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COBALT INTER-GENERATIONAL GENIOUS TABLE OF CONTENTS For Women In Technology Editor's Note 04 AYA FemTech Showcase 06 10 Tech for Women 10 Hide & Sleep 14 Najla & Cynthia Burt Co-Founders Dur Doux Fashion Design House 20 Nuptials 28 Melodie Yashar, Space Exploration Architect 34 ENTREPRENUERS WTW : Sarah Barkley 47 Travel Must: Barbados 51 Author, Tina Seelig, Creativity Rules WWW.THECOBALTMAG.COM Passion Inspired, Technology Enabled For Women
Numbers to Know 3.6 million Number of U.S. computing-related job openings expected by 2029 25 Percent of professional computing occupations in the2020 U.S. workforce held by women 18 Percent of Chief Information Officer (CIO) positions in Top 1000 Companies held by women in 20191 57 Percent of Advanced Placement (AP) testtakers in 2020 who were girls 57 Percent of 2019 bachelor’s degree recipients were women 21 Percent of 2019 Computer and Information Sciencesbachelor’s degree recipients were women 3 Percent of computing workforce were AfricanAmerican women in 2020 7 Percent of the computing workforce were Asian women in 2020 2 Percent of computing workforce who were Hispanic women in 2020
Technology Designed by Her!
Meet women who are designing products and services that meet the needs of women and their community.
Samantha Payne, co-founder of Open Bionics an award-winning healthcare company delivering revolutionary low-cost bionic hands that look and feel good, for amputees or those born without a hand. Samantha, named top 25 women in Robotics and her co-founder Joel Gibbard use 3D scanning and 3D printing to dramatically cut the cost of fitting hand amputees with robotic prosthetics.
Jen Nwankwo, Ph.D. Founder & CEO of 1910 Genetics a biotechnology company integrating AI, computation, and biological automation to accelerate the design of small molecule and protein therapeutics. Successfully closed Series A and Seed funding from investors like M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Playground Global, Sam Altman's Apollo Projects, Y Combinator, FoundersX Ventures, Scientia Ventures, and many others.
Aya Suzuki, co-founder, AAVIA a female hormone health brand first helped Pill users with a Smart Birth Control Pill Case + Health Journal App. Aya is a FemTech leader and Mechanical Engineer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Recently honored Forbes 53 women-led startups disrupting health tech, Top 100 Women in FemTech and HealthTech, MedTech Boston 40 under 40 Healthcare Innovators, and BostInno's 50 on Fire.
Aagya Mathur, co-founder& CEO, AAVIA a female hormone health brand at the intersection of healthcare, innovation, and analyticsdriven insights. As a result of Aagya's consulting career where she worked with various clients to improve patient experience, she found a need to be closer to the end-user to ensure the maximum impact she knew she could have.
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