Lauren Pierce Bush Lauren is a daughter of Neil Bush and Sharon Bush, granddaughter of former President George H. W. Bush and niece of former President George W. Bush. Born in Denver, Colorado on June 25, 1984, Lauren was raised in Houston, Texas; she completed her high school education in Houston Texas, studied fashion design at BEBE and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and graduated from Princeton University in 2006 with a B.A. in Anthropology and a certificate in Photography. She also had a career as a fashion model and designer, before the launch of FEED Projects, a social business launched in 2007 to fight world hunger on behalf of the UN World Food Programme. Bush is Co-Founder of FEED Projects. FEED Projects, and its associated nonprofit, FEED Foundation, define success in terms of meals provided—85 million in seven years, the equivalent of roughly $11 million. Corie…

Anya Pogharian, an 18 year old Armenian Teen, Living in Montreal Canada, developed the Dialysave, a portable, dialysis machine which costs $500, against the conventional $30,000 machines, currently in use around the world. Anya Pogharian She told Fortune Magazine that the Dialysave started as a science fair project, inspired by her time working at a local hospital’s dialysis unit, Anya was shocked at the huge cost of the conventional dialysis machines. Anya developed the $500 dialysis machine (Dialysave), a project on which she spent 300 hours, 30 times the required hours for her science project. The Dialysave has captured the attention of major international figures such President Bill Clinton and the Cleveland Clinic. Anya stated that she set her sights on inventing a cheap and portable dialysis machine, and making it accessible to people in developing countries. Though she’s still too young for med school, Anya might just transform the dialysis process…

All Women Recycling is a small a women-led social enterprise created by Lynn Worsley, in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa. It was inspired by the desire to create a sustainable and profitable business, promote environmental sustainability and provide a safe place to nurture women through skills, education and empowering project through recycling and product development. The enterprise turns discarded plastic soft-drink bottles into beautiful upcycled, decorative gift boxes. Lynn intended to find a practical and sustainable way of keeping the country and its communities free of the thousands of discarded plastic soft-drink bottles that litter the environment.  She set up the enterprise with the end goal of creating high quality, upcycled products using these discarded plastic bottles as materials, which would in turn benefit the environment and empower local women in the communities. This resulted in the production of the beautiful kliketyklikbox™, a versatile and trendy, yet…

Did you ever have one of those embarrassing teenage moments, growing up; when you find your skirts badly stained with menstrual blood, and you have to walk around the rest of the day with a huge cardigan tied around your waist? Many adolescent girls have had to deal with such situations, especially in developing countries with over 200 million adolescent girls living in poverty. Thanks to many recent innovations specifically designed to reduce the “Shame of Menstruation” as it is often referred. This situation is greatly reduced.

Many innovations today are gradually working towards closing the gender gap in different sectors. In this series of innovations for her, we bring you 37Angels; a women-focused network, seeking to close the gender gap in through profitable investments.

37Angels is a network of 50-plus women investors with a twofold goal which includes: helping startups succeed and helping more women learn how to become investors in startup businesses. The network was founded by Angela Lee, an assistant dean at Columbia Business School and a serial entrepreneur, who is passionate about helping women.