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Entrepreneur-in-Residence | Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation<\/h2>\n

Room: 080, Feliciano School of Business building<\/p>\n

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Karen Cahn is the Founder & CEO of iFundWomen,<\/a> and has dedicated her career to closing the funding and the confidence gap for women entrepreneurs. iFundWomen is a startup funding platform designed specifically for female entrepreneurs, providing access to capital, coaching, creative, connections, and community critical to launching and growing better businesses.<\/p>\n

Karen is a pioneer in tech and media. She was an early Google<\/a> Intrapreneur where she spent 10 years leading various monetization teams in search, display, and video. Most notably, Karen started the Branded Entertainment business at YouTube, when, back in the olden times of YouTube<\/a> 2006, she and a rogue group of sales and product managers, made the connection between big consumer brands and video creators, thus creating the first native video ad experiences monetized on YouTube.<\/p>\n

Most recently, Karen spent three years as General Manager of AOL<\/a> Original Video, and was responsible for business strategy and strategic partnerships. In this role, Karen built AOL\u2019s female creative economy in video and as a result, nabbed AOL its first-ever Emmy nod.<\/p>\n

Karen is on the board of advisors of Girl Rising<\/a>, an organization dedicated to girls education in developing countries. She is also on the Springboard<\/a> Media Council and invests her \u201chuman capital\u201d in their pipeline of high-growth, women-led companies.<\/p>\n

Karen holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, double majoring in African-American Studies and US History.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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