June 27, 2025

women in business

Finance

Finance & Commerce announces Empowering Women awards

Listen to this article Finance & Commerce’s third annual Empowering Women awards puts a spotlight on companies and organizations that have demonstrated concrete efforts to support women in business across Minnesota. These businesses span all industries and have a proven track record of elevating women to achieve success at all levels. From creating inclusive workplaces

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Investors

Investors Called Her Business A ‘Hobby.’ She’s Built It To Nearly $100 Million

Olivia Landau started The Clear Cut as a blog to educate her friends and family. The Clear Cut “My mom always told me I would be a terrible entrepreneur,” laughs The Clear Cut founder Olivia Landau. In our conversation on The Failure Factor podcast, she explained how she was told she’d be “an amazing employee”

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Investors

Investors Called Her Business A “Hobby.” She Built It To $100 Million

Olivia Landau started The Clear Cut as a blog to educate her friends and family. The Clear Cut “My mom always told me I would be a terrible entrepreneur,” laughs The Clear Cut founder Olivia Landau. In our conversation on The Failure Factor podcast, she explained how she was told she’d be “an amazing employee”

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Banking

Lisa Berger and Ilaria Rawlins Open a New Type of Bank

The founders of women-owned Fortuna Bank aim to help local business owners grow and thrive. Lisa Berger and Ilaria Rawlins had experienced plenty of success in their careers, but a novel idea to start a women-owned bank was an opportunity they couldn’t turn down. Berger and Rawlins met in 2006, when Berger—at the time a

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