The VCs for Women List
If I were a woman founder, I'd seek out VCs that actively were looking for me. In an effort to help you, here's some recent resources on VCs that fund women-founded/led companies.
- Beta Boom's List
- Sifted's Survey of Female Founder Friendly VCs in Europe
- Hunt Club's list of Top Female VCs
- Nixon Gwilt's List of Funds and Accelerators for Womxn
- Pitchbook's 81 Female Founders and Investors to Know (with links to their LinkedIn profiles)
The list below highlights some of my favorites based on their activity level, mission, LPs and GPs:
- Avestria Ventures - Current Fund Size - unknown; Dry Powder - unknown; AUM - unknown; Seed through growth; Investment focus: women's health and female-led life science ventures; femtech
- BBG Ventures - Current Fund Size - $50M; Dry Powder - $30M; AUM - $70M; Seed and Early Stage; Top three co-investors: ABLE Partners; BAM Ventures; Female Founders Fund
- Chingona Ventures - Current Fund Size - $52M; Dry Powder - $43M; AUM - $6M; Seed and Early Stage; Top three co-investors: Gaingels, Kapor Capital, Portfolia; LP includes Pivotal Ventures (family office)
- Cleo Capital - Current Fund Size - $20M; Dry Powder - $14.8M; Seed through Growth Stage; Top three co-investors: Gaingels, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Fearless Fund - Current Fund Size - unknown; Dry Powder - $20M; AUM - unknown; Early Stage; Invests in BIWoC-led companies
- Female Founders Fund - Current Fund Size - $57M; Dry Powder - $47M; AUM - $95M; Seed Stage; Top three co-investors: Gingerbread, Alumni Ventures, BBG Ventures; LP includes Pivotal Ventures (family office)
- Gaingels - Syndicate of LGBTQ+/Allies; Seed/Growth; Top four co-investors: 10X Capital, Sand Hill Ventures, Calm Ventures, Alumni Ventures
- GingerBread Capital - Current Fund Size - unknown; Dry Powder - unknown; AUM - unknown; Early state to Series C; Top three co-investors: Alumni Ventures, Human Ventures, Female Founders Fund
- H/L Ventures - Venture Studio and Venture Fund; Current Fund Size - $17M; Dry Powder - $12M; AUM - unknown; Seed to Growth Stage; Invests in mission-driven startups
- January Ventures - Current Fund Size - unknown; Dry Powder - $21M; AUM - unknown; Early Stage; Top three co-investors: Alumni Ventures, Precursor Ventures, AlleyCorp
- Plum Alley - Current Fund Size - unknown; Dry Powder - unknowns; AUM - $60M; Early Stage; Top co-investor: GingerBread Capital
- Rethink Capital Partners - Current Fund Size - unknown; Dry Powder - $305M; AUM - $580M; Early Stage; Top three co-investors: Reach Capital, Strada Education Network, Bisk Ventures; Impact investment arm of Seavest Investment Group - Rethink Education, Rethink Impact, Rethink Food and Rethink Community
- WOCStar Fund - Current Fund Size - unknown; Dry Powder - $10M; AUM - unknown; Seed Stage; Top co-investor: Gaingels
In solidarity.
Shaheen