--ly: multimedia exact executives susan lyne spent more than 40 years in the business.g endeavor to help ,ridge the gender gap in tech as president of an early stage investment fund for women led startups. launched to see if we could take advantage of what is a missed opportunity by a lot of , and invest inld technology startups with at least one female finder. emily: have you found it is a missed opportunity? >> yes. i think it is. i will start by saying that we have seen over 1000 companies since we launched two years ago. the idea that there are not enough women starting companies is a misnomer. additionally, i think the range and the approach female founders have, they are by nature problem solvers. they start with some aspect of work life, home life, that they think needs to be fixed, and they go at it. i think they bring a consumer point of view to the party from the start. they are not sitting in a dorm some office in silicon valley thinking this would be: we felt that. -- would be cool if we felt that. emily: what do you think is unique about the women in tech p

. >> susan lyne, the hill. one thing i have been taking a look at is the transpacific ownership.o the tpp. is obama administration looking at a window to get that ratified. what specifically you are doing on the ground to fight that? how confident are you that you a part ofle to take the agreement? not havea: tpp does the support of the american people. it does not have the support in the house or the senate. we continue to educate members on the ground and our members keep asking and making candidates declare whether they are democratic candidates or republican candidates to declare where they will be and where you'll be in a lame-duck session . we are confident we have the votes to stop it. we don't think it will come up. we will be ready. we are keeping our people in place after election day. so we can continue to mobilize and rally around the issue. fromfollow-up quoting the had aolitico, that yesterday saying become the political conventional wisdom with sanders and trumps propelled by widespread opposition to new trade deals come of the 28 house democrats who were targeted