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How Female Sports Tech CEOs View The Industry In The #MeToo Era

When the New York Times broke a story about sexual harassment in Silicon Valley last summer, Precursor Ventures founding partner Charles Hudson blasted out an email to his portfolio companies letting them know behavior of that sort would not be tolerated. The San Francisco venture capital firm, he said, had zero tolerance for sexual harassment or […]

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Women In Sports Tech Nonprofit Launches With Funded Fellowships

As a veteran executive of several sports technology companies, both startup and established, Marilou McFarlane would go weeks on end of business meetings without seeing another woman. She said that experience hasn’t been personally problematic, per se, but the realization was striking and the homogeny outdated. Wanting to empower more women to seek out sports […]

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