10 Female Tech CEOs To Watch

While people are quick to characterize Silicon Valley as dominated by young men in hoodies, a band of women are emerging to make the industry their own.

More and more women are at the helm of high-tech companies that are changing the world with innovations ranging from new ways to turn algae into fuel to robots that help children through physical therapy.

As part of our Women in Tech series, we've picked ten female CEOs in the tech world to watch--women who are all using tech to radically change the way things are done in a range of industries.

Take a look at the leaders in the slideshow below.

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Brooke Moreland, CEO of Fashism

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Before launching Fashism, a web community that gives users real-time style advice, Moreland had to get her feet wet. While working full time as a reality TV editor, she worked on her brainchild at night before finally leaving her job to focus on Fashism, which launched in 2009. Fashism takes the idea that plenty of people online not only have the style smarts but the kind of objectivity you just can't get from a boyfriend and converts it into an easy to use website. It recently raised $1 million in funding from supporters including Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore, Nina Garcia, a judge on Project Runway, and well-known VC Ron Conway, among others.

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Before launching Fashism, a web community that gives users real-time style advice, Moreland had to get her feet wet. While working full time as a reality TV editor, she worked on her brainchild at night before finally leaving her job to focus on Fashism, which launched in 2009. Fashism takes the idea that plenty of people online not only have the style smarts but the kind of objectivity you just can't get from a boyfriend and converts it into an easy to use website. It recently raised $1 million in funding from supporters including Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore, Nina Garcia, a judge on Project Runway, and well-known VC Ron Conway, among others.

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[Joni Carell]

02:39 PM on 07/13/2011

You go girls. I'm right behind you!

[sirconnery]

01:51 PM on 07/12/2011

The Birchbox broads are pretty banging, but in the words of Cosmo Kramer they "just need a nose job".

[nicmart]

12:09 PM on 07/12/2011

It would be far easier to watch them wearing bikinis.

[Jeningermany]

10:49 PM on 07/11/2011

Poor reporting.

[JimHuntShow]

05:47 PM on 07/11/2011

Some of these tech C.E.O.'s are lookers.

[Martin Obando]

01:15 PM on 07/11/2011

I vote for Brooke Moreland, CEO of Fashism.
http://www.blogger.com/profile/13440726216052296525

[AdeleMcAlear]

12:04 PM on 07/11/2011

I think that Tara Hunt (@missrogue) really should have been on this list for her social commerce startup, Buyosphere (buyosphere.com). Leaving her off the list is quite the oversight.

[Lucretia Pruitt]

08:52 PM on 07/11/2011

I absolutely agree. Tara's work in the tech field is always worth watching - she's the kind of "female tech CEO" who makes me believe that it's not about being a "female tech CEO" worth watching, but just a "tech CEO" worth watching. Gender not included.

[janvy2k]

06:24 PM on 07/09/2011

Not very huge company names but whatever they're doin' is really motivating and inspiring for women.

[dwill123]

09:40 AM on 07/07/2011

Weren't Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina "Female Tech CEOs To Watch" ???

[undrgrndgirl]

12:03 AM on 07/13/2011

no, now they are: FAIL.

[cyoohoos]

07:51 AM on 07/07/2011

Fashion, style help, art; with the exception of a few of these women you're basically saying they are trying to become the Anna Wintour of the internet. Nothing wrong with that, but I don't see aspiring to be Anna Wintour as crashing a ceiling.

[PamelaNH]

04:30 PM on 07/08/2011

Agreed, if you look at most of the largest "tech" successes: Google, Microsoft, Twitter.... the list goes on, the men that started them were technology geeks (regardless of completing college). No offense to these women, but just don't see how they fall into the tech category.

[moutonnoir]

09:14 PM on 07/11/2011

educational robots ARE tech.. but i dunno if publishing a website is "tech" in the sense of "writing software to public websites" is...

[iheartsmartpeople]

03:03 PM on 07/06/2011

While I love the intent of this... unfortunately, I have never heard of any of these companies.

[fengtastik]

12:38 AM on 07/07/2011

Yeah, really. I was thinking if I could come up with anyone higher profile. Just off the top of my head I thought of Carol Bartz at a small company called Yahoo!

[Comicoffee]

03:30 PM on 07/08/2011

That's the point of "ones to watch"--they're up and comers. If these companies were huge, blue-chip mega-corporations, everyone would already be watching!