Ari Horie

About Ari Horie

Ari Horie is CEO/Founder of Silicon Valley based Women\'s Startup Lab. Recently listed as one of the 100 Powerful Women of 2020. Women\'s Startup Lab is dedicated to creating the world where women thrive and succeed through innovation and collaboration. Internationally recognized for her passion, results and public speaking prowess, Ari is working tirelessly to change the landscape of Silicon Valley by creating opportunities for female start up founders to accelerate their path to success and funding. Ari has been featured in various publications and honored to be as a Keynote Speaker on the topics of Silicon Valley based entrepreneurship and startups, and invited by top corporate executives to speak about how to reinvent yourself as an innovative leader.Featured Publications & Awards:100 Powerful Women of 2020 - Entrepreneur Mag. Arora Women’s Award - Bvlgari 2019The CNN 10 Visionary Women - 201440 over 40 Women to Watch 20••••15 Influential Women by Silicon Valley Business JournalMarie Claire \"20 Women Changing Ratio\"​Forbes Japan - 100 Self Made Women 2019Forbes Japan - 55 women in the world, who is changing the worldHuffington PostSilicon Valley Business JournalSuccess Magazine \"Beyond Lean In - Ari Horie\"Forbes USWall Street Journal, BPKeynote & Other Speaking Engagements:MC for Prime Minister Abe from Japan - 2015SXSW V2V - Las Vegas 2014 (Keynote)SXSW Interactive - Austin 2015 SXSW Edu - Austin 2016Women in Tech - 2016Slush Asia - 2016 NES - Tokyo, Japan 2015 AdTeck - Tokyo, Japan 2015 (Keynote)UpGlobal - Las Vegas 2014 (Keynote) CommuniTech - Canada 2015MediaOcean - New York 2015Slush Asia - Tokyo, Japan 2016Japan USA Innovation Award\'s keynote - Silicon Valley 2016Women Empower Expo - Florida 2017Women@Forbes - Silicon Valley 2017

Experience

1. Founder & CEO

   Women\'s Startup Lab

   Jan 2013 — Present · Menlo Park, CA, US

   Fearless Founder & CEO of Women Startup Lab, in Menlo Park, CA. Our mission is to create the world where women thrive and succeed through innovation and collaboration. In other words, we are dedicated to helping female founded startups kick ass.Silicon Valley based Women Startup Lab is working tireless to trailblazer the path to the Silicon Valley of the future by unleashing the power of women as fearless leaders in the start-up world and accelerating their path to funding and success. Our dynamic community offers valuable insight to women entrepreneurs at all stages as well as those who just want to be a part of this amazing, energetic ecosystem. Our bootcamps and accelerator provide the tools, training and Silicon Valley connections to power companies across the startup life cycle to accelerated success and access to funding. early-stage companies and those with We offer valuable support to female founders of early-stage companies. Women\'s Startup Lab is based upon Ari\'s unique philosophy premised on Hito, the Japanese character for human made up of two people leaning on one another. In other words,\"It takes a village to raise a founder.\" Ari is committed to providing small by design groups of high power founders access to those Silicon Valley influencers committed to guiding women entrepreneurs to success. This is truly the opportunity to connect with and learn from some of Silicon Valley\'s greatest minds.

Education

• California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

  Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Marketing & International Business

  1997

Skills

• Entrepreneurship
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Strategy
• E-Commerce
• Marketing Strategy
• Marketing Communications
• Product Marketing
• Integrated Marketing
• Product Management
• Marketing
• Competitive Analysis
• Start-Ups
• Leadership
• Strategic Partnerships
• Business Development