The following tech companies were founded or co-founded by women.

Active/current Edit

• Adafruit — founded by Limor Fried
• Biocon — founded by Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
• Brazen Careerist — co-founded by Penelope Trunk
• Cisco — co-founded by Sandra Lerner
• Dreamwidth — co-founded by Denise Paolucci
• Flickr — co-founded by Caterina Fake
• HTC — co-founded by Cher Wang
• Hunch.com — co-founded by Caterina Fake
• Idée, Inc — co-founded by Leila Boujnane
• Lynda.com — co-founded by Lynda Weinman
• Marvell Technology Group — co-founded by Weili Dai
• Meebo — co-founded by Elaine Wherry
• Ning — co-founded by Gina Bianchini
• Onyx Neon — founded by Allison Randal
• Perl Training Australia — co-founded by Jacinta Richardson
• Pixel Qi — Founded by Mary Lou Jepson
• Popvox — co-founded by Marci Harris and Rachna Chaudry
• Prodea Systems — co-founded by Anousheh Ansari
• Scalix — founded by Julie Hanna Farris
• Six Apart — co-founded by Mena Trott
• Vquence — co-founded by Silvia Pfeiffer
• VMware — co-founded by Diane Greene
• Y-Combinator — co-founded by Jessica Livingston
• ZaReason — founded by Cathy Malmrose

Defunct/acquired/merged Edit

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• ecitydeals — co-founded by Penelope Trunk
• e-smith, inc — co-founded by Kim Morrison
• math.com — co-founded by Penelope Trunk
• Pownce — co-founded by Leah Culver
• Sierra Online — co-founded by Roberta Williams
• Sleepycat Software — co-founded by Margo Seltzer
• SMARTS (System Management Arts) — founded by Shaula Yemini, acquired by EMC

See also Edit

• List of women executives at tech companies
• Women who risk, redux (cached at Wayback Machine) (blog post listing women tech entrepreneurs)