Kitty Knowles
Forbes
United Kingdom
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Forbes Europe's Top 50 Women In Tech List 2018
Forbes is proud to mark Ada Lovelace Day by announcing its debut Europe's Top 50 Women In Tech list. This shines a light on 50 incredible women from across Europe who are putting technology at the heart of their rising businesses. → Read More
4 Female Leaders Pioneering Fintech And Crypto
Europe’s female founders are the future of finance: Anne Boden leads the successful mobile banking app Starling, Celine Lazorthes has exited her SAAS solution Mangopay, Galia Benartzi is fighting for a safer crypto industry, and Francesca Bria is bringing blockchain services to everyday citizens. → Read More
Millennial Women Are Building Million-Dollar Robotics Firms
Europe's female founders are breaking into robotics. Jade Le Maitre's droids offer advice in public spaces, Christin Spiten's underwater drones dive to unseen depths, Karen Dolva's cute robots are help sick kids at school, and Helen Samsioe's "AI in the sky" supports the UN with disaster relief. → Read More
Genderless Makeup Brand Jecca Is L'Oréal's Latest Startup Squeeze
Inspired by the transgender community, unisex makeup brand Jecca is now part of the L'Oréal beauty accelerator at Station F, Europe’s biggest incubator. “Most beauty brands focus on cis women or males, but there is obviously a huge in-between,” says founder Jessica Blackler. → Read More
How To Boss It Like: Katharina Borchert, Chief Innovation Officer at Mozilla
There are a handful of business leaders and industry figures who are changing the world. Today we meet Katharina Borchert, Chief Innovation Officer of Mozilla—the open web advocate and not-for-profit maker of Firefox. "I’m a real night owl and hate getting up early," she confesses. → Read More
Amorelie: How A Savvy Sex Shop Founder Sold Her Startup To A TV Titan
Millions have ordered Amorelie's pleasure boxes to spice up their sex lives. We find out how founder Lea-Sophie Cramer got one of Europe's biggest media broadcasters on board. → Read More
How To Boss It Like: Claire Davenport, CEO at HelloFresh UK
Today we find out "How To Boss It Like" Claire Davenport, CEO at HelloFresh UK, the meal-kit company based in Berlin, Germany. "At one time, I had quite a reputation for the 4 a.m. email among my colleagues," she confesses. → Read More
Inside The Giant $160 Million Greenhouses Where Björk Sings And Dreams Greater Than Elon Musk's Grow
Björk, Jack Johnson and Queens of the Stone Age have all chosen to play gigs at this very unusual gig venue in the British countryside. But could Eden’s mission be more important than Elon Musk’s? → Read More
Britain's Secretive "Savile Row of Lingerie" Sells $8,000 Bespoke Bras To The Rich And Famous
Clients travel from Paris, New York and New Zealand to shop at Luna Mae, the British bespoke lingerie store where customers spend £4,000 ($5,300) per visit. Its founder now prepares to launch her first swim line—where one costume costs £50,000 ($66,000) thanks to a diamond-encrusted butterfly pin. → Read More
One-Stop Shop For Cancer Patients Raises $7 Million To Solve "Neglected" Issues From Skincare To Sex
Day-to-day activities like caring for the kids, bathing or having sex can be difficult for cancer patients. This is why Tamara Rajah launched her online shop Live Better With which has just raised $7 million from Downing Ventures, Forward Partners, and the Daily Mail’s investment arm. → Read More
Blockchain For Scientists Takes On Elsevier, The Business The Internet Couldn't Kill
Could blockchain be what brings science’s untouchable publishing giants down? Anita Schjøll Brede, cofounder and CEO at Iris.AI—one of Europe’s hottest artificial intelligence companies—hopes so. She explains how Project Aiur works at CogX AI festival, part of London Tech Week. → Read More
Can Aparito's Wearable Tech Solve Big Pharma's Billion-Dollar Crisis?
As many as 42% of pediatric clinical trials end up in failure and inconclusive results. This isn’t just a problem for the big pharma companies who are spending billions of dollars developing successful studies. It’s a problem for you, as we all pays a mark up on medication to cover these costs. → Read More
SkinNinja: This $4.5 Million App Spots Allergens And Cancer-Causing Ingredients In Your Skincare
"Quaternium-15" is just one of many complicated names cosmetic companies give to the known cancer-causing ingredient formaldehyde. Luckily Jo Osborne, and she's just raised $1 million. → Read More
L'Oreal Buys Silicon Valley Startup, But AR Beauty Is Just The Beginning Says CDO
The world’s biggest global beauty manufacturer L’Oreal recently acquired its first startup—a Silicon Valley AR business. Lubomira Rochet, L’Oreal’s Chief Digital Officer explains why L'Oreal's first startup acquisition isn't going to be its last. → Read More
GetMarketFit CEO: On Getting Fired, Founder's Grief, And A New Rent-A-Entrepreneur Startup
“When it all stops, you have a period of grief,” says Vicky Brock of being sacked from Clear Returns, the startup she’d built over five years. The abrupt way the founder learned of her dismissal didn’t help. Yet today, she explains how it led to her to build a brilliant new business GetMarketFit. → Read More
BFI Exclusive: Film Is Crucial To Our Economy, And Yes, TimesUp & MeToo Matter
There’s no doubt that the U.K. film industry now turns over more than a 10 billion a year. But we need greater diversity at its heart if we want it to keep thriving, BFI CEO Amanda Nevill tells Forbes. → Read More
RoomLab CEO: On Fighting Cancer, A Surprise Pregnancy And Raising Investment
“It was an enormous shock,” says Suzann Bozorgi after a deep breath. The entrepreneur is still new to talking about the breast cancer diagnosis that rocked her life. Yet her mental and physical experience of cancer have directly influenced her the two businesses she's founded. → Read More
Stemettes: Inspiring 40,000 Girls To Build "Better" Tech Than Uber With A YCombinator For Teens
Sexism scandals rocked Uber last year, yet today 82% of the unicorn’s tech workforce are still men. “We don’t just want to have more women building Uber, we want them to build their own Ubers, with tech that’s better than Uber,” says Anne-Marie Imafidon, the cofounder of Stemettes. → Read More
We All Need Older Female Founders, And They Can Unlock Trillion Of Dollars
Europe's obsession with 'youth' comes at a cost. → Read More
Alcove: This Founder Builds Smart Homes That Save Lives And She's Hitting The U.S.
Hellen Bowey started Alcove to turn homes into safe secure spaces. “Not many technology companies can say that they’ve saved somebody's life in their first 3 months,” she tells Forbes as she hits the U.S. as part of London's International Business Programme. → Read More