What it takes to raise a Seed
Surbhi Rathore, CEO of Rammer.ai answers questions about her Seed round. And while we’re on the topic, what exactly is a Seed round?
Updated Female Founder Spreadsheet
The YTD public spreadsheet is new and improved with data pulled from Crunchbase, Fortune Term Sheet and readers like you. Do play along and keep us posted on announcements.
Summer Female Founder Funding Update
I’ll be updating this page over the coming week to reflect all investments for the past 7 weeks. Meanwhile, Series A raises for Figure8 and Herbivore Botanicals. Series B for Hipcamp. Seed round for Genneve.
Weekly Female Founder Funding Update
Seven fundings, one exit and a new fund. Series A raises for Remedy, DotLab, Chief and Anomalie. Series B for Genome Medical. Seed rounds for Homeroom and Miss Grass. SheWorx gets acquired. And Vice Ventures raises a fund for sinful companies.
Weekly Female Founder Funding Update
Five seed rounds and one Series A this week for Athena Security, Kango, Mixlab, Needslist, Novi, and Part & Parcel. Plus The RealReal files for IPO.
Weekly Female Founder Funding Update
A first-time foray into femtech for Forerunner, and a big exit for a female-led tech company with a service fueling Fortnite’s dominance. Alliteration!
Weekly Female Founder Funding Updates
Two women make inroads into traditionally male based industries—global money transfers and marketing SaaS.
Weekly Female Founder Funding Update
MOD Pizza piles on $160M to grow internationally, Modsy with a Series C (keep eyes on rock star CEO, Shanna Tellerman), another ecomm with a sex tech focus and a much needed platform for finding a therapist.
Weekly Female Founder Funding Update: More Unicorns
Away and Nextdoor join the unicornsphere, hauling in a combined $223 million. Plus two more raises in health and wellness and women’s lifestyle brands.
Weekly Female Founder Funding Update
Vice Media takes on $250M in debt financing under their new CEO, another femtech company joins the VC-funded club, and a genomics data platform reels a healthy seed round from big life-sciences investors.
Techstars Accelerator
Learn more about Techstars Accelerator program and meet two female-identifying CEOs from the 2019 Seattle program.
Weekly Female Founder Funding Update
Direct-to-consumer jewelry brand Mejuri lands a Series B, child transpo logistics platform Zum adds on to their Series C, Serena Williams launches a fund, and Crunchbase reports on Q1 venture female fundings (the numbers haven’t changed).
Weekly Female Founder Funding Update
The investments flow into two health and wellness companies, a childcare platform and a beloved Seattle brick-and-mortar children’s clothing reseller going online.
Weekly Female Founder Funding Update
Three tech startups helmed by women, all focused on infrastructure. BentoBox and Shopback support e-commerce, and HiMama simplifies life for day-care providers.
Weekly Female Founder Funding Update
Four of the six companies raising venture capital this past week were femtech. Two of those, Blume and Cora, are subscription tampon-and-pad deliver services. Are the dudes finally seeing that there’s money in menstruation?
Weekly Female Founder Funding Update
Ellevest and Tinkergarten raise Series A and B rounds. Read the star-studded, gender-diverse investor list behind both entities.
Weekly Female Founder Funding Update
Pow POW!!! Two unicorns birthed in a $264,000,000 week. Here’s the scoop on the 5 female led companies in the health, wellness and e-commerce industries.
Weekly Female Founder Funding Update
We raised $22.5 million last week in the crypto, job services, coding, health/wellness and media/entertainment industries.
Weekly Female Founder Funding Update
The $105 million raised from March 4-11, and the other $325 million we missed since the start of 2019.