follow to learn more and stay up to date on the latest 😁 - Alex Zenla Emily Long Ariadne Conill - Deeply technical and superhuman founders of Edera (https://edera.dev/) in the container security space. Especially critical for anyone with GPU workloads. - Amy Hodler - Founder of GraphGeeks, a vendor-neutral graph community inclusive of all, and author of several O'Reilly books on Graph e.g., https://lnkd.in/gkSrJ5rr - Sadie St. Lawrence - Founder of both Women In Data™️ and the Human Machine Collaboration Institute. I don't need to say more :) More to come soon! 🎨 Enjoy some non-generated graphite art from yours truly inspired by this topic: https://lnkd.in/gr-M3epJ #diversityintech #womenfounders #venturecapital

In a world where innovation thrives on diversity, why are we still seeing the same faces celebrated over and over again? It all started with a post. Osman Lee shared a shout-out celebrating B2B founders whose brands are among the fastest-growing. But one thing stood out: all the featured founders were men. For some, this may not have seemed unusual. Yet, for many others, this choice to highlight a lineup ONLY men felt like a missed opportunity. A reminder of the ongoing oversight of women and other underrepresented groups in founder stories. Melissa Rosenthal saw the post and decided to speak up. She pointed out what so many women founders feel all too often. That their contributions, accomplishments, and innovations are too often left out of the narrative. Melissa’s post wasn’t just a critique; it was a call to action, an invitation for us all to think about who gets included when we celebrate innovation and who we might still be overlooking. In the hours and days following, something interesting happened. Other voices joined the conversation. Amanda Natividad added her perspective, echoing the need to celebrate a wider range of founders. Wednesday Women began highlighting female founders and CEOs across industries. Together, they brought forward an idea that couldn’t be ignored: this wasn’t just about representation but about giving rightful visibility to the incredible work women are doing to shape the future of business. Featuring amazing female founders such as Amanda Goetz, Asia Orangio, Jane Serra, Adrienne Sheares, MA, Sarah Stockdale, Katelyn Bourgoin 🧠, Erica Schneider, Emily Kramer, Alina Vandenberghe 🌶️, Chantel George, Gianna Scorsone, May Habib, Melissa Rosenthal, Christina Brady, Odessa Jenkins, Linda Lian, Samantha McKenna, 🐰 Jen Igartua, Yamini Rangan and more in the comments of their post! Today, this conversation presents an opportunity for all of us to be intentional in the way we honor innovation. Female founders are out there, leading remarkable brands, driving change, and breaking barriers. Their stories need to be heard just as loudly. Let’s take this moment not only to listen but to champion the diverse voices transforming the business landscape. Let’s celebrate the women founders who’ve been building, innovating, and leading—often without the recognition they deserve. Their stories are here, ready to inspire, if we make the effort to look for them. Comment female founders in the comments below! Here are some special female founders in my life: Dareen Salama, Tina Keshani, Christie Horvath, Kimberly Schreiber, Catherine Dennig, Janvi Shah, Nicole Clay, Sylvan Guo, Anya Geimanson 🎗️ & Gina Perrelli #femalefounders #representationmatters