Join us for a screening of
She Started It
Story of five passionate, trailblazing young women who strive to compete and thrive in the ruthlessly competitive boys club of high tech start-ups

After the film,
stay for lunch and learn from a panel of women entrepreneurs
who will share their own stories of creating their own
Houston-based startups and nonprofits

She Started It gives a new face to the tech entrepreneur: a female face.
Following five women over two years as they pitch VCs, build teams, bring products to market, fail and start again, the documentary takes viewers on a global roller coaster ride from San Francisco to Mississippi, France and Vietnam. Along the way, it weaves in big picture perspectives from women, like investor Joanne Wilson; White House CTO Megan Smith; GoldieBlox CEO Debbie Sterling and Ruchi Sanghvi, the first female engineer at Facebook.

Through intimate, action-driven storytelling, the film explores the cultural roots of female underrepresentation in entrepreneurship including pervasive self-doubt, fear of failure and risk aversion among young women. It exposes too, the structural realities women face as they become entrepreneurs, including lack of female role models and investors, and the persistent dearth of venture capital funding made available to women-led companies.