Are you looking to connect with other local female founders? Join a group of like-minded founders who are growing their companies through venture funding or via the customer acquisition and revenue.

Know Your Numbers

AmEx	Number of Women-Owned Businesses Increased Nearly 3,000% Since 1972
DAME Magazine	How to Build a True Women’s Economy
Fortune	Female Founders Got 2% of Venture Capital Dollars in 2017 Funding For Female Founders Stalled at 2.2% of VC Dollars in 2018
HBR	Male and Female Entrepreneurs Get Asked Different Questions by VCs — and It Affects How Much Funding They Get
McKinsey	Why Diversity Matters
TechCrunch	TechCrunch 2017 Women in Venture Report

Tools & Resources

Founders for Change
Founders for Change Diverse Investors List
Female Founders Community on Facebook
Female Founder Office Hours
Google Launchpad
Lean In Circles
Forbes’s Midas List
UPWARD chapters across the U.S.
Watermark (San Francisco Bay Area)
Women in Technology International (WITI)
Women’s Startup Lab

With your purchase of Changing Tides, you support women entrepreneurs and women in venture capital. A percentage of the proceeds from this book go to All Raise, a nonprofit dedicated to diversity founders and funders. Thank you for your support.

Contributors

Maha Ibrahim, Canaan Partners
Gillian Muessig, Sybilla Masters Fund
Terri (Hanson) Mead, Class Bravo Ventures
Xandra Laskowski, OSEA Angel Investors
Suzanne Fletcher, Stanford StartX Fund
Amy Belt Raimundo, Kaiser Permanente Ventures
Mukund Mohan, BuildDirect Technologies
Deb Kilpatrick, Evidation Health
Dorin Rosenshine, Outleads
Tammy Bowers, Lionheart Innovations
Robyn Ward, FounderForward
Jessica Livingston, Y Combinator
Kate Purmal, Georgetown University Women’s Leadership Institute
Debra Vernon, VLP Law Group

 

Praise for Changing Tides

As an angel investor, I’ve focused on women-led companies because they have been historically underfunded yet have delivered abovemarket returns. Changing Tides provides insight and inspiration for both female founders and the smart investors who invest in them.
— Nancy Hayes, Angel Investor

As one who works with female founders around the world, it’s refreshing to see how well this book illustrates the extent to which both opportunities and challenges are shared globally. Changing Tides goes beyond storytelling, catalyzing collaborative, innovative solutions towards meaningful progress for female founders, for women, for society.
—Lucie Newcomb, Founder & CEO/CMO, The NewComm Global Group

Numbers don’t lie. As an investor, I seek better returns. Changing Tides makes a clear and data-driven business case for investing in female founders. All investors should read this book.
— Zeynep Urgun Zorlu, Global Investor, Zurgun Capital