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The world’s largest global directory for women in venture capital to find each other, connect, and collaborate.

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Data from our Global Women in VC Directory

Based on our dataset, 77% of women are based in the US. Outside the US, the UK represents 9% of responses, with other leading countries including Canada (3%), Israel (1.5%), Singapore (1.4%), Australia (1.3%), Germany (1.3%)

Roles of Women in VC

With almost half of all women in VC holding roles below the partner level, there appears to be a growing pipeline of junior talent in VC firms that would benefit from being nurtured for partner-tracking roles or other opportunities. Also keeping in mind, only a subset of Partners founded their own fund, as opposed to joining an existing partnership. This represents a compelling opportunity to offer more support and funding initiatives to continue increasing the number of first-time female fund managers around the world.

Investment Stages & Sector Focus

We asked all respondents to indicate what stage they invest in, keeping in mind that many people invest across multiple stages. We noticed that women GPs/Partners are more likely to invest at the Preseed and Seed stages. Related, non-partners seem more likely to evaluate deals at Series B and Growth stages. This may indicate that more women are raising their own seed-stage funds, and there’s an opportunity for more women at later-stage and growth rounds of funding. Overall, the most common stage for women to invest in was at the Series A (71%), or Seed (66%).

A Female Perspective

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Additional Perspectives

Filter quotes by women who work in different regions and sectors

“We expect that spatial computing and AI/ML will eventually impact nearly every industry. It’s a more intuitive way for us to learn and build. Given it’s potentially massive impact, it’s important to us to focus on that area as we are supporting female-led early stage startups. While eventually this area will be more like saying “we are focused on the internet companies” in the meantime, it’s a meaningful area to focus on and support."

Abby Albright

General Partner, WXR Fund

Los Angeles, CA

More About Women in VC

Origins of this Initiative

Started in New York City in 2015, the women in VC directory was created to enable women investors to connect with each other, inspiring collaboration and a sense of community. The directory quickly expanded to other markets, and is now the world’s largest self reported database of active women investors currently at institutional, corporate funds, or family offices - spanning more than 900+ women across 600+ funds and more than 25 countries. Women in the directory use this database in a variety of ways; such as sharing dealflow to identify prospective co-investors, planning events in their respective cities, connecting with other women on business trips, or recruiting talent for their fund.

To respect individual contact preferences, our global directory is password protected and for women currently in the venture community only.

The Global Directory of Women in VC was created and is managed by

Sutian Dong

Partner, Female Founders Fund

Jessica Peltz-Zatulove

Partner, MDC Ventures

With support on the research study and data analysis from

Bethany Crystal

General Manager, Union Square Ventures

Predominantly Self-Reported

Of the 1,026 profiles analyzed, 86% (or 881 people) shared their own, self-reported data. We collected this information organically through Google and Airtable forms. This data is reviewed quarterly to keep the directory current, removing churn and updating positions or job changes.

Corporate and Institutional VCs Only

While we recognize there are many other investment models, we limited the scope of this study uniquely to women at corporate and institutional VCs, starting at the PreSeed found of financing. Within the private Airtable directory, women investors at family offices are also included.

Layering in Public Data

For the remaining 145 profiles analyzed, we pulled a subset of relevant data from publicly available datasets, and cross referenced the profiles with LinkedIn data to ensure the information was current. These supporting references included: Latina Women in VC, Black Women in VC and the All Raise initiative foundersforchange.org, which powers the Diverse Investor List.

Slight Bias Toward NYC

As we founded this group in New York City, we have reasons to believe there may be a slight bias toward women on the East Coast, which is why we have also made an attempt to backfill any missing data from VC firms in other locations, for purposes of the published research.

Interested in joining our community?

If you're a women currently at a venture fund and would like to be included, please fill out the form below. We'll send access to the directory after we've reviewed your submission. Please note, unfortunately at this time only we are only including women employed at institutional funds, corporate funds, impact funds, and family offices.

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