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A statewide directory for women leading and investing in technology startups to narrow the gender investing gap in Florida.
We all know the woeful stats: in 2018, women raised less than 3% of venture capital funding, made up just 26% of the angel investor population, and comprised only 11% of decision-making roles at US-based venture capital firms.
In our effort to narrow the gender gap in Florida investing, we created an open-source list to recognize women founders and investors statewide. With this list, we can collectively better distribute opportunities for Florida’s tech community—enabling founders to develop a community of peers, investors to diversify their deal flow, conferences to identify new voices, and networking dinners and events to offer balanced representation.
View the list of Florida Women Founders + Investors
For the purpose of this research, our dataset includes women co-founders of technology or tech-enabled startups and/or women currently working in an investment-focused role across institutional or corporate funds or established angel investor networks. To maintain the quality of data, we have excluded family offices and super angels. The data was aggregated from Angelist, Crunchbase, The Southeast Capital Landscape, and self-reported by startup support organizations, accelerators, founders, and investors from throughout Florida.
Why does this matter? We chose to collate a list of women investors and founders because of the data-driven links between these two groups.
We see an incredible opportunity to grow the pipeline of investments for women-led companies—and tap into the economic benefits of diverse leadership in the process—by doubling down on diversity in Florida’s investment decision-maker pool.
What’s next? We hope that this list enables women founders and investors throughout the state of Florida to cultivate a sense of community, such as sourcing and referring diverse investment opportunities, meeting prospective co-investors, and connecting when on business trips across the state.
Have an addition? To include any founder or investor that we did not already surface, please submit this form.
Seeking more? Find a slew of resources and expertise curated for this community below:
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Special thanks to Anna Warnke, our Summer Intern at Embarc Collective, who worked diligently to compile the data for this project.
And thank you to our friends in collaboration who helped make this list comprehensive: Antonio Montoya at Domi Station, Fumiko Shinkawa at Groundswell Startups, Raul Moas at The Knight Foundation, Christina Graham at Catapult Lakeland, Tigre Wenrich and Wifredo “Wifi” Fernández at The Lab Miami, and Christine Caven at PS27 Ventures.
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