2024 List of Venture Funds And Accelerators for Women
Nixon Law Group’s Invest in Women List
An annually updated list of venture funds and accelerators for women. (Last update: December 2025)
What’s changed this year?
While the deal count for female-founded companies grew from 5.6% in 2019 to 7.1% in 2023, total capital invested decreased from 2.6% in 2019 to 2.1% in 2023. [Source: Pitchbook]
There is a sign of progress, though. In October 2023, California passed a law requiring VC firms to submit annual reports detailing the diversity of the founders they invest in, including gender.
As famous management consultant Peter Drucker said, “What gets measured gets managed.”
We’re predicting this law will force the kind of scrutiny that leads to more equitable funding and higher associated returns.
And funds outside of California will follow.
Now let’s get to this year’s list.
Venture Funds for Women
3 Sisters Ventures: "3 Sisters Ventures (3SV) is a London-based venture capital firm investing in tech-enabled solutions that address women's underserved needs. We invest across three verticals: Health & Self, Work & Wealth and Family & Crew. Women’s needs have long been underfunded and we are on a mission to direct capital to close gender gaps. 3SV is sponsored by FTSE 250 listed investment firm IP Group and is a signatory to the Investing in Women Code."
Amboy Street Ventures: "We are dedicated to the growth of Women's Health & Sexual Health startups. Our Partners formed Amboy Street Ventures to bridge the funding gap and invest in the companies that are ushering forward a new world of inclusive health and wellbeing."
Amplifyher Ventures: "Amplifyher is a Venture Capital firm that invests in diverse leadership teams with a unique ability to create flywheel effects of growth in new markets. Amplifyher arms outstanding women with the resources and capital needed to build their own C-Suites."
Astia: "Today's most impactful high-growth companies are led by inclusive teams. We invest in high-performing women-led companies that solve global problems."
AV Women's Venture Fund: "Invest in women entrepreneurial leaders bringing their talents and perspective to promising markets — from femtech to software, pharma, biotech, CPGs, and more"
Avestria Ventures: "Avestria invests in women’s health and female-led life science ventures. We define women’s health as conditions affecting women exclusively (such as menopause), differently (such as cardiovascular disease), or disproportionately (such as Alzheimer’s). We seek out early-stage businesses with a product or service that utilizes technology and/or data to improve the quality of healthcare, improve access, lower costs or empower patients."
BBG Ventures: "BELLE Capital USA, LP is an early-stage angel fund focused on building great companies in underserved capital markets across the USA. Companies seeking our capital must have at least one female founder or C-level exec, and/or be willing to recruit top female talent to the C-suite and Board of Directors. We prefer teams with strong domain expertise, and proven commercialization and entrepreneurial experience."
Belle Capital USA: “We invest in female founders building game-changing businesses which empower women, in particular, to manage their health, build their wealth, and live in a cleaner, safer world.”
Bumble Fund: "We’re Launching Bumble Fund to Invest in Women Founders. Bumble Fund will focus on early-stage investments, primarily in businesses founded and led by women of color and those from underrepresented groups."
Chingona Ventures: “Focus on "Industries that are massively changing and founders whose backgrounds uniquely position them to create businesses in growth markets that are often overlooked. Focus areas are in financial technology, future of work, future of learning, and health technology."
Chloe Capital: "We focus on diverse women tech leaders solving the world’s biggest problems across climate, education and health. We are committed to supporting women and underrepresented leaders, as well as founders with diverse teams."
Claritas Capital: "We believe that the convergence of the growing number of female-led companies being underserved by the capital markets and our rich pipeline of opportunities with attractive valuations creates the ideal timing to launch the Claritas Athena Ventures strategy. We have a strong pipeline of women founders building venture-backable businesses solving gaps with technology, services, and products."
Coyote Ventures: "Democratizing healthcare access for overlooked populations through innovation. We launched Coyote Ventures in 2021 with the belief that investing in companies designed to optimize the health of traditionally overlooked populations, especially women, provides both a powerful opportunity for impact and strong potential for high returns. Years later, we are proud to have backed a variety of companies advancing health equity, improving the lives of women and other historically marginalized communities. Our portfolio spans traditional women’s health, addressing conditions like endometriosis, breast cancer, and maternal health, as well as broader health equity challenges such as social barriers to care, family building resources, aging, caregiving, and much more."
DigitalDX: "DigitalDx Ventures is a Silicon Valley venture capital fund creating outsized financial and social impact by investing in early-stage health technology companies that deliver innovative solutions using artificial intelligence (AI) to better diagnose + treat illness.”
Elevate Capital: "Elevate Capital is the nation’s first institutional venture capital fund that specifically targets investments in underserved entrepreneurs—such as women and ethnic minorities, or those with limited access regionally to capital and opportunities. We support visionaries with disruptive ideas and products through two specialized investment vehicles."
Emmeline Ventures: "We are a group of investors steadfastly committed to investing in and serving as catalysts for new, emerging founders & businesses. We invest in female founders building game-changing businesses which empower women, in particular, to manage their health, build their wealth, and live in a cleaner, safer world."
Female Founders Fund: "In 2014, we created Female Founders Fund with one simple belief: women will build the companies of tomorrow. Since then, we’ve become the leading source of institutional capital for female founders raising seed capital with over $3B in enterprise value."
GingerBread Capital: "At GingerBread Capital, we invest in female founders leading high-growth-potential businesses, and in emerging funds led by women and underrepresented managers. We help them gain access to the knowledge, networks and capital they need to build and scale successful enterprises, and we encourage others to do the same."
Graham and Walker Venture Fund: "We invest in venture capital’s biggest blind spots. We back underestimated founders who are grit-fueled and feedback-hungry, with a unique pulse on problem they are solving."
HearstLab: "Only 2% of all venture capital funding goes to women-led companies. We're here to change that. Our mission is supported by three pillars: Create value from the investments we make; Bring visibility and opportunity to women at HearstLab and beyond; and Amplify Innovation at Hearst."
The Helm: We are a New York-based early-stage venture firm investing in women through our fund and investor membership. Innovation is not gender-specific, yet only 2% of venture capital goes to female founders. The Helm is changing that."
How Women Invest: "Our fund is singularly devoted to investing in companies founded or co-founded by women. This focus stems from an acute awareness of the underrepresentation and underfunding of women in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. By channeling investments into these companies, the fund not only promotes gender diversity but also taps into the often-overlooked potential and unique perspectives brought by women leaders."
Hypatia Capital: "We are fueling the most innovative companies in the market. Our portfolio represents the future of how we live, work, and ensure human and environmental health. We focus on the overlooked asset class that can yield 35% higher returns for investors: women founders."
January Ventures: "Today’s biggest opportunities aren’t for the faint of heart: they require incredible determination and unique perspectives. We invest in founders based on their differentiated industry expertise, outsized ambition and demonstrated tenacity, not their pedigrees or who they know. Silicon Valley is a mindset, not just a geography or network. These outlier founders may not always fit the traditional mold, but they are the start of a new pattern. They are the founders who will define our future."
LDR Ventures: "Female led and California-based, we consult to and invest primarily in female and underserved entrepreneurs at the Seed & Series A Stages. We focus on marketplaces, consumer products and services that make people’s lives better. LDR helps to develop platforms, products and business models with clear paths to profitability."
March of Dimes Innovation Fund: "The March of Dimes Innovation Fund is a venture philanthropy initiative that uses donated funds to invest in early-stage companies to address the most pressing maternal and infant health challenges to improve outcomes. As the leading organization fighting to improve mom and baby health, we stay current on the latest research breakthroughs and solutions in the market that address the complex care needs of moms and babies. With our Innovation Fund, we support promising companies with a strong potential for impact, and that are poised to benefit from March of Dimes' investment and support."
Plum Alley: "We invest in advanced technology and healthcare companies at the Series A and B that will improve our lives and the planet. Our founders are technologists of the highest caliber, and we require our portfolio companies to have at least one woman in the founding team."
Portfolia: "Portfolia thematic funds put your capital to work in high-growth sectors like women health, greentech, fintech, and more. With 115+ companies backed, including billion-dollar leaders supporting the innovations women want, investors gain both strong returns and lasting impact."
Renew Ventures: "Founders tackling huge societal shifts and challenges in areas like Clean Energy, Mobility, AgTech, AI, Healthcare, and Future of Work represent one of the biggest investment opportunities in VC. These companies have the most dedicated talent and the strongest tailwinds. Success in VC is largely determined by seeing market opportunities that others miss. Therefore, tremendous return possibilities exist among women, historically excluded, and overlooked founders."
Rethink Impact: "Rethink Impact is the largest, US-based venture capital firm investing in female leaders using tech to solve the world’s biggest problems. Rethink Impact believes that the next generation of extraordinary companies (in health, environmental sustainability, education, and economic empowerment) will find success through their relentless pursuit of mission, for the benefit of all communities."
RH Capital: "RH Capital is an impact-first venture capital fund. We are committed to advancing health equity and outcomes within women’s health, particularly for historically underserved populations."
Rhia Ventures: "At Rhia Ventures, we envision a world where every woman and birthing person can thrive with full autonomy over their reproductive and maternal health; where capital is intentionally deployed to advance the health and economic well-being of all women because investment decisions are rooted in racial and gender equity; and where the investment field recognizes women’s health as a driver of economic growth, innovation, and equity."
Rogue Women’s Fund: "Rogue Women’s Fund is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in women-led B2B SaaS, Enterprise, and B2B2C software companies. We write average check size of $500K, can lead or join a round, and love to roll up our sleeves to help founders build venture scalable, impactful businesses. Our investments span women’s health, the care economy, experience tech, and foundational industries. We invest in early seed stage companies incorporated in the US. A fundamental value we hold is to get more money in the hands of women. Money is Power. Not only do we invest, but we share the profits of our fund with every founder we invest in. That's right - when we invest in you, you are an investor in all of our Rogue Women founders!"
Sandpiper Ventures: "We provide a platform where women investors and founders can radically disrupt the venture capital environment. Sandpiper Ventures unlocks capital and innovation through greater diversity of investors and strong connections to global markets; we contribute to a stronger ecosystem, stronger economy and approach to investment with better businesses, deals, and higher investment returns."
Serena Ventures: "We back bold founders reshaping how we live, work, move, and connect. Our perspective is global. Our standard is excellence. Our purpose is to expand access, ownership, and opportunity at scale."
Sofia Fund: "Our FOCUS is on gender-diverse teams with disruptive, scalable business models that use technology to solve real problems. We are interested in businesses where our investment can be leveraged by the additional resources and support Sofia can bring to foster success."
SoGal Ventures: "SoGal Ventures is the first women-led, next-gen venture capital firm. SoGal Ventures represents how far our generation has come and how deep our impact on the world can be. We are investing in next-gen billion-dollar businesses that unapologetically benefit people, society, and the planet."
Springboard Enterprises: "We are a 501c3 not-for-profit organization with the mission to accelerate the growth of entrepreneurial companies led by women through access to essential resources and a global community of experts. What’s more, Springboard’s specialized accelerator programs enable women to build the strategic infrastructure their business needs to break out and breakthrough."
Suttona Capital: "Suttona Capital is One of One – the only female-led and female-focused growth equity investors backing consumer brands. We invest in high-growth companies with market leadership potential and ESG-friendly business practices. We target consumer-facing companies that we believe will benefit from financial sponsorship by a female-focused fund."
Swizzle Ventures: "Advancing women’s health & wealth through pivotal life stages. We back founders building high-growth potential companies across Women’s Health, Caregiving & Financial Health."
True Wealth Ventures: "We see value in the impact of women. True Wealth Ventures invests in smart female entrepreneurs, from consumer health innovators to sustainable product pioneers. Women-led companies have proven they deliver higher returns. It’s time to invest in new perspectives."
VCsForRepro: "VCs For Repro is a coalition of venture capital firms that frames abortion as an economic and innovation imperative. The coalition began in early 2022 with a thesis that the venture capital community, with enormous power to shape society, and laser-focused on innovation and the future, has an obligation to lead on reproductive rights."
The Venture Collective: "At TVC, it is our goal to invest in highly defensible, category defining, mission driven companies solving for the world’s biggest problems. In parallel, we have a strong preference for working with founders that prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion, at every point and turn, because it’s long been proven that diverse teams outperform. We believe this is the clearest investment and impact opportunity of the coming decades with our very own team representing our intent and ongoing commitment in action."
The W Fund: "We have a singular focus on investing in founders who personify their product, can effortlessly address their target market, and are obsessed with solving the problem. We get excited about technology founders who have a confident path to profits, are excited about the contributions our extensive network could have on their startup, are 100% committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, and care about the well-being of themselves and their team. After all, people are truly the biggest asset a growing company can have."
WXR Fund: "The WXR Fund invests in two of the greatest opportunities of our time: spatial computing + female entrepreneurs.
Accelerators for Women
FemTech Lab (London): "FemTech Lab is an impact driven innovation platform on a mission to improve the lives of 1 Billion Women globally. Our mission is to accelerate fair healthcare for all women around the world, and to ultimately help women reach their full potential through better understanding their bodies and cyclic nature."
HearstLab: "We provide strategic capital and support to early-stage, women-led technology startups. HearstLab is unapologetically mission- and founder-first. We lead with fairness and honesty, working to close the gap in VC funding for women by helping founders build sustainable and highly-scalable businesses."
Springboard Enterprises (Washington, DC): "We are a 501c3 not-for-profit organization with the mission to accelerate the growth of entrepreneurial companies led by women through access to essential resources and a global community of experts. What’s more, Springboard’s specialized accelerator programs enable women to build the strategic infrastructure their business needs to break out and breakthrough."
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