| Date | Title | Description |
| 29.05.2026 | Fields Good: $1.8 Million Raised For Functional Cookie Brand Launch | Fields Good, a new functional cookie brand founded by Ashley Fields, daughter of Mrs. Fields founder Debbi Fields, and Kim Anderson, has officially launched with three ready-to-eat cookies designed to support focus, protein intake, and slee... |
| 28.05.2026 | Fields Good: $1.8 Million Raised For Functional Cookie Brand | Fields Good, a new functional cookie brand founded by Ashley Fields, daughter of Mrs. Fields founder Debbi Fields, and Kim Anderson, announced its launch alongside a $1.8 million pre-seed funding round led by Female Founders Fund. The compa... |
| 27.05.2026 | Fields Good Raises $1.8M in Pre-Seed Funding | Fields Good, an Austin, TX-based cookie brand, raised $1.8M in Pre-Seed funding.
The round was led by Female Founders Fund.
The company intends to use the funds to scale its direct-to-consumer business, expand into TikTok Shop and Amazon, a... |
| 11.03.2026 | Taya: $5 Million Raised For AI Jewelry Designed To Capture Personal Thoughts | Taya, a startup developing AI-powered jewelry focused on intentional voice capture, announced it has raised $5 million in seed funding. The round was led by MaC Venture Capital and Female Founders Fund, with participation from a16z speedrun... |
| 11.03.2026 | Taya Raises $5M in Seed Funding | Taya, a San Francisco, CA-based developer of jewelry‑first AI hardware, raised $5m in seed funding.
The round was led by MaC Venture Capital and Female Founders Fund, with participation from a16z speedrun.
Founded by Stanford‑trained design... |
| 16.06.2024 | Rising Team Secures $8 Million in Series A Funding to Revolutionize Team Performance | Rising Team, a Menlo Park-based team performance platform provider, recently closed an impressive $8 million Series A funding round. Led by Zeal Capital Partners and supported by previous investors like Peterson Ventures, Roble Ventures, Fe... |
| 15.06.2024 | Rising Team Raises $8 Million To Advance Employee Engagement Platform | Rising Team, an industry-leading team performance platform, announced the completion of its Series A funding of $8 million. This funding round was led by Zeal Capital Partners alongside previous investors including Peterson Ventures, Roble ... |
| 27.10.2023 | 「働く男女の更年期症状に関する意識調査」を実施 | ＮＴＴコム オンライン・マーケティング・ソリューション株式会社（本社：東京都品川区、代表取締役社長：塚本良江）は、株式会社ＮＴＴデータ経営研究所（本社：東京都千代田区、代表取締役社長：山口 重樹）と共同で「ＮＴＴコム リサーチ」登録モニターを対象に「働く男女の更年期症状に関する意識調査」（以下 本調査）を実施しました。
本調査では、更年期症状による仕事への影響が社会課題として認識され始めていることを背景に40歳代から70歳代までの働く男女を対象に更年期症状・障害に関する意識... |
| 21.09.2023 | 7 global investors discuss African tech post-Kauffman Fellows’ first summit on the continent | In 2020, Kauffman Fellows (KF), a prominent venture education program renowned for its extensive and well-established network of VCs, made a concerted effort to enhance the diversity within its board. The program, a well-established resourc... |
| 17.06.2023 | The new CEO of All Raise wants to change the narrative around women founders and investors | Paige Hendrix Buckner is the new CEO of All Raise, a nonprofit founded in 2017 that supports women founders and investors. (All Raise Photo)
The percentage of venture capital dollars going to startups led by only female founders hasn’t surp... |
| 13.03.2023 | Il mercato del Venture Capital a febbraio 2023 | Come è andato il mercato del Venture Capital a febbraio 2023? Partiamo subito da qualche dato. Gli investimenti in VC (venture capital) in Europa a febbraio 2023 ammontano a 423 milioni di euro, registrando una leggera flessione rispetto ai... |
| 13.01.2023 | Oula Rakes in $19.1M for Hybrid Maternity Clinic | Hybrid maternity clinic Oula announced Thursday that it secured $19.1 million in Series A funding, which will allow the company to boost its full-service pregnancy care.
New York City-based Oula was founded by Adrianne Nickerson and Elaine ... |
| 10.12.2021 | The top 15 VCs focused on female founders | Investments into companies started by women exploded in 2021, reaching over $30B for the first time
Companies with female founders have notoriously had a tough time raising funding in Silicon Valley. Whatever you want to chalk that up to, b... |
| 13.07.2021 | Goldman Sachs : rsquo; Launch With GS Initiative Announces Investment in Female Founders Fund | + more Goldman Sachs' Launch With GS Initiative Announces Investment in Female Founders Fund
NEW YORK, July 13, 2021 - Goldman Sachs' Launch With GS initiative today announced an investment in Female Founders Fund (FFF), an early-stage fund... |
| 13.07.2021 | Female Founders Fund closes third fund with $57M for female founders | Female Founders Fund announced Tuesday the closing of its Fund III after raising $57 million to create what the seven-year-old New York-based early-stage fund considers “the largest fund for seed capital specifically for female founders.”
T... |
| 17.06.2021 | Kindra Raises Awareness About Menopause — and It Just Raised $4.5 Million | There's such a stigma around menopause that even doctors misdiagnosed Catherine Balsam-Schwaber's pre-menopausal symptoms.
The CEO of Kindra — a Los Angeles-based menopause wellness brand that just closed a $4.5 million seed funding round —... |
| 04.05.2021 | The doctor behind ‘The Vagina Bible’ wrote a new book on menopause, and she says she’s skeptical of the startups targeting middle-aged women | Dr. Jen Gunter in 2019. Peacock Alley Entertainment
Gynecologist Jen Gunter’s new book debunks myths about menopause.
Gunter said most startups that are trying to tackle menopause aren’t selling anything new.
Her expert advice for those app... |
| 09.12.2020 | Biggest Drop in Venture Funding in a Decade for Female Founders in LA | The pandemic has paused a substantial amount of venture activity for women entrepreneurs in Los Angeles. This year is on track to record the sharpest drop in investment in female-led startups in nearly a decade.
Female-founded companies in ... |
| 30.10.2020 | Latina Founder, Babba Rivera, Raises $1 Million Pre-Seed For Her New Brand Ceremonia | Babba Rivera, founder of Ceremonia. Alec Kugler |
| 26.10.2020 | Female Founders Fund’s Anu Duggal On Sourcing Deals During Covid And Investing In Founders She Never Met IRL | Anu Duggal, founding partner of Female Founders FundYumi Matsuo |
| 09.10.2020 | Sexual Wellness App Kama Raises $3 Million In Seed Funding To Democratize Access To Sex Therapy | Kama's sexual wellness appKama |
| 25.08.2020 | A therapy startup set to launch in person in March pivoted online in one week and went on to land $6 million in funding, and now it's looking to reinvent mental-health care as people grapple with the ... | Ariela Safira. Ariela Safira This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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Ariela Safira hoped to launch Real, her therapy startup, in March with a brick-and-mortar studio in... |
| 14.08.2020 | Extra Crunch Live: Join Anu Duggal for a live Q&A on August 20 at 11am PT/2pm ET | Rent the Runway and Glossier became unicorns within the same week in June 2019. That same year, only 2.7% of venture capital dollars went toward female-founded companies.
Silicon Valley’s disconnect between the monetary success of female-fo... |
| 12.08.2020 | Como incluir mais mulheres no ecossistema de startups? | * Por Itali Collini
De acordo com o BID (Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento), se nós conseguíssemos igualar a participação de homens e mulheres no mercado de trabalho da América Latina, o PIB regional aumentaria em 16%. Por outro lado,... |
| 09.06.2020 | If you’re not investing in diverse founders, you’re a bad investor | BLCK VC Contributor
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We won’t sit here as we have for so many years with strong faces and encouraging words and preten... |
| 13.11.2019 | A $157M Fundraise for Guild Education Births Edtech’s Newest Unicorn | The education technology industry has given birth to its newest unicorn, one that wants to connect employees at Fortune 1000 corporations to educational programs and further their careers—all while helping higher-ed institutions stay in bus... |
| 24.09.2019 | SoftBank's investment strategy is under fire amid WeWork's bungled IPO. Here's who is in charge at the world's largest tech investor. | SoftBank Group Corp. chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
SoftBank's Vision Fund is the world's largest tech investor and has backed companies like Uber, WeWork, and Ola.
But investor skepticism around some of its investme... |
| 09.09.2019 | NYC, a Top Global Ecosystem for Women-Led Startups | New York City is known for a lot of things; The Yankees, Empire State Building, Broadway, pizza and for being a melting pot of different cultures around the world. It’s no surprise that NYC has a diverse startup scene as well. According to ... |
| 10.06.2019 | What top VCs look for in women’s fertility startups | A number of promising women’s health tech companies have popped up in the last few years, from fertility apps to ovulation bracelets — even Apple has jumped into the subject with the addition of period tracking built into the latest edition... |
| 26.03.2019 | 1,000 female VCs are building the world’s largest self-reported directory | Venture funding in female-founded businesses has remained painfully stagnant at only 2.2 percent for two years in a row. Insiders expect that figure to begin trending upwards, albeit slowly.
A new survey of female founders reveals that a me... |
| 26.03.2019 | 1,000 female VCs are building the world’s largest self-reported directory | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Venture funding in female-founded businesses has ... |
| 14.02.2019 | Term Sheet — Thursday, February 14 | THE KEY TO A BETTER PARTNERSHIP
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We asked a number of venture inv... |
| 18.10.2018 | Amplifyher Ventures launches to fund startups led by women | Amplifyher Ventures is a new firm looking to invest in female founders.
Amplifyher was created by Tricia Black, Facebook’s former vice president of advertising sales. Since her time at Facebook (where she was the seventh employee), Black ha... |
| 18.09.2018 | Here are more than 50 women VCs and angel investors backing startups in Seattle and Portland | Studies show that women-led startups outperform their male counterparts in revenue. Other research indicates that companies with more gender diversity generate better financial returns. Yet less than 3 percent of venture capital dollars wen... |
| 12.09.2018 | Female Founders Alliance reveals 8 startups in new ‘Ready Set Raise’ accelerator program | Female Founders Alliance CEO Leslie Feinzaig speaks at the GeekWire Summit 2017. (Photo by Dan DeLong for GeekWire)
Female Founders Alliance today announced the eight companies participating in its inaugural Ready Set Raise program designed... |
| 26.07.2018 | Microsoft VC arm M12 announces $4 million female founders competition | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Microsoft has announced a new competition designed to support funding for female-lend enterprise technology startups.
M12, Microsoft’s ... |
| 26.07.2018 | Microsoft VC arm M12 announces $4 million female founders competition | Microsoft has announced a new competition designed to support funding for female-lend enterprise technology startups.
M12, Microsoft’s venture capital (VC) arm that rebranded from Microsoft Ventures a few months back, has partnered with Eur... |
| 11.07.2018 | Female Founders Alliance unveils immersive ‘Ready Set Raise’ program to help women land startup investments | Startup entrepreneur Leslie Feinzaig, Female Founders Alliance CEO and founder, left, at a recent event held in Seattle by the organization to connect its members with media representatives. (Female Founders Alliance Photo)
Female Founders ... |
| 23.05.2018 | Female Founders Fund Partners Discuss Fundraising, Melinda Gates, and Startup Diversity | Anu Duggal founded Female Founders Fund (F3) back in 2014 when the venture landscape looked much different. She was an entrepreneur-turned-investor who had just sold her company and was thinking about her next move.
“When I looked around, I... |
| 17.05.2018 | How to Get Venture Capital Funding for a Startup If You're Not a White Dude | The first $600,000 came easily for Arum Kang, CEO of the dating site Coffee Meets Bagel. “We were able to raise it pretty quickly and it came without too much trouble,” she says of the company’s initial seed funding in 2012. But when the Ko... |
| 10.05.2018 | Female Founders Fund Closed Second VC Fund, at $27M | Female Founders Fund, a NYC-based seed stage venture capital firm that invests in female-founded companies, closed its second fund, at $27m.
The fund will focus on leading and co-leading investments in female-founded tech companies in the e... |
| 09.05.2018 | Some of the top female founders in the U.S. are backing the latest Female Founders Fund | Roughly five years after the launch of its first fund in 2013, Female Founders Fund (F3) has closed on $27 million for its latest seed fund — backed by some of the startup world’s top women entrepreneurs and investors.
Backed by a clutch of... |
| 09.05.2018 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, May 9 | 5 Qs WITH A DEALMAKER
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| 13.11.2017 | Female VCs fight gender gap via ‘Office Hours’ mentoring program | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Over the past few months, a group of female ventu... |
| 13.11.2017 | Female VCs fight gender gap via ‘Office Hours’ mentoring program | Over the past few months, a group of female venture capitalists have been getting together to figure out what they can do to coach and support female founders in Silicon Valley. Today, the VCs unveiled a website where entrepreneurs can appl... |
| 31.10.2017 | Reaction Commerce raises $8.5 million for a new soup-to-nuts e-commerce software | Sara Hicks and Aaron Judd, the two co-founders of Santa Monica, Calif.-based Reaction Commerce, didn’t set out to build a new e-commerce management software toolkit when they crossed paths at Science, the LA-based venture studio.
Instead, t... |
| 28.07.2017 | Meet Sutian Dong, Partner at Female Founders Fund | Female Founders Fund makes 6 to 8 investments a year, with $500,000 initial checks
Venture capital used to be a cottage industry, with very few investing in tomorrow's products and services. Oh how times have changed. While there are more s... |
| 13.03.2017 | The Fem-preneurs Of Crowdfunding: Did the JOBS Act Change the Venture Landscape for Female Entrepreneurs Forever? Let’s Hope So! | “Them that’s got shall get / Them that’s not shall lose / So the Bible said”… and is it still news?
Raising significant amounts of capital has never been easy for anyone. For some, it has been a higher hurdle than for others. The American f... |
| 17.02.2017 | How This Tampon Company Overcame Investor Knowledge Gaps and Raised $11.2 Million | February 17, 2017 5 min read
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As a female founder of LOLA, a venture capital-backed feminine care brand, the question I get asked most often is about fundraising -- what’s it lik... |
| 09.01.2017 | A Male VC Once Called Rent the Runway’s Pitch ‘Adorable’ | Rent the Runway might have raised a $60-million funding round last month, but cash didn’t always flow to the female-founded company.
Speaking to Recode‘s Kara Swisher on the “Recode Decode” podcast, the clothing rental startup’s CEO Jennife... |
| 20.12.2016 | 3 Tips for Female Entrepreneurs to Get VC Funding | Raising the first round of venture capital is not an easy job for anyone. But stats show that raising money is especially difficult for female entrepreneurs. According to Women Who Tech, only 7 percent of investor money “goes to women-led s... |
| 23.06.2016 | Venture Capital Firm Female Founders Fund to Raise $30M Second Fund | NYC-based female focused venture capital firm Female Founders Fund is to raise its second fund.
According to a regulatory form filed with the SEC, the firm is seeking to raise $30m for Female Founders Fund II, L.P. The document lists foundi... |
| 01.06.2016 | Why Aren’t Women-Led Startups Getting VC Funding? | In the male-dominated venture capital industry, it can be hard for women to find the support that they need. But when ti comes to female entrepreneurs and VC funding, what is at the core of this support and how can the industry change it?Fu... |
| 01.06.2016 | Why Aren’t Women-Led Startups Getting VC Funding? | In the male-dominated venture capital industry, it can be hard for women to find the support that they need. But when ti comes to female entrepreneurs and VC funding, what is at the core of this support and how can the industry change it? F... |
| 08.03.2016 | Startupbootcamp’s Female MDs Talk Tech, Female Founders & International Women’s Day | Gender diversity within tech has been at the centre of attention and debate. And rightly so.
Despite the fact that technology, and startups, are leading innovation in the way we live, work and socialise, they have been slow to tackle impor... |
| 02.03.2016 | The growing trend of firms investing only in women founders | They include BBG Ventures, BELLE Capital and Golden Seeds
For the last year or so, Vator has been running a weekly column where we highlight a different early stage venture capitalists. One thing that has been eye opening to me has been how... |
| 29.01.2016 |
Report: Los Angeles, New York Better For Female Founders
| A report, issued earlier this week by venture firm the Female Founders Fund, says that Los Angeles, and New York, are better markets than Silicon Valley to find funding for female founders. According to the fund, it tallied up Series A inve... |
| 25.01.2016 | Female founders should look to NY and LA for Series A money | The Bay Area saw a 30% decline in women-led companies raising Series A, while NY held firm
Despite seeing a severe slowdown in the last quarter, 2015 was still a really big year for venture capital, with the second highest amount invested i... |
| 13.11.2015 | Daily funding roundup - November 13, 2015 | White Star Capital closed $70M funding; GetYourGuide bagged $50M; Zola raised $10M
WriteLab, a browser-based tool that provides feedback on writing, has raised $2 million in a series A round led by Reach Capital with participation from Kapo... |
| 15.06.2015 | Daily funding roundup - June 15, 2015 | Milestone Pharmaceuticals landed $17M; Lavu secured $15M; Scancam snapped $500K
Anti-fuel theft startup Scancam snapped up $500,000 in seed funding in order to roll out its technology across Australia. The Perth-based company manufactures a... |
| 10.04.2015 | A telemedicine service for women raises $2.2M seed funding | It also quoted Ryder: “We found a particularly strong need around prenatal and postpartum care, as well as childcare or pulling long hours at the office…That’s why we’ve worked with so many different types of practitioners to create a produ... |
| 30.01.2015 | Female Startup Founders are Starting to Flourish, At Last | The tech industry as a whole is overwhelmingly male, and when it comes to startups run by women, the numbers are especially disheartening: According to a recent report from Babson College's Diana Project, only 2.7 percent of U.S. companies ... |
| 30.01.2015 | Female Founders Fare Much Better In 2014 | Editor’s Note: Christine Magee is an editor for CrunchBase.
In a place where having a penis is referred to as the sine qua non of the startup founder, it’s easy to jump on the pessimism bandwagon and overlook any gradual momentum for women ... |
| 13.11.2014 | Loverly Adds Smarter Search And Picks Up $3.5 Million In Series A Funding | Wedding planning marketplace Loverly has now officially announced a raise of $3.5 million in Series A funding. We reported that talks were in the $2.5 million range last April. It has since added more investors, bumping it up another millio... |
| 03.10.2014 | Viyet raises $1.5M for online used furniture boutique | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
As you can see from the increasing number of onli... |
| 03.10.2014 | Viyet raises $1.5M for online used furniture boutique | As you can see from the increasing number of online markets for design-heavy furniture and home decor, “design porn” is a thing. But much of the merchandise you see from shi-shi foo-foo designers at sites like Anthropologie is ridiculously ... |
| - | How to build a pitch deck that will wow investors, featuring a slide-by-slide breakdown of the decks a founder used to raise $448 million | Keep your pitch deck simple, and include the information that’s most relevant to each investor. 10'000 Hours/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
VC funding droppe... |
| - | This CEO was misdiagnosed with fibromyalgia when it was menopause. Now her startup hopes to create a $600 billion menopause market, backed by female VCs. | Kindra CEO Catherine Balsam-Schwaber Courtesy of Catherine Balsam-Schwaber This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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Menopause startup Kindra raised a $4.5 million seed r... |
| - | Como incluir mais mulheres no ecossistema de startups? | * Por Itali Collini
De acordo com o BID (Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento), se nós conseguíssemos igualar a participação de homens e mulheres no mercado de trabalho da América Latina, o PIB regional aumentaria em 16%. Por outro lado,... |
| - | Here are 49 Black women who raised $1 million or more in VC funding last year | Ami Colé founder Diarrha N'Diaye Katherine Pekala This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Fewer than 200 Black women have ever raised $1 million or more in venture-capital funds.
... |
| - | Two under-30s left their jobs at JPMorgan and launched Glow Labs, a loyalty rewards solution for blockchain companies. Check out the 12-page pitch deck used to raise $4.15 million from investors inclu... | Glow Labs Co-CEO's and co-founder's Annie Reardon, on the left, and Renee Russo, on the right Glow Labs This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Glow Labs, a provider of loyalty re... |
| - | Female Founders Fund closes $57 million funding round, backers include Goldman Sachs and Melinda French Gates | Female Founders Fund, an early-stage venture fund that invests in female-founded companies, announced today that it has just closed on its third round of funding for $57 million, bringing its total amount of assets under management to more ... |
| - | 13 venture capitalists to know who specialize in investing in beauty startups | Verity Ventures; Cult Capital; Imaginary Ventures; Sugar Capital; Fab Ventures; Anna Kim/Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Beauty companies raised almost $3 billion ... |
| - | The A Round and Female Founders: A Quantitative View | 441SHARES
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Over the past couple of years, the start-up industry has been buzzing about the Series A round. Seed-focused venture funds and seed investments have grown in number, but the A round remains an elusive and ... |
| - | A telemedicine service for women raises $2.2M seed funding | Anyone that’s eyeballed an app store’s best sellers list for health and wellness knows that fertility apps place fairly high. So a telemedicine startup geared to women’s health seems like a natural progression. Maven, a New York-based busin... |
