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| Aug 15, 2025 | +++ Sandwater +++ 8eyes +++ Heal Capital +++ Venture Capital +++ Allocator One +++ | Was gibt’s Neues? In unserem #StartupTicker liefern wir eine kompakte Übersicht über die wichtigsten Startup-Nachrichten des Tages (Freitag, 15. August). #STARTUPLAND
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| Mar 12, 2025 | Navigating New Frontiers: The Changing Landscape of Pharma and Venture Capital | The pharmaceutical industry and venture capital are two titans of the modern economy. Each sector is undergoing seismic shifts, driven by innovation, diversity, and the relentless pursuit of solutions. In this evolving landscape, leaders li... |
| Mar 11, 2025 | Disrupting Billions in Dormant Capital: Allison Byers Fuels Underserved Entrepreneurs | DI PRS 166
Venture capital's outdated funding patterns continue to shut out diverse founders, stifling innovation and economic growth. Allison Byers, founder of Scroobious, shares how her platform is reshaping investment strategies, unlocki... |
| Jun 20, 2024 | Beta Boom: Investing In Startups That Are Solving Impactful Problems For Society | Beta Boom is a firm that invests in pre-seed and seed startups that are solving impactful problems for society. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Beta Boom co-founder and managing partner Sergio Paluch to learn more.
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| Apr 11, 2024 | First-Ever Study of AAPI Representation Among VC Investors Finds Persistent Underrepresentation | New research about AAPIs in venture capital finds severe lack of representation among VC investors, and sheds new light on data such as assets under management (AUM), challenges in fundraising, timelines for paths to promotion, and exclusio... |
| Jun 17, 2023 | The new CEO of All Raise wants to change the narrative around women founders and investors | Paige Hendrix Buckner is the new CEO of All Raise, a nonprofit founded in 2017 that supports women founders and investors. (All Raise Photo)
The percentage of venture capital dollars going to startups led by only female founders hasn’t surp... |
| Jun 5, 2023 | Women entrepreneurs are a missed opportunity in venture capital. Here’s how investors and policymakers can change that | Dr. Ashlie L Burkart, MD is the chief scientific officer at Germin8 Ventures, a venture capital firm that impact invests in the food and agricultural domain, and an associate at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and Interna... |
| May 12, 2023 | Are (Male) Investors Missing The Obvious? Why Investing In Female Leaders In Health Care Can Increase Returns And Improve Health Outcomes | 3 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
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A male venture capitalist once said, “I don’t want to talk about vaginas every Monday morning in my partner meeting.”
Although nearly every woman has a vagina, the word itself can be e... |
| May 9, 2023 | All Raise’s interim CEO is now full-time | All Raise’s interim CEO Paige Hendrix Buckner has now dropped the “interim,” according to the nonprofit’s blog post.
Hendrix Buckner joined the organization, which supports women founders and funders, as chief of staff in early 2022 and ste... |
| Apr 27, 2023 | Beyond The Mythos Of The 4%: Three Alternative Sources Of Funding For Companies Looking For Capital | From Facebook and Founders Found to Genentech and Kleiner Perkins to WhatsApp and Sequoia Capital - major success stories of once-startups seem almost inseparable from those of their venture capitalist investors: bold risk-takers whose intu... |
| Jan 31, 2023 | All Raise launches in Miami to propel women in entrepreneurship and venture capital | Facebook
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| Jan 24, 2023 | Another All Raise CEO steps down | Less than a year after assuming the role, All Raise CEO Mandela SH Dixon has stepped down from her position at the nonprofit. The entrepreneur, who previously ran Founder Gym, an online training center for underrepresented founders, said in... |
| Jan 19, 2023 | The Rise of Interest & Investment in Women’s Health | In the third century BCE, the Greek philosopher Aristotle described women as a “deformity.” He believed that they had male genitalia “turn’d outside in” and, for him and others, this description explained away any idiosyncratic women’s heal... |
| Nov 30, 2022 | New Fare Partners is latest female-led VC to close first fund | Venture capital firms have a tight grasp on their dry powder for now, but amid the investment slowdown are a flurry of new funds being announced, many of them from female-led venture capital firms.
The latest is New Fare Partners, co-founde... |
| Nov 2, 2022 | Ex-Bain investor launches $30M web3 consumer VC fund as solo female founder | Magdalena “Mags” Kala, a self-described “lifetime degen,” is no stranger to beating the odds. Before she became an investor, she co-founded an all-female blackjack team that sought to exploit gender bias to make a profit through gaming, she... |
| Oct 31, 2022 | Women in venture capital are writing the rules of maternity leave and bending the male-dominated culture to their will | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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Sitting in her Bay Area home office, Anarghya Vardhana, a venture capitalist, cradled her one-week-old baby at her breast and lo... |
| Mar 15, 2022 | All Raise, a nonprofit to increase diversity in tech, has a new CEO | All Raise, a nonprofit that focuses on increasing diversity within venture capital deals and decision makers, has named Mandela Schumacher-Hodge Dixon as the new chief executive of the company. The appointment comes five months after Pam Ko... |
| Dec 16, 2021 | All Raise Adds Three New Board Members As It Expands Its Role | 5 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
All Raise, founded over three years ago to accelerate success for female founders, has expanded its board beyond the venture community.
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| Dec 16, 2021 | All Raise Adds Three New Board Members As It Expands Its Role | 3 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
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| Nov 10, 2021 | Something Ventured: Female-Founded U.S. Venture Firms On Track To Raise Over $7B In 2021 | 50 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Editor’s note: This article is part of Something Ventured, an ongoing series by Crunchbase News examining diversity and access to capital in the venture-backed startup ecosystem. Access the full pro... |
| Nov 10, 2021 | Something Ventured: Female-Founded U.S. Venture Firms On Track To Raise Over $7B In 2021 | 63 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
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| Sep 22, 2021 | Bringing diversity and equity to venture capital funding | New data released by Crunchbase shows that only 2.2% of all venture funding went to female-founded startups in the first eight months of this year. For Black women, it was a minuscule 0.3%.
Deena Shakir, a partner at venture capital firm Lu... |
| Sep 18, 2021 | 1 change that can fix the VC funding crisis for women founders | Claire Diaz-Ortiz Contributor
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| Aug 30, 2021 | Tech Can Still Do More To Support Underrepresented Founders | If we want to really prioritize founder diversity, we need to improve economic opportunity at every ... [+] rung of the ladder, not just the last one. getty |
| Jul 22, 2021 | All Raise launches virtual bootcamp for women and nonbinary founders | More doesn’t necessarily mean better — and that’s a lesson for life and for tech. To focus on the latter, the startup ecosystem is experiencing a boggling influx of capital right now. However, the increase in dollars isn’t being evenly dist... |
| Jun 30, 2021 | Women’s social network Peanut launches microfund StartHER to invest in pre-seed stage startups | Peanut, the maker of a social networking app for women, is entering into the investing space with today’s launch of a microfund called StartHER. As the name implies, the new fund will focus on investing in women, as well as other historical... |
| Jun 30, 2021 | WXR Fund lands $5M to invest in women-led AR, VR, and AI startups | WXR Fund Managing Partners Martina Welkhoff (left) and Amy LaMeyer. (WXR Photo)
The WXR Fund, an investment firm with Seattle roots, landed $5 million for its first fund that will back seed-stage women-led startups building AR/VR and AI tec... |
| May 26, 2021 | Zane Venture Fund Holds First Close After Signing On Notable LPs | Shila Nieves Burney is the founder and solo GP at Atlanta-based Zane Venture Fund. Courtesy of the firm. |
| May 1, 2021 | Emotional marketing and an e-mail titan walk into a bar | My mom cuts to the chase when she is describing my beat to others. In her words, I cover companies like Uber before they become companies like Uber. And honestly? I can’t exactly disagree with the description. The best feeling in tech journ... |
| Apr 30, 2021 | The second shot is kicking in | Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
First and foremost, Equity was nominated for a Webby for “Best Technology Podcast”! Drop everything and go Vot... |
| Apr 29, 2021 | Women founders: These 25+ resources can help you build community and boost business | Being a women who launches her own company means facing particular challenges.
While entrepreneurs saw a pretty normal (even great, in Philly) level of venture capital deals last year, women made up a very small percentage, with VC funding ... |
| Apr 27, 2021 | Venture Funding Hit A Record In 2020. For Women Founders, It Dried Up. | Pam Kostka is the CEO of All Raise. Courtesy of the firm. |
| Apr 27, 2021 | 2020 Was Great for Startups, If You Were a Man | Record amounts of venture capital were deployed in 2020, but fewer dollars flowed to companies run by female founders, according to a new report from All Raise, the nonprofit backed by Pivotal Ventures, the investment firm of Melinda Gates ... |
| Apr 23, 2021 | Why the bar for women founders is so high when it comes to fundraising | The pandemic has set the clock back for many aspects of women’s advancement toward professional equality — wages and promotions were lost, parenting largely fell to mothers and millions more women than men lost their jobs in the mass layoff... |
| Mar 29, 2021 | How to Ensure Opportunity and Equality for Women Entrepreneurs Beyond Women's History Month | March 29, 2021 4 min read
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This year’s International Women’s Day theme, “#ChooseToChallenge,” brings with it a heightened sense of urgency. This past year posed a unique set of c... |
| Mar 9, 2021 | A managing partner and 20-year VC veteran on how women can break into the industry and land a top job | Melissa Cheong. Melissa Cheong This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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Venture capital remains a male-dominated space — female partners are working to change that.
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| Feb 11, 2021 | Longtime Edtech Investor Reach Capital Raises $165M for Third Fund | Investments in U.S. education technology startups reached a record $2.2 billion in 2020. Across the globe, that figure surpassed $16 billion, marking a 32-fold increase from 2010.
Few investors have watched, and fueled, the growth of the ed... |
| Feb 4, 2021 | Women Founders And Funders Are Outperforming, So Why Is Gender Inequality Growing, And What Do We Do About It? | Women Founders and Funders are Outperforming, So Why is Gender Inequality Growing, and What Do We Do ... [+] About It?getty |
| Feb 2, 2021 | This Week in Jobs DMV: A Higher Power Edition | Editor’s note: Every week we ship an email newsletter featuring the region’s most exciting career opportunities. We’ve lovingly called it This Week in Jobs (aka TWIJ — “twidge.”). Below is this week’s edition. Here’s the last one we publish... |
| Feb 2, 2021 | This Week in Jobs Philly: What we can learn about job hunting from dogs | Editor’s note: Every week we ship an email newsletter featuring the region’s most exciting career opportunities. We’ve lovingly called it This Week in Jobs (aka TWIJ — “twidge”). Below is this week’s edition. Here’s the last one we publishe... |
| Feb 2, 2021 | This Week in Jobs DE: What we can learn about job hunting from dogs | Editor’s note: Every week we ship an email newsletter featuring the region’s most exciting career opportunities. We’ve lovingly called it This Week in Jobs (aka TWIJ — “twidge”). Below is this week’s edition. Here’s the last one we publishe... |
| Jan 28, 2021 | Who is an investor and how is that changing? | Close your eyes and picture “an investor.” What comes to mind?
What do they look like? How do they talk and act? Where do they live and where did they go to school? Do you see your own identity and lived experiences reflected in them?
If yo... |
| Oct 7, 2020 | Adding Claire Díaz-Ortiz to its partnership, Magma Partners launches initiative to invest in female founders in LatAm | Claire Díaz-Ortiz has been many things over the course of her career — an angel investor, an early Twitter employee (who notably got the Pope on Twitter), the founder of a nonprofit, a published author and an entrepreneur.
Now, the globe-tr... |
| Sep 22, 2020 | Diversity As $uperpower: The (Well-Known) Data Against Homogeneous Teams In Venture Capital | By Lisa Stone, Managing Director, WestRiver Group. C200 member since 2016. |
| Sep 18, 2020 | What Women Can Do To Empower Ourselves Now That Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Died | US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died at the age of 87 on Friday. (Photo by Jim Watson / ... [+] AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images |
| Sep 12, 2020 | Check out these Breakout Sessions at Disrupt 2020 | We’re on the brink of the biggest Disrupt in TechCrunch history. It’s five days of education, exhibition, competition and connection that spans the globe. As you plan your schedule, keep this in mind: You’ll find some of the most insightful... |
| Sep 1, 2020 | Tired of 'Manels'? All Raise's Database of Female, Non-Binary Speakers Hopes to Improve Tech & VC Panels | For years, study after study has shown women — and especially women of color — are underrepresented in tech conference panels, as keynote speakers and in news coverage.
The pandemic has not helped. Instead, as companies have taken their eve... |
| Sep 1, 2020 | All Raise Visionary Voices Ensures That Women Are Seen And Heard At Tech Events And In The Media | Top row (L to R): Karla Monterroso, Tiffany Dufu, Aishetu Dozie, Alexa von Tobel, Theresia Gouw ... [+] Middle row (L to R): Elizabeth Yin, Miriam Rivera, Halle Tecco, Erin L. Thomas, PhD, Bijal Shah Bottom row: (L to R): Lolita Taub, Amira... |
| Aug 24, 2020 | Seattle startup founder on the discrimination-busting advantages of VC fundraising during COVID | Tribute founder and CEO Sarah Haggard, seated, with some of her Tribute and personal support crew, from left to right: Elaine Jones, Tribute advisor; Joanie Parsons, Tribute PR and marketing advisor; Jane Boulware, Tribute business strategy... |
| Jul 28, 2020 | Use this framework to define how your firm addresses equal opportunity | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Over the past couple of months, systemic issues o... |
| Jul 28, 2020 | Use this framework to define how your firm addresses equal opportunity | Over the past couple of months, systemic issues of racial injustice have elevated to a deserved level of priority in society broadly, and within the VC industry as well. As a Black man in America, who is also a general partner at VC firm M2... |
| May 5, 2020 | Extra Crunch Live: Join Kirsten Green for a Q&A next Tuesday at 11 a.m PST/2 p.m. EST/6 p.m. GMT | Last month, the Extra Crunch Live team hosted conversations with folks from all over the venture community that ranged from the pre-seed world with Charles Hudson to shark territory with Mark Cuban. We’re starting off May with a packed agen... |
| Apr 21, 2020 | GB Summit Digital speakers: Evaluating the outlook for big game investments | This year GamesBeat Summit Digital is going to be digital online-only. And here’s the next great lineup of speakers for our Series A/B Panel: Phil Sanderson of Griffin Gaming Partners, Michael Cheung of Makers Fund, Rick Yang of New Enterpr... |
| Apr 20, 2020 | Special Report: EU Lags Behind US In VC Gender Equality, Albeit With Signs Of Change | 49 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Last year, I spent five months in Silicon Valley and some time in New York interviewing anyone who was willing to talk to me in the VC industry. From Sand Hill Road to Market Street to Greenpoint, t... |
| Apr 20, 2020 | Special Report: EU Lags Behind US In VC Gender Equality, Albeit With Signs Of Change | 47 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Last year, I spent five months in Silicon Valley and some time in New York interviewing anyone who was willing to talk to me in the VC industry. From Sand Hill Road to Market Street to Greenpoint, t... |
| Mar 5, 2020 | Female-founded startups landed more deals globally in 2019 than ever before | We all know the disruptive stories of female-founded startups like Glossier and ezCater. And we also know how those success stories belie the much harder time thousands of other women entrepreneurs have when it comes to raising capital.
Tha... |
| Feb 20, 2020 | The rise of the winged pink unicorn | Claire Diaz-Ortiz Contributor
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| Feb 6, 2020 | Latin America takes the global lead in VC directed to female co-founders | Claire Diaz-Ortiz Contributor
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| Feb 4, 2020 | Gender balance: Why this investment firm is using a male-female co-led fund strategy | WestRiver Group managing directors, from left to right: Scott Maw, Lisa Stone, Erik Anderson, Richelle Parham, George Montgomery, Laurel Buckner, Anthony Bontrager, and Deepa Prasad. (WestRiver Group Photo)
Seattle-based investment company ... |
| Dec 9, 2019 | US VC investment in female founders hits all-time high | Venture capital investment in all-female founding teams hit $3.3 billion in 2019, representing 2.8% of capital invested across the entire U.S. startup ecosystem this year, according to the latest data collected by PitchBook.
While that numb... |
| Nov 13, 2019 | Data Shows Boston’s Historical Progress In Funding Women | 29 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
On a Monday morning in her office on Newbury Street, Sarah Fay of Glasswing Ventures said that for venture capitalists to invest in more diverse founders, “we have to drop the idea that a CEO needs ... |
| Oct 19, 2019 | Startups Weekly: The unicorn from down under, an Uber TV show and All Raise’s expansion | Hello and welcome back to Startups Weekly, a weekend newsletter that dives into the week’s noteworthy news pertaining to startups and venture capital. Before I jump into today’s topic, let’s catch up a bit. Last week, I wrote about Revel, a... |
| Oct 16, 2019 | All Raise expands to new geos, launches ‘VC Cohorts’ | Dozens of investors outfitted in jumpsuits and Rothy’s gathered at the Greylock offices last week for a “structured networking” session hosted by All Raise, an 18-month-old nonprofit organization that seeks to amplify the voices of and supp... |
| Sep 16, 2019 | #Solar100’s Meghan Schultz: The Mary Lou Retton of Solar Finance | As a renewables finance veteran and now the head of Invenergy’s finance and capital markets team, Meghan Schultz has overseen the execution of more than $15 billion in financings. In addition to her impressive resume in solar finance, she’s... |
| Aug 27, 2019 | Female Founders Alliance unveils second accelerator class and partnership with Microsoft | The CEOs leading this year’s Ready Set Raise companies. (FFA Photo)
Female Founders Alliance is back with its second accelerator cohort as the Seattle-based organization looks to help another round of female-led startups grow their business... |
| Aug 14, 2019 | One health care startup at a time, this venture capitalist wants to harness the investing power of women | WOODSIDE, Calif. — There’s a house situated on a wooded hillside in this wealthy Bay Area town, its entryway shaded by a pergola covered in vines, the mountains framed by wood-trimmed windows, stones paving a sweeping garden.
But it isn’t y... |
| Aug 14, 2019 | Here Is Where The Future of Venture Capital Is Heading, According To This Triple Unicorn Investor | Hand of a businessman writing a Venture capital sign on grey background with a grey marker pen. Getty |
| Aug 6, 2019 | Female founders: Apply to the All Raise AMA to win a free Expo Pass to Disrupt SF | Shouting out to all the fierce female founders. Have you applied to participate in the All Raise “ask me anything” (AMA) sessions at Disrupt SF 2019? No? Women, it’s time to act. Apply for an AMA session by the August 30 deadline and you co... |
| Jul 19, 2019 | Deadline extended! Apply to the All Raise female founder program at Disrupt SF 2019 | We’ve got great news for all the time-strapped female founders out there. Yeah, we’re looking at you, sister. We’re extending the application deadline to apply for the All Raise “ask me anything” (AMA) sessions at Disrupt SF 2019. Don’t mis... |
| Jul 18, 2019 | Last chance! Apply for the All Raise female founder program at Disrupt SF 2019 | Newsflash for all female founders of the early-stage startup variety. Your chance to meet with leading women VCs at Disrupt SF 2019 on October 2-4 ends on July 19 at 5 p.m. (PT). Apply for an AMA session before the deadline expires.
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| Jul 1, 2019 | Apply for an AMA session with a female All Raise VC at Disrupt SF 2019 | Female founders, what questions would you ask if you could spend 30 minutes picking the brain of a leading female VC? Your opportunity to find out awaits at Disrupt SF 2019 on October 2-4. We’ve partnered with All Raise — a startup nonprofi... |
| Jun 18, 2019 | 4 days left to score the best price on Disrupt SF 2019 | We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you an important message: You have just four days left to buy your pass to Disrupt San Francisco 2019 before the super early-bird price expires on June 21 at 11:59 p.m. (PT).
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| Jun 1, 2019 | Lessons Learned From The Youngest Woman To Take A Company Public | From left to right: Aileen Lee, Pam Kostka, and Katrina Lake. Hayley Leibson |
| May 24, 2019 | Business author Julian Guthrie on the biggest difference between ‘alpha’ men and women | If you’ve been out and about in Silicon Valley in the last month or so, chances are you’ve heard of “Alpha Girls,” a new book written by journalist Julian Guthrie about four people who’ve made a big impact on the world of startup investing.... |
| May 22, 2019 | Getting a seat at the VC table | Monique Villa Contributor
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| Apr 29, 2019 | Q1 2019 Diversity Report: Female Founders Own 17 Percent Of Venture Dollars | 64 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Here we are again knee deep into another year, attempting to get a bird’s-eye view above recent IPO excitement and other general tech/venture happenings.
We are in this position to gain a data-cente... |
| Apr 9, 2019 | Scaling a nonprofit, startup style | It’s been a year since All Raise emerged with the support of dozens of venture capital’s most powerful women. The 34 founding members had a lofty goal: Double the capital going to female founders in five years and double the representation ... |
| Jan 23, 2019 | Gender gap: Women-led companies make up 8% of the GeekWire 200 startup list | The numbers tell the story.
Out of the 200 companies listed on the GeekWire 200, our ranking of the top Pacific Northwest tech startups, 16 of them are led by women, or 8 percent.
“It’s a little depressing,” said Kieran Snyder, CEO of Seatt... |
| Jan 17, 2019 | In the Southeast, female-led investor groups are working together to improve representation | A number of reports have highlighted the Southeast as a good place for high-potential female entrepreneurs, thanks to its proximity to high-quality tech education, talent, support organizations, and mentorship.
What’s less discussed is the ... |
| Jan 17, 2019 | In the Southeast, female-led investor groups are working together to improve representation | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
A number of reports have highlighted the Southeas... |
| Jan 15, 2019 | Madrona promotes Hope Cochran, who becomes first female managing director at Seattle VC firm | Madrona managing directors, from left to right: Tom Alberg, S. “Soma” Somasegar, Scott Jacobson, Matt McIlwain, Tim Porter, Hope Cochran, and Len Jordan. (Paul Goodrich is Madrona’s other managing director) (Madrona Photo)
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| Jan 11, 2019 | Early Pinterest exec Cat Lee joins Maveron as partner, will focus on backing women-led startups | The Maveron team. (Maveron Photo/Michael Clemens)
Cat Lee, a Silicon Valley veteran who was most recently head of culture at Pinterest, has joined Seattle-based consumer-focused venture capital firm Maveron as partner. Cat Lee. (LinkedIn Ph... |
| Nov 4, 2018 | Female founders have brought in just 2.2% of US VC this year (yes, again) | Despite efforts to level the playing field for female entrepreneurs, U.S. female-founded startups have raised just 2.2 percent of venture capital investment in 2018.
That statistic may sound familiar; it’s the exact same portion of capital ... |
| Nov 1, 2018 | ‘Grit’ author Angela Duckworth on working smart versus working too hard, when it’s okay to pivot, and the impact of tech on grit | Today, in San Francisco, at a gathering of roughly 400 women organized by the young AllRaise — a growing group of female funders and founders who aim to accelerate the success of their peers — we sat down with Angela Duckworth. Ducksworth i... |
| Oct 25, 2018 | All Raise Will Match Underrepresented Investors With Big-Name VCs | For All Raise to meet its goal of doubling the percentage of female partners at U.S. venture capital firms in 10 years, it has to start with the women already working in venture.
The organization supporting women in tech and venture capital... |
| Aug 8, 2018 | All Raise is bringing founders together to collaborate on diversity and inclusion | Founders for Change, an initiative from All Raise, is hosting its first-ever meetup for its group of founders focused on diversity and inclusion in tech. Since launching in March, Founders for Change has grown to more than 800 founders from... |
| May 17, 2018 | How to Get Venture Capital Funding for a Startup If You're Not a White Dude | The first $600,000 came easily for Arum Kang, CEO of the dating site Coffee Meets Bagel. “We were able to raise it pretty quickly and it came without too much trouble,” she says of the company’s initial seed funding in 2012. But when the Ko... |
| May 15, 2018 | Beth Seidenberg of Kleiner Perkins is starting her own fund | Beth Seidenberg joined Kleiner Perkins 13 years ago to focus on life sciences for the storied venture firm. Now, according to a Recode report, she’s heading off to start her own life sciences venture fund in L.A. where she lives.
We reached... |
| Apr 17, 2018 | Q1 2018 global diversity investment report: Investing trends in female founders | Gené Teare Contributor
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| Apr 12, 2018 | All Raise female VCs team up with female founders across the U.S. to pay it forward | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
A few months ago, a group of powerhouse female VC... |
| Apr 12, 2018 | All Raise female VCs team up with female founders across the U.S. to pay it forward | A few months ago, a group of powerhouse female VCs came together to create Female Founders Office Hours, which provides one-on-one mentoring sessions between female investors and female founders. Last week, the group announced the official ... |
| Apr 5, 2018 | Venture Capital Needs To Clean House. But The Bones Are Good | Credit: Shutterstock |
| Apr 3, 2018 | All Raise wants to increase the amount of venture funding female founders receive | All Raise, a new nonprofit organization that’s behind diversity and inclusion efforts like Female Founder Office Hours (FFOH) and Founders for Change (FfC), wants to increase the amount of funding female founders receive, Forbes first repor... |
| ‘Huge’ opportunities await women entrepreneurs, venture capitalist says. Here’s what to do | Women entrepreneurs have long gotten a small slice of the venture-capital funding pie.
Female VC leaders are trying to change that.
In fact, opportunities abound for “wontrepreneurs,” said Julie Sandler, managing director at startup studio ... |
| Inclusion & Belonging @Orrick | Our commitment to an inclusive legal profession is longstanding. At our firm, it means sustaining a workplace where top talent of all backgrounds and experiences feel they belong, can collaborate to produce the best client work and have opp... |
| Driving diversity in UK venture capital | 8 March 2022: Ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March, Judith Hartley, CEO of British Patient Capital, comments on the need for more diversity within the UK venture capital industry: |
| VC funding to women-led companies falls during the pandemic | The disproportionate impact of the pandemic on women extends beyond layoffs and women leaving the workforce, to the venture capital funding of female entrepreneurs. During the past year, the amount of funding to women-led startups and start... |
| PayPal's origin story is male-dominated, but these 20 women played key roles in building the payments giant during its early days | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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The "PayPal Mafia" is one of the most influential clubs in Silicon Valley.
Historically, mentions of the group never i... |
| Driving diversity: Nonprofit is on a mission to bring more Latinxs to the VC profession | Does the term “venture capitalist” conjure up images of corporate boardrooms populated with well-heeled, well-connected white men calling all the shots? If it doesn’t, it should. The lack of diversity, especially in Big Tech and VC firms in... |
