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Funding women-led startups is a topic that has garnered significant attention in recent years. However, there are still many untold truths and challenges that continue to shape the funding landscape for women entrepreneurs. Below are some of the key points to consider:
- Funding Gap Remains Significant
Despite the growth in initiatives to support women entrepreneurs, the funding gap between male-led and female-led startups is still wide. Women-led startups receive a disproportionately small share of venture capital funding. According to studies, women-founded startups typically receive just 2-3% of all VC funding, despite making up a significant portion of entrepreneurs.
- Bias and Stereotypes
Venture capitalists, angel investors, and other funding sources often have unconscious biases that favor male entrepreneurs over female ones. Research suggests that investors may perceive men as more capable or more risk-worthy, even when women-led startups perform equally well or better on key metrics. Women entrepreneurs often face skepticism about their leadership abilities or the potential for their companies to scale.
- Lack of Representation in Investment Roles
One of the reasons for this funding gap is the lack of women in decision-making roles within investment firms. As of recent reports, women make up a very small percentage of venture capitalists. This lack of representation can lead to missed opportunities for women-led businesses, as investors may not fully appreciate the unique challenges and opportunities that women face when building businesses.
- Network Challenges
Investors often fund entrepreneurs who they know or who have connections within their network. Historically, women have been excluded from many of the high-powered networks that lead to investment opportunities. As a result, women entrepreneurs often lack the same access to potential investors, mentors, and advisors that their male counterparts benefit from.
- Risk Aversion
Some research indicates that women-led businesses are often perceived as more cautious or risk-averse. This can result in women being less likely to pursue high-risk ventures or ask for large funding amounts. Yet, when women do take the leap and create high-growth businesses, they often deliver strong financial returns and innovation.
- Investor Preferences and Product Market Fit
Some investors may also have a bias toward certain industries that are more male-dominated, such as tech or finance, which can leave women-led startups in other sectors—such as healthcare, education, and consumer goods—at a disadvantage when seeking funding. Moreover, investors may underestimate the potential for women-led businesses to meet the needs of underserved markets or emerging consumer segments.
- Access to Government and Private Grants
While there are an increasing number of grants, accelerators, and funds dedicated to women entrepreneurs, navigating these opportunities can still be a challenge. Many women are unaware of available funding options, or face barriers in accessing them, such as excessive competition or unclear application processes.
- Support from Women-Centric Investment Funds
In recent years, there has been a surge in women-led venture capital funds and angel investment networks that focus specifically on funding women-led startups. These funds aim to address the gender gap in funding by focusing on women entrepreneurs who might otherwise be overlooked. However, these initiatives still face challenges, such as limited capital and ongoing societal bias toward male-led businesses.
- Cultural and Societal Norms
In some regions, women entrepreneurs face additional cultural or societal barriers that make it more difficult to secure funding. In patriarchal or conservative societies, for instance, women may have limited access to education or financial resources, making it harder for them to start businesses in the first place.
- Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected women entrepreneurs, particularly those in industries like retail, hospitality, and personal services. These businesses were often the first to face closures and the last to recover. As a result, women-led startups have faced additional funding hurdles in the post-pandemic world.
Conclusion
While there have been strides made in promoting funding for women-led startups, there are still significant barriers to overcome. Addressing unconscious bias, increasing the representation of women in investment roles, and creating more inclusive networks and funding mechanisms are all key to ensuring that women entrepreneurs have equal access to capital. With a more equitable approach to funding, women-led startups could contribute even more to global innovation, economic growth, and job creation.
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Jeanette's bio:
Jeanette Cheah is the founder and CEO of HEX, an award-winning and impact-focused EdTech company that grows the exponential intelligence of the future workforce through skills and mindset-based programs for students. Twice listed as one of Australia’s Top 100 Innovators, she is also a regular guest lecturer, keynote speaker, and passionate advocate for tech inclusion and diversity in business. Jeanette has represented Australia at the G20 Young Entrepreneurs Alliance in Argentina, was a Telstra Business Women’s Awards finalist, and in 2021 was named a 40 Under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australian, winning the category for Entrepreneurship.
Nicole Bryl, a New York A-list Beauty expert turned skincare Founder born and raised on the upper east side of NYC.
- Nicole’s three decade long
career in beauty began at
the age of 14.
From red carpets, magazine covers, beauty campaigns and eventually to the White House where she served the First Lady for 4 years.Stumbling onto an artisanal handcrafted skincare business by chance from one-of-a-kind formula’s she created in her kitchen. We chat where her company will be heading in the next year and a half and how to scale these formulas.
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Nicole Bryl Bio:
More than a three decade celebrity makeup artist, Nicole Bryl is the person her clients turn to again and again for friendship, confidentiality and a guiding hand behind their image, making them look and feel their most beautiful and supported. Now combined with her signature Vitamin C, 4 Minute Anti-Aging Skincare Treatment (a daily 4 Step Method skin prep which she invented in her kitchen and which is now loved and used by all of her clients before she applies their makeup), her A-list subjects are left with a beauty experience that is unmatchable.
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These suits are environmentally friendly, they are SPF 35, so we reduce the amount of sunscreen being used and contaminate the oceans.
~The SPF 35 helps to prevent photo-aging and skin damage.
~The mesh fabric allows you to still get a tan without burns or tan lines.
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~Paired with our beach wear skirts or pants you can go from the beach to the town without having to change.
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Chelle Pahinui Bio
Chelle Pahinui is the Executive Director of the Na‘alehu Theatre, a Hawai‘i based non-profit focused on culturally based event production, community economic development and educational programs. Over the past 30 years, Chelle has specialized in creating traditional music and arts programs and youth development through mentorship. She has contributed numerous published photos for documentation, press kits, promotions, media and publication and received nominations for and winning a Na Hoku Hanohano Award for CD liner notes. She has helped to develop video project proposals and treatments and assisted with video recording and editing.
Chelle has a B.S. in Agriculture Business, an MBA, and has completed all of requirements except dissertation of a PhD in Sustainable Tourism, Hospitality and Marketing from Victoria University at Melbourne Australia.
Chelle works as an independent contractor/consultant to government, business, and non-profit organizations, with over 30 years-experience in grant writing, management, and implementation, receiving and administering well over $2,000,000 in support funds for local community-based non-profits.
As a lecturer for over 20 years at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo / Hawai‘i Community College, Chelle has taught Business and Marketing and developed and taught an accredited program in Sustainable Tourism Management.
Chelle owns and operates a diversified organic Coffee farm and vacation rental in Ke‘ei-Kona where she enjoys farming, value added product development, and spending time at the nearby beaches.
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ELIZABETH CLAROS
Elizabeth is based in New York and has been an integral part of the International Fashion Industry for 30 years as a model agent and a leading fashion producer of global content for television networks and online channels. Elizabeth currently manages video teams covering global fashion weeks and creating original new fashion related content. Elizabeth’s fashion industry insider knowledge and contacts have been integral to the development of RUNWAY BUY features.
For the Aloha Shirt festival and Fashion Week Hawai‘i, Elizabeth heads up the New York Office with Operations oversight. She is responsible for ensuring the RUNWAY BUY Platform dovetails seamlessly into Fashion Weeks and other industry events as well as ensuring that the platform is simple to use for all Designers, and that the video content quality is to our specification. She will also oversee the social media marketing, PR, and influencer marketing campaigns.
As a Global Content Manager for the Global Fashion Channel a US based company Elizabeth is responsible for overseeing all content in fashion, luxury lifestyle, art, fashion caring and fashion films that broadcast on the channel. Coordinate all filming, interviews in the US, Europe, Middle East, and Asia assuring that the team gets the best content on the grounds.
Aa a former Global Content Manager and Creative Director of Fashion One Television; She was responsible for all filming in North/South America, Europe, and Africa. Managed a team of over 40 video content providers with coordinating and creating content for channel that was fashion related content. Worked closely with the marketing director to launch new markets and coordinated global media partnerships like Women fashion Film Festival-NY, Serbia Fashion Week, Fashion Finest, Kenya Fashion Awards, MB Bokeh Fashion Film Festival South Africa.
In 2010, Elizabeth started Ellie Production a photo production company that is focused on South America client shooting in exotic location responsible for coordinating every aspect of the shoot for editorials, campaigns, catalogs, fashion shows and TV shows. Have had the opportunity to shoot in Miami, Patagonia, Chichen-Itza Mayan Ruins- Mexico, Cartagena-Colombia, Tulum, Dominican Republic, Joshua Tree National Park.
Through this avenue, she was introduced to the modeling world and for 20 years, she has worked at some of the most prestigious model agencies in the fashion industry from opening divisions, booking, development and discovering some of the most beautiful faces that have graced the pages of campaigns and editorials.
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How Family Offices Can Regain Access To Venture Capital
During Peter’s 25 years of VC experience he found white space (the white space being where certain FO’s can’t or don’t have the resources to participate in venture) between the intersection of VCs and Family Offices.
How Family Offices can regain access to VC (more recently smaller to midsize FO’s have not been included into top-tier deals or having the option access deal by deal opportunities due to being crowded out by Institutions and endowments)
Background on why and how Peter started PORTAL to cater to high-net worth individuals and Family Offices
How Family Offices can leverage the power of PORTAL’s Community
How to leverage QSBS to achieve $10 million in tax-free capital gains
Benefits of using Tax Advantaged Accounts
Peter Loukianoff Bio:
Peter is the founding partner of PORTAL, serving as its Managing Partner. He has over 25 years of experience as a business innovator, leader, and investor in Silicon Valley, Europe, and Asia. Previously, Mr. Loukianoff has been part of founding four successful venture capital firms, and raised funds for Alumni Ventures Group (AVG) – ranked by Pitchbook as the #3 most active VC firm in the US deploying over $250M per year in capital and managing a global portfolio of over 400 start-up companies (where he founded the UC Berkeley franchise Strawberry Creek Ventures); Black River Ventures, a US/European cross-border investment fund;
Almaz Capital, one of the first technology funds focused on the Russian/CIS market; and Modern Venture Partners, a spin-off from AVG.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Loukianoff was a partner at Alloy Ventures and Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Co., where he worked on innovation strategies for multinational corporations. He has negotiated dozens of investment deals, served on numerous boards, and done business in 40+ countries around the world. He got his start in venture capital as an intern at Kleiner Perkins during business school. Notable start-ups that he and his funds have backed, include Qik (acq. by Skype), Yandex (Nasdaq: YNDX), Relayr (acq. by MunichRe), Marqeta (Nasdaq: MQ), Coursera (Nyse: COUR), LitRes (acq. by Ozon.ru), nScaled (acq. by Acronis), and Xactly (Nasdaq: XTLY). Formerly, Peter was a founding team member and senior operating executive with several start-ups, including Autonomy, a pioneer in unstructured data applications, and Silicon Valley Data Science (acq. by Apple).
As an internationally recognized expert in cross-border innovation, venture capital, and entrepreneurship, Mr. Loukianoff has advised several heads-of-state and world leaders on these subjects. Peter has also been a contributor to Forbes and the EastWest Institute, a guest commentator on television shows such as CNBC’s Street Signs, and has been covered by The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Bloomberg, et al. Mr. Loukianoff is a member of the Forbes Global CEO network and frequent speaker at industry conferences. He earned an MBA and BS in Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and is co-inventor on four mobile messaging patents.
About PORTAL:
PORTAL is a Community-first venture capital firm that brings together exceptional entrepreneurs and investors to build global technology startups that ascend the human experience. Want to learn more about PORTAL? Click here to join the Community.
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𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐅𝐎𝐌𝐎 (𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐭).. 𝟑 𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐬!
A flock of sheep, a shoal of fish, a herd of … Investors!
For better or for worse investors run in packs and get attracted to start-ups in herds. It’s not uncommon for one interested investor to quickly turn into many and fill a seed round.
So how do we attract the herd?
… by creating FOMO (fear of missing out). Due to the huge returns start-ups can provide, investors are more afraid of missing out on a great opportunity than they are afraid of losing their money.
As founders we need to tap into that fear when pitching.
𝐓𝐢𝐩 𝟏 – 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭?
A big market is good, but a hot market is what creates FOMO.
A hot market is less about the size and more about it’s growth rate.
So how quickly is your market/ industry growing?
CAGR which stands for compound annual growth rate, find the CAGR of your market and focus on demonstrating how hot your market is.
𝐓𝐢𝐩 𝟐 – 𝐔𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞
Competitors often illicit a lot of fear and secretiveness within start-ups. But funnily enough they can be a valuable asset in your investor pitch.
Having successful competitors is one of the best ways to validate that your market exists and demonstrate the high demand for your service.
𝐓𝐢𝐩 𝟑 – 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬
Nothing makes your start-up more attractive to an investor than the knowledge that another investor has or is about to make an offer.
Get that first investor interested and then use that interest to create FOMO with other investors.
You’d be surprised how much ears prick up when they realise the ship might sail off without them. __________________________________________
My “𝐏𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭: 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦”, is about implementing a proven framework for pitching and creating that FOMO feeling with investors.
Utilising this framework clients have attracted herds of investors and put themselves in the position to selectively chose which investor they want to work with.
Comment “𝐅𝐎𝐌𝐎” below to find out more about how the program can help you raise funds and close your seed round.