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(Business Insider) Women may be underrepresented throughout the tech sector, but they're building some incredible startups, apps, and products.
We've rounded up a collection of 19 female-founded startups that made the news this year.
Some of them launched or came out of beta, while others raised funding or launched new services.
You'll want to keep these startups — and their founders — on your radar.
Dwnld
These days it seems like everybody has an app in the App Store. And why not? It's a great way to make extra money while putting out a product you believe in.Alexandra Keating is capitalizing on that idea with Dwnld,a mobile app-creation platformthat helps companies, brands, and other influencers easily and affordably turn their content, from social media and photos to videos and GIFs, into native mobile apps in minutes. Dwnldlanded a $12 million investmentfrom Greylock Partners in September and works withclients likeNylon, xoJane, and a number of YouTube stars and bloggers.
AptDeco
Reham Ragiri is one of the only minority female founders totake a company throughtheprestigious startup incubator Y Combinator, transforming the preowned-furniture marketplace in New York City.
She and cofounder Kalam Dennisdeveloped their service so that buyers and sellers of used furniture don't have to coordinate delivery or pickup times, or even do the actual delivering or picking up themselves —AptDeco has a delivery partnerthat does it all, taking one of the biggest hassles of trying to buy or sell furniture in New York City out of the equation.
Spoon University
Spoon University— a website to share recipes, health and lifestyle stories, restaurant reviews, BuzzFeed-esque quizzes, and other food-related content — went live in September 2013 and quickly grew to a 100-person student staff at Northwestern's campus, before expanding nationwide.
Spoon University,which has raised a $2 million seed round,says it attracts 2 million unique visitors every month — 10x growth from the 200,000 it had earlier this year. Schools like Penn, NYU, Dartmouth, and Michigan all have their own Spoon University pages, with 3,000 students actively contributing stories, photos, and videos to the website.
Spoon University's advisers include digital-media startup talents like Bryan Goldberg, the CEO andfounder of Bustle and BleacherReport, andChris Altchek, the CEO of Mic. Its readership is 75% female.
The Skimm
Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin quit their jobs at NBC to start a daily email newsletter calledThe Skimm. In December 2014, The Skimmraised a $6.3 million series-A roundfrom Greycroft Partners, Irving Azoff, and RRE Ventures.
TheOprah Winfrey-endorsednewsletter launched three years ago. The last time subscriber numbers were released the count was at 1.5 million. "We've grown a lot since then," Zakintold BI a few months ago. In addition to growing its readership, The Skimm has grown from two friends on a couch to more than a dozen people in an office.
