While 2018 is at an all-time high for investment dollars into female-founded startups, there is still a ways to go with female founders raising only 17 percent of investment dollars.
As 2018 drew to a close, Crunchbase News reported on a year of superlatives. With technology impacting a broader set of industries, we’ve seen unprecedented funding amounts in 2018 (projected to be up 56 percent YoY), along with a rise in supergiant rounds. Nearly $40 billion was invested in companies with at least one female founder, representing 17 percent of invested dollars in the year.
Let’s take a more nuanced look at how female-founded startups fared this investment cycle. Let’s take a look at a subset of that topline number.
Of the almost $40 billion raised by women in 2018, 50 known rounds were above the $100 million mark for this year, making up for 65 percent ($26.2 billion) of the dollar amounts raised by companies with at least one female founder.
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