Visa and Girl Starter Team Up to Empower Female-Led Startups
March 08 2017 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
The third annual kick-off of Visa’s Everywhere
Initiative in Austin aims to solve business challenges and give a
greater voice to female entrepreneurs and developers
Today, in celebration of International Women’s Day, Visa Inc.
(NYSE:V) is announcing the third annual Everywhere Initiative with
a focus on female entrepreneurship and a sponsorship of Girl
Starter, a technology company that provides platforms to amplify
girls in entrepreneurship and business leadership. Visa helps to
shine a light on women in technology, both by inviting women
entrepreneurs to participate in Visa’s Everywhere Initiative and by
sponsoring an upcoming episode of the new TLC network series, “Girl
Starter.”
“The sponsorship of Girl Starter continues to move the needle on
our commitment to empowering women in the workplace,” said Lynne
Biggar, chief marketing officer, Visa. “At the same time, it allows
us to bring even more start-up-led innovation into the fold at
Visa, ultimately creating better business solutions for all of our
clients and partners.”
“At Girl Starter we believe in supporting young women who have
an entrepreneurial spirit and are fostering change in the world
around us,” said Jeannine Shao-Collins, CEO and co-founder of Girl
Starter. “We’re thrilled to be working with Visa, an established
brand that is not only innovating the future of payments but also
the future of the workforce by promoting universal acceptance of
everyone, everywhere.”
Visa’s Everywhere Initiative Kick-off Event in Austin
The kick-off of Visa’s third annual Everywhere Initiative in
North America celebrates female entrepreneurship with a live pitch
competition in Austin. Five women-led start-ups will pitch ideas
that leverage Visa APIs to help merchants grow their businesses.
The event will be held on Saturday, March 11 in Austin at Visa’s
Everywhere Lounge. The start-ups include BeautyLynk, CNote, Loop
& Tie, Soko, and Traveling Spoon.
The live competition will be judged by Visa executives, cast
members of the upcoming TLC network series, “Girl Starter” and
Ingrid Vanderveldt, chairman and CEO of Empowering a Billion Women
by 2020 (EBW2020). All participants will receive an annual
membership to the EBW2020 One Club, and the winner will receive
$25,000 and the opportunity to run a pilot program with Visa.
North America Everywhere Initiative
Concurrently, Visa’s Everywhere Initiative in North America will
begin accepting submissions on Saturday, March 11, 2017. Start-ups
are invited to submit their solutions to help uncover the “next big
thing” in payments as the industry shifts from plastic to digital
and new entrants join traditional payments stakeholders. The
challenges include:
- How can your company use connected
devices to facilitate simpler, more seamless and powerful commerce
experiences for consumers?
- How can Visa APIs augment your
company’s product or service offerings and ultimately drive more
meaningful commerce or finance related experiences for
customers?
- How can you harness Visa capabilities
and other third party services to create transformative commerce
experiences at sporting events, transportation hubs or other venues
where people congregate?
“Visa is committed to partnering with startups and other
non-traditional stakeholders to create the future of payments
together, leveraging Visa APIs from the Visa Developer Center,”
said Shiv Singh, senior vice president of innovation and strategic
partnerships, Visa. “This year, Visa’s Everywhere Initiative is
doubling down on female entrepreneurship in an effort to cultivate
new relationships and celebrate great ideas from emerging talent in
the startup community.”
Visa’s Everywhere Initiative first launched in the U.S. in 2015
and quickly expanded into a global program with nearly 1,000
participating start-ups, which have collectively raised $1.7
billion in funding, with 60 finalists and 14 winners selected. For
more information, please visit:
www.visa.com/EverywhereInitiative.
About Visa
Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) is a global payments technology company that
connects consumers, businesses, financial institutions, and
governments in more than 200 countries and territories to fast,
secure and reliable electronic payments. We operate one of the
world’s most advanced processing networks — VisaNet — that is
capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second,
with fraud protection for consumers and assured payment for
merchants. Visa is not a bank and does not issue cards, extend
credit or set rates and fees for consumers. Visa’s innovations,
however, enable its financial institution customers to offer
consumers more choices: pay now with debit, pay ahead with prepaid
or pay later with credit products. For more information, visit
https://usa.visa.com/ and @VisaNews.
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