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All Raise is on a mission to accelerate the success of female and non-binary founders and funders to build a more prosperous, equitable future. Born out of a grassroots movement in 2017, our programs arm women with access, guidance, and support to advance their professional growth. When the architects of tomorrow better reflect the world, our world is better served.

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United States, California, San Francisco

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$11M

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2017

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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 SAVE THE DATE: Am 5. November findet unsere zweite STARTUPLAND statt. Es ...
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2025	Disrupting Billions in Dormant Capital: Allison Byers Fuels Underserved Entrepreneurs	DI PRS 166 Venture capital's outdated funding patterns continue to shut out diverse founders, stifling innovation and economic growth.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. Sergio Paluch’s Background What is ...
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 By Linda Greub 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 Tweet Pin LinkedIn Email By Nancy Dahlberg On a mission to help build an equitable tech ecosystem, All Raise has launched in Miami. All Raise is a national nonprofit aimed at accelerating the success of female and non-binary founde...
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. Redeem now 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. Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily The nonprofit, which raised $...
Dec 16, 2021	All Raise Adds Three New Board Members As It Expands Its Role	3 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. Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily The nonprofit, which raised $...
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 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	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...
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 Share on Twitter Claire Diaz-Ortiz is a venture capitalist and author of nine books that have been translated into 11 languages. Her next book is on women founders and funders. An early employee at Twitter, Wir...
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	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 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 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 Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. 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. Redeem now Venture capital remains a male-dominated space — female partners are working to change that. Meli...
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 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...
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...
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	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...
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...
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 Share on Twitter Claire Diaz-Ortiz is an angel investor and bestselling author of nine books that have been published in more than a dozen countries. An early employee at Twitter, she was called “The Woman Who ...
Feb 6, 2020	Latin America takes the global lead in VC directed to female co-founders	Claire Diaz-Ortiz Contributor Share on Twitter Claire Diaz-Ortiz is an angel investor and bestselling author of nine books that have been published in more than a dozen countries. An early employee at Twitter, she was called “The Woman Who ...
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	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 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 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. We’re s...
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). There’...
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 Share on Twitter Monique Villa is an investor at Mucker Capital, a seed and “pre-seed” stage fund investing in companies powering a software-enabled world. She is also the Founder of Nashville-based ModernCapital, ...
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	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 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 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) For the first tim...
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 Gené Teare is the head of content at Crunchbase. More posts by this contributor Q1 2018 global diversity investment report: Investing trends in female founders Unicorns gorge as investors dish up bigger rounds, more c...
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 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 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...
	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. Redeem now The "PayPal Mafia" is one of the most influential clubs in Silicon Valley. Historically, mentions of the group never i...
	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:
	'It was scary': How Aileen Lee launched her own VC firm after 13 years at Kleiner Perkins — and became one of the best in the business	Aileen Lee, the founder and managing partner of Cowboy Ventures. Cowboy Ventures; Rachel Mendelson/Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. After working at Kleiner Perkins...
	‘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...

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FAQ about All Raise

When was All Raise founded?

All Raise was founded in 2017.

How much funding has All Raise raised?

All Raise has raised $11M in total across 1 funding round.

What has the press written about All Raise?

Parsers VC has collected 101 articles mentioning All Raise, among them “+++ Sandwater +++ 8eyes +++ Heal Capital +++ Venture Capital +++ Allocator One +++” (Aug 15, 2025) and “Navigating New Frontiers: The Changing Landscape of Pharma and Venture Capital” (Mar 12, 2025).

Is All Raise still active?

Yes, All Raise is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Dec 1, 2025.