Female Founders Raised $1B Less In 2020
U.S. startups founded solely by females raised just $3.2 billion in 2020, a billion less than the previous year. This isn’t for lack of trying — there wasn’t a downturn in the numbers of female founders pitching for funding.
How Many Founders Should a Startup Have?
Here’s another example of how individual investors in the online equity market (such as Reg A+) use different criteria than traditional VCs. It’s an unwritten rule that VCs don’t want to see more than 2 or 3 founders. But individual startup investors don’t seem to be bothered by that.