27V (Twenty-Seven Ventures) leads first founding rounds for thoughtful founders building the future of learning and labor. The Fund invests $50-$500k in global EdTech and Future of Work startups, leading Pre-Seed rounds and investing at Seed
Businesses founded by women deliver higher revenue—more than 2 times as much per dollar invested—than those founded by men, making women-owned companies better investments for financial backers.2021 saw an 83% increase in funding for women founders, the total is still only 2% of dollars invested in venture-backed companies. This creates a huge opportunity for innovators seeking to get the higher return from investing in diversity
Female Founders Fund
Female Founders Fund started in 2014 to make investments in tech start-ups
with female founders. E-commerce, web-enabled offerings, markets, and
interfaces are some of the areas of concentration.
List of top 7 women investors
Ankita Vasishta
Location: Bengaluru, London, San Jose
Industry: Healthtech, Edtech, Fintech, Cybersecurity, Foodtech, Ecommerce,
Data and Enterprise tech
Average Ticket Size: $500K
Portfolio: Licious, Luxola, Consure, Uniphore, Pretty Secrets, Inner Chef,
Fitternity, Go, Coop, Mpaani
Bala Deshpande, NEA
Location: NA
Industry: Sector Agnostic
Average Ticket Size: $5 Mn – $25 Mn.
Portfolio: Air Works, FSS, Panacea Medical, MediSys, Naaptol, Nova,
GreytHR and Intelligence Node
Debjani Ghosh
Location: Gurugram
Industry: Sector Agnostic
Average Ticket Size: $7.70K – $15.41K (INR 5- INR 10 Lakhs)
Portfolio: INCLOV, Mobile Walla
TMeeta Malhotra
Location: Bengaluru
Industry: Sector Agnostic
Average Ticket Size: $30K – $100K
Portfolio: Voonik, Your Story, Lets Venture, Kinetic Glue, Axis Rooms,
Varana
Padmaja Ruparel, IAN
Location: New Delhi
Average Ticket Size: up to $25K (personally); up to $1 Mn (through IAN
Angel Investor Group); $1mn to $5 Mn (through IAN Fund)
Paula Mariwala, Stanford Angels, Entrepreneurs India & Seed Fund
Location: Mumbai
Industry: Fintech, Education, Deep Tech, Social Impact
Average Ticket Size: NA
Portfolio: RedBus, Carwale, Voonik, Heckyl, Brown tape, Frontier Markets,
Resorts- (through Seed fund); Unacademic, Gyan Dhan, Kopy Kitab, Beta out,
Your Dost, Aawaz De (Angel Investments)
Dr Anu Gupta
Location: Hyderabad
Industry: Technology
Average Ticket Size: Undisclosed
Portfolio: Meetings and offices, Kalaage, Edgefc, Imaginary, Swajal (in the
process)
in 2021 ,83% increase in funding for women founders
Reference : Women Entrepreneurship Encyclopedia by Dr.Rumi Borah
