by BTBFounders | Sep 6, 2019 | Articles, Blog - Karina
How the business of making money and making impact converge at Grand Challenges Canada By: Karina Chan How Annie Theriault got to Grand Challenges Canada(GCC) is not how most people find themselves working at a nonprofit organization funding critical health and...
by BTBFounders | Jul 5, 2019 | Articles, Blog - Karina
By: Karina Chan, July 5th 2019, On Medium Venture Capital funding has gotten much flack for investing its dollars by pattern matching, thus resulting in a predominantly white, male, tech pool of entrepreneurs with access to capital. Female founders only got 2.2% of...
by BTBFounders | May 3, 2019 | Articles, Blog - Karina
By: Karina Chan The Billion Dollar Fund’s featured female funder of the month is an entrepreneur with an exit under her belt, an advocate for diversity and inclusion, and most importantly a co-founder of a fund primed to bring the future of technology into...
by BTBFounders | Apr 5, 2019 | Articles, Blog - Karina
By: Karina Chan, April 5th 2019, on Medium The leaders of Unicorn companies have the brilliance and star power that have brought them to where they are today: Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Michael Dell etc. Rebelling against the norm, something people seem to never fail...
by BTBFounders | Mar 8, 2019 | Articles, Blog - Karina
By: Karina Chan Great ideas don’t have a gender. “The first year, we were very scrappy. We went to where our customers were. At 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. — that’s when shifts change — we put on our scrubs, parked a coffee cart outside of a hospital, and passed out free cups...
by BTBFounders | Feb 14, 2019 | Articles, Blog - Karina
By: Karina Chan The future truly is female. “Two-thirds of wealth in the US is going to be controlled by women by 2030,[1] and there will be a massive intergenerational shift of wealth to millennials. Both Millennials and women tend to care more about the makeup of...