2021: Funding #womenswork

Expanding the funding opportunity to include ALL women

It’s easy to find stories about VC funding for certain kinds of women led businesses.

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Sometimes it’s growing…

New data shows the number of women-led VC funds is exploding. In an industry known for its dearth of women, a survey reveals a bright spot in the push for gender equity.

…and two months later, it’s dropping.

Global venture funding to female-founded companies fell significantly in 2020, according to Crunchbase data.

What’s consistent is that the investment in women-led companies rarely rises above 2.7% of total investment dollars.

To see how broken it is, look at the statistics. While women start companies at twice the rate of men, female-founded companies get only 13 percent of the total angel financing available. According to a study by First Round Capital, companies with a woman on the founding team outperform their all-male peers by 63 percent. But when it comes to venture capital — often the speediest route to building a fast-growth company — women simply aren’t getting funded. Female CEOs get only 2.7 percent of all venture funding, while women of color…