This article showcases Welp Magazines’s top picks for the best female-founded investment firms.
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Y Combinator
Diversity Spotlight: Black / African American Led, Women Founded
Founders:Jessica Livingston, Paul Graham, Robert Morris, Trevor Blackwell
Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a wide range of startups twice a year.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 3236 |
Exits | 299 |
Lead Investments | 922 |
Portfolio Organizations | 2632 |
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500 Startups
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Christine Tsai, Dave McClure
500 Startups is a global venture capital firm with a network of startup programs for founders, mentors, and investors.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 2409 |
Exits | 247 |
Lead Investments | 334 |
Portfolio Organizations | 1912 |
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Greycroft
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Alan Patricof, Dana Settle, Ian Sigalow
Greycroft is a venture capital firm that focuses on technology start-ups and investments in the Internet and mobile markets.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 572 |
Exits | 84 |
Lead Investments | 155 |
Portfolio Organizations | 336 |
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Alumni Ventures Group
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Beth Obermiller, Michael Madden, Mike Collins
Alumni Ventures Group provides high-quality, diversified venture portfolios to individual investors who previously haven’t had access to VC.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 446 |
Exits | 29 |
Lead Investments | 35 |
Portfolio Organizations | 383 |
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Kapor Capital
Diversity Spotlight: Black / African American Led, Women Founded
Founders:Freada Kapor Klein, Mitch Kapor
Kapor Capital invests in early stage gap-closing tech enabled startups.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 214 |
Exits | 40 |
Lead Investments | 19 |
Portfolio Organizations | 156 |
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Ulu Ventures
Diversity Spotlight: Hispanic / Latinx Founded, Hispanic / Latinx Led, Women Founded
Founders:Clint Korver, Miriam Rivera
Ulu Ventures provides early-stage investments to enterprise cloud and smart data companies.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 155 |
Exits | 23 |
Lead Investments | 15 |
Portfolio Organizations | 129 |
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Threshold
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Emily Melton, Josh Stein, Josh Stein
Threshold is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on conviction investment strategy.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 849 |
Exits | 177 |
Lead Investments | 213 |
Portfolio Organizations | 423 |
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Forerunner Ventures
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Kirsten Green
VC firm investing in transformative B2C & B2B companies defining a new generation of business, with an eye on the consumer.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 155 |
Exits | 21 |
Lead Investments | 39 |
Portfolio Organizations | 87 |
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BBG Ventures
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Nisha Dua, Susan Lyne
BBG Ventures is an early stage fund focused on consumer tech startups with a female founder.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 78 |
Exits | 5 |
Lead Investments | 7 |
Portfolio Organizations | 59 |
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Halogen Ventures
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Jesse Draper
Halogen Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund investing in consumer technology companies led by women.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 82 |
Exits | 3 |
Lead Investments | 5 |
Portfolio Organizations | 48 |
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Founder Collective
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Andy Palmer, Bill Trenchard, Caterina Fake, Chris Dixon, David Frankel, Eric Paley, Jack Groetzinger, James Tamplin, Micah Rosenbloom, Nadia Boujarwah, Noah Glass, Noah Jessop, Parul Singh, Raj De Datta, Zach Klein
Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital fund that helps entrepreneurs build their businesses.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 379 |
Exits | 98 |
Lead Investments | 26 |
Portfolio Organizations | 272 |
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Floodgate
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Ann Miura-Ko, Mike Maples Jr
Floodgate caters to digital businesses with early, seed, and later stage venture, and debt financing investments.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 315 |
Exits | 76 |
Lead Investments | 67 |
Portfolio Organizations | 214 |
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GGV Capital
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Hany Nada, Jenny Lee, Joel Kellman, Scott Bonham, Thomas Ng
GGV Capital is a global venture capital firm that invests in local founders.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 643 |
Exits | 97 |
Lead Investments | 235 |
Portfolio Organizations | 377 |
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Backstage Capital
Diversity Spotlight: Black / African American Founded, Women Founded
Founders:Arlan Hamilton
Backstage Capital is a venture capital fund that invests in new companies led by underrepresented founders.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 61 |
Exits | 1 |
Lead Investments | 2 |
Portfolio Organizations | 60 |
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Female Founders Fund
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Anu Duggal
Female Founders Fund is an early-stage fund investing in the exponential power of exceptional female talent.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 58 |
Exits | 5 |
Lead Investments | 6 |
Portfolio Organizations | 40 |
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Foundation Capital
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Bill Elmore, Kathryn Gould
Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm made up of former entrepreneurs who set out to create the firm they wanted as founders.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 553 |
Exits | 130 |
Lead Investments | 152 |
Portfolio Organizations | 307 |
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8VC
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Alex Kolicich, Drew Oetting, Jake Medwell, Kimmy Scotti
8VC aims to transform the technology infrastructure behind many industries.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 192 |
Exits | 12 |
Lead Investments | 60 |
Portfolio Organizations | 141 |
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Omidyar Network
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Pam Omidyar, Pierre Omidyar
Omidyar Network is an investment firm.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 312 |
Exits | 36 |
Lead Investments | 95 |
Portfolio Organizations | 213 |
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Bloomberg Beta
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Karin Klein
Bloomberg Beta is an early-stage venture fund backed by Bloomberg that invests in startups making work better, focusing on machine learning.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 195 |
Exits | 23 |
Lead Investments | 18 |
Portfolio Organizations | 127 |
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Cowboy Ventures
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Aileen Lee
Cowboy Ventures is a generalist seed-stage fund focused fund investing in digital startups.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 118 |
Exits | 18 |
Lead Investments | 20 |
Portfolio Organizations | 68 |
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MergeLane
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded, Women Led
Founders:Sue Heilbronner
MergeLane invests in high-potential startups and venture capital funds with at least one female leader.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 55 |
Exits | 3 |
Lead Investments | 4 |
Portfolio Organizations | 42 |
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BAM Ventures
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Brian Lee, Richard Jun, Shamin Walsh
LA-based early-stage fund backing the next rising technologies, products, and services that delight consumers and transform commerce.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 120 |
Exits | 10 |
Lead Investments | |
Portfolio Organizations | 96 |
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Acceleprise
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Collin Gutman, Karen (Appleton ) Page, Michael Cardamone, Nick Mehta, Rowan Trollope
Acceleprise invests in early stage B2B SaaS and enterprise technology companies and unifies the global technology community through mentors.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 215 |
Exits | 12 |
Lead Investments | 29 |
Portfolio Organizations | 179 |
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Portland Seed Fund
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Angela Jackson
The Portland Seed Fund finds and surrounds the most promising seed-stage companies with capital.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 157 |
Exits | 17 |
Lead Investments | 4 |
Portfolio Organizations | 86 |
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Astia Angels
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Amy Gips, Cate Muther
Astia Angels is a global network of both female and male angel investors that invest in high growth companies.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 50 |
Exits | 5 |
Lead Investments | 5 |
Portfolio Organizations | 37 |
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Reach Capital
Diversity Spotlight: Black / African American Founded, Black / African American Led, Hispanic / Latinx Founded, Hispanic / Latinx Led, Women Founded
Founders:Jennifer Carolan, Shauntel Garvey
Reach supports the most promising entrepreneurs developing technology solutions for challenges in early childhood, K-12, higher education.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 64 |
Exits | 5 |
Lead Investments | 20 |
Portfolio Organizations | 47 |
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Aspect Ventures
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Jennifer Fonstad, Theresia Gouw
Aspect Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in the emerging mobile marketplace.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 105 |
Exits | 11 |
Lead Investments | 19 |
Portfolio Organizations | 67 |
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.406 Ventures
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Larry Begley, Liam Donohue, Maria Cirino
.406 Ventures provides capital and support for early stage technology companies.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 132 |
Exits | 17 |
Lead Investments | 46 |
Portfolio Organizations | 61 |
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Dorm Room Fund
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:CeCe Cheng, Josh Kopelman, Phin Barnes
Dorm Room Fund is the strongest community of entrepreneurial students in the nation
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 147 |
Exits | 10 |
Lead Investments | 3 |
Portfolio Organizations | 141 |
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Berkeley SkyDeck
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Caroline Winnett
SkyDeck Berkeley is a research university accelerator that serves as an apex startup launchpad for affiliated entrepreneurs.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 141 |
Exits | 9 |
Lead Investments | 3 |
Portfolio Organizations | 139 |
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Rock Health
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Halle Tecco, Nate Gross
Rock Health is a full-service seed fund that invests and supports startups working in digital health.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 103 |
Exits | 16 |
Lead Investments | 2 |
Portfolio Organizations | 89 |
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VilCap Investments
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Ross Baird, Victoria Fram
VilCap Investments deploys critical risk capital to early-stage companies peer-selected from Village Capital accelerator programs.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 94 |
Exits | 5 |
Lead Investments | 4 |
Portfolio Organizations | 89 |
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Impact Engine
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Jamie Jones, Linda Darragh
Impact Engine is a venture capital and private equity firm that invests financial and human capital in early-stage companies.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 61 |
Exits | 2 |
Lead Investments | |
Portfolio Organizations | 51 |
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AF Ventures (formerly AccelFoods)
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Jordan Gaspar, Lauren Jupiter
AF Ventures invests innovative food and beverage companies.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 94 |
Exits | 1 |
Lead Investments | 28 |
Portfolio Organizations | 49 |
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The Perkins Fund
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Sonja Perkins
The Perkins Fund is boutique venture capital fund that invests in people and companies that matter.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 59 |
Exits | 8 |
Lead Investments | 4 |
Portfolio Organizations | 38 |
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XFactor Ventures
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Anna Palmer, Aubrie Pagano, Chip Hazard, Danielle Morrill, Erica Brescia
XFactor is a new pre-seed and seed-stage microfund.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 30 |
Exits | 2 |
Lead Investments | 3 |
Portfolio Organizations | 29 |
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Prosper Women Entrepreneurs
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Carol Matthews, Hal Gentry, Jennifer Ehlen, Mary Jo Gorman, Maxine Clark, Peter Finley
Prosper Women Entrepreneurs is a for-profit organization focused on increasing women entrepreneurs’ access to growth capital.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 33 |
Exits | 1 |
Lead Investments | |
Portfolio Organizations | 27 |
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Pear VC
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Mar Hershenson, Pejman Nozad
Pear VC partners with entrepreneurs to build category defining companies.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 118 |
Exits | 9 |
Lead Investments | 13 |
Portfolio Organizations | 84 |
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LearnLaunch Accelerator
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Jean Hammond
LearnLaunch Accelerator program is designed to help early-stage EdTech entrepreneurs successfully grow startups.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 73 |
Exits | 5 |
Lead Investments | 1 |
Portfolio Organizations | 65 |
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GingerBread Capital
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded, Women Led
Founders:Linnea Roberts
GingerBread Capital invests in the next generation of women founders and entrepreneurs leading high-growth businesses
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 27 |
Exits | 2 |
Lead Investments | |
Portfolio Organizations | 24 |
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NewSchools Venture Fund
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded, Women Led
Founders:John Doerr, Kim Smith
NewSchools Venture raise charitable funds from donors and invest them to support education entrepreneurs.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 65 |
Exits | 14 |
Lead Investments | 24 |
Portfolio Organizations | 54 |
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IrishAngels
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Gale Wilkinson
IrishAngels is a Chicago-based angel investing network affiliated with the University of Notre Dame.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 84 |
Exits | 5 |
Lead Investments | 9 |
Portfolio Organizations | 55 |
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Third Kind Venture Capital
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Shana Fisher
Third Kind Venture Capital is a New York-based venture capital fund focused on early-stage investments.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 85 |
Exits | 13 |
Lead Investments | 6 |
Portfolio Organizations | 74 |
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Structure Capital
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Cameron Yuill, Daniel Lennon, Jacob Shea, Jillian Manus, Mike Walsh
Structure Capital help passionate teams build great companies by investing seed-stage capital, time, experience and relationships.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 86 |
Exits | 14 |
Lead Investments | 9 |
Portfolio Organizations | 70 |
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Advancit Capital
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Jason Ostheimer, Shari Redstone
Advancit Capital focuses on early stage companies at the intersection of media, entertainment and technology.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 126 |
Exits | 28 |
Lead Investments | 6 |
Portfolio Organizations | 85 |
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GSV Ventures
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Deborah Quazzo
GSV Ventures backs innovative learning and talent technology entrepreneurs working to give all people access to the future.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 69 |
Exits | 8 |
Lead Investments | 15 |
Portfolio Organizations | 47 |
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Resolute Ventures
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Caroline Talley, Michael Hirshland, Raanan Bar-Cohen
Resolute Ventures is a U.S.-based venture capital firm focused on investments in seed-stage companies.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 106 |
Exits | 13 |
Lead Investments | 43 |
Portfolio Organizations | 63 |
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Pipeline Angels
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded, Women Led
Founders:Natalia Oberti Noguera
Pipeline Angels is changing the face of angel investing and creating capital for women and non-binary femme social entrepreneurs.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 27 |
Exits | |
Lead Investments | |
Portfolio Organizations | 25 |
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Founder Friendly Labs
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Mendel Chuang, Samantha Quist
Experienced Founders and $200,000+ USD in Credits
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 121 |
Exits | 24 |
Lead Investments | |
Portfolio Organizations | 121 |
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Gradient Ventures
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Anna Patterson, Zachary Bratun-Glennon
Gradient Ventures is a Google’s Artificial Intelligence (AI)-focused early stage venture fund.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 80 |
Exits | 2 |
Lead Investments | 44 |
Portfolio Organizations | 59 |
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Blue Startups
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Chenoa Farnsworth, Henk Rogers, Maya Rogers
Blue Startups is a Top 20 Accelerator in the US (Techcrunch) focused on helping scalable-technology companies compete on a global scale.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 81 |
Exits | 2 |
Lead Investments | 2 |
Portfolio Organizations | 68 |
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Blue Startups
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Chenoa Farnsworth, Henk Rogers, Maya Rogers
Blue Startups is a Top 20 Accelerator in the US (Techcrunch) focused on helping scalable-technology companies compete on a global scale.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 81 |
Exits | 2 |
Lead Investments | 2 |
Portfolio Organizations | 68 |
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HealthTech Capital
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Anne DeGheest, Laura Fay
HealthTech Capital is a group of private investors dedicated to funding and mentoring new HealthTech start ups
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 47 |
Exits | 7 |
Lead Investments | 9 |
Portfolio Organizations | 33 |
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The R-Group, LLC
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Estee Raviv, Rany Raviv
The R-Group is a Portland-based family-office focused on angel investments and venture capital
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 66 |
Exits | 15 |
Lead Investments | |
Portfolio Organizations | 53 |
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Village Global
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Anne Dwane, Ben Casnocha, Erik Torenberg, Ross Fubini
Village Global is an early stage venture capital backed by some of the world’s best entrepreneurs.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 92 |
Exits | |
Lead Investments | 8 |
Portfolio Organizations | 82 |
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Rethink Impact
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Jenny Abramson
Rethink Impact is a venture capital firm investing in female leaders using technology to solve the world’s biggest problems.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 26 |
Exits | 2 |
Lead Investments | 9 |
Portfolio Organizations | 19 |
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The Fund
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Katie Hunt, Matthew O. Brimer, Scott Hartley
A community-driven venture fund comprised of top NYC founders & operators
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 49 |
Exits | 1 |
Lead Investments | |
Portfolio Organizations | 47 |
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Village Capital
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Ross Baird, Sean Foote, Victoria Fram, Victoria Fram
Village Capital builds bridges for entrepreneurs who are creating an inclusive and sustainable world.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 59 |
Exits | 2 |
Lead Investments | 9 |
Portfolio Organizations | 53 |
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The JumpFund
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Cory Allison, Kristina Montague, Shelley Prevost
Seed and grow strong, female-led ventures in the Southeast U.S.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 24 |
Exits | |
Lead Investments | 3 |
Portfolio Organizations | 23 |
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Zillionize Angel
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Ben Li, Cindy Bi
At Zillionize we invest in fast growing startups with huge potential ahead.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 126 |
Exits | 18 |
Lead Investments | 2 |
Portfolio Organizations | 122 |
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HWVP, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Ann Winblad, John Hummer
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners is a California-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage enterprise software companies.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 214 |
Exits | 51 |
Lead Investments | 74 |
Portfolio Organizations | 99 |
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Launch NY
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Marnie LaVigne
Launch NY is a U.S. Treasury-designated Community Financial Institution (CDFI) and a 501(c)(3) nonprofit venture development organization.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 143 |
Exits | 1 |
Lead Investments | 110 |
Portfolio Organizations | 65 |
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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded, Women Led
Founders:Melinda Gates, William Gates
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supports initiatives in education, world health and population, and community giving.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 148 |
Exits | 27 |
Lead Investments | 87 |
Portfolio Organizations | 121 |
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MIT Media Lab
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Ariel Ekblaw, Federico Casalegno, Nicholas Negroponte
MIT Media Lab creates disruptive technologies pioneering in wearable and affective computing and tangible interfaces.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 141 |
Exits | 42 |
Lead Investments | |
Portfolio Organizations | 141 |
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Versant Ventures
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Barbara Lubash, Brian Atwood, Donald B. Milder, Rebecca Robertson, Samuel Colella, William Link
Versant Ventures caters to the healthcare sector with early and later stage venture, private equity, and debt financing investments.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 314 |
Exits | 82 |
Lead Investments | 80 |
Portfolio Organizations | 153 |
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AngelPad
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Carine Magescas, Thomas Korte
AngelPad is a seed-stage accelerator program that finds product market fit, defining a target market to get first validation for a company.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 172 |
Exits | 35 |
Lead Investments | 4 |
Portfolio Organizations | 113 |
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SoGal Ventures
Diversity Spotlight: East Asian Founded, East Asian Led, Women Founded
Founders:Elizabeth Galbut, Pocket Sun
SoGal is a millennial VC fund that invests in early stage women and diverse entrepreneurs.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 21 |
Exits | |
Lead Investments | |
Portfolio Organizations | 16 |
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Illuminate Ventures
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Cindy Padnos
Illuminate Ventures invests in early-stage high-tech companies delivering enterprise cloud and mobile solutions
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 48 |
Exits | 6 |
Lead Investments | 15 |
Portfolio Organizations | 27 |
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Plum Alley
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded, Women Led
Founders:Andrea Turner Moffitt, Deborah Jackson
Plum Alley is a private investment platform investing in next generation technology and healthcare companies at the Series A and B stages.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 20 |
Exits | 1 |
Lead Investments | |
Portfolio Organizations | 17 |
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Serena Ventures
Diversity Spotlight: Black / African American Founded, Black / African American Led, Women Founded
Founders:Serena Williams
Serena Ventures focuses on early stage companies.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 32 |
Exits | 2 |
Lead Investments | 2 |
Portfolio Organizations | 28 |
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Boston Seed Capital
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Nicole Stata, Peter Blacklow
Boston Seed Capital, LLC provides seed stage funding for internet-enabled businesses.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 65 |
Exits | 15 |
Lead Investments | 10 |
Portfolio Organizations | 43 |
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StarVest Partners
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Deborah Farrington, Laura Sachar
StarVest Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in expansion, and growth capital investments.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 80 |
Exits | 21 |
Lead Investments | 22 |
Portfolio Organizations | 41 |
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Nex Cubed
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Kelsey Morgan, Kip Quackenbush
Nex Cubed is an investor and innovation partner that invests in, accelerates, and scales frontier tech companies.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 76 |
Exits | 1 |
Lead Investments | |
Portfolio Organizations | 74 |
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Acumen
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded, Women Led
Founders:Jacqueline Novogratz
Acumen is a non-profit venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 76 |
Exits | |
Lead Investments | 19 |
Portfolio Organizations | 68 |
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Arboretum Ventures
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Jan Garfinkle, Tim Petersen
Arboretum Ventures is a Michigan-based venture capital firm investing in medical technology and healthcare companies.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 71 |
Exits | 17 |
Lead Investments | 25 |
Portfolio Organizations | 43 |
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1776 Ventures
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Donna Harris, Evan Burfield
1776 Ventures is a global seed fund investing in companies in consumer critical sectors.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 53 |
Exits | 9 |
Lead Investments | 1 |
Portfolio Organizations | 33 |
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Victress Capital
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Lori Cashman, Suzanne Norris
Victress Capital invests in technology-enabled consumer startups led by diverse leadership.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 20 |
Exits | 2 |
Lead Investments | 1 |
Portfolio Organizations | 19 |
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Upslope Ventures
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:James Deters, Kate Beardsley, Lawrence Mandes
Upslope Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund that invests in startups across the country.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 71 |
Exits | 18 |
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Portfolio Organizations | 51 |
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Portfolia
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded, Women Led
Founders:Trish Costello
Portfolia is the venture investing platform designed for women.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 24 |
Exits | 2 |
Lead Investments | 1 |
Portfolio Organizations | 22 |
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Healthbox
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Nina Nashif
Healthbox is a an innovation consulting and fund management services firm, helping organization build and sustain innovation strategies.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 95 |
Exits | 11 |
Lead Investments | 3 |
Portfolio Organizations | 88 |
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Fernbrook Capital Management LLC
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Marigay McKee, William F Detwiler
Fernbrook invests in early-stage, tech-enabled consumer-facing companies.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 30 |
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Portfolio Organizations | 28 |
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Sofia Fund
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Cathy Connett, Dee Thibodeau, Joy Lindsay, Lisa Crump
Sofia Fund specializes in investing on women-led, technology-based, and business growth.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 18 |
Exits | 3 |
Lead Investments | |
Portfolio Organizations | 14 |
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Next Wave Impact
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded, Women Led
Founders:Alicia Robb
Early stage impact fund focusing on underrepresented founders
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 19 |
Exits | 2 |
Lead Investments | 1 |
Portfolio Organizations | 13 |
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Citi Ventures
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Debby Hopkins
Citi Ventures harnesses the power of Citi to help people, businesses, and communities thrive in a world of technological change.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 104 |
Exits | 21 |
Lead Investments | 21 |
Portfolio Organizations | 85 |
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Emerson Collective
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Laurene Powell
Emerson Collective strengthens schools, secures rights for immigrants, restores relationship between humanity and nature.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 38 |
Exits | 2 |
Lead Investments | 12 |
Portfolio Organizations | 33 |
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Moderne Ventures
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Constance Freedman
Moderne Ventures is a venture fund that invests in tech real estate, mortgage, finance, insurance, and home service companies.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 70 |
Exits | 8 |
Lead Investments | 8 |
Portfolio Organizations | 63 |
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WomensVCFund
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Edith Dorsen, Monica Dodi
Women’s VC Fund invests in early stage (A/B), revenue-generating, high-growth companies led by management teams inclusive of women.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 18 |
Exits | 3 |
Lead Investments | 2 |
Portfolio Organizations | 13 |
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MetaProp NYC
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Aaron Block, Clelia Peters, Zachary Aarons
MetaProp is a venture capital firm focused on the real estate technology industry.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 99 |
Exits | 8 |
Lead Investments | 7 |
Portfolio Organizations | 77 |
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Impact America Fund
Diversity Spotlight: Black / African American Founded, Black / African American Led, Women Founded
Founders:Kesha Cash
Impact America Fund is an investment company that funds market opportunities which use technology to enhance the lives.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 15 |
Exits | 2 |
Lead Investments | 2 |
Portfolio Organizations | 12 |
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DBL Partners
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Nancy Pfund
DBL Partners is an investment venture focused on companies that deliver high venture capital returns and economic benefits.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 59 |
Exits | 7 |
Lead Investments | 15 |
Portfolio Organizations | 31 |
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Longwood Fund
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Christoph Westphal, Michelle Dipp, Richard Aldrich
Longwood Fund finances science-based companies that develop novel solutions for medical problems.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 29 |
Exits | 10 |
Lead Investments | 5 |
Portfolio Organizations | 21 |
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Idealab
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Bill Gross, Marcia Goodstein, Tom Hughes
Founded in 1996 by Bill Gross, Idealab is the longest leading technology incubator.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 87 |
Exits | 25 |
Lead Investments | 12 |
Portfolio Organizations | 69 |
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Singularity University Ventures
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Monique Giggy, Peter Diamandis, Raymond Kurzweil
The Ventures division of Singularity University.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 42 |
Exits | 1 |
Lead Investments | |
Portfolio Organizations | 42 |
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Hustle Fund
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Elizabeth Yin, Eric Bahn
Hustle Fund is a seed fund for hilariously early hustlers. (Full portfolio not shown on Crunchbase)
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 50 |
Exits | 2 |
Lead Investments | 5 |
Portfolio Organizations | 46 |
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Scale Venture Partners
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Kate Mitchell, Rory O’Driscoll
Scale Venture Partners is a venture capital investment firm that invests in software companies that are transforming the future of work.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 236 |
Exits | 69 |
Lead Investments | 93 |
Portfolio Organizations | 122 |
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REACH
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Bob Goldberg, Constance Freedman, Dale Stinton
REACH is an accelerator owned and operated by Second Century Ventures, the investment arm of the National Association of Realtors®.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 91 |
Exits | 8 |
Lead Investments | 13 |
Portfolio Organizations | 89 |
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Revolution Ventures
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Clara Sieg
Revolution Ventures, part of the DC-based venture capital firm Revolution, invests in early-stage companies around the country.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 32 |
Exits | 6 |
Lead Investments | 3 |
Portfolio Organizations | 20 |
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#Angels
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:April Underwood, Chloe Sladden, Jana Messerschmidt, Jessica Verrilli, Katie Stanton, Vijaya Gadde
#Angels is a team of experienced operators collaborating to invest in great ideas and teams.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 33 |
Exits | 4 |
Lead Investments | |
Portfolio Organizations | 30 |
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UpWest
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Gil Ben-Artzy, Shuly Galili
UpWest is a Seed Fund based in Silicon Valley supporting Israel’s best tech entrepreneurs
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 91 |
Exits | 12 |
Lead Investments | 2 |
Portfolio Organizations | 70 |
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Graph Ventures
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Julio Vasconcellos, Matt Wyndowe, Omar Siddiqui, Razmig Hovaghimian, Sarah Smith, Sebastien de Halleux, Serkan Piantino
Early stage investment group. With operations in San Francisco Bay area, New York, Brazil, Canada, Japan and Europe.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 54 |
Exits | 10 |
Lead Investments | |
Portfolio Organizations | 54 |
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XG Ventures
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Andrea Zurek, David Lee, Pietro Dova
XG Ventures focuses on the consumer internet, including the mobile, video, gaming, social media, and online media sectors.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 94 |
Exits | 25 |
Lead Investments | |
Portfolio Organizations | 72 |
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Centre Street Partners
Diversity Spotlight: Women Founded
Founders:Abraham Cohen, Leandra Medine
Centre Street Partners is an early stage, consumer sector-focused investment vehicle.
[adace-ad id=”4676″]Investments | 18 |
Exits | 2 |
Lead Investments | |
Portfolio Organizations | 13 |
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