Less than 2% of venture capital is invested in all-women founding teams. And less than 8% goes to mixed-gender teams.
Investors allocate 1.3 times more capital to all-male teams than all-female teams.
Average seed and Series A rounds are 52.5% smaller for all-women founding teams.
10% more revenue over 5 years (BCG/Mass Challenge)
35% uplift for tech firms lead by women (Kauffman/Forbes)
3 X more likely to excel in ESG goals (Journal of Business Venturing)
63% uplift with 1+ female founder (First Round Capital)
Women entrepreneurs drive economic dynamism and innovation, and their underfunding means fewer innovative businesses are launched and scaled in Europe.
and the underfunding of their businesses results in fewer job opportunities.
The European Investment Bank notes that closing the gender employment gap could boost the EU economy by up to €3.15 trillion by 2050, with the funding gap for female founders contributing significantly to this overall shortfall
Since 2023: Our non-profit Diversity Venture Fund female founder/investor matchmaking organisation has helped 78 female deep tech/health tech/sustainability tech founders raise €62.5m with €29m in Progress.
We’re now taking our non-profit Diversity Venture Fund organisation to the next level - launching a €30m self-sufficient Diversity Venture FUND, backing high-growth female-led deep tech/health tech/sustainable tech startups.
The Diversity Venture Fund is backed by LPs including business angels, family offices and founder-investors, and led by an experienced, coherent and complementary fund manager and executive team with deep tech/health tech/sustainability tech expertise, investor and portfolio management experience.
The Diversity Venture Fund is governed by an LP Collective and international advisory board of experienced health tech/deep tech and sustainability tech investors and London Stock Exchange.
Diversity Venture Fund gives you unique access to the best early-stage tech startups, led by female/non-binary founders with focus on health tech/well being and sustainability/climate/greentech. To take advantage of this unique opportunity, you must demonstrate that you’re serious about investing in female/non-binary led businesses (for example in your mission, vision, values, strategy or objectives) OR commit to doing that within six months of signing up.
We’ll send you investor ready pitch decks and invite you to pitch events to meet ambitious female/non-binary founders and talented teams of scalable tech companies. Plus, you’ll be able to join a network of investors and partners who - like you - are committed to finding the best deals, regardless of founder gender. As we say, unique access to diverse deal flow. We’ll stay in touch with you throughout the process to help things run smoothly and ensure Win-Win for founders and investors.
Ambitious female/non-binary founders of cutting edge, scalable tech companies get access to the investments they need and deserve to build global tech companies. Investors get access to high quality, diverse deal flow. It’s a Win-Win! What’s not to like?
An international investor ecosystem advisory board oversees the Fund.