Explore "womenaustin" with insightful episodes like "Jess Gaffney, CEO and Executive Director of Women@Austin" and "Jan Ryan, Serial Entrepreneur and Director of Creative Entrepreneurship at UT COFA" from podcasts like ""Ideas to Invoices" and "Ideas to Invoices"" and more!
Jess Gaffney, CEO and Executive Director of Women@Austin, discusses the new angel network the organization just launched called Beam Angel Network. Its focus is on funding female-founded startups in a variety of industries. Applications open up on Sept. 1. Notley Ventures has pledged $250,000 in initial funding for the network.
Jan Ryan is a serial entrepreneur, software tech executive, and investor. She has spent 38 years building expansion stage companies, resulting in four acquisitions and one IPO. She is a mentor, advisor and angel investor in several Austin startups. She is also a partner at Capital Factory, an Austin-based accelerator, as well as Techstars.
Recently, Ryan joined the University of Texas at Austin in the newly created position of Director of Creative Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the College of Fine Arts.
Ryan also founded in 2013, Women@Austin, an organization that helps women founders succeed.
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