The following tech companies were founded or co-founded by women.
Active/current
- Adafruit — founded by Limor Fried
- Advent Software -cofounded by Stephanie G. DiMarco
- 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
- Siebel Systems, Inc — co-founded by Patricia A. House
- Six Apart — co-founded by Mena Trott
- SizemApp.com- founded by Ana Kolarevic
- 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
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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
- List of women executives at tech companies
- Women who risk, redux (cached at Wayback Machine) (blog post listing women tech entrepreneurs)