Wendy Tan-White, Moonfruit: Ups & Downs of Fund Raising

Video interview with Wendy Tan-White, Founder of Moonfruit, a simple and powerful DIY website builder for SMB’s who expect better design tools to produce better designed sites. Moonfruit was founded in 1999 and recently raised $2.25m from Stephens (US) in Sept 2010 for accelerated international growth, and backing from Silicon Valley-based 500 Startups. She is a 500 Startups mentor and Astia advisor.  Wendy was Marketing Director of Gandi Group, help start-up Zopa.com – first European P2P lending site and Egg.com – first UK internet bank. She sold her soul to Arthur Andersen after getting a BEng Computer Science from Imperial College, London. Wendy’s also a designer for fun and has a MA in Smart Textiles from Central St Martins. She lives in London with her husband and their 6 yr old son and 3 yr old daughter.  Wendy was awarded CWT Everywoman’s Entrepreneur of the Year for 2011. You can find Wendy on Twitter @wendytanwhite

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