The site Women 2.0 — “a media company at the intersection of women, entrepreneurship and technology” — has complied a list of leading women CEOs of fashion tech companies. Here’s their list, along with links to the relevant companies (which the originating site didn’t include).
- Billie Whitehouse, Wearable Experiments
- Lisa Franco, Machina
- Roopa Vasudevan, Hate Couture
- Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin, Hoviding
- Kristin Neidlinger, Sensoree
Some of these are more projects than companies, but they’re all pretty interesting. They’re all several steps beyond “stick some LEDs into a frock and call it tech.” Worth paying attention to.
I think some of these “Founders” need to read your earlier piece. Though, I imagine that Diane Keaton would have looked great wearing the GER: mood sweater in Woody Allen’s Sleeper…