Launching the Girl’s Bathroom of the Internet: Emma Bates on Launching Diem

In this episode of She Ventures Forward, Natalie sits down with Emma Bates, co-founder and CEO of Diem, a social search engine built to feel more like the girl’s bathroom at 1am than a Google rabbit hole. Emma shares the origin story of Diem, why traditional search fails women, and how she’s building an alternative front door to the internet. She opens up about raising $5 million, navigating bias in venture capital, and what it takes to be taken seriously as a non-technical female founder in tech