Venture Capital Funds for Women
Halogen Ventures Based in Los Angeles, invests in female-founded consumer tech at the seed and Series A stage. Owner Jesse Draper gained experience dealing with early-stage and later-stage technologies.
The Urban Innovation Fund focuses on entrepreneurs who want to literally shape cities and solve urban challenges. They specialize in startups involving transportation, energy, resources and sustainability, housing, education and workforce, health and public safety, business and financial services, government and civic tech, arts and recreation, and food systems.
Glasswing Ventures : Focusing on companies using AI for enterprise platforms and cybersecurity markets provides funding during the pre-seed and seed stages of a startup.
Fika Ventures Specializes in businesses involving enterprise/B2B/Saas, financial tech, marketplaces, and health IT.
SoGal Ventures invests in consumer tech, enterprise software, and health tech startups looking for funding in the pre-seed to Series A stages. With bases in New York, Singapore, and China.
112Capital focus on “deep-tech” companies, those that like to make strides in AI, AR, robotics, space, and data-driven health technologies. Founders must have a solid grasp of market size and explain what makes their product/service unique.
500 Startups interested in retail, beauty, and fashion innovation solutions. In addition to providing funding for female entrepreneurs, 500 Startups also invests in startups founded by LGBTQ+ and other diverse founders.
Aspect Ventures serves those seeking funding between the seed and late stages. This firm emphasizes providing funds for female entrepreneurs with startups involved in security, digital health, financial, AI, autonomous vehicle mobile technology, Saas, and healthcare technology.
Built By Girls Ventures: likes to support startups with ideas on how technology can make women’s lives “simpler, better, more delightful.” This investor is run by President and Founding Partner Susan Lyne and partner Nisha Dua.
Boulder Food Group Prioritizes companies that focus on food. They are currently involved in the large and growing food categories business.
500 Women: Angel syndicate investing in women founders
79 Studios: A Los Angeles-based startup studio. Instead of teaching women and minorities to succeed in the current paradigm, their goal is to accelerate returns by building a new business ecosystem, tailored to their needs and highlighting their strengths.
Adapt VC: invests in Companies led by women, BIPOC, people ages 50+, and LGBTQ+
Amplifyher Ventures: invests in visionary founders with women in decision-making roles
AngelList: A platform that helps connect startups and investors.
The Artemis Fund: lead seed rounds in disruptive fintech, e-commerce tech, and care-tech companies founded and led by women
Astia: An innovative global not-for-profit organization that propels women’s full participation as entrepreneurs and leaders in high-growth businesses.
Aspect Ventures: emphasizes providing funds for female entrepreneurs with startups involved in security, digital health, financial, AI, autonomous vehicle, Saas, and healthcare technology
Authentic Ventures: We invest primarily in enterprise software companies. Companies leveraging Machine Learning and AI to drive automation in the enterprise are of particular interest. We also invest in FinTech, digital health, deep tech, and selectively in consumer companies.
Avestria Ventures: Seeding women's health and life sciences ventures.
Backstage Capital: A fund investing in diverse founders
BBG Ventures: An early-stage fund focused on consumer internet and mobile startups with at least one female founder
Belle Capital USA: Early-stage angel fund focused on building great companies in under-served capital markets
Beta Boom: invests in pre-seed software startups that are building the future for womxn, Black, Latinx, and other ethnic minority consumers
Brava Investments: We focus on industries where we can add value, that is exploding with growth (beta) and target companies that are developing cutting-edge technology, research & development, and other innovations (including social innovation) to disrupt industries.
Built by Girls: Equipping Young Women to be Leaders in Tech.
Bumble Fund: invests in women founders, especially early-stage companies
Capita3: invests in womxn startup founders transforming the health and healthcare industry
Central Texas Angel Network: Having invested $82.6 million in 142 companies since 2006, Central Texas Angel Network (CTAN) is a significant source of early-stage capital to entrepreneurs from Texas and beyond. 22% of the angel network are women and they have funded multiple women-run companies and are highly receptive to women entrepreneurs.
Chingona Ventures: “The Latino market is one of the most overlooked opportunities in the venture capital and startup community. Currently, very little money goes into fund managers – 0.5% of all VCs are Latinas who raised their own funds and that translates to less than 0.4% of all Latina CEOs who receive VC money,” said founder Samara Mejia Hernandez.
Chloe Capital: seed stage VC that focuses on women-led companies
Core Innovation Capital: Invest in financial products that support upward mobility for the everyday American
Coyote Ventures: invests in early-stage startups in womxn’s health and wellness
Alpaca VC: Early-stage venture capital investors supporting founders who are impacting the future of consumer behavior and daily living
DigitalDX: DigitalDx Ventures is a majority woman-owned impact fund investing in early-stage health technology companies that deliver innovative solutions using artificial intelligence (AI) to better diagnose + treat illness.
DigitalUNdivided: A social enterprise increasing the number of Black and Latino women digital entrepreneurs
Dorm Room Fund: Student-run venture firm that invests in student-run companies
DreamIt Ventures: Designed for startups with revenue or pilots. Focus is on scaling, customers, and capital, not on building your product.
DYVVYD: AI-driven investment fund focusing on diversity and representation
Elevate Capital: invests in underserved entrepreneurs
Emmeline Ventures: Invests in female founders, especially Black female founders.
F Cubed – Female Founders Fund: Invest in e-commerce, media, platforms, advertising, and web-enabled services
Fearless Fund: invests in women of color-led businesses a pre-seed, seed, or series A
Female Founders Fund: invests in womxn-owned B2B, consumer, healthcare, and fintech businesses
First Round Capital: Investing in early-stage startups
Freestyle Capital: Seed-stage investor and advisor for software start-ups
GingerBread Capital: invests in womxn founders and entrepreneurs leading high-growth businesses
Global Invest Her: A global organization that helps women get investor-ready
Golden Seeds: Investment firm that invests angel and venture capital in women entrepreneur-led companies
Google Ventures: Provides seed, venture, and growth-stage funding to companies in all sectors
Graham and Walker Venture Fund: funding tech companies that better how we live, work and coexist
Greycroft Partners: A Venture Capital firm that focuses on long-term relationships between investors and entrepreneurs
Harlem Capital: focuses on underrepresented-led startups
Halogen Ventures: An early-stage venture fund focused on female-founded consumer technologies
HearstLab: provides cash investment and services to early-stage women-led tech-enabled startups in North America and Europe
The Helm: investing in Climate tech, womxn’s health, and fintech/web3
How Women Invest: invests in healthcare, analytics, communities
Hypatia Capital: private equity firm focused on female founders
Intel Capital Diversity Fund: Intel’s diversity initiative ensures that people from a wide variety of backgrounds can access business development programs, etc.
January Ventures: $25-150k investments looking to invest in that outside of entrepreneurial hotspots and underrepresented populations
The JumpFund: JumpFund’s mission is to invest women’s capital in female-led companies in the Southeast with growth potential in order to generate a strong financial return and elevate the role of women in business.
JumpStart Focus Fund: invests seed capital in tech-based companies led by female entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs of color throughout Ohio
LDR Ventures: makes early-stage investments in exceptional female and minority founders at the Seed & Series A Stages.
LMN VC: LMN Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs who are focused on creating ground-breaking businesses that are clean, green, health, wellness, fitness, or education-oriented.
Lucas Point Ventures: A seed and early-stage investment and advisory company
Mendoza Ventures: Based in Boston, Mendoza Ventures is women-owned and the first LatinX-owned venture fund on the East Coast. The firm is run by husband and wife Adrian and Senofer Mendoza, entrepreneurs and prior operators who are veterans of the Boston start-up ecosystem.
Mergelane: Invests in women-led companies
Merian Ventures: $100MM fund that invests solely in women in both the US and UK
Moderne Ventures: Moderne is an early-stage venture fund investing in technology companies that are innovating within real estate, mortgage, finance, insurance, and home services.
Morgan Stanley Multicultural Innovation Lab: An intensive 20-week accelerator in New York City designed to help build and scale startups, culminating in a showcase presenting each company to the investor community. One of the founders or C-Suite members must be multicultural or a woman, and the company must relate to technology or be tech-enabled.
New Voices Fund: $100MM fund created to empower women of color entrepreneurs
National Venture Capital Association: Trade association representing the venture capital industry
Next Wave Impact: movement driving impact, diversity, and inclusion in early-stage investing and entrepreneurial ecosystem
The Perkins Fund: invests in software, e-commerce, fashion, and healthcare
Pipeline Angels: Pipeline Angels, a network of new and seasoned women investors, is changing the face of angel investing and creating capital for women social entrepreneurs.
Plum Alley: aim is to increase the amount of capital going into female-founded startups and gender-balanced teams
Portfolia: has a fund, the FemTech Fund, that invests in top-performing women-owned health companies
The Refinery: invests in early-stage companies with at least one woman in a leadership roles
Reign Ventures: we invest in seed-stage consumer technology and software startups.
Renew Ventures: We invest in Impact founders leveraging technology at scale to address some of society’s biggest challenges, impact, and growth
Rethink Impact: A venture capital firm investing in female leaders using technology to solve the world’s biggest problems, including rethinking healthcare.
RH Capital: areas of focus include preterm birth, preeclampsia, postpartum hemorrhage, C-sections, postpartum depression, access to care, and other unmet needs in maternal health.
Rhia Ventures: investing in healthcare, biotech, and education
Rivet Ventures: invests in companies in women-led markets where female usage, decision-making, and purchasing are crucial to company growth
Rogue Women’s Fund: invests in women-led tech companies
Roble Ventures: investing in EdTech, healthcare, SaaS, AI/ML
Sandpiper Ventures: investing in e-commerce, healthcare, and AL/ML
Scale Venture Partners: invests in early revenue tech companies looking to scale where one of the co-founders is a woman
Serena Ventures: investing in healthcare, FinTech, and e-Commerce
SheEO: SheEO mentors, guides, and accelerates the next generation of women-led ventures
Social Venture Circle: Large, early-stage impact investing network
Sofia Fund: Investing in exceptional, women-led growth businesses
SoGal Ventures: The first female-led millennial venture capital fund investing in diverse entrepreneurs in the U.S. and Asia
Springboard Enterprises: Coaches, showcases and supports women-led growth companies seeking equity capital
Starlight VC: Miami-based venture capital firm where at least 40% of its founders are women and/or people from diverse backgrounds, said Patricia Wexler, co-founder, and managing director.
SteelSky Ventures: invests in women’s health companies
Techstars: Techstars provides seed funding from over 75 top venture capital firms
Texas Women Ventures: Aim to help women-led companies in Texas and the Southwest.
The 51: A platform where investors, entrepreneurs, and those who aspire to be, come together for democratized access to women-led capital for women-led businesses
True Wealth Ventures: a venture capital fund designed to invest in women-led companies that will design, develop, go to market and scale consumer health and sustainable products and technologies to more efficiently address and solve the next generation of challenges.
Valor Ventures: Valor Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Atlanta, Georgia. Their first fund, V.1, invests in SaaS startups.
VCsForRepro: a coalition of venture capital firms united to support access to abortion.
The Venture Collective: invests in companies with a preference for underrepresented founders
Vertical 404: investing in the future of work, HealthTech, FinTech, and Media
Victress Capital: investing in consumer & internet, healthcare, wellness, e-Commerce, EdTech, and Marketplaces
Vinetta Project: An ecosystem of investors, entrepreneurs, founders & service providers
Women 2.0: Creates content, community, and events for aspiring and current innovators in technology
Women’s Venture Capital Fund: Creating capital-efficient, high-growth companies in digital media and sustainable products and services.
WXR Fund: investing in VR/AR, healthcare, and gaming
XFactors Ventures: focuses on making pre-seed and seed-stage investments in companies with billion-dollar market opportunities that have at least one female founder.
The 22 Fund invests in tech-based manufacturing companies to increase their international sales (exports), creating clean, quality jobs of the future in the U.S. The fund intentionally includes women and BIPOC led firms to deliver both high ROI and social/economic impact. Top Verticals: Hardware, Manufacturing Stage: Cashflow positive
Amplifica is the first female-focused VC fund in Mexico. We make investments that generate excellent returns for our investors and have a positive impact on the lives of women by increasing their opportunities and participation in the economy. Top Verticals: FinTech, EdTech, BioTech Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Amplifyher Ventures is an evergreen venture capital fund based in New York City that invests in early-stage businesses built by outstanding women. Top Verticals: Health Care, E-commerce, Fashion, Internet. Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B
The Artemis Fund leads seed rounds for female tech founders modernizing and diversifying wealth. Top Verticals: Fintech, E-comm tech, and Caretech Stage: Seed
Astia is an angel group (Astia Angels) and venture fund (Astia Fund) that invests in women-owned companies operating in cleantech, SaaS, life sciences, and IoT sectors. It transforms the way businesses are funded in the here and now, providing capital, connections, and guidance that fuel the growth of highly innovative, women-led ventures around the globe. Top Verticals: Food and Beverage, E-commerce, Developer Tools, Agriculture, FinServe Stage: Seed, Series A+
Authentic Ventures (AV) is a seed and early stage Venture Capital Firm that believes that a strong, inclusive network of founders, operators, and investors can accomplish great things. They have a particular interest in women and minority founders that are solving hard problems. They use their diverse network of talent to help their companies and each other succeed. Top Verticals: SaaS, Education, FinServe Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A+
Backstage Capital is a venture capital fund that invests in new companies led by underrepresented founders. Top Verticals: Health Care, e-Commerce, Software Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Beta Boom invests in pre-seed software startups building the future for women and multiracial consumers with a particular emphasis on FinTech, Digital Health, EdTech, and Consumer Internet. Beta Boom focuses on exceptional founders from diverse life, educational, and professional backgrounds and are based in rising tech hubs across the U.S. Top Verticals: Digital Health, Fintech, Edtech, SMB SaaS Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed
BBG Ventures is an early-stage fund backing big ideas that will reshape the way we live. We focus on female founders who intuitively understand the dominant consumer, enabling them to transform the collective or individual lived experience of the 99%. Top Verticals: E-commerce, Health Care, Fashion, Software Stage: Seed, Series A
BRAVA invests in high-growth, scalable businesses that positively impact the financial health of women. Their investment approach is focused, differentiated, and scalable. BRAVA seeks compelling investments that achieve broad-based economic impact for women leveraging a platform of domain experts, thought leaders & gender equality advocates via a flexible, long-term & permanently capitalized holding company structure. Top Verticals: SaaS, Machine Learning, Human Resources, AI Stage: Seed
Capita3 is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in women startup founders and the companies they’re building. Top Verticals: Health Care, EdTech Stage: Seed, Series A
Chingona Ventures focuses on industries that are massively changing and founders, primarily women, whose backgrounds uniquely position them to create businesses in growth markets that are often overlooked. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Top Verticals: FinTech, FemTech, FoodTech, Health/Wellness, Future of Learning Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Chloe Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on decreasing the gender gap by investing in women-led tech companies and creating educational programs for next-gen investors. Top Verticals: Software, E-commerce, Health Care, Machine Learning Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed
Coyote Ventures is a venture capital company that invests in early-stage companies focused on women’s health and wellness. Top Verticals: Health Care, Wellness Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed
DigitalDx Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based majority woman-owned impact fund comprised of a team of successful Silicon Valley digital health investors and medical professionals leveraging AI and big data technologies to diagnose major global health issues – such as breast and other cancers, cardiovascular and kidney health, Alzheimer’s, and mental health. Top Verticals: Health Care, Biotech, Health Diagnostics Stage: Series A
The Discovery Fund invests in pre-seed/seed stage fintech companies led by underrepresented founders including women, people of color and LGBTQ entrepreneurs. Top Verticals: Fintech Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed
E²JDJ is an early-stage venture firm, with a focus on women-led founders, investing globally in food and agriculture technology and science. Top Verticals: FoodTech, AgTech, Synthetic Biology Stage: Seed, Series A
Elevate Capital is a seed and early-stage investment firm investing in underrepresented founders and women across the U.S. Top Verticals: Health Care, Software, SaaS, Lifestyle Stage: Seed, Series A
Fearless Fund invests in women of color-led businesses seeking pre-seed, seed level, or series A financing. Our mission is to bridge the gap in venture capital funding for women of color founders building scalable, growth-aggressive companies. Fearless Fund is built by women of color for women of color. Top Verticals: e-Commerce/Retail, FinTech Stage: Pre-seed, Seed, Series A
Female Founders Fund is an early-stage fund investing in technology companies founded by women. Top Verticals: E-Commerce, Health Care, Wellness, Fashion Stage: Seed, Series A
GingerBread Capital invests in the next generation of women founders and entrepreneurs leading high-growth businesses It helps women-led businesses gain access to the knowledge, networks, and capital they need to build and scale successful enterprises, and it encourages other women to do the same. Top Verticals: Software, Education, Health Care, IT Stage: Seed, Series A+
Golden Seeds Venture Fund invests in female founders who are experts in their domain. Top Verticals: E-Commerce, Fitness, Healthcare, Stage: Seed
Graham & Walker Venture Fund If you’re an early-stage woman-founded tech company bettering how we live, how we work, and how we coexist with our planet, you belong in our mission. Top Verticals: Enterprise Software, SaaS, Consumer Tech Stage: Pre-Seed
Halogen Ventures focuses on investing in early-stage consumer technology startups with a female on the founding team. Halogen Ventures invests in pre-seed, seed and series A companies creating groundbreaking technologies and products in the consumer space. Top Verticals: Internet, Fashion, Education Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Harlem Capital is an early-stage venture firm that invests in seed-stage tech-enabled startups, focused on minority and women founders. Top Verticals: Software, e-Commerce, FinTech, Health Care. Stage: Seed, Series A+
HearstLab provides cash investment and services to early-stage, women-led startups innovating across enterprise technology, data analytics, health, fintech, transportation and media. Portfolio companies also benefit from the strategic guidance and resource support of HearstLab Scouts, women leaders across Hearst who share their networks and expertise. Top Verticals: Software, Health Care, AI, E-commerce Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B
The Helm is an early-stage venture firm investing in game-changing companies founded by women through our fund and investor membership. Top Verticals: Climate tech, women’s health, and fintech/web3 Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
How Women Invest is a venture capital firm that leverages its professional network of 14,000 women to identify high-potential female founders and provide the starter fuel and mentorship to propel these fearless founders to victory. Top Verticals: Healthcare, Analytics, Communities Stage: Seed, Series A+
January Ventures invests early and opens doors for the visionary founders of the future. January is mobilizing the next-gen venture network to support these founders as they build the companies that will define our future. Top Verticals: B2B software – particularly fintech, digital health, future of work/productivity Stage: Seed, Series A
LDR is a VC firm based in Los Angeles investing In Female & Minority Founders, Consumer Products, Food, E-Comm, Marketplaces & Legal Tech. Top Verticals: Consumer Products, Food, and Beverage, Marketplaces, Legal Tech Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed
Mendoza Ventures is an early and growth stage Fintech, AI, and Cybersecurity venture fund that provides an actively managed approach to VC. They invest in areas where we have deep domain expertise, companies with early revenue, a clear value proposition, and use a proven due diligence model. We focus on diversity as playing an important role in our investment decisions, as roughly 75% of our portfolio consists of startups led by immigrants, people of color, and women. Top Verticals: AI, Fintech, CybersecurityStage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
MergeLane invests in high-potential startups and venture capital funds with at least one female leader. Top Verticals: E-Commerce, Education, Health Care, Communities Stage: Seed, Series A+
Merian Ventures makes Seed, Seed+, and Series A investments in women-founded, co-founded, and co-owned US and UK-based companies in blockchain, cyber, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and consumer-facing technologies. Our investment thesis is that an unintentional familiarity bias in the venture capital industry creates opportunities for investors willing to back female founders. Top Verticals: Software, Machine Learning, AI, Education Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A+
New Voices Fund is a fund created to empower women of color entrepreneurs to reach their full potential. Top Verticals: AI, Health Care, Software Stage: Seed, Series A
Off The Grid Ventures focuses on women and foreign/immigrant founders in B2B Tech and Fintech. Top Verticals: FinServe, FinTech, Machine Learning Stage: Seed, Series A
Plum Alley Investments is a venture firm investing in early-stage technology and healthcare companies with at least one woman founder. Top Verticals: Health Care, Biotech, AI/ML, Education Stage: Series A+
Portfolia investment funds are designed for women while backing innovative companies for returns and impact. Top Verticals: Health Care, Medical Devices, Software, Biotechnology Stage: Seed, Seed A
theperkins fund focuses on high-technology companies that fill an unmet market need that can only be solved through a combination of technology, marketing savvy, and hard work. Over 50% of the Perkins Fund founders are women. Top Verticals: Software, E-commerce, Fashion, Health Care Stage: Seed, Series A+
Red Bike Capital invests in early-stage startups that will shape culture and transform the economy. Investing in US-based FinTech, Ecommerce Infrastructure and Marketplaces, and the Future of Consumer. Top Verticals: FinTech, E-Commerce, Marketplaces Stage: Seed
REFASHIOND Ventures invests in early-stage technology companies refashioning global supply chains. Top Verticals: Logistics, Supply Chain Stage: Seed
Reign Ventures is an early-stage fund investing in exceptional founders building extraordinary companies. Top Verticals: e-Commerce, AI/ML, FinTech Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Renew Ventures invests in Impact founders leveraging technology at scale to address some of society’s biggest challenges, impact, and growth. They invest in women and historically excluded founders enacting their unique insights to build scalable tech-enabled businesses Top Verticals: FinTech, AgTech, PropTech, HealthTech
Rethink Impact is the largest, US-based impact venture capital firm with a gender lens that invests in female leaders using technology to solve the world’s biggest problems. Rethink writes $2M-$10M checks to lead or co-invest in Late Seed–Series C rounds and looks for companies with $500K-$15M in annual recurring revenue that is on a path to grow to $50M-$100M in the next five years. Top Verticals: Software, Health Care, FinTech, Education Stage: Seed, Series A+
Rhia Ventures invests in reproductive healthcare solutions that empower women. Top Verticals: Health Care, BioTech, Education Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Roble Ventures seeks to enable equitable human progress via early-stage venture capital and seed fund investing $500k-$3M. More than 60% of Roble Ventures’ investments are in women-led startups. Top Verticals: EdTech, Healthcare, SaaS, AI/ML, Stage: Seed, Series A
Rogue Women’s Fund is a fund investing in early seed-stage women-led companies. Top Verticals: E-Commerce, Health Care, FinTech, BioTech Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed
Sandpiper Ventures provides a platform where women investors and founders can radically disrupt the venture capital environment. Top Verticals: E-Commerce, Health Care, AI/ML Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Serena Ventures focuses on early-stage companies and gives them the opportunity to be heard. Serena Ventures extends relationships, encourages collaboration among portfolio companies, and expands partnership opportunities across my vast network. Top Verticals: Healthcare, FinTech, e-Commerce Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Sofia Fund specializes in investing in women-led, technology-based, and business growth. Top Verticals: Health Care, Medical, BioTech, Education Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
As the first female-led millennial venture capital firm, SoGal Ventures believes in the power of diversity, borderless businesses, next-generation commerce, and human-centric design. We invest in world-class diverse entrepreneurs in the U.S. and around the world who are revolutionizing the future of living, working, and staying healthy. Top Verticals: E-commerce, Wellness, Health Care, Fashion Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A+
SteelSky Ventures is an early-stage fund investing in the future of Women’s Health. The fund is focused on investing in high-growth companies that significantly improve access, care, and outcomes in women’s health. Top Verticals: Health Care, BioTech, Wellness Stage: Seed, Series A+
Supply Change Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm investing at the intersection of food, culture, and technology. Top Verticals: Food & Ag Tech, Ingredient Tech, and Consumer Food & Beverage Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed
True Wealth Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund investing in women-led companies improving environmental and human health. The firm focuses on large, high-growth, acquisitive markets, where women are the primary customers and where women are especially interested in making a positive impact through environmental and human health, both in the role of the consumer and in the role of the business owner. Top Verticals: Health Care, Food and Beverage, Wellness Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A+
Vertical404 is an Atlanta-based venture capital firm committed to backing early-stage Black, Latinx, and Women founders who are advancing the way we live, work, and play. Top Verticals: Future of Work, HealthTech, FinTech, Media Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed
Victress Capital is an early-stage consumer venture capital firm that invests in mission-inspired companies with gender-diverse management teams. Top Verticals: Consumer & Internet, Healthcare, Wellness, E-Commerce, EdTech, Marketplaces Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
The W Fund is singularly focused on investing in traditionally underfunded founders – women and other underrepresented innovators. Top Verticals: Blockchain, Legal Tech, Advertising Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
WOCstar Fund is an early-stage investment fund focused on women of color tech startups. Top Verticals: Food and Beverage, Consumer Goods, BioTech, SaaS Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Women’s Venture Capital Fund invests in early-stage companies which have raised angel capital, developed their core technology, and are demonstrating bona fide market traction. The Fund capitalizes on the expanding pipeline of women entrepreneurs leading gender-diverse teams and creating capital-efficient, high-growth companies. Top Verticals: Education, SaaS, IT, E-commerce Stage: Seed, Series A+
The WXR Fund invests in two of the greatest opportunities of our time: the next wave of computing + female entrepreneurs. Top Verticals: VR/AR, Health Care, Gaming, Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Pre-Seed and Seed stage capital for companies founded by women. We support ambitious founders with the “X Factor” – the insight and drive to build the next billion-dollar company and are one of the most active funds investing in companies founded by women. Top Verticals: Wellness, Health Care, E-Commerce, Marketplaces Stage: Pre-Seed, See
Zane Venture Fund seeks investments in early-stage companies led by diverse teams building tech-enabled solutions. Top Verticals: e-Commerce, Consumer, Marketplaces, Beauty Stage: Pre-Seed, Seed
Accelerators for Women
AlphaLab (Pittsburgh): 20-week program that provides early-stage technology companies with an extensive, largely female mentor network with opportunities for investment, as well as follow-on funding
Bad Girl Ventures (Cincinnati, Cleveland): This non-profit has a heavy emphasis on education and mentoring.
Digitalundivided (Newark, NJ): has a fellowship that offers $5,000 in investment in addition to the 12-month program
DivInc (Austin and Houston): a 12-week accelerator for early-stage startups focused on underrepresented founders
Dreamit (Austin, NYC, and Baltimore): explicitly supports female entrepreneurs that do seed, early-stage ventures, and later-stage ventures. They invest between $25-50k for 6-8% equity.
DreamIt: Has a program for women/marginalized communities, invests between $25-50K for 6-8% equity
Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (New York): employs many female mentors and has supported many female-founded startups; a four-month program providing a co-working location and seed investment between $25-50k
EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women: EY provides program participants evergreen access to resources, networks, and know-how, helping to strengthen their abilities to become market leaders.
Female Founder Program (Silicon Valley): helps early-stage women entrepreneurs build innovative businesses in the Silicon Valley-Amsterdam Founder Institute
FemGems Club (online): mentorship and guidance, membership-based
FemTech Lab (London): 3-month program with Europe’s first FemTech-focused accelerator that helps rising stars in the female health and wellness space take their products to market
Get Sh!t Done Accelerator: 7-week virtual tuition-based accelerator program focused on high-impact supporting women entrepreneurs
HALO Incubator (New York): NY-based incubator for pre-seed women entrepreneurs
HearstLab: provides cash investment and services to early-stage women-led tech-enabled startups in North America and Europe
Her Corner: an accelerator for women entrepreneurs providing advanced mentorship, a one-time initiation fee of $199, and $99 a month
Merge Lane (Boulder): This low-residency program for women across industries has financial incentives on par with leading accelerators, up to $100,000.
Prosper (St. Louis): A low-residency program focusing on tech, health care, and consumer products companies that makes a $50,000 equity investment.
Springboard Enterprises (Washington, DC): The pioneering program, founded in 2000, with a wide range of programming including a healthcare innovation lab in 2016.
Start Co. (Memphis): For tech companies, a program that includes focusing on target customers and a $25,000 investment.
Stella Labs (San Diego): Very early-stage companies can develop this program’s idea and marketing labs to test their models.
The Refinery (Westport, CT): A 12-week, mentor-driven program in the New York City suburbs.
WESST (New Mexico): non-profit offering consulting, training, and lending
Women in Bio (WIB's) Entrepreneurial Center (online): hosts monthly programs for Entrepreneurs and supports pitching events
Women’s Startup Lab (Silicon Valley): A non-traditional accelerator providing education and networking based on the Japanese concept of “hito,” or human.
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