Investors, founders, aspiring tech leaders and finalists of this year’s She Loves Tech Global Startup Competition were out in force for this year’s Metamorphosis-themed She Loves Tech Conference in Singapore
When? October 26 and 27, 2023
Who? Leanne Robers, Rhea See, Virginia Tan, Sarah Chen-Spellings, Jenny Lee, Penny Low, Nir Eyal, Jeanne Lim, Jingjin Liu, Benjamina Bollag, Gita Sjahrir, Weiling Chua, Veronika Linardi
Where? Stamford Ballroom, Fairmont Hotel, Singapore
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The She Loves Tech global conference returned to Singapore in October. Founded by Leanne Robers, Rhea See and Virginia Tan in 2015, She Loves Tech is a global programme that funds women-led tech start-ups.
The conference not only marks the culmination of the She Loves Tech Global Startup Competition, which is the world’s largest startup competition for women and technology, with the final pitching followed by the announcement of the winners concluding the conference, but it also features inspiring talks and workshops, as well as the Girls Love Tech initiative which offers 12 to 23 year-olds various opportunities to engage with tech leaders and participate in a range of discussions.
Transformation and tech
The theme for this year’s conference was metamorphosis. “It’s about the transformation of technology in the last decade but also the transformation of us as She Loves Tech as we transition into our next decade,” said She Loves Tech co-founder Leanne Robers in her opening remarks.
At the conference, the co-founders also announced She Loves Tech’s latest initiative to join their startup competition, global conference and acceleration programme. “Because of these programmes, we found ourselves holding the world’s largest database and pipeline of female founders,” said Robers. As a result, She Loves Tech will be launching a Digital Platform to continue their efforts to close the funding gap. The “Crunchbase meets Pitchbook” platform will serve as a source of pipeline for women founders, allowing investors to connect to She Loves Tech startups, request confidential information and pitch decks, and start conversations.
“She Loves Tech’s mission is to unlock one billion dollars for female entrepreneurs,” said co-founder Virginia Tan. “In 2015, when we started out of Beijing, never did we think we’d be in 76 countries having worked with 15,000 startups with close to half a billion dollars that She Loves Tech competition [participants] have raised post-competition. The Digital Platform is the first of what is to come.”