Our Mission
To be a wealth-creation engine for women entrepreneurs and those looking to invest in them by leading early-stage investment in diverse founding teams of mobile-first ventures.
Who We Are
Women innovate Mobile (WIM) is the first tech accelerator and alternative funding ecosystem dedicated to diverse founding teams of mobile and mobile-first companies. Beyond providing seed funding and business support (office space, product development and design support), we engage our startups with content-rich programming, thought-leadership, an influential community of tech-makers, innovators, mentors, advisors and corporate partners.
Kelly Hoey
WIM Co-Founder & Managing Director
Listed in Forbes as one of five women changing the world of VC/Entrepreneurship, Kelly is a connection-maker and network-building strategist. In addition to having helped clients (ranging from Fortune 500 to fashion to private equity to AmLaw 200) with community engagement online and IRL, she was the first president of global business networking group 85 Broads and worked directly with CEO/Founder Janet Hanson to grow membership globally. Prior to her entrepreneurial leap, Kelly was immersed in the legal world, first as an attorney then in law firm management. She sits on the advisory boards of Lion’esque Style and The Levo League. Kelly is a member of the inaugural Pipeline Fellowship class of angel investors.
Follow her on twitter @jkhoey
Deborah Jackson
WIM Co-Founder
A Columbia Business School and seasoned Goldman Sachs alum and angel investor in women-led technologies, Deborah started her career raising public market and private capital for clients. She has invested in early stage companies for the past decade and has a portfolio of internet, cloud SAAS, mobile and medical related investments. Today, she is the Founder and CEO of Plum Alley, an e-commerce and crowdfunding site for women entrepreneurs and creators. She invests her time and money in championing women and encouraging them to build technology, companies and their own wealth. Her accomplishments have been recognized in publications such as Forbes, Mashable, and Fast Company, and she is a frequent judge and speaker for events and conferences around women, technology, and startups.
You can follow her on twitter at @dbdj1007.
Veronica Sonsev
WIM Co-Founder
In her 12-year career as an entrepreneur and executive at AOL and Jumptap, Veronika has built new business lines, developed strategic partnerships and launched international markets. Today, Veronika is the CEO and Founder of inSparq.com, a company that provides social commerce technology to retailers. She is also a co-founder of Women in Wireless. Veronika earned an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Economics from American University. She was recently honored by Fast Company as one of 60 members to The League of Extraordinary Women. Veronika was also named one of the Mobile Women to Watch 2012 by Mobile Marketer and one of the Top 50 Women to Watch in Tech by Femmeonomics.
Holly Lynch
WIM Mentor, Advisor and Investing Partner
A native of New Yorker and Harvard alum, Holly is a 15 year advertising, strategic planning and brand communications veteran. Her career has focused on award-winning brand strategies and communications to and for women including, Toyota, IBM, and The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty and Self-Esteem Fund. In addition to working with private clients on their branding/marketing needs, she also mentors at a number of technology accelerators in New York City, Boston and Providence and Chicago. A recent graduate of the Aspen Institute’s Aspen Seminar for Leadership in the Good Society as well as the Pipeline Fellowship, Holly has taken her passion for empowering women to WIM as a mentor advisor and investing partner.