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Jess Gartner: founder of edtech startup Allovue named a ‘Woman to Watch’ in Baltimore

The 26-year-old entrepreneur recently left her job as the director of education at Federal Hill incubator Betamore to manage her own edtech startup full-time.

Jess Gartner.

Jess Gartner is one of 50 “Women to Watch,” according to the Baltimore Sun.
The 26-year-old entrepreneur recently left her job as the director of education at Federal Hill incubator Betamore to manage her own edtech startup, Allovue, full-time. Gartner’s startup, a member of the 2013 cohort of AccelerateBaltimore companies, creates budget-tracking software for public school administrators and principals to better allocate funding for programming and supplies.
Gartner, number 14 in the Sun‘s online photo gallery, was also a co-organizer of this year’s first-ever Rails Girls Baltimore event, unofficially the city’s largest gathering of female coders.
Read the Baltimore Sun Q&A with Gartner.
Also on the Baltimore Sun list:

  • Jennifer Meyer, whom people might know better by her previous name, Jennifer Gunner. (She’s recently married.) Meyer, number 32 in the gallery, is the COO of the Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore.
  • Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is number 44 in the online gallery.
Full disclosure: Betamore cofounder Mike Brenner is a partner with Technically Baltimore, which works on occasion from the Federal Hill incubator.
Companies: Allovue / Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore / Betamore
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