WomenTech Network

Global community supporting women in tech with networking events, conferences, and professional growth resources.

Website: https://www.womentech.net/

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Field Value
Name WomenTech Network
Tagline Global community supporting women in tech with networking events, conferences, and professional growth resources
Founded 2019
Business Model Community / Events
Industry HR / Future of Work
Geography Global / Remote-First
Growth Profile Social Enterprise / Nonprofit Hybrid
Founding Team Solo Founder (Anna Radulovski)

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Executive Summary

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WomenTech Network is a global membership community for women in technology that has built its reach through a recurring virtual conference franchise and a steady cadence of career-focused programming. Founded in 2019 by Anna Radulovski, the organization positions itself as a connector between women technologists and employers actively recruiting for diverse teams [WomenTech Network]. Its flagship event, the WomenTech Global Conference, was held virtually on May 20-22, 2025 and reportedly drew 1,322 C-Level executives from 167 countries in its 2024 edition, a data point the organization uses to anchor its enterprise pitch [WomenTech Network]. The community claims more than 150,000 members across 179 countries, though that figure is self-reported and not independently audited [WomenTech Network]. Radulovski's adjacent work, including the Coding Girls and Executive Women in Tech (EWIT) initiatives and the 2025 Wiley book Chief in Tech, extends the brand's surface area into publishing and executive convening [Revenue Rehab; Amazon]. There is no public funding history surfaced in Crunchbase, which is consistent with a community-and-events business funded by sponsorship, ticket revenue, and partnership packages [Crunchbase]. The next 12 to 18 months will test whether the Chief in Tech Summit sub-brand and the 2026 conference can convert reach into recurring enterprise contracts as corporate DEI budgets continue to be re-evaluated.

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Confirmed by WomenTech Network primary pages and Crunchbase profile; member count and conference figures rely on company-published claims.

Taxonomy Snapshot

Axis Value
Business Model Community / Events (sponsorship + tickets, inferred)
Industry / Vertical HR / Future of Work
Geography Global / Remote-First
Growth Profile Social Enterprise / Nonprofit Hybrid
Founding Team Solo Founder
Founded 2019

Company Overview

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WomenTech Network was founded in 2019 by Anna Radulovski as a global community designed to support women across technical and non-technical roles in the technology industry, with a stated goal of fostering professional growth and encouraging more women to enter and stay in the sector [WomenTech Network]. ZoomInfo's profile describes the organization as operating within software and technical consulting and focused on connecting skilled women professionals with companies that prioritize diverse hiring [ZoomInfo]. Headquarters location is not consistently disclosed across the sources surfaced, and the organization presents itself as virtual-first rather than tied to a single office.

The operational backbone is a recurring events calendar built around the WomenTech Global Conference, which has run annually and was scheduled virtually for May 20-22, 2025, alongside the Chief in Tech Summit sub-brand introduced under the same umbrella [WomenTech Network]. Smaller programming, including WomenTech Fireside Chats and a steady stream of career articles published on the network's blog, provides the year-round touch points between flagship events. Radulovski's separate ventures, Coding Girls and Executive Women in Tech (EWIT), are described in interviews as part of a broader portfolio she leads, with WomenTech Network serving as the largest community asset [Revenue Rehab].

Milestones that can be confirmed from public sources include the 2019 founding, the establishment of the annual WomenTech Global Conference (with a 2022 edition catalogued on Crunchbase) [Crunchbase], the 2024 conference reportedly drawing 1,322 C-Level attendees from 167 countries [WomenTech Network], the launch of the Chief in Tech Summit track [WomenTech Network], and the 2025 publication of Radulovski's book Chief in Tech with Wiley [Amazon].

Data Accuracy: GREEN -- Confirmed by WomenTech Network primary pages, ZoomInfo, and Crunchbase.

Product and Technology

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The core offering is a community-and-events platform rather than a software product. The website organizes three repeating product surfaces: the annual WomenTech Global Conference (virtual-first, multi-day, multi-track), regular career networking events that connect members with hiring partners, and an editorial blog and resource library covering career advice, technical tracks, and diversity research [PUBLIC] [WomenTech Network]. The Chief in Tech Summit sits inside the conference as a senior-leader track aimed at executive women, mirroring the positioning of Radulovski's Wiley book of the same name [PUBLIC] [WomenTech Network; Amazon].

Monetization, while not itemized publicly, follows the standard community-events template: ticket sales for the global conference, sponsorship and recruiter partnerships with employers seeking diverse pipelines, and job-board placements that surface roles from companies including Miro and Insider Inc. on the WomenTech site [PUBLIC] [WomenTech Network]. The network also publishes proprietary survey data, including a Women in Tech Stats report citing that 64% of survey respondents reported being spoken over in meetings, which functions as content marketing and as an evidence base for corporate diversity buyers [PUBLIC] [WomenTech Network].

There is no disclosed proprietary technology stack, no app store listing surfaced in the research set, and no public engineering hiring footprint, which is consistent with a community organization that runs on third-party event, CRM, and publishing infrastructure rather than building software in-house. Investors evaluating the asset should treat it as media-and-community IP (audience, brand, recurring conference franchise) rather than as a SaaS platform.

Data Accuracy: GREEN -- Confirmed by WomenTech Network primary pages and partner job listings (Miro, Insider Inc.).

Market Research and Opportunity

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The market WomenTech Network sits inside is the intersection of corporate diversity recruiting, professional community, and virtual-event media, a category that expanded sharply during the 2020-2022 remote-work shift and has been re-pricing since.

No third-party TAM figure for the women-in-tech community segment specifically is cited in the surfaced research, so investors should triangulate from adjacent public markets: the global corporate DEI services market, the technical recruiting market, and the virtual events platform market.

What the cited research does establish is the demand-side evidence WomenTech itself has surfaced. The organization's own survey reports that 64% of women respondents have been spoken over in meetings, 19% have felt pigeonholed by stereotypes, and 11% have been asked to handle catering tasks at work [WomenTech Network]. Those data points sit underneath the corporate buyer's pitch: employers paying for sponsorship and recruiting partnerships are buying access to a population they have measurably struggled to retain. The reach claim of 150,000+ members across 179 countries, while self-reported, frames the asset as one of the larger English-language women-in-tech communities by stated audience [WomenTech Network].

Metric Value Source
Stated members 150,000+ across 179 countries [WomenTech Network]
2024 conference C-Level attendees 1,322 from 167 countries [WomenTech Network]
Survey: women spoken over in meetings 64% [WomenTech Network]

Analyst takeaway: the most defensible number in the table is the 2024 C-Level attendance count, because it can in principle be cross-checked against sponsor decks; the 150,000 member figure is the headline that needs independent verification before underwriting. Macro headwinds are real: corporate DEI budgets in the United States have come under both political and fiscal pressure since 2023, and a community whose buyer is the corporate diversity office is exposed to that re-pricing.

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Member and conference figures are company-reported; no independent third-party market sizing surfaced in the research set.

Competitive Landscape

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WomenTech Network competes for the same corporate sponsorship dollars and the same member attention as a cluster of established women-in-tech communities, plus a long tail of conference operators and recruiting platforms.

The most frequently named alternatives in the women-in-tech community segment include Women Who Code (which announced its closure in 2024 after roughly a decade of operations), AnitaB.org (operator of the Grace Hopper Celebration), Girls in Tech, and Built By Girls. Adjacent substitutes include general-purpose technical conferences with diversity tracks, employer-run internal ERGs, and recruiting platforms such as PowerToFly and Tech Ladies that monetize directly through job placements rather than through community programming.

WomenTech Network has a defensible edge today in the franchise value of an annual virtual-first global conference that, by its own count, brought in over 1,300 C-Level attendees in 2024 [WomenTech Network], and the multi-asset brand portfolio Radulovski operates (WomenTech Network, Coding Girls, EWIT, and the Chief in Tech book and summit) [Revenue Rehab; Amazon]. Virtual-first delivery keeps unit costs of audience growth structurally lower than the in-person conference circuit, and the global geographic distribution (179 stated countries) is harder for any single-region nonprofit to replicate. The closure of Women Who Code in 2024 also, in principle, freed audience and sponsor dollars that an active operator could capture, though this is a hypothesis investors should test with sponsor renewal data rather than assume.

Where the organization is most exposed: it does not operate a recruiting marketplace with placement-fee economics, which is the channel PowerToFly and Tech Ladies own and which scales independently of event seasonality. It also does not have the in-person flagship that AnitaB.org's Grace Hopper Celebration uses to anchor sponsor commitments, and in-person events still command higher per-attendee sponsor pricing than virtual ones. The reliance on corporate DEI budgets is the macro vulnerability the entire category shares.

The most plausible 18-month scenario splits along sponsor renewal: winner if the 2025 and 2026 conferences hold or grow their C-Level attendance and Chief in Tech becomes a paid executive sub-membership with retention metrics worth showing to enterprise buyers; loser if corporate DEI budget cuts compress sponsorship pricing faster than the community can diversify into individual paid memberships, executive coaching, or recruiter-fee revenue.

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Subject data confirmed by WomenTech Network and Crunchbase; competitor map drawn from general category knowledge as no competitors were named in the surfaced research.

Opportunity

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The size of the prize, if WomenTech Network executes, is to become the default global convening platform for women in technology at a moment when several historical anchors of that category have weakened.

The headline opportunity is to consolidate the women-in-tech community segment into a single multi-asset brand: an annual flagship conference with a stated 1,322 C-Level attendees from 167 countries in 2024 [WomenTech Network], a year-round content and survey engine, an executive sub-brand in Chief in Tech that already has a Wiley-published book attached to it [Amazon], and a job-board layer monetized through employer partnerships visible on the site today [WomenTech Network]. The closure of Women Who Code in 2024 and the broader fragmentation of the category create a window where an active operator with a recurring conference franchise and a 150,000+ stated member base can plausibly position itself as the category default, particularly for global and virtual-first audiences that legacy in-person events under-serve.

Scenario What happens Catalyst Why it's plausible
Enterprise DEI partnerships Multi-year sponsorship contracts replace one-off conference deals Chief in Tech Summit becomes a year-round executive program with named anchor sponsors 1,322 C-Level attendees in 2024 demonstrates sponsor-grade audience density [WomenTech Network]
Executive media franchise Chief in Tech becomes a recognized executive brand spanning book, summit, and paid membership Wiley publication of Chief in Tech in 2025 plus founder-led keynote circuit Book published by Wiley provides editorial validation outside the community itself [Amazon]
Global category consolidation WomenTech absorbs audience and sponsor budget from closed or shrinking peers Continued retraction of in-person regional women-in-tech events Stated reach across 179 countries is structurally broader than most regional peers [WomenTech Network]

What compounding looks like in this business is the classic community flywheel: a larger member base produces more sponsor demand, which funds better programming and bigger keynotes, which attracts more members and more senior attendees, which raises the price sponsors will pay for access. The early evidence the flywheel is turning is the year-over-year growth in C-Level attendance at the global conference and the cross-asset extension into a published book and a named executive summit [WomenTech Network; Amazon]. The element that would harden the flywheel into a moat is recurring revenue: paid individual memberships, multi-year sponsor contracts, or a recruiter-fee marketplace, none of which are confirmed in the public record yet.

The size of the win is harder to bracket because there is no recent public comparable in the women-in-tech community segment specifically; AnitaB.org operates as a nonprofit, and Women Who Code wound down rather than exited. The closer comparables sit in professional community media (organizations such as Female Founders Fund-adjacent communities or executive peer networks like Chief, which raised at a reported valuation north of $1B in 2022 according to broad press coverage at the time). Translated into a scenario rather than a forecast: if WomenTech Network successfully builds a paid Chief in Tech executive membership layer on top of its existing conference and content footprint, the asset's value could compound meaningfully against its current sponsorship-only base (scenario, not a forecast).

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Subject metrics confirmed by WomenTech Network primary pages and Amazon listing for the Wiley book; comparable valuations cited as scenario context only.

Sources

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  1. [WomenTech Network] Women in Tech Global | https://www.womentech.net/

  2. [WomenTech Network] About WomenTech Network | https://www.womentech.net/about

  3. [WomenTech Network] Women in Tech Stats 2026 | https://www.womentech.net/women-in-tech-stats

  4. [WomenTech Network] Women in Tech Resources & Blog | https://www.womentech.net/blog

  5. [WomenTech Network] Women in Tech Global Conference 2026 Virtual-first | https://www.womentech.net/women-tech-conference

  6. [WomenTech Network] Chief in Tech Summit at the Women in Tech Conference | https://www.womentech.net/women-tech-conference/chief-in-tech-summit

  7. [WomenTech Network] Anna Radulovski WomenTech Global Conference Speaker | https://www.womentech.net/speaker/Anna/Radulovski

  8. [LinkedIn] WomenTech Network | https://www.linkedin.com/company/womentech-network

  9. [ZoomInfo] WomenTech Network - Overview, News & Similar companies | https://www.zoominfo.com/c/womentech-network/480627985

  10. [Facebook] WomenTech Network | https://www.facebook.com/womentech.net/

  11. [Crunchbase] WomenTech Network - Company Profile | https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/womentech-network

  12. [Crunchbase] WomenTech Global Conference 2022 - Event Profile | https://www.crunchbase.com/event/womentech-global-conference-2022

  13. [Amazon] Chief in Tech: How Women are Breaking the Silicon Ceiling and Leading with Impact | https://www.amazon.com/Chief-Tech-Anna-Radulovski/dp/139429266X

  14. [Revenue Rehab] Anna Radulovski | Guest | https://www.revenuerehab.live/guests/anna-radulovski/

  15. [Chief in Tech] Book Anna Radulovski as a Speaker | https://www.chiefintech.com/book/anna-radulovski-speaker

  16. [Buzzsprout] Chief in Tech: How Women are Breaking the Silicon Ceiling with Anna Radulovski | https://www.buzzsprout.com/2129667/episodes/17050059-108-chief-in-tech-how-women-are-breaking-the-silicon-ceiling-with-anna-radulovski

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