Female Founders Fund

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

New York, United States

Total investments

99

Average round size

7M

Portfolio companies

64

Rounds per year

9.90

Lead investments

7

Follow on index

0.34

Exits

5

Stages of investment
SeedEarly Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareWellnessAppsPersonal HealthWomen's

Summary

In 2014 was created Female Founders Fund, which is appeared as VC. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the New York. The company was established in North America in United States.

Considering the real fund results, this VC is 14 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. This Female Founders Fund works on 21 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. When the investment is from Female Founders Fund the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2017. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018.

This organization was formed by Anu Duggal. The overall number of key employees were 1.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Female Founders Fund, startups are often financed by Collaborative Fund, Mesa Ventures, Great Oaks Venture Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Great Oaks Venture Capital, BBG Ventures, Montage Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Great Oaks Venture Capital, IVP (Institutional Venture Partners), Grace Beauty Capital.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Billie, Rockets of Awesome, Coterie. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Information Technology, Mobile. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
EcommerceMedia/ContentMartech/AdtechB2B/EnterpriseAI/Big Data
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
500K — 750K

Preferences and restrictions

Requirements for founders
Female

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 57000000
Fund raised date
2021-06-08

Analytics

Total investments
99
Lead investments
7
Exits
5
Rounds per year
9.90
Follow on index
0.34
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (20)
  • Software (19)
  • E-Commerce (17)
  • Apps (15)
  • Internet (14)
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Investments by region
  • United States (86)
  • United Kingdom (4)
Peak activity year
2019
Number of Unicorns
1
Number of Decacorns
1

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
6
Avg. valuation at time of investment
50M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
2
Avg. multiplicator
2.36
Strategy success index
0.80

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Oula Health 12 Jan 2023 Health Care, Personal Health, Women's Early Stage Venture 19M United States, New York, New York
Suma Wealth 06 Feb 2024 FinTech Seed 2M United States, California, Los Angeles

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