Pam Kostka

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How the myth of the ‘girlboss’ harms emerging women in tech

On Lafayette Street in SoHo, young, fashionable women lined up around the block to enter a minimalist, millennial oasis, the most perfect Instagram feed brought to life. Staff members glided around the store in pastel pink suits, each embodying the kind of girl that Glossier made us all want to be: beautiful, yet effortless. “We…

7:37 am PDT • June 3, 2022
How the myth of the ‘girlboss’ harms emerging women in tech

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All Raise CEO Pam Kostka on how the world isn’t ending

This isn’t the first economic downturn All Raise CEO Pam Kostka has been through.  “I was here during the dot-com bust and rush, and here during the financial fallout that happened, so we’re a little overdue for some corrective action in the market,” Kostka said. “While I’ve been through boom and bust cycles before, this…

7:46 am PDT • March 18, 2020
All Raise CEO Pam Kostka on how the world isn’t ending

We all know the disruptive stories of female-founded startups like Glossier and ezCater. And we also know how those success stories belie the much harder time thousands of other women…

Female-founded startups landed more deals globally in 2019 than ever before

In this week’s newsletter: Pendo raises $100M, ‘cloud kitchens’ is an oxymoron and ‘Super Pumped’ is hitting the small screen.

Startups Weekly: The unicorn from down under, an Uber TV show and All Raise’s expansion

All Raise has established new chapters in Los Angeles and Boston.

All Raise expands to new geos, launches ‘VC Cohorts’