US female-founded companies have raised $7B so far this year
Pitchbook
by: July 17, 2018
In a year poised to bring in the most venture capital investment for US startups since the dot-com boom, female founders are also experiencing VC highs.
In the first six months of 2018, US companies with at least one female founder brought in $7.2 billion in venture capital funding, about 12.5% of all VC collected so far this year, per PitchBook data. That $7.2 billion includes four rounds of at least $100 million: Tmunity‘s $135 million financing, Twist Bioscience‘s $125 million round, and a pair of $100 million fundings for wedding planning startup Zola and office catering service ezCater.
Last year, US-based female-founded companies raised a total of $12.3 billion, a small percentage of the $81.9 billion secured by all US-based companies, though still a decade high for women entrepreneurs. (The oft-cited statistic, that just 2.2% of VC funding went to female founders in 2017, refers to companies founded solely by women, not those that also have male founders.)
