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Women are (relatively) few and far between in the tech industry. They make up less than 10 per cent of venture capitalists, and they leave the industry at twice the rate of men, according to a recent study by the Kauffman Foundation, says the Business Insider.
But the women who do choose to enter the tech industry in one way or another are doing incredibly important work, it says.
Let's take a look at 20 women who are not even 30 but are changing the tech world.
Source: Business Insider
Libby Leffler
Company: Partner, Facebook
Age: 28
About her: Libby Leffler served as Facebook COO Sheryl Sanberg's business lead for three years before becoming the social network's strategic partner manager. Currently, she's leading a division of partnerships at Facebook with an emphasis on causes, non-profits, advocacy groups, and public figures, according to Business Insider.
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Photographs: Source: Twitter
Anastasia Leng
Company: Co-Founder, Makeably
Age: 28
About her: Anastasia spent five years at Google, working as a Product Marketing Manager on Google's monetisation products. She moved to London to work as a New Business Development Manager, where she led entrepreneurship efforts in EMEA and closed deals for early-stage technology partnerships for Google Voice, Google Chrome, and Google Wallet.
Anastasia graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a triple major in Psychology, Sociology and French.
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Rachel Haot
Company: Chief Digital Officer, City of New York
Age: 29
About her: Rachel Haot is an American businesswoman and entrepreneur who currently serves as the Chief Digital Officer for the City of New York, heading the NYC Digital programme funded by the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment.
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Photographs: Source: Reveal Systems/Facebook
Lisa Falzone
Company: Co-Founder and CEO, Revel Systems
Age: 27
About her: Lisa Falzone is the genius behind the award-winning Revel Systems point-of-sale system for the iPad. Revel Systems is considered to be a leader in iPad POS solutions, with major retailers, restaurants, and grocery stores using Revel, according to Business Insider.
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Naomi Gleit
Company: Senior Director of Growth, Facebook
Age: 29
About her: Naomi Gleit has worked at Facebook since nearly the very beginning. Joining the social network in July 2005, Gleit became Facebook's 29th employee, according to Business Insider.
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Photographs: Source: Facebook
Roxanne Varza
Company: Startup Evangelist, Microsoft
Age: Under 30
About her: Roxanne Varza currently runs some of Microsoft's startup-related initiatives in Europe, specifically its BizSpark and Spark programmes. Prior to joining Microsoft, Varza worked as the editor of TechCrunch France, according to Business Insider.
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Photographs: Source: Skillcrush
Adda Birnir
Company: Founder and CEO, Skillcrush
Age: 27
About her: Adda Birnir first made a name for herself while working as an associate producer at MTV. She later went on to build a tablet publishing business called Balance Media. Now, she's working on Skillcrush, an online platform for teaching digital literacy, says Business Insider.
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Photographs: Source: Twitter
Alexa von Tobel
Company: LearnVest, CEO
Age: 29
About her: Alexa Von Tobel is the founder and CEO of LearnVest.com, an independent personal finance website for women.
Von Tobel came up with the idea for LearnVest in 2006 while a student at Harvard Business School when she realised and other women like her had never had any formal education about how to manage their personal finances.
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Amanda Peyton
Company: Co-Founder, Grand St
Age: Under 30
About her: Before co-founding Grand St, an invite-only, flash-sales site that curates the best gadgets, Amanda Peyton co-founded location-based site and app, MessageParty in 2010, according to Business Insider.
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Tracy Chou
Company: Software engineer, Pinterest
Age: Under 30
About her: Tracy majored in Electrical Engineering at Stanford, but she was never quite sure EE was for her. While working towards her degree, she took a few computer science courses and discovered she loved it.
So after earning her Master's in Computer Science, she jumped right into the start-up world - and eventually made her way to Pinterest.
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Photographs: Source: women2.com
Angie Chang
Company: Co-Founder and Editor in Chief, Founder, Director of Growth, of Women 2.0, Bay Area Girl Geek Dinners, Hackbright Academy
Age: 30
About her: Angie is currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Women 2.0. Aside from leading the editorial/content team at Women 2.0, Angie also manages Women 2.0′s online presence - from designing and building webpages for Women 2.0 conferences to managing social media marketing.
Previously, Angie held roles in product management and web UI design at various startups in the Silicon Valley. Angie holds a BA in English and Social Welfare from UC Berkeley.
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Photographs: Source: mdv.com
Sarah Kunst
Company: Retail Innovations Investor, Mohr Davidow Ventures
Age: 27
About her: Retail Innovations Investing at Mohr Davidow Ventures. Before becoming a retail innovations investor at Mohr Davidow Ventures, Kunst ran business development & product at fashion app Kaleidoscope, says Business Insider.
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Photographs: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters
Parisa Tabriz
Company: Chrome Security Engineering Manager
Age: 29
About her: Parisa Tabriz manages Google's information security engineering team at Google, which is responsible for improving Google's product security. This team of "hired hackers" conducts security design and code reviews, builds and enhances Google technology to make secure development possible and easy, conducts security engineering training, and does vulnerability response.
Parisa received her BS and MS from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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Photographs: Source: Instagram
Meredith Perry
Company: uBeam, Founder
Age: 24
About her: Meredith Perry is a first-time entrepreneur who recently graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in astrobiology. uBeam is a wireless charging device that can charge multiple devices at once, says Business Insider.
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Kathryn Parsons
Company: CEO, Decoded
Age: 30
About her: Kathryn Parsons founded Decoded in 2011 to help people become digitally literate and learn how to code in just one day, says Business Insider.
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Photographs: Source: Twitter
Kristen Titus
Company: Executive Director, Girls Who Code
Age: 28
About her: Kristen Titus is the Executive Director of Girls Who Code, leading the organisation's work to close the gender gap in technology and engineering.
She is a former consultant to non-profit organisations, foundations, and corporate partners working at the intersection of philanthropy and technology, and the former Managing Director of Jumo.com, the social network for the social sector from Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes.
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Photographs: Source: Facebook
Heather Payne
Company: Founder, Ladies Learning Code and HackerYou
Age: 26
About her: She's the founder of HackerYou and Ladies Learning Code. Before that, she was ShopLocket's first investor and the founding director of Toronto's Mozilla-backed youth digital literacy initiative.
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Kellee Khalil
Company: Founder, Loverly
Age: Under 30
About her: She is the founder of Loverly, a network of wedding blogs. The network indexes photos for 35 wedding blogs and its members view 30 million images on the site every month.
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Photographs: Source: Twitter
Natalia Oberti Noguera
Company: Founder and CEO, The Pipeline Fellowship
Age: 29
About her: Natalia launched the Pipeline Fellowship, an angel investing bootcamp for women philanthropists, to increase diversity in the US angel investing community and create capital for women social entrepreneurs.
Natalia holds a BA in Comparative Literature & Economics from Yale.
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Sara Haider
Company: Engineer, Twitter
Age: Under 30
About her: Growing up, she studied ballet and figure skating competitively. But love for video games and the web pulled her towards computer science, and it led her to pursue Software Engineering at the University of Waterloo.
Currently, Sara is a software engineer at Twitter.
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