{"id":70356,"date":"2017-05-16T08:04:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T12:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=70356"},"modified":"2017-05-07T04:09:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T08:09:49","slug":"asian-women-hacking-the-startup-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=70356","title":{"rendered":"Asian Women Hacking the Startup Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tue, May 16, 2017 6:00 PM \u2013 9:00 PM EDT<br \/>\nSamsung NEXT NY<br \/>\n30 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10010<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/noid-Image1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[70356]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-70357\" title=\"Asian Women Hacking the Startup Landscape\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/noid-Image1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"438\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Asian Women In Business (AWIB), in partnership with Samsung Next, Samsung&#8217;s early stage incubation and investment organization, is sponsoring a panel discussion with Asian women Founders and Venture Capitalists.<\/p>\n<p>Our featured Asian women founders will share their hurdles and successes in the New York startup ecosystem. They will be joined by investors who will shed light on the lack of female-led start-ups. We will address the hurdles women face in fund-raising and recommend how to make perceived negatives into positives. Can we improve on the unacceptable statistics which show that women-led companies (Fortune) made up only 4.94% of all VC deals in 2016?<\/p>\n<p>Moderator<br \/>\nBhavna Kumar, Early Stage Investor and Start-up Advisor, Samsung NEXT Start SF, a seed stage investment company funding software based startups in the Silicon Valley, NY &amp; Tel Aviv<\/p>\n<p>Founders<br \/>\nKatherine Ahn, Co-Founder &amp; CEO, StyleKist, a social commerce app that revolutionizes the way women shop, share, and earn<br \/>\nSuzanne Xie, Founder &amp; CEO, Hullabalu, an interactive media company re-inventing storytelling<\/p>\n<p>Investors<br \/>\nSutian Dong, Partner, Female Founders Fund, an early-stage investor of technology companies founded by women<br \/>\nBen Sun, Co-Founder and General Partner, Primary Venture Partner, a seed stage VC firm focused on ecommerce and enterprise SaaS<\/p>\n<p>The panel discussion will be followed by a networking reception.<\/p>\n<p>Limited seating. Priority given to early stage startups &amp; investors.<\/p>\n<p>General Admission: $20.00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tue, May 16, 2017 6:00 PM \u2013 9:00 PM EDT Samsung NEXT NY 30 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70359,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70356\/revisions\/70359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}