Originally posted in crunchbase

We close out the decade with 20 percent of global startups raising their first funding round in 2019 having a female founder.

The proportion of female co-founded companies has doubled since 2009 which stood at 10 percent.

In our very first report, published in early 2015 after we added gender to Crunchbase, we noted: “In 2009, 9.5% startups had at least one woman founder, but by 2014 that rate had almost doubled to 18%. At the same time, the absolute number of companies (along with the total number of startups) with a female founder more than quadrupled from 117 in 2009 to 555 in 2014.”

Back in 2009 there were far fewer startups, and a lot less funding.

In the five years since 2014, close to 10,000 startups with at least one female founder have raised funding. This signals a huge shift in our industry and our reporting on founders reflects that.

Along with the changed funding environment, many notable female-founded venture firms have been set up in the last 10 years… Continue reading in Crunchbase News