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Women in VC
US VC female founders dashboard
February 4, 2025Our interactive dashboard dives into US investment trends for women in VC since the start of 2008, using data sourced from the PitchBook Platform. Users can filter the data to isolate specific trends.Article
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Women in VC
European VC female founders dashboard
February 4, 2025Our interactive dashboard dives into European investment trends for female-founded startups since the start of 2008, using data sourced from the PitchBook Platform.Article
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Weekend Analysis
Female founders just took in their smallest share of VC deals in five years
January 16, 2025The proportion of VC dollars going to female founders has shrunk to its lowest rate in five years.Article
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University Rankings
PitchBook Universities: Female founders edition
August 29, 2024Female startup founders face well-documented challenges in their entrepreneurial journeys, and attending a university with a strong network of venture-backed founders is one strategy to improve the odds of success.Article
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Commentary
Europe needs to do more for its female founders
March 13, 2024Although progress has been made over the past decade, funding levels for female-led startups in Europe remain depressingly low.Article
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Women in VC
4 charts: A breakdown of VC funding for Europe’s female founders
February 14, 2024Female founders continue to increase their share of European VC deals, but funding levels remain low.Article
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Women in VC
3 takeaways from VC funding for female founders
January 9, 2024Female founders ended 2023 on a strong note as the year closed with the third-highest amount of VC capital raised for female-founded or co-founded startups on record.Article
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Women in VC
For female founders, even a Ph.D. doesn’t close the gender funding gap
November 29, 2023Advanced degrees are commonly thought of as a pipeline to a successful startup venture. But for women, academic success hasn’t translated into founder status.Article
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Women in VC
Q&A: Ada Ventures partner on how LPs can promote gender diversity among UK VCs
November 5, 2023UK-based funds owned exclusively by men have secured about 10 times more LP capital than those led only by women in the last six years, new Ada Ventures research shows.Article
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Europe
Female founders take bigger slice of European VC
March 9, 2023Startups founded or cofounded by women now account for 24.4% of deal value in 2023, but the number of deals involving female-only founded companies has remained flat.Article
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Women in VC
Female founders take the good with the bad in a challenging 2022
December 18, 2022Companies with at least one female founder have raised about $38 billion in venture funding so far in 2022, the second-highest annual total on record.Article
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Ireland
Lithuania, Ireland stand out for Europe’s female founders
September 29, 2022Lithuania and Ireland are among the European countries with the highest percentage of venture capital deals involving female founders over the past five years.Article
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Data Visualization
Check out where female founder fundraising is growing fastest in the US
September 5, 2022While San Francisco and New York City are major hubs for female-founded startups, other cities have seen more significant growth since 2020.Article
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VC Fundraising
Europe’s female founders feel the pinch from VC downturn
July 26, 2022European venture dealmaking for female-founded startups dropped back to pre-2021 numbers in the first six months of 2022 as the economic downturn slows investment activity.Article
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Women in VC
2022 half-year update: Female founders remain resilient
July 6, 2022During the first half of 2022, US startups with one or more female founders raised $20.8 billion of venture funding.Article
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Women in VC
Female founders wrap up Q1 with nearly $1.5B in VC funding
April 7, 2022US startups founded solely by women raised $1.47 billion of venture funding in the first three months of 2022, a 34% slump in capital investment from the highs of Q4 2021.Article
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Cryptocurrency
Crypto specialist Katie Haun raises $1.5B for debut funds
March 21, 2022Former Andreessen Horowitz GP Katie Haun has raised $1.5 billion for her new crypto-focused venture firm, the largest debut on record for vehicles led by a female GP, according to PitchBook data.Article
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Private Debt
Q&A: Bootstrap Europe’s debt strategy targets high-growth tech companies
March 10, 2022Bootstrap Europe founders Fatou Diagne and Stephanie Heller sit down with PitchBook to discuss a new fund, their growth debt strategy, impact investing, and more.Article
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