female entrepreneur
E-Commerce
Venture Capital
Depending on how you count them, Yiftee is Donna’s 3rd or 19th start-up. She started her tech career as a product manager at Sun Microsystems, progressed to CMO where she took a startup from inception through IPO, then went into Venture Capital. After 9 years in VC, she went back to her entrepreneurial roots and became CEO of another startup, which she sold 3 years later and founded her current company, Yiftee. She enjoys teaching entrepreneurship to engineers and entrepreneurs at Stanford University and is a frequent public speaker. She was named one of the 2014 Top 10 Women to Watch in Tech by Inc. Magazine. Donna holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering with Distinction from Stanford University and a Harvard MBA.