# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donna-auguste
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:26:58.940Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donna-auguste"
name: "Donna Auguste"
slug: "donna-auguste"
description: "Donna Auguste is an African-American businesswoman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. She was the co-founder, along with colleague John Meier, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Freshwater Software from 1996 to 2000. Prior to founding Freshwater Software, Auguste was a senior engineering manager at Apple Computer who helped to coordinate the development of the Newton personal digital assistant (PDA). Additionally, she was the senior director for US West Advanced Technologies, whereabouts she met John Meier, and began seriously thinking about the creation of Freshwater Software."
tagline: "African-American businesswoman, entrepreneur, philanthropist and engineer"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1958"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.52
  momentum:             15.60344827586207
  historical:           7.071094666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ڈونا آگسٹ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%82%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A"
    title: "دونا أوقستي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AC%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%89"
    title: "دونا اوجستى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A1%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%97%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F"
    title: "ডোনা অগাস্ট"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Auguste"
    title: "Donna Auguste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Auguste"
    title: "Donna Auguste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Auguste"
    title: "Donna Auguste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Auguste"
    title: "Donna Auguste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Donna_Auguste"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10942"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump