Founder Journey: Funding, Community & Never Giving Up

Rebecca Clyde is a public speaker, LatinX founder, and entrepreneur. She is the co-founder and CEO of Botco.ai, a company that helps healthcare providers improve their engagement with patients through a HIPAA-compliant, AI-powered chat solution. She is a highly-regarded marketing leader and public speaker who has received several accolades. In 2020, she was included in the List of Most Influential Women in Arizona, while she was named the “Most Admired Leader” by the Phoenix Business Journal in 2018. In addition to her work leading Botco.ai, Rebecca serves as Board Member for Mentors International, an organization that seeks to end generational poverty through mentoring and vocational training.

Rebecca joins me today to share her journey as a woman of color in entrepreneurship and technology. She describes her beginnings in the tech industry and explains how communities like Girls in Tech allowed her to connect with her co-founder. She shares her vision for healthcare around the world and discusses how Botco.ai seeks to transform the way the healthcare industry serves consumers for the better. She also highlights the different challenges women face in venture capitalism and underscores the power of believing in your idea.

“It’s all about creating a space where people can come together, collaborate, share ideas, and grow and mentor each other. That’s how the magic happens.” - Rebecca Clyde

This week on Girls in Tech:

• How Rebecca’s childhood upbringing gave her an appreciation for discovery and curiosity
• Her journey in tech and her road to becoming the co-founder of Botco.ai
• How Rebecca took her business training from college and applied it to the engineering realm
• A meeting of minds and how Girls in Tech allowed Rebecca to connect with her future co-founder
• The Botco.ai origin story and how they serve the healthcare industry
• Rebecca’s passion for AI and what she envisions for healthcare and the world
• How AI can impact healthcare and how the tech industry can help consumers be more comfortable with using it
• The “snowball” effect in AI and technology and the difference between companies in the “pre-seed” and “seed” stages
• The consumerization of healthcare and how COVID-19 forced the industry to adopt technology
• The double standards Rebecca faced in the venture capital community and the challenges of being a Latinx female founder in the tech industry
• Rebecca’s advice for other founders at the early stages of their businesses
• The power of cultivating a community

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• ai on Facebook
• ai on Twitter
• Rebecca Clyde on LinkedIn

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