Karen Cahn
Founder/CEO, IFundWomen
Karen Cahn is the Founder & CEO of IFundWomen, and has dedicated her career to closing the funding and the confidence gap for women entrepreneurs. IFundWomen is the go-to marketplace for women-owned businesses and the people who want to fund them. Karen is a pioneer in tech and media. She was an early Google Intrapreneur where she spent 10 years leading various monetization teams in search, display, and video. Most notably, Karen started the Branded Entertainment business at YouTube, when, back in the olden times of YouTube 2006, she and a rogue group of sales and product managers, made the connection between big consumer brands and video creators, thus creating the first native video ad experiences monetized on YouTube. Karen holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, double majoring in African-American Studies and US History.