A look at 42 women in tech who crushed it in 2017What a challenging, exhilarating year it has been for women everywhere, starting from the women’s March on Washington to former Uber engineer Susan Fowler’s eye-opening and now famous blog post to the #metoo movement that has swept the country, washing dozens of sexual predators out of their powerful roles in the process. All the while, women in tech have been driving their companies to new levels of success, including reaching difficult product development milestones and, in many of the cases you’re about to read, raising meaningful follow-on funding. That’s not always an easy task, as many will tell you. In 2016, companies with at least one female founder raised 19 percent of all seed rounds, 14 percent of early-stage venture, and just 8 percent of late-stage venture rounds, according to Crunchbase. Herewith, just 42 of the many women who defied the stats this year — and who are posed to kick more ass in 2018. [ TechCrunch ] Scaleworks acquires Sequoia-backed data start-up Keen IOScaleworks, a Texas private equity firm focusing on software start-ups, has acquired Keen IO, a start-up with data analytics software aimed at developers. Terms of the deal, which occurred earlier this week, weren't disclosed. Keen IO raised almost $30 million in venture capital, and in 2014 prominent firm Sequoia Capital led an $11.3 million funding round for the start-up. Kyle Wild, the start-up's cofounder and CEO, has left, as has COO Will O'Brien. Scaleworks, whose first fund totaled $60 million, will provide Keen IO with finance, recruiting, and communications resources, general partner Ed Byrne told CNBC. Some other Scaleworks companies use Keen's service, Byrne said. [ CNBC ] Startup Tri-Valley Founder Series – Dave SelingerMelody Koh’s Startup Journey From Head of Product at Blue Apron To Venture Partner at NextView This is part of the Startup Insider series, articles with the goal of helping aspiring founders, entrepreneurs and investors understand the ins and outs of the world of startups. You can sign up to stay up to date with this series here. Being the Head of Product of a publicly traded company is a dream career for a lot of people but for NextView Ventures Venture Partner Melody Koh becoming the Head of Product of Blue Apron was only one part of the iterative journey of self-improvement and learning. For Melody, the decision to leave Blue Apron after the company went public to join NextView Ventures was because she wanted to use what she’s learned so far in her startup journey both as a startup founder and Blue Apron’s first product hire in helping the next-generation of startup founders. Melody shared more about her startup journey and the various lessons she learned, including her previous stint as a VC at Time Warner’s venture arm, her wine subscription startup while at Harvard Business School, how she got into the world of product and more. [ Huffington Post ] Tech's terrible year: how the world turned on Silicon Valley in 2017hen Jonathan Taplin’s book Move Fast and Break Things, which dealt with the worrying rise of big tech, was first published in the UK in April 2017, his publishers removed its subtitle because they didn’t think it was supported by evidence: “How Facebook, Google and Amazon cornered culture and undermined democracy.” When the paperback edition comes out early next year, that subtitle will be restored. “It’s been a sea change in just six months,” Taplin said. “Before that, people were kind of asleep.” [ The Guardian ] Stone and Chalk and YBF Ventures selected to run Victorian Government fintech hubsA perk that’s keeping Silicon Valley workers healthy — and on the jobE13: "Angel": Jeff Clavier, Uncork Capital: MicroVC pioneer, 200 co's, 5 funds, Series A strategiesSilicon Valley Punished Some Badly Behaved Men In 2017. Now, It Needs To Fix Its Broken Culture.The top venture funding deals of 2017 |