85 Broads is a network of trailblazing, visionary women who aspire to use their talent and leadership savvy to affect professional, educational, economic, and cultural change for all women globally.

We are women technologists. We use technology to connect our communities. We create technology because it is who we are — intelligent, creative and driven. We lead with compassion and a belief in inclusion. We develop competitive products and find solutions to problems that impact our lives, our nation, our world. Together, through the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI), we are inventing a better future. Working with men that believe in our mission, we are changing the world for women and technology.

BayBio is an independent, non-profit 501(c)(6) trade association serving the life science industry in Northern California. The staff and services of BayBio are paid primarily through memberships, sponsorships, and event registration fees. BayBio provides these services through representatives in South San Francisco and through coalition partners in Washington, DC.

The Belizean Grove is a constellation of influential women who are key decision makers in the profit, non-profit and social sectors; who build long term mutually beneficial relationships in order to both take charge of their own destinies and help others to do the same.

The Committee of 200: The primary mission of C200 and its Foundation is to foster, celebrate and advance women's leadership in business. Our membership organization offers current leaders access to unique programming plus an unparalleled professional and personal network of their peers. Through targeted outreach and support to future leaders, the C200 Foundation also helps to ensure that women will continue to take evermore significant and visible leadership roles.

The UCSF Center for BioEntrepreneurship offers programs and resources to develop the next generation of entrepreneurs and leaders in the life science industry. CBE weaves the UCSF community into the broader Bay Area community of life science innovators and entrepreneurs, company executives, investors, attorneys, and other professionals to help successfully translate discoveries from the laboratory to commercialization for the benefit of the institution and society.

The Center for BioEntrepreneurship is an arm of the Office of Research at the University of California San Francisco . UCSF is recognized as a premier institution dedicated to healthcare, biomedical research and training. Its 4,000 graduate students, over 1,000 postdoctoral fellows, and 15,000 faculty and staff are committed to innovation and leadership.

Cooley Godward Kronish is a national law firm for the converging worlds of high technology, high finance and high-stakes litigation. We are counselors, strategists and advocates for the foremost private and public companies across a wide variety of industries and in all major technology fields. Our clients include business organizations, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, financial institutions, private equity firms, professional services firms and real estate owners and developers. Cooley has approximately 650 attorneys and represents clients in more than 20 industries

DEMO is the launchpad for emerging technologies. For 19 years, DEMO has established a reputation for identifying and presenting to an elite audience the products most likely to have a significant impact on the marketplace and market trends in the years to come. This event is where the world-wide press, decision-making investors and market-defining visionaries come together. And in this fusion is the pure power to soar.

Consider the numbers: In just the past four years, DEMO companies have raised well over $2.5 billion dollars in the months/years following their debut at DEMO. More than 40 of these companies have been acquired by tech giants, such as Adobe, Cisco, Google, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, Symantec, Viacom, Yahoo!, and more. Past participants such as WebEx, VMware, iRobot, Linden Labs, Six Apart, and Roku have single-handedly redefined their industry's market.

Girls in Tech is a social network enterprise focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of like-minded, professional, intelligent and influential women in technology. As young women with the capacity to inspire, we made it our personal desire and passion to create and sustain an organization that focuses on the collaboration, promotion, growth and success of women in the technology sector.

Golden Seeds plays an instrumental role in supporting women to utilize both their intrinsic and financial capital to its full potential. We identify and invest in women-led ventures with the potential to grow into multi-million dollar business while enabling accredited investors to invest alongside us. We provide entrepreneurs with strategic business advice as well as access to funding and the tools to enable them to grow into multi-million dollar businesses.

A next generation interactive media and product development agency established in 2007 with a keen focus on delivering successful and significant online media presents and digital products for brands and agencies. We combine creative ideas and seamless execution using the best of breed in technology to produce high performance results for your brand and company.

The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), comprised of more than 450 member firms, is the premier trade association that represents the U.S. venture capital industry. NVCA's mission is to foster greater understanding of the importance of venture capital to the U.S. economy, and support entrepreneurial activity and innovation. The NVCA represents the public policy interests of the venture capital community, strives to maintain high professional standards, provides reliable industry data, sponsors professional development, and facilitates interaction among its members.

NCWIT is the National Center for Women & Information Technology. We are a coalition of more than 100 prominent corporations, academic institutions, government agencies, and non-profits working to increase women's participation in information technology (IT). NCWIT is a 501(c)(3), established in 2004 with startup funding from the National Science Foundation, Avaya, Microsoft, Pfizer, Bank of America, Intel, HP, the Kauffman Foundation, and Qualcomm.

The mission of New York Angels, Inc. is to provide a forum in which its members can exchange information about investment opportunities in early-stage technology and emerging growth companies in the Northeast and to provide administrative support as its members help such companies to grow to market leadership.

Since establishing its first venture fund in 1999, SJF has actively invested in the cleantech, premium consumer products, business services, and web services sectors. Representative investment areas include renewable energy and efficiency, organic and healthy consumer products, digital media, and outsourced business services. The firm's principals work closely with entrepreneurs to identify growth opportunities, develop industry relationships, obtain debt and equity capital, execute company acquisitions, and accelerate marketing initiatives.

Venture-Catalyst Springboard Enterprises is the go-to organization for information about and support for emerging growth ventures led by women. Springboard has become a central player in the infrastructure that fosters women’s entrepreneurship with the goal of connecting women entrepreneurs and investors nationally and globally. What began as a series of Venture Capital Forums seeded and promoted by hundreds of supporter has proven to be a highly effective model for fast-tracking women entrepreneurs into the equity markets.

The Hatchery provides a unique funnel for New York innovators to interact with investors, present their plans, receive expert feedback, and pave the way for them to receive funding. At the heart of our model the Gauntlet, an interactive process that gives entrepreneurs a forum to present their strategies to a range of investors.

The Three Tomatoes, targeting boomer women, is a free insiders e-newsletter guide to living, playing and having fun in and out of New York City.

TiE, a not-for-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals, was founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley, California, USA. Although its birth name, The Indus Entrepreneurs, signifies the ethnic South Asian or Indus roots of the founders, TiE stands for Talent, Ideas and Enterprise. It is an open and inclusive organization that has rapidly grown to more than forty five chapters in ten countries. TiE endeavors to cultivate and nurture the ecosystems of entrepreneurship and free-market economies everywhere, as it sees this to be the single most powerful instrument of prosperity.

w2wlink.com is the premier community dedicated to professional women, helping you get to where you’re going – faster. We provide you expert knowledge, tools to overcome obstacles, and connection with others in our online groups. 

Webgrrls International, is an online and offline networking organization of professional business women focused on propelling their careers and businesses forward. We focus on networking and connecting with others, leveraging and learning about technology, learning new skills and finding jobs, finding mentors and interns, and gaining access to support and information.

Women 2.0 aims to increase the number of young women entrepreneurs by encouraging women to work with and in the field of technology, providing resources that will lead to the launch of their company, and networking women with other female entrepreneurs, experienced executives, and investors.

The WPO is headquartered in New York City and currently boasts over 75 active chapters and over 1000 members across the US and in Canada. There are two primary membership options: Chapter and Member-At-Large. Each chapter meets monthly, consists of 10-20 women presidents/CEOs/Managing Directors/etc, and is moderated by a professionally-trained facilitator. Chapters are not permitted to have more than one business in the same industry represented. At-Large Membership is created for women whose schedules make it impossible for them to commit to monthly meetings, or for areas in which the WPO does not yet have a chapter.

The Womensphere community is a vibrant network of leaders and emerging leaders across all fields – media, consulting, entrepreneurship, law, finance, technology, sciences, international development, social entrepreneurship, music and the arts – and more

YourOnRamp is an online resource for women in career transition. Whether OnRamping or OffRamping, YourOnRamp provides the social network, career resources, and job opportunities to succeed.