The entrepreneurs on Inc.’s second annual Female Founders 100 list have transformed every major industry in America. Meet the boundless dreamers making the biggest difference in 2019.

Tonight, thousands of kids will go to sleep in loving households thanks to our guest Felica Curcuru. Felicia’s company, Binti, replaces mountains of paperwork with streamlined software and helps state agencies recruit and approve foster parents more quickly.

When San Francisco asked Nath to help the county find more people willing to be foster parents, he introduced the Human Services Agency to Felicia Curcuru, a former McKinsey analyst who was trying to use tech to help improve the private adoption process.

The GovTech 100 is an annual list compiled and published by Government Technology as a compendium of 100 companies focused on, making a difference in, and selling to state and local government agencies across the United States. In 2019, as detailed in this feature-length story, the gov tech market brought bigger deals, more investment, new companies

We have a nationwide shortage of foster families and everyone is interested in increasing this number. At Binti, we work with more than 40 agencies across the country, who serve over 40,000 children in care. In the past year alone, we’ve helped our agencies process more than 10,000 inquiries from families interested in fostering children.