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Women Who Code

WWCode is a non profit that empowering diverse women to excel in tech.

Y CombinatorSummer 2016ActiveUnspecifiedEducationNonprofitCommunity

What they do

Problem

Diverse women and historically excluded people face barriers to entering, advancing, and leading in technology careers.

Solution

Women Who Code provides a global nonprofit community with low-barrier programs, events, and leadership development to support career growth in tech.

Who it's for

Diverse women and historically excluded individuals pursuing or growing careers in technology.

Founders

Alaina Percival
Founder/CEO and Board Chair

Alaina is a co-founder of Women Who Code. Under her leadership, the organization served nearly half a million members in 147 countries. Alaina has spoken at WSJ.d Live, Grace Hopper, MIT’s Venture Capital and Innovation Conf, Harvard’s WECode, the United Nations Information Management Unit (un)data seminar series, and more. She has also been featured in numerous global media publications. Alaina is also an Angel Investor, a Venture Partner at Valor Ventures, and a Scout for Picus Capital.

Zassmin Montes de Oca
Founder/CTO

Zassmin most recently led security engineering at Coinbase (2018-2022) and co-founded Women Who Code (YC S16), serving as their CTO & Board Vice Chair. Currently she's advising startups on security.

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