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Women in Tech

Winnie, wealth, and women: gender diversity on our cap table

We’re building a new kind of unicorn — one that stands to make more money for women than men. The Maiden and the Unicorn , Domenico Zampieri

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Announcements

Bringing Winnie’s revolutionary child care search to New York and beyond

With details on over 10,000 programs, Winnie is putting NYC daycares & preschools on the map — literally.

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Technology

With 1M users in 10K cities, Winnie is growing up

Happy second birthday Winnie! Today, we couldn’t be more proud to announce that Winnie has grown to serve more than one million users across 10,000 U.S. cities. As we celebrate this...

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News

Onsite Childcare is not the Solution

Recode recently published a state of the union about how moms in tech felt returning to their jobs after having babies. The results were encouraging with 50% of women surveyed rating their...

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Technology

How to Get Your First 100k (Active) Users

Acquiring your first 100k active users is an art, but a messy one—especially if you don’t have a lot of money to spend on marketing and paid acquisition. Winnie crossed this important...

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Parenting

Millennials may be history’s most competent parents

In 2017 millennials make up 90% of all new parents. This generational shift is something we’re tracking very closely at Winnie — as a tech company, we’re more concerned with the future than...

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Announcements

Closing the Child Care Gap

From the beginning, Winnie’s mission has been to equip parents with the information they need to be successful. In the majority of American households, all of the adults work at least...

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Announcements

Raising Winnie

In January 2016, Anne Halsall and I got together with a goal: build technology that makes life easier for parents.

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Women in Tech

The Mother of Invention

Your first job as a parent sounds so simple: feed the baby, as much as possible, ideally breastmilk. Hugo & I soon discovered it was anything but simple.

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Women in Tech

When Women Engineer

Earlier this year I founded Winnie with the incomparable Sara Mauskopf. Like many new companies, the last several months of our engineering work can be best summed up as “creating something...

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