| Date | Title | Description |
| 28.06.2024 | OCON Therapeutics: $10 Million Raised To Advance Women’s Health With Advanced Drug Delivery Solutions | OCON Therapeutics, a company at the forefront of transforming drug delivery, announced the successful completion of a $10 million investment round. This funding round was led by RH Capital, with participation from Features Capital, Astia An... |
| 22.02.2023 | 51 Black investors changing the VC industry with firms dedicated to funding diverse startup founders | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Funding to Black VCs rose to $3.4 billion in 2022 from $2.3 billion in 2021, new data reveals.
Yet, that's 2.1% of the record $162.6 billio... |
| 12.09.2022 | 15 U.K.-Based Venture Capital Investors Supporting Underrepresented Founders | These 15 U.K.-based angels and venture capital investors are worth following on the topic of ... [+] investment in underrepresented foundersVARIOUS |
| 27.01.2022 | Why Black female CEOs lead 50% of the companies in our portfolio | Sharon Vosmek Contributor
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Sharon Vosmek is the CEO of Astia and managing partner of the Astia Fund.
One thing is for certain as 2022 kicks off – there are billions of dollars worth of opportunities ripe for investment that ... |
| 17.01.2022 | How surplus food marketplace Full Harvest will spend its $23m Series B funding | For years, general consensus agreed the bulk of food waste in developed countries happened at the consumer-facing end of the value chain: in restaurants, retail outlets, and inside people’s homes. More recent data suggests otherwise. Accord... |
| 01.12.2021 | Goalsetter raises $15 million to go B2B with children’s financial literacy app | Goalsetter, a financial education platform for kiddos, has announced the close of a $15 million Series A financing round. The funding was led by Seae Ventures, with participation from Fiserv, Mass Mutual, Citizens Financial Group, Astia Fun... |
| 03.11.2021 | VCs must do a better job of supporting Black women founders | Victoria Pettibone Contributor
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Victoria Pettibone is managing partner of Astia Fund, a program of Astia, a global organization that invests in women-led companies.
There is a growing body of articles about the important iss... |
| 22.09.2021 | Sharon Vosmek: How Making Money Can Be An Articulation Of Your Values | Astia Annual Meeting & Portfolio GatheringPhoto © Show Ready, @showreadyp |
| 12.02.2021 | Astia Launches $100 Million Fund With Mastercard as Lead Investor | Astia, the Silicon Valley-headquartered organization dedicated to leveling the investment playing field – and redefining the traditional venture capital landscape – has launched a $100M early-stage venture fund aimed at addressing the extra... |
| 10.02.2021 | Astia Introduces $100M Early-Stage Venture Fund to Address Gender Disparities in Funding Space | Astia has introduced a $100 million early-stage venture fund in order to address gender disparities in the funding space.
The Astia Fund is supported by a major investment from payments giant Mastercard. Astia is an organization that’s focu... |
| 08.02.2021 | Astia Launches $100M Fund | Astia, a Silicon Valley-based investment organization, launched a $100M early-stage venture fund focused on addressing the disparity in funding for companies that include women in founding or executive roles.
Led by an investment from Maste... |
| 08.02.2021 | Mastercard backs Astia to invest £73M in women-led companies | Astia, a Palo Alto-based angel group announces launch of it’s $100m (approx £73 million) early-stage venture fund to invest in startups that include women. Led by Mastercard, the new Astia Fund will invest globally in high-growth companies ... |
| 10.12.2020 | 51 VCs Who Want To Invest In Women, Black And Latinx, And LGBTQ+ Founders | Erica Chidi, co-founder and chief executive officer of Loom, speaks during the 2020 Makers ... [+] Conference in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020. The event gathers industry leading females for roundtable discussio... |
| 30.11.2020 | Business Transformation: From Collapse To Clarity | getty |
| 27.10.2020 | Healthcare Is Experiencing A Boom In Female Entrepreneurs And Leaders | getty |
| 13.04.2017 | Agtech Funding Sheet: SEC Filing Reveals Freight Farms Has Raised $5.7m Towards Larger Series B | Freight Farms, the startup growing lettuce inside shipping containers, has raised $5.7 million in an $8 million round, according to a SEC filing. Since the startup raised $3.7 million in Series A funding in 2014, this could be its Series B ... |
| 12.04.2017 | Full Harvest raises $2 million to stop farmers from tossing ‘ugly’ fruit and veggies | Full Harvest, a San Francisco-based startup, has raised $2 million in seed funding to reduce food waste at the farm level. Founded by Christine Moseley, formerly the head of business development for cold-pressed juice makers Organic Avenue,... |
| 12.04.2017 | Full Harvest Raises $2m Seed Round for Food Waste Reduction Platform | Full Harvest, an online platform selling food seconds to businesses, has closed a $2 million seed round led by Wireframe Ventures. BBG Ventures, Early Impact Ventures, Impact Engine, early stage agtech VC Radicle, and a collection of angel ... |
| 03.10.2014 | 07 Resources For Women Entrepreneurs | Reliable statistics on Women entrepreneurship in Asia, especially in technology, are hard to come by. In the United States, for example, just 30% of jobs in technology are held by women and just 10% of founders and investors are female. By ... |
| 07.05.2014 | ‘High-growth women entrepreneurship is a unique path’: We Own It Summit | The We Own It Summit kicked off with an Angel Bootcamp, led by Susan Preston of the Kansas-based Angel Resource Institute. Preston gave the audience an introduction to angel investing.
“We’re aligned with our entrepreneur,” said Preston abo... |
| 27.02.2014 | nVision Medical hopes to offer patients worthy ovarian cancer diagnostic by 2015 | “It’s an incredibly scary disease and incredibly hard to treat,” she said. The “unnecessarily” long wait times for diagnostic results alone can be anxiety-inducing.
“I think because I’ve been a patient . . . when I think about designing for... |
| 22.10.2013 | Astia, Google Expand Effort to Match Women-Led Startups with VCs | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
In social media circles, the story of the month isn’t Twitter’s impending IPO, but rather its feud with outside critics over the tiny number of women executives and board memb... |
| 02.07.2013 | When You Are Facing a Tsunami of Barriers, Surf Like a Woman | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
All entrepreneurs face roadblocks when they are starting up. It’s part of the job. For Surbhi Sarna, who founded of nVision Medical in 2012, things are more intense. NVision M... |
| 08.06.2013 | Some of the top accelerators and incubators in NYC | TechStars, FinTech Innovation Lab, and DreamIt Ventures all nurturing talent in Silicon Alley
For all the things that New York City is known for, technology is not really one of them. But that mindset is beginning to change.
New York is the... |
| 30.05.2013 | At a Startup, Does Being the Only Woman in the Room Matter? | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s hardly a secret that the male-dominated world of high-growth entrepreneurship doesn’t boast a treasure trove of women. Despite the fact that female-led start-ups have a t... |
| 30.01.2013 | Astia Launches Angel Network | Astia, a San Francisco, CA-based not-for-profit organization organization that aims to propel women’s full participation as entrepreneurs and leaders in high-growth businesses, launched an angel investor network.
Astia Angel, which includes... |
| 22.01.2013 | Astia forms elite angel network to build up female founders | 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!
Cinderella and entrepreneurs have a lot in common... |
| 29.09.2012 | The Search For Minority Entrepreneurs Is Over — Now They Need To Be Ready For Investors | Editor’s note: Wayne Sutton is the founder and CEO of PitchTo, a mobile development lab that builds tools for investors to make smarter decisions and help entrepreneurs deliver exceptional pitches. This article is inspired by Dave McClure’s... |
| 26.07.2012 | 30+ Organizations for Women in Technology | Being a woman in technology has its challenges, but feeling alone shouldn’t be one of them. Whether you’re a girl, a woman, or a grrl, the 20 organizations below can help you get connected with other entrepreneurs, designers, and developers... |
| 01.02.2012 | Startup Threads Wants To Be Your Friend | Making threads. For your startup. (flickr.com)
WEAVE. Startup Threads, a merchandising site for startups from local newletter mogul and startup founder Frank Denbow, just launched a new monthly program where consumers can subscribe to recei... |
| 29.11.2011 | Exceptional female entrepreneurs wanted! | Exceptional female entrepreneurs wanted!
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Astia, a premier global accelerator for high-growth startups, is holding a series of events targeted to women-led, high growth companies operating or starting up in the East of England.
As... |
| 27.07.2011 | Startup Weekend refocuses on community, practical entrepreneurship | If you thought Startup Weekend was a hackathon, you’d be about half right. According to a recent report, the event’s focus has shifted from executing clever tech tricks to solving problems in a community. It’s an exercise in practical entre... |
| 09.02.2011 | Astia: Knocking Down the Hurdles for Women-Led Startups | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Quick: Name the Bay Area startup accelerator where 60 percent of the companies go on to get acquired or win funding within 12 months of graduating, and where the 220 companies... |
| 31.01.2011 | Startup America: A Campaign To Celebrate, Inspire And Accelerate Entrepreneurship | Note from the editor: This is a guest post from Aneesh Chopra, United States Chief Technology Officer.
During last week’s State of the Union address, President Obama challenged the Nation to out-educate, out-innovate, and out-build our comp... |
| 04.01.2011 | Female entrepreneurs wanted – Astia opens applications for its European accelerator | I won’t get into the “women in tech” debate but any help for startups is definitely a good thing. On that note, Astia, the not-for-profit “venture accelerator for women-led high-growth companies”, is calling for applications from UK and Eur... |
| 25.07.2010 | Women at OSCON: Did You Notice? | I spent much of the week at OSCON, which served in part as a very visual reminder for something that is always on the back of my mind: the absence of women in tech. While women make up 25% of those who work in the tech industry, they compri... |
| 22.07.2010 | Incubating Women Entrepreneurs | A story last week in the San Jose Mercury News highlights, as the title suggests, “the dearth of women in tech.” The article begins with a description of InDinero founder and Y Combinator alum Jessica Mah: “I just wasn’t sure if Jessica Mah... |
| 15.05.2010 | Fixing Societal Problems: It Starts With Mom and Dad | I am quite used to controversy—unsurprisingly, given the topics that I have been exploring with my academic research. But what has really been a surprise is the hornet’s nest that I seem to have stirred up with my two TechCrunch posts and B... |
| 21.02.2010 | A Fix for Discrimination: Follow the Indian Trails | Women, Hispanics and blacks have always been underrepresented in the ranks of the Valley’s tech companies. A new analysis by the Mercury News shows that from 2000 to 2008, the proportion of women tech workers in Silicon Valley dropped from ... |
| 07.02.2010 | Silicon Valley: You and Some of Your VC's have a Gender Problem | “People in technology businesses are drawn to places known for diversity of thought and open-mindedness”, is what Professor Richard Florida concluded after studying the growth and success of 50 metropolitan areas in the U.S. The most succes... |
| 24.08.2009 | Your Guide to Funding by TC Europe Readers | Getting funding is one of the biggest dilemmas for a new business. When to take investment, from whom and how much? When is the investment (and investors) worth the price you will pay in stock or loss of control? How do you deal with your i... |
| 16.03.2009 | Mars needs women! (And so does Astia) | If you’re a woman involved in steering a European startup, Astia wants to hear from you. The Silicon Valley organisation focused on funding women-led start-ups has launched a programme in the UK to help high-potential, high-growth startups ... |
| - | nVision Medical hopes to offer patients worthy ovarian cancer diagnostic by 2015 | As a teenager, Surbhi Sarna, nVision Medical CEO and founder, had complex, repeat ovarian cysts. They were painful and worrisome. They couldn’t be biopsied for fear of spreading cancer, and she said the rest of the diagnostics were so poor ... |