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Hosted by Dirkjan Hupkes · business · EN-US
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 founder, startup leader, or advocate for more women in technology, this show gives you actionable strategies and proven frameworks from women reshaping tech. New episodes every Thursday.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWomen 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.
Women Disrupting Tech is hosted by Dirkjan Hupkes. The show has published 173 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Building Emotion AI for Better Conferences with Vanessa Williams Saleh" (29 October 2026, 63 minutes), "Tackling Caregiver Burnout with Dovetail Founder Dr. Ashley Blackington" (22 October 2026, 72 minutes), and "Building Psychological Safety for Better Women’s Health at Work with Veroniek Vermeulen" (8 October 2026, 66 minutes).
Women Disrupting Tech publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 70 minutes across 173 episodes.
Booking probability for Women Disrupting Tech is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Women Disrupting Tech requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Women Disrupting Tech's contact route on record: verified email.
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Dirkjan Hupkes hosts Women Disrupting Tech, a business podcast with 173 episodes published.
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Only 20 to 30% of event surveys get filled out. So how do organizers find out what landed with the audience? In this episode of Women Disrupting Tech, I talk with Vanessa Williams Saleh, founder of Attenlyx, who led...

Caregiver burnout starts building when the care a hospital team shares falls to one family member at home. In this episode, Dr. Ashley Blackington, an occupational therapist and the founder of Dovetail, describes what...

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...

Episode #171
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...

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...

Episode #169
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...

Episode #168
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...

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...

Episode #166
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...

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...

50% of women over 40 will experience some degree of pelvic organ prolapse. Most still manage it with a device that has barely changed in decades. In this episode of Women Disrupting Tech, I talk with Mirjam Weemhoff...

Episode #163
Our healthcare system wasn't designed for the 21st century. It is a century-old model built in an era without AI, designed to rescue sick people instead of keeping people healthy in the first place. In this episode of...

One in three women will experience incontinence in her life, yet the options have stayed stuck at pads or surgery. Leonie van de Kamer is building the option in between. In this episode of Women Disrupting Tech, I talk...

Meditation and sleep apps are not fixing women’s health. Karen Berg explains why femtech needs real clinical answers instead. In this episode of Women Disrupting Tech, I talk with Karen Berg, partner at Healthy Capital...

Only 2% of VC funding reaches female founders. Nithya Ruff argues the problem doesn’t start at the pitch table. It starts with how girls are raised and who gets to make investment decisions. In this episode of Women...

Episode #159
More than 90 FemTech companies in the Netherlands are working to close the gender health gap. Most didn’t know the others existed. In this episode of Women Disrupting Tech, I talk with Maaike Steinebach and Sophie van...

Episode #158
Most fitness apps are built to track everything. That's exactly why people stop using them. In this episode of Women Disrupting Tech, I talk with Zoe Pineau, co-founder of Fitly AI, about how she lost 150 pounds through...

Episode #157
Most founders build their financial position in the wrong order. By the time the exit arrives, the decisions that mattered most have already been made under pressure. In this episode of Women Disrupting Tech, I talk...

Most brands are optimizing for search engines that fewer people are using. Rachel Gilley, CEO of Clarity Global, is tracking what happens when your customers stop Googling and start asking AI instead. In this episode...

Episode #155
<p>FemTech represents a trillion-dollar opportunity. So why do all-female teams receive just 2% of early-stage venture capital?</p><p>Beata Wandachowicz-Krason has spent years researching what is holding FemTech back —...
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board-certified occupational therapist, Dovetail
former Division I & II swimmer, Olympic hopeful, military widow, Outsourcing with Love
certified personal trainer, menopause specialist, Savannah College of Art and Design
Co-founder of Clue and Founder of Femtech Assembly, Femtech Assembly
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