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And that type of statistic was hardly an isolated one: Just this month, we were the only female founders at the coworking space pitching at a startup night.

To find those traits, we polled a sampling of successful female founders at the event, from Wurwand to an 11 - year - old lemonade entrepreneur who snagged a sweet offer on Shark Tank and an El Salvadoran - immigrant - turned - millionaire - waste management mogul who «turns trash into treasure.»

Not exact matches

Only 2 % of venture funding went to female founders in 2017, and just 8 % of partners at the top venture capital firms are women.

Theresia Gouw, once a partner with Accel Partners, and Fonstad, formerly managing director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, founded Aspect Ventures; Aileen Lee left Kleiner Perkins to launch seed fund Cowboy Ventures; Gilt Groupe's former CEO Susan Lyne hatched AOL's BBG (Built by Girls) Ventures; serial entrepreneur Anu Duggal launched the Female Founders Fund with the express purpose of investing in women.

Between being a minority at pretty every much industry event, having to convince (mostly male) venture capitalists to invest in your company, and having those investors constantly question your judgment, being a female founder can be an isolating experience.

In 2017, TechCrunch reported that only 17 % of the 43,008 venture - funded companies in its directory CrunchBase have at least one female founder.

«The small number of venture firms with female founders and / or an unusually high percentage of female partners invest at elevated levels in female entrepreneurs,» according to a 2016 CrunchBase report on venture capital funding.

Only 2 % of venture funding went to female founders, and just 8 % of partners at the top venture capital firms are women.

(Female Founder Office Hours is a series of events at which investors will talk with and advise women entrepreneurs in one - on - one sessions.)

According to First Round Capital's analysis of its own portfolio, companies with at least one female founder provided them with 63 % better returns on investment than companies with all - male teams.

Las Vegas has the honor of the highest percentage of venture - backed companies with at least one female founder: 26 percent.

The absolute number of startups in Crunchbase with at least one female founder has more than quadrupled in the last five years, from 117 in 2009 to 555 in 2014.

Spanx founder Sara Blakely, Wanderu co-founder Polina Raygorodskaya, and a host of other female business leaders also will be appearing at the event.

The number of women, African - Americans and Hispanics employed at companies such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo lag far behind the U.S. work force as a whole; meanwhile, only 3 percent of venture funding is earmarked for female founders, and founders of color claim less than 1 percent, according to U.S. chief technology officer Megan Smith.

The first Female Founder event will help hone the pitches of entrepreneurs whose companies are at the seed stage, with two more events focusing on firms at the Series A and growth stages scheduled for February and March, respectively.

Along with other female venture capital partners, Lee is launching Female Founder Office Hours — a series of events at which investors will talk with and advise women entrepreneurs in one - on - one sesfemale venture capital partners, Lee is launching Female Founder Office Hours — a series of events at which investors will talk with and advise women entrepreneurs in one - on - one sesFemale Founder Office Hours — a series of events at which investors will talk with and advise women entrepreneurs in one - on - one sessions.

At the same time, female founders received a mere $ 1.46 billion in funding last year, compared to the $ 58.2 billion haul of companies with all - male founders.

With five months into this year, U.S. firms with at least one female founder have raised about $ 4.4 billion in funding based on data from Pitchbook.

Whether you look at straight demographic statistics, listen to the testimony in the recent sexual harassment suit against storied VC firm Kleiner Perkins, or talk to female founders about their experiences fundraising, the picture you get of the industry's openness to women isn't the rosiest.

At Foundation, we host a Female Founders conference each year for exactly this reason.

In early 2012, Best Buy founder Richard Schulze resigned from the company amidst his role in turning a blind eye at a company scandal involving a top executive's shady «personal conduct» (i.e. an affair) with a certain 29 - year - old female employee.

Of the U.S. - based companies that received a round of venture capital financing in 2010, only 6 percent had a female CEO, 7 percent had a female founder, and 10 percent had a female founder or CEO at some point, according to Dow Jones VentureSource.

From a deal volume perspective, Q1 2018 saw 14 percent of venture deals include at least one female founder.

Leading seed investors in companies with at least one female founder include Y Combinator with 28, SOSV with 10 and BBG Ventures and Innovation Works at five investments each.

Seed - funded companies with at least one female founder raised $ 218 million in Q1 2018.

The brave stand to go on the record by three female founders is forcing the venture capital & start up community to take a hard look at why unwanted sexual advances toward women in the workplace continue to be an issue.

Reviewing the data over the last 10 years, 2015 is the first year that companies with at least one female founder have broken through the threshold of 10 percent of venture dollars.

At the time, I was looking for more female founders of coworking spaces.

Between 2010 and 2015, 10 percent of venture dollars globally, a total of $ 31.5 billion, funded startups that reported at least one female founder.

Four of the five highest in terms of percentage of total rounds in startups with a female founder — SOSV, VTF Capital and Metamorphic Ventures — have no female partners, though the top firm, MassChallenge, at 42 percent of its portfolio, has a female managing director in Mexico.

In the last three years, according to CrunchBase data, 16 percent of newly launched venture and micro-venture firms, 20 firms in all, had at least one female founder.

Across all funding stages in 2016, $ 10 billion went to companies with at least one female founder contrasted with $ 94 billion invested in male - only founder teams.

At Y Combinator's fourth Female Founders Conference in San Francisco last week, Lee talked about that HBR study and the bias she sees every day.

In order to get a closer look at the venture firms investing in female founders, we compiled a list of all the firms that closed 45 or more investments between 2010 and 2015.

During the same time period, 17 percent of seed / angel rounds globally, a total of $ 2.35 billion, funded startups that reported at least one female founder.

In a study posted in May last year, CrunchBase reported the percentage of funded startups with at least one female founder increased from 9 percent to 18 percent between 2009 and 2014.

The percentage of global VC deals for companies with at least one female founder sits at about 17 %, per PitchBook data.

It's Female Founders month at Startup Grind, and we're excited to be hosting Anna Gong, the CEO and Founder of Perx Technologies!

Just 7 percent of partners at the top venture capital firms are women, and only 17 percent of startups have a female founder, according to Crunchbase studies.

One night at the conference, another female entrepreneur says she visited a suite at the Shelbourne Dublin hotel where Pishevar had convened an after - party with other founders and investors.

If we look at the position of women specifically within this landscape, we see a thriving network for collaboration and a good support structure for female founders.

Of those, 15.5 percent, or 2,226, had at least one female founder.

We talked with the group yesterday to learn more about the day, which is primarily designed to give female founders a chance to talk one - on - one with the VCs for at least 30 minutes, though networking and broader - based fundraising advice is also a key feature of the program.

10:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Karen Linder Author, Founder Linseed Capital LLC, Co-Founder and President of Tethon 3D Topic: Women at the Top and at the Table: Warren Buffett's Female CEOs and Directors

«We are getting a first look at an unfair share of these amazing, oftentimes repeat entrepreneurs, who happen to be female,» said Theresia Gouw, a founder of Aspect and a former partner at Accel.

At Loukoumi's home they discover Fistiki's Aunt Cat Cora, a character based on celebrity chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author Cat Cora, the first and only female Iron Chef, and President and Founder of Chefs for Humanity, which works to reduce hunger around the world.

The four female directors of casino operator Wynn Resorts said at a Las Vegas forum they are committed to helping the company move onto a new chapter following the sexual misconduct scandal that engulfed its founder earlier this year.

Besides being the first black female Ph.D. in her field and the founder of the National Human Genome Center at Howard, a historically black university, where was she coming from?

A recent study by Joan Y. Chiao, then at Northwestern University, a founder of the new field of cultural neuroscience, found that voters perceive male candidates as more competent and dominant than female ones, based on facial features alone.

The female founders of super-successful SoulCycle and BBG Ventures, who require at least one female founder, participated in its seed round.