As we kick off our fifth USA Trade Mission we thought you would love for you to meet the women founders joining AwakenHub and AwakenAngels this year.

13 women, 12 women founded companies from across Ireland, North and South, will be engaging in a week of highly curated events with investors, prospective partners and interested ecosystem players.

Joining Mary McKenna, Clare McGee, Sinead Crowley, Denise McQuaid, Maria McKeever, Mary Ann Pierce are: Claire Nixon, Emma Meehan, Orla Connaughton, Shannon Beattie, Tonya Kidd-Beggs, Orla Snook O'Carroll, Anna Snook O'Carroll, Victoria Finlay, Rachel McMullin, Mary Blake, Sinead Asple and Lisa McLaughlin.