Fueling Deals

Julia Pimsleur is Founder & Chief Empowerista at the social venture she founded, Million Dollar Women (MDW).MDW has four main programs – an online business school, Mingle & Mentor events in NYC, an annual Million Dollar Women Summit for women entrepreneurs and scholarships for women of color entrepreneurs, who face even greater obstacles in scaling up.See www.millionwomen.us.Prior to Million Dollar Women, Pimsleur was the Founder/CEO of Little Pim, the leading language teaching system for young children.During her nine years as CEO, Pimsleur raised angel and venture capital and discovered that fewer than 3% of all women entrepreneurs reach $1M and less than 4% of venture capital is invested in female founders. To help change those stats, she taught women how to fundraise and wrote her best-seller, “Million Dollar Women​: The Essential Guide for Female Founders Who Want to Go Big” (Simon & Schuster).The Million Dollar Women book was read by over 10,000 women and motivated Pimsleur to leave Lit