Overview

Gender

female

Gené Teare leads "The Seed Series" interviewing leaders in seed investing. She covers women in tech, women in venture, and venture funding trends. She is an experienced public speaker and moderator connecting with startup communities around the globe.

Gené has [written and presented](https://muckrack.com/gene-teare/articles) extensively on gender equity. Gené is a moderator and [public speaker](https://medium.com/@geneteare/public-speaking-83af288aa73c) on gender equity and funding trends for many tech events including: Startup Grind, Premoney Conference, Grace Hopper keynote, RSA Conference, Fintech Summit, Corporate Venture Capital Summit, NVCA: Bridging the Gender Gap, Blackbox global female founder series, IoT World, PagerDuty Diversity Awards, Empire Fintech, Mind the Bridge European Innovation day, Global Capital Summit, Founder Institute, WITI, and TechInclusion.

Gené joined TechCrunch in 2008 to run Crunchbase within 6 months of its founding. Working from the Atherton ranch, Gené was also involved with the setup of TechCrunch50 and TechCrunch Disrupt events from 2008 to 2012.

Prior to joining TechCrunch, she was Director of Marketing and Key Partnerships at RealNames, the company that provided natural language navigation in the browser bar.

She began her early Internet career in the 90s by co-founding Cyberia the original CyberCafe in London with Eva Pascoe.