Leanne is the Co-Founder of She Loves Tech, the world’s largest startup competition and accelerator program for women-led tech startups. Since its founding in 2015, it operates in 72 countries and 13,000+ startups have joined She Loves Tech. She Loves Tech builds an ecosystem for entrepreneurship and tech that creates opportunities for women and closes the gender gap in funding. She Loves Tech aims to unlock USD1b in funding for its startups by 2030.
In 2019, Leanne was selected as an Obama Leader (Asia Pacific) and was awarded the Booking.com’s Tech Playmaker of the year award and Champion of Change award 2020. Leanne was most recently awarded with the Woman of the Year special prize in Monaco by Princess Charlene and Prince Albert II.