At the 2018 North American Bitcoin Conference, only three of the 88 speakers were female. Blockchain had a diversity problem. Since then, women-led companies and non-profit organizations such as Women in Blockchain have arisen to help increase female representation – just in time for the explosion of interest in blockchain due to the emergence of Web3. Rosa Shores, cofounder and CEO of BlockSpaces, and Macrina Kgil, CFO of Blockchain.com, are two women at the forefront of this exciting, still male-dominated space.
BlockSpaces, founded by Shores and Gabe Higgins in 2017, allows enterprises to seamlessly integrate their applications with blockchain networks by combining no or low code, drag-and-drop workflows, performance analytics, and managed blockchain infrastructure for optimal security and monitoring. Over the past 12 months, BlockSpaces revenue grew by 40% and customers increased twenty-fold. In January, the company announced the close of a $5.75 million venture seed round.
Blockchain.com is a $5 billion company that allows people to buy, sell, and trade crypto. With more than 73 million wallets, the company has handled nearly a third of all bitcoin network transactions since 2012. Kgil is one of the rare women CFOs of a unicorn company, let alone in the finance and crypto space. Since joining Blockchain.com, she has led a $300 million series C funding round, and seen the company double in size and surpass $1 trillion in transactions.
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BlockSpaces, founded by Shores and Gabe Higgins in 2017, allows enterprises to seamlessly integrate their applications with blockchain networks by combining no or low code, drag-and-drop workflows, performance analytics, and managed blockchain infrastructure for optimal security and monitoring. Over the past 12 months, BlockSpaces revenue grew by 40% and customers increased twenty-fold. In January, the company announced the close of a $5.75 million venture seed round.
Blockchain.com is a $5 billion company that allows people to buy, sell, and trade crypto. With more than 73 million wallets, the company has handled nearly a third of all bitcoin network transactions since 2012. Kgil is one of the rare women CFOs of a unicorn company, let alone in the finance and crypto space. Since joining Blockchain.com, she has led a $300 million series C funding round, and seen the company double in size and surpass $1 trillion in transactions.
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/meimeifox/2022/03/07/two-women-at-the-forefront-of-the-blockchain-industry/?sh=4cf340a71ce6
