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Women Disrupting Tech

Dirkjan Hupkes
Women In Tech
Artificial Intelligence
Leadership
Technology
Entrepreneurship
Venture Capital
Femtech
Women's Health
Relocation
Kello Time
Mews
Artificial Intelligence In Healthcare
Netherlands
Diversity and Inclusion
Groningen
Amsterdam
New York City
Medtech
Brainboost XR
AI In Healthcare

Women Disrupting Tech features female founders, tech leaders, and women in tech building the next generation of technology companies. Each week, host Dirkjan Hupkes talks with a founder about how she's scaling a startup, navigating funding, building resilient teams, and tackling challenges from AI ethics to healthcare innovation to climate tech. Whether you're a female tech entrepreneur, aspiring ... more

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In this episode of Women Disrupting Tech, I talk with Veroniek Vermeulen, founder of Silatha, about why women's health is still expected to be left at the office door. Veroniek trained as an engineer in a field where 80 percent of her peers were men,... more

Every day, women make safety calculations - which route to take, where to sit - that never show up in the data.

What happens once that invisible data gets collected?

In this episode of Women Disrupting Tech, I talk with Anniek van Veldhuizen, CCO ... more

More than half of Dutch citizens live with a chronic disease, and over 70% of supermarket products are ultra-processed.

In this episode of Women Disrupting Tech, I talk with Anke Kuik, co-founder and CEO of FLTRD, about turning a personal interest i... more

Juliette is the creator of the AI Flower Framework and founder of the AI Flower Foundation. She spent a year mapping how AI could impact her job as an engineering manager, and discovered why so many AI pilots don’t scale.

She turned what she found i... more

Karianne Kraaijestein spent years building resilience through sport, from gymnastics to indoor climbing to yoga, before starting triathlons at 47.

Now she's the founder of Adaptive, a coaching platform for female endurance athletes navigating a dif... more

Only 3% of people who show up to an event went looking for it. The other 97% came because someone they trust was already going.

In this episode of Women Disrupting Tech, I talk with Elise Mol, co-founder of Bash, a platform that helps event organize... more

A third of a GP’s working week goes to admin, and 42% of UK GPs say they want to leave the profession within five years. Dr. Hannah Allen left clinical practice to fix that, and now leads clinical strategy at Heidi, an AI scribe used by clinicians in... more

One in eight women in the Netherlands must choose between food and tampons. Sophie Haccou bootstrapped CupHub to close that gap, and is about to launch the crowdfunding campaign that could take her full time.

In this episode of Women Disrupting Tech... more

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Anniek van Veldhuizen
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Episode: Closing the Safety Gap by Turning Feelings of Unsafety into Data with Anniek van Veldhuizen
Anke Kuik
Co-founder and CEO of Fltrd
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Episode: How FLTRD's PureScore Makes Healthy Food Choices Easy with Anke Kuik
Juliette van der Laarse
Author of the AI Flower Framework
AI Flower Foundation (foundation in development)
Episode: Building the AI Flower Framework as the Roadmap for AI Transformation with Juliette van der Laarse
Karianne Kraaijestein
Founder of Adaptive
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Episode: How Female Endurance Athletes Keep Performing During the Hormonal Transition with Karianne Kraaijestein
Elise Mol
Co-founder of BASH
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Episode: Turning Early Fans Into a Marketing Engine with Elise Mol
Dr. Hannah Allen
Chief Medical Officer at Heidi; former GP with 14 years of clinical experience
Heidi
Episode: Using Technology To Bring the Human Side Back To Medicine with Dr. Hannah Allen | Ep. 166
Sophie Haccou
Co-founder of CupHub, creator of Casey and the CupHub ecosystem
CupHub
Episode: Tackling Menstrual Cup Hygiene and Period Poverty with Sophie Haccou | Ep. 165
Mirjam Weemhoff
Co-founder of Saturn Pelvic Health
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Episode: Building an Adaptable Pessary To Restore Women's Autonomy with Mirjam Weemhoff & Bart van Diepenbeek | Ep 164
Bart van Diepenbeek
Co-founder, leading business side
Saturn Pelvic Health
Episode: Building an Adaptable Pessary To Restore Women's Autonomy with Mirjam Weemhoff & Bart van Diepenbeek | Ep 164

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Dirk Jan Hupkes
Host of the show; central figure driving conversations with female founders and leaders in tech.

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Closing the Safety Gap by Turning Feelings of Unsafety into Data with Anniek van Veldhuizen
Q: What challenges do you face with fundraising as a woman founder and a founder of color?
Anniek discusses bias in fundraising, the need to prove credibility with numbers, and the strategy of playing the system to gain credibility, while aiming to open doors for others once the round is successful.
Closing the Safety Gap by Turning Feelings of Unsafety into Data with Anniek van Veldhuizen
Q: How do you trigger Beekon and ensure it respects privacy?
Beekon activates through multiple signals, not just voice; it can sense environmental cues, patterns, and user settings, and all learning happens on-device with data not streamed to the cloud unless the user chooses to share.
Closing the Safety Gap by Turning Feelings of Unsafety into Data with Anniek van Veldhuizen
Q: Tell us how MyHives translates lived safety experiences into data.
Anniek explains the three-layer approach: a free safety-logging app to map safe and unsafe places, Beekon AI guardian to wake up and assist in real time, and Beekon Plus hardware to detect danger and escalate automatically when needed.
How FLTRD's PureScore Makes Healthy Food Choices Easy with Anke Kuik
Q: Why keep the app free and pursue a B2B model later?
To maximize reach and impact, the core consumer experience remains free to accelerate adoption, while value is created for retailers through licensing the PureScore and providing data-driven insights to guide product offerings and consumer education.
How FLTRD's PureScore Makes Healthy Food Choices Easy with Anke Kuik
Q: How does the PureScore differ from Nutriscore, and why is processing considered?
The PureScore evaluates processing and the food matrix, not just nutrients; Nutriscore looks at nutrients while the PureScore accounts for how processing affects health, including organics and food structure, which Nutriscore often overlooks.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Women Disrupting Tech

What is Women Disrupting Tech about and what kind of topics does it cover?

This show centers on female founders, tech leaders, and women advancing technology across sectors like health tech, FemTech, climate tech, AI, and governance. Conversations typically explore how startups scale, secure funding, build resilient teams, and navigate industry-specific challenges—from medical devices and pelvic health to AI ethics and data governance. A notable throughline is breaking taboos and advancing gender diversity in tech, often through practical frameworks, investor perspectives, and real-world onboarding steps for listeners interested in building or backing women-led tech ventures. The format tends to pair a founder with a host to extract actionable lessons on product-market fit, go-to-market strategies, and the broader... more

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3. Juliette van der Laarse
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5. Elise Mol
6. Dr. Hannah Allen
7. Sophie Haccou
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