PE/VC investors
Private Equity (PE) and Venture Capital (VC) investors are the catalysts of innovation and growth in the business world. PE firms primarily target established companies, seeking to optimize operations and unlock value through strategic investments and management expertise. They focus on long-term growth and profitability, often preparing businesses for a future sale or IPO. VC investors, by contrast, are the adventurers of finance, injecting capital into high-potential startups and early-stage companies. They embrace risk for the possibility of outsized returns, often becoming invaluable advisors. Both investor types not only bring capital but also strategic guidance, industry connections, and market insights, propelling their portfolio companies towards success.
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Women Nation Fund
The Women Nation™ Fund is a global, early-stage fund investing in female-founded live music businesses. Its purpose is to provide access to capital for underrepresented female entrepreneurs in the Concert Promotions, Events and Festival space. As Live Nation continues to strive for gender equity and diversity across our Concert business, we have found that there simply aren't enough female-founded festivals or female promoters to draw on. The Women Nation™ Fund will help address this issue by identifying, funding and growing the available pool of female-led festivals, events and promotion companies.
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Women VC
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Started in New York City in 2015, the women in VC directory was created to enable women investors to connect with each other, inspiring collaboration and a sense of community. The directory quickly expanded to other markets, and is now the world’s largest self reported database of active women investors currently at institutional, corporate funds, or family offices - spanning more than 900+ women across 600+ funds and more than 25 countries. Women in the directory use this database in a variety of ways; such as sharing dealflow to identify prospective co-investors, planning events in their respective cities, connecting with other women on business trips, or recruiting talent for their fund.
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Women's Startup Lab
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The mission of Women’s Startup Lab is to create the world in which women entrepreneurs thrive and succeed through innovation and collaboration. Our philosophy is based on the Japanese character, Hito. Two people leaning on each other make up the symbol of Hito, which means “human” in Japanese. By focusing on people, or “human innovation” we aim to transform individuals, companies and the world. Based in Silicon Valley, California, we have been in operation for 6 years. We have run our unique, women focused accelerator for five years, graduating 16 batches. Of our over 150 alumnae, over 55% have successfully raised funds, and 4 have had successful exits. We have also trained over 1,000 corporate leaders. Our growing community numbers 25,000+ worldwide.
Women's Venture Capital Fund
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Several years ago, Edith Dorsen and her Harvard Business School classmate Monica Dodi came across a shocking statistic – less than 5% of venture capital went to leadership teams that included any women. Galvanized by the data, the classmates organized a roundtable at their Harvard Business School Reunion to discuss this limited access to capital. Despite pouring rain in Cambridge that morning and late night section parties, by 8:30am, all 15 of the invitees showed up along with another 15 uninvited yet enthusiastic women!
Women's Ventures Fund
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WomensVCFund II, launched in late 2017, builds upon that initial pioneering success and is poised to capitalize on the inflection point of high-quality, female-led startups.
Scores of studies now show that firms with women in senior management outperform on nearly every metric. Simply put, gender diversity is critical to entrepreneurial success.
Womens VC Fund
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Several years ago, Edith Dorsen and her Harvard Business School classmate Monica Dodi came across a shocking statistic – less than 5% of venture capital went to leadership teams that included any women.
Galvanized by the data, the classmates organized a roundtable at their Harvard Business School Reunion to discuss this limited access to capital. Despite pouring rain in Cambridge that morning and late night section parties, by 8:30am, all 15 of the invitees showed up along with another 15 uninvited yet enthusiastic women!
Early Stage
First institutional financing round at Series A/B after companies have completed significant angel/seed funding and are in bona fide market traction with revenues
Gender-Inclusive Management Team
Management teams inclusive of women and men that possess domain expertise, operating experience, a clear vision, and the ability to recruit and retain senior talent
West Coast
Pacific Northwest and California preferred as proximity to our entrepreneurs allows for a closer, more effective working relationship with portfolio companies
Sectors
Three high growth sectors where women are important leaders, decision makers and consumers: Enterprise SaaS, Consumer Internet, and Educational Technology
Capital-Efficient
High potential enterprises that can achieve significant revenue generation with relatively modest capital investment
High Growth and Scalable
Large market opportunity that addresses a demonstrable need with the ability to scale rapidly
Wonder Ventures
Wonder Ventures invests in entrepreneurs who have great ideas. Who build the world’s most innovative technology companies in order to address the world’s toughest challenges. Who think of long-term solutions that span generations.
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Woowa Brothers
Elegant brothers' who run the nation's No. 1 delivery app delivery nation under the vision of'Where to Eat Good Food','Baemin Riders', which delivers food from restaurants that could not be delivered, self-employed in the food industry We are changing the delivery culture with the'Baemin Sanghoe', which provides good quality delivery products at reasonable prices. In addition, in order to advance into a comprehensive'food tech' company, we are preparing and expanding our business into global businesses such as entering overseas markets and future businesses such as artificial intelligence (AI) and self-driving robot technology development.
Work America Capital
Work America Capital is a Houston, Texas-based venture capital firm dedicated developing future leaders, benefiting others, and providing founders and investors with targeted returns.
Work-Bench Ventures
Work-Bench is an enterprise VC fund based in NYC. We are proud enterprise nerds from corporate IT now in VC to truly change the game. We feel grateful everyday to work alongside incredible founders building game-changing technologies for enterprise software. We know what it takes for an early stage startup to navigate the abyss of an IT org at a large global enterprise company, and we want to be your VC partners on the journey.
