According to digital resources, 2,300 or more women founders have raised $1 million venture capital funding pre-COVID-19
Of the 1,714 women founders Harlem Capital reviewed who have raised over $1M in funding, women collectively raised a total of $56.4B in capital. They also held an average founding year of 2013 and an individual fundraised amount of $5.8M. These founders represented 63 industries with a large number of the founders from the software, biotech, and healthcare industries. Of the most highly represented industries, women raised a total of 33% of all capital.
Collectively, across the larger population of founders analyzed, over 50% of all companies were in their early stages at the seed and Series-A rounds. While the industry that led the charge with the largest median raised was the Human Resources industry at $80M followed by Crowdsourcing at $69M and Materials at $58M. Of the 92 headquartered cities, founders were based in San Francisco , New York City , Los Angeles , and Boston .
A large majority of these founders similarly lived in San Francisco , New York City , and Los Angeles . The total capital raised among the top 300 women founders was highest in the Finance , Biotech , and Industry & Energy industries. A large majority of these women were in their Post Series B round, followed by those in their Seed , and Series B rounds. The total capital raised in a post Series B round was $17B with individual founders’ average capital raised at $2B.
While looking at woman representation on the venture capital side in 2018, a large finding from Harlem Capital’s report was that out of 200 Black and Latinx venture capitalists nearly 40% women and. In comparison, when reviewing the top 300 women founders, 132 were Chief Executive Officers or Co-Founders and the remaining were Founders , Chief Operating Officers , Presidents , Chief Marketing Officers , Chief Financial Officers , or Chief Officer .
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