Lauren “Lolo” Butts is the founder and CEO of Bound Agency, an eight-person, all-women agency whose clients range from Crocs and Huckleberry Roasters to BC4U, a free reproductive health clinic for young Coloradans. For one retail client, Bound’s email strategy grew newsletter profits by 1,960% in
Juana Han is a student advocate from Atlanta and a student assemblymember on the Georgia-Carolinas board of the United Nations Association of the United States (UNA-USA). She also serves as Georgia Chair for the American Youth Association, and has represented UNA-USA at the 2026 ECOSOC Youth Forum
Seema Naz is the founder of Better You Within, a site where she writes about habits, self-awareness and everyday behaviour. She studied psychology and English literature, and later ran an Amazon business before returning to the interests that had always been there. Alongside publishing articles, Seema learned to build
Ava Monroe is the founder of The Ava Edit, an ecommerce brand building practical tools for independent Etsy and Shopify sellers. She is developing Smart Store, an Etsy-first audit app that helps sellers see what needs fixing in their shop before they spend more on traffic, apps or outside
Noemi Alvarez is a Zurich-based entrepreneur and commercial growth leader, and the Founder and CEO of InsightSphere. Its conversational AI expert helps companies engage with website visitors, uncovering their needs and buying intent so sales teams can focus on the right opportunities, and marketing can capture a new layer
Zirlandia Milkovic is a developer and GDPR consultant based in Rijeka, Croatia. She is the founder of GDPR Gard and the author of "GDPR Made Simple for Women Founders". In this Q&A, Zirlandia shares where small teams most often slip up when they build GDPR into
Alana Cummings is the founder and executive coach behind Superbloom Coaching, a certified woman-owned coaching practice. After 13 years in corporate America, she left a career that looked successful on paper but left her feeling burnt out and misaligned, and built a coaching practice around helping others reconnect with
Eleanor Hecks is a women’s leadership writer and the Editor-in-Chief of Designerly Magazine, where she leads a creative team. She has spent close to a decade writing about business and leadership, with contributions to publications including Fast Company, eLearning Industry and Due. In this Q&A,
Open and closed grants, prizes, loans and equity funds for women founders in Canada, with amounts, deadlines and eligibility. Last checked 28 October 2026.
Nathaly Vinueza is the founder and CEO of Warmi, a femtech and insurtech company that grew out of her work as a lawyer on gender-based violence. She came to see that legal intervention alone was not enough, and that lasting change also needed prevention, financial inclusion, education and access
Emily Lyman is the CEO and founder of Branch & Bramble, a women-owned digital marketing agency that uses behavioral psychology to uncover the emotions behind why someone chooses a brand, and was named a Q3 2026 FBW Awards Winner in the Marketing & Communications Impact category. Emily returns to
Allison Isett is the COO of Sponge, a certified woman-owned marketing and sales operations agency that helps B2B companies build the marketing and revenue systems behind their growth. With more than 20 years in marketing operations, she is also speaking on AI for revenue teams at MarketingProfs B2B Forum
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LuCiana VeLiciana-Sanford is the founder of Human B4 Resources, a human-first HR business built on more than 15 years of HR leadership, and was named a Q3 2026 FBW Awards Honoree in the Rising Star category. In this Q&A, LuCiana shares the conviction behind Human B4
Grants
Open and closed grants, prizes and fellowships for women founders in the US, with amounts, deadlines and eligibility. Last checked 27 October 2026.
Grants
Open and closed grants, prizes, loans and guarantees for women founders in the UK and Europe, with amounts, deadlines and eligibility. Last checked 27 October 2026.
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Most founders know they will need HR eventually. Fewer realize that the moment they hire their first employee, they are already making HR decisions. Vanessa Matibag, founder of Outside Lead HR Solutions, has seen how much easier growth becomes when even a basic structure is in place from the start.
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Nida Mehtab Gillio is the founder and CEO of Goalytics, an AI-powered business performance intelligence platform that connects company strategy to program, team and individual OKRs and KPIs. In 2019, she also founded Caryatid Space, a global, boutique, women-owned workplace transformation consultancy. The idea came from seeing the
Books
Marcy Kelly never set out to write a book. It started with notes, jotted down during the agonizing wait for answers after she learned her son Michael's body had been found in his apartment. He was forty-five, her only child, and for months there were no answers
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Alessia Frasson is the co-founder of Uncommon Artwork, a platform that gives artists and small galleries an out-of-the-box way to show, sell and ship their work online without needing any technical skills. Based in Paris, she and her partner Cameron started by building an art site
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Corinne Briaud is the founder of LongHER, a community built around women's health and longevity. After years in consumer healthcare, she set out to create a space by women, for women, where real science meets real community and practical, evidence-based solutions come from female experts and the
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Amanda Horan is the founder of Line + Cleat, a children's life jacket brand she launched in 2023 after finding that the options available for her own daughters were safe but stiff, uncomfortable and hard to get excited about. As far as the company knows, it is the only
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Susan Tan gave up the stability of a public sector career in 2003 to follow a piece of advice she had long given others: do what you love. A registered nurse and coach, she founded ECI Consulting Holdings in Singapore to get back to working directly with people, and over
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Lenie Maré and Ninna Andersson are the co-founders of Bloom LGBTQ+, a community-first Android app for LGBTQ+ adults who are looking for genuine friendship and chosen family. Lenie is based in South Africa and Ninna in Sweden, and the two met on TikTok in December 2025, nearly 10,
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Persia Samandi is the founder of Sohsh, an iPhone content creation business that produces fast, social-ready content for business shoots, events and weddings across Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire, Greater London and beyond. After spending her 20s running social media for a prestigious hospitality ranking list, she left the corporate grind