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Female Founders Fund
Venture capital · New York, NY, United States · North America
Female Founders Fund is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 that invests in female-founded companies. It provides institutional capital to female founders raising seed capital and supports them through a community and platform.
Invests inHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsfemale foundersdigital healthaivertical softwarebeautydeep tech
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Or find every investor that fitsFemale Founders Fund lists 63 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 5 funding rounds, 5 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (16%), E-commerce & Marketplaces (13%) and Enterprise Software (12%). 84% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside GingerBread Capital, Lerer Hippeau and Black Jays.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Female Founders Fund, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Female Founders Fund's whole history. Rounds on record name 4 companies; its own site lists 63. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 100% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 1 | 1 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 2 |
| '26 | 2 | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 89th | 63 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 63th | 5% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 5th | 16% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 78th | 5 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 16% | 15% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 13% | 5% |
| Enterprise Software | 12% | 8% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 11% | 18% |
| Fintech | 11% | 12% |
| Education | 10% | 7% |
| Consumer | 9% | 3% |
| Food & Agriculture | 5% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| GingerBread Capital | 7 |
| Lerer Hippeau | 5 |
| Black Jays | 4 |
| Collaborative Fund | 4 |
| Greycroft | 4 |
| Western Technology Investment | 4 |
| Ingeborg Investments | 3 |
| XFactor Ventures | 3 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers6197%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company23%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with GingerBread Capital
Compare Female Founders Fund head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Female Founders Fund| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 11 Mar 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 1 Sept 2025 | Seed Led | |
| 19 Aug 2025 | Seed Led | |
| 28 Nov 2022 | Seed Led |
Round details for Female Founders Fund
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Female Founders Fund's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
63 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company sells books, merchandise, and memberships related to romantic fiction. | Enterprise SoftwareE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Amini builds infrastructure that enables nations and enterprises to own, process, and govern their data securely and locally | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Arey sells hair and scalp treatment products. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Artemis provides private or public LTE/5G network solutions | Healthcare & BiotechEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Base provides a platform for managing ecommerce processes, including order management, inventory, and shipping | E-commerce & MarketplacesEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Beyond Aero develops electric business aircraft using hydrogen propulsion. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Boss Beauties creates original digital characters and expands them into stories, experiences, and other media | Enterprise SoftwareEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Branch International provides digital banking services, including loans, money transfers, bill payment, investments, and savings, through a smartphone-based platform. | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Cay Skin sells skincare and sunscreen products. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Ceremonia sells haircare products | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| ChronicleBio collects and analyzes human data to develop medicines for complex chronic diseases | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Compound Foods creates delicious, cost-effective solutions to climate-vulnerable crops, matching flavor and functionality while using locally sourced, low-emission ingredients. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides an astrology app that generates hyper-personalized and real-time horoscopes using NASA data and natural-language engine. | Enterprise SoftwareMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Coterie produces and sells baby care products, including diapers, wipes, and skincare items. | Consumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Culinary Agents operates a hiring platform and professional community for the hospitality industry | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a decision intelligence platform for retail businesses to make informed decisions on inventory, buying, and fulfillment | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| The company operates a marketplace for fans to sell and buy fan-made merchandise and event tickets. | Enterprise SoftwareE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Gabbi assesses the risk of breast cancer in women and coordinates their care. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| WATS brings every site, vendor, service, fee, and waste stream into one trusted platform to help organizations manage waste | Space & DefenseE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Gixo creates and exports various types of content, including presentations, articles, visuals, proposals, and books, using AI technology. | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- femalefoundersfund.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 28 Nov 2022
- Companies checked
- 63
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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