Female investors and female founders are demonstrating the promise of an overlooked group of entrepreneurs.
When it comes to women and venture capital, the most often-cited numbers don't show much progress. If anything, they seem to be saying that things are getting worse. Using the most current data available, Babson's Diana Project found that teams with a woman co-founder got 18 percent of venture capital in 2013; at the end of 2017, Crunchbase, using a different methodology, pegged that number at just 10 percent.
But in the past few months, there have been a number of signs that women entrepreneurs, and ventures designed to funnel more money to them, are finally starting to break through. There's new money being allocated to women, and some of the money already invested in women entrepreneurs is starting to pay off, big-time.
In roughly chronological order, here are seven signs the ground is beginning to shift for women founders:
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