ART OF THE START: Women led startups rockin’ the creative space

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This month we’re tapping into the powerful creative & entrepreneurial energy that makes up Boulder. Bringing you inside some of the coolest new companies around that are bridging the gap between technology and art.

Join us, 40 Forward, and Galvanize for an amazing panel of women Founders in the creative space: Ali De John, Founder of The Makerie, Erika Trautman, Founder of Rapt Media and Char Genevier, Founder of The Cotery will be talking about how they started, how they’ve grown, and what they've learned in their journey as entrepreneurs in the creative space.

There’s an art to startups and these awesome ladies definitely have an eye for it.

MEET OUR SPEAKERS

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ALI DEJOHN
Ali DeJohn has an unwavering love for anything handmade, homemade and everything cozy. Finding it difficult to carve out concentrated creative time in her own life, she started a creative retreat called the Makerie to give people the precious time she could rarely find.

What started as just a dream in her heart has continued to grow beyond her wildest imagination, igniting and nurturing creative sparks in people around the world. To date, she has produced 12 creative retreats and is now working on several brand new exciting partnerships with fabulous companies to expand the creative retreat idea to broader audiences.

Ali feels incredibly lucky to live in beautiful Boulder, Colorado with her incredibly supportive husband, two amazing young children and the sweetest golden retriever.

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CHARLOTTE GENEVIER
A coder since the age of 15, Char Genevier has been building companies for the majority of her life. Char is the CTO and Founder of The Cotery, a platform for fashion designers to design, crowd-fund, and manufacture unique clothing lines without the upfront costs and complications of traditional overseas manufacturing.

Char attended Harvey Mudd College for theoretical math, but left to devote her full attention to building SocialEngine, a white-label social networking platform that she bootstrapped through TechStars Boulder.

Char loved the Boulder startup scene so much that she relocated there from LA in 2011. Char spends a good portion of her free time volunteering for several non-profits in the Boulder area, and is extremely passionate about drawing more women into technical and entrepreneurial fields.

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ERIKA TRAUTMAN

Erika Trautman is passionate about the evolution of online storytelling. With successful careers as a writer, producer, editor, and director, she understands the importance of story in any communication, and yet has been disappointed with online video's inability to rise to its potential.

So in 2011, she founded Rapt Media to change all of that. Since then, she has built and grown a business that is positioned at the top of emerging video technologies, shared the stage with folks like Sheryl Sandberg, and solidified partnerships with powerhouse companies in media, top-tier brands and agencies and Fortune 500 enterprises.

Before Rapt Media, she founded and ran an Emmy Award Winning Production company, Outlier Films, and worked as an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her work has aired on major networks, cable and PBS, and been shown at various film festivals.

WHEN & WHERE
6:00-7:00 Mingling (Wine & Snacks)
7:00-8:00 Presentation and Q&A
@ GALVANIZE BOULDER

SUPPORT SHESAYS: SPONSORSHIP WELCOME
Want to help a great group of ladies in digital in Boulder? You can help us provide quality programming to our group of nearly 600 women. Let's chat. mandy@beboldstudio.com

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