In Q1 2024, we published a list of 100 female fund managers building the VC firms of the future. One year later, we are updating our list to help introduce you to twice as many phenomenal female fund managers. Feel free to reach out if we can help with a direct introduction.

We recap our recent investments, celebrate the accomplishments of other women, track relevant policy and share our research.

“Amy Griffin has done something remarkable: She’s turned life-shattering trauma into a life-giving gift. ’The Tell’ is the most powerful memoir I’ve read in years.” — Adam Grant 

BCG publishes new report on women’s health. 

Learn more about how the women founders of Midi Health, Daydream and Sloomoo Institute use their age as a business advantage.

The 2025 class includes Ingeborg portfolio CEOs Joanna Strober (Midi), Dana Kim (Highlight) and Ritu Narayan (Zum).

Female founders collectively raised $38.8 billion in 2024, but the share of funding awarded to women dropped year-over-year. 

Millie, a California-based maternity clinic, announced its clinic expansion and Series A fundraise, which was co-led by Foreground Capital and TMV, with participation from Pivotal Ventures, Ingeborg Investments, BBG, Mother Ventures, Amboy Street and more.

The bottom line is women need access to paid leave, flexible work and affordable childcare. 

Laura Modi, a CEO and mother of four, is intimately familiar with the stigmas around feeding a newborn.

Stacy Brown-Philpot and Cherryrock Capital have funding from investors including Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan.

Hearth builds products that automate the workflows of family management to encourage togetherness and make caregiving easier.

By joining forces with Caraway, Summer Health will deepen its care model to better serve children, teens, and young adults. This expanded offering allows Summer to seamlessly bridge the gap between adolescence and early adulthood, empowering families and young adults to navigate critical life stages with trusted, accessible, and high-quality care.

The Trump administration and its potential impact on business had been — and still is — top of mind for entrepreneurs in the burgeoning women’s health care space, which encompasses not just reproductive care, but also innovations within primary care, telehealth, maternal and infant health, fertility, and menopause treatments.

Tiny particles are in our bodies — what does this mean for our health?

There’s a $32 trillion reason to make betting big on women your 2025 investment resolution.

Deena Shakir explains why women’s health has been underserved, underfunded, and understudied for decades—an inequity that’s not just a glaring gap in care but also a missed trillion-dollar opportunity.

Female entrepreneurs, long underserved by VCs, often recognize opportunities that have been hiding in plain sight. This article originally appeared on Fortune.com.

The landmark year for women’s sports in 2024 has led to increased attention and money to find the next WNBA or NWSL. Investors are lining up behind volleyball to become the next big women’s sport to hit the mainstream.

Diapers are the fourth-highest household expense, after rent, food, and utilities for new families. With this donation, HealthyBaby aims to alleviate this stressor.

Fertilo replaces 80% of hormone injections required with traditional IVF, and reduces the duration of treatment cycles to just three days, offering patients a more comfortable and less invasive experience.

Bobbie announced a sweeping 15% price reduction for its classic Organic Infant Formula available online, in Target and Whole Foods nationwide.

Working women who are parents or guardians are more likely than men who are parents to say they have declined or delayed a promotion at work because of personal or family obligations.

How we view women in charge, especially at work, is shifting as more come into power.

League One Volleyball raised $100 million to bring the total capital count to $160 million weeks before the new professional women’s volleyball league begins play.

Most women don’t know what’s going to happen during perimenopause. Smart-ring manufacturers are stepping in to provide data and guidance.

Alex Taylor and Victoria Thain Gioia, founders of vitamin brand Perelel, were brought together by new-mom frustrations. Now they’re revolutionizing women’s health.

Women’s health startup Daye is selling a “vaginal microbiome test” in the form of a tampon that users wear and then mail back for screening — and it can detect everything from infections to possible fertility issues.

Dr Helen O’Neill’s labors are paying off at Hertility Health, where big-name backers include the Harry Potter star Emma Watson

Black and Latina women are starting to gain ground, landing top positions at some of the biggest unions in the U.S. That has translated into wins at the bargaining table that focus more attention on family-friendly benefits.

A combined OB-GYN practice skews care toward reproduction and neglects many crucial aspects of gynecology to the great detriment of women’s health.

We recap our recent investments, celebrate the accomplishments of other women, track relevant policy and share our research.

Olivia participated in the Clinton Global Initiative 2024 Summit to discuss Ingeborg’s approach to investing in innovation that is built with women in mind.

The company will use the new funding to scale the availability of effera™ Human Lactoferrin, a novel ingredient to support women’s health, active nutrition and healthy aging.

The 10th annual list spotlights companies that have made a significant social or environmental impact this year.

Helaina, a maker of human-equivalent bioactive proteins such as lactoferrin, has raised a $45 million Series B.

Icon, which helps businesses offer affordable retirement savings plans to employees, has raised $9.2 million in seed funding.

More than a third of employed women — 38% — worry that their age will negatively affect their job, according to new research.

First lady Jill Biden announced the investment, which is part of a broader White House push to increase funding for the study of women’s health.

In this report, we introduce the ”wealthspan,” a framework that inclusively outlines the building blocks of consumer financial control for everyone. Because only when we distinctly consider the unique needs of female consumers can we tap into the full $10 trillion wealthspan opportunity.

Comedian Amy Schumer, actor Connie Britton, and execs from OpenAI, Meta, and Uber are among the diverse set of new investors in a $5 million fundraise for Midi Health, a virtual health care provider for women in midlife that has raised $103 million in total funding.

In the tenth year of its Women in the Workplace research, McKinsey reflects on the notable gains women have made — and how their experiences at work are, in many ways, the same or worse than ten years ago.

Crunchbase ranked five of this year’s most heavily funded companies with both a female CEO and founder or co-founder.

The venture capital industry has notoriously underfunded women; AI experts share insights on whether AI can lead to better investment outcomes for all.

Jenny Abramson and Heidi Patel have signed up investors such as Melinda French Gates and UBS for their third Rethink Impact fund, boosting assets under management to more than half a billion.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed the Executive Order to Support Moms, Protect Babies, and Improve Maternal Health on March 6, 2024. Since then, stakeholders have collaborated to develop new policies, programs and approaches to improve health outcomes for pregnant women, new moms and babies.

This summer, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued an advisory warning emphasizing that parenting can negatively impact well-being and highlighting the urgent need for collective support for parents and families.

After Paul Graham’s viral “founder mode” essay, there's now a new debate about the double standard that prevents female founders from operating their startups as their male counterparts do.

Midi's virtual clinic will support patients' continued connection to the expertise and care of their Mount Sinai-affiliated practices and employee health centers, either directly or via their benefits programs at work.

California Live’s Jobeth Devera visits Millie Clinic in Berkeley, a new kind of maternity clinic built by moms, for moms.

In this episode of Second Opinion, Leslie Schrock, author of Bumpin’ and Fertility Rules, joins Christina Farr, Ash Zenooz and Luba Greenwood to discuss women’s health, men’s health and fertility. 

People with PCOS are four to seven times more likely to have depression and anxiety, three to six times more likely to have an eating disorder, and 8.47 times more likely to attempt suicide.

By drawing data out of tampons and pads, startups hope to shed light on poorly understood diseases.

Femtech entrepreneurs — buoyed by technology — have decided that many medical solutions must be completely reimagined, not just redesigned.

The vast majority of cell lines used in preclinical research are from individuals of European ancestry.

Every year, Good Housekeeping’s team of experts evaluate the top parenting items for kids of all ages and rate them on their innovation and problem-solving capabilities. Hearth Display was featured as the most helpful family organizer. 

Starting this fall, women will be able to use a simple swab to screen for cervical cancer. The method offers an alternative to a procedure that many dread — and promises to address disparities in who develops the disease.

Ovaries age faster than the rest of the body. Figuring out how to slow menopause might help all of us age better.

Around 76% of high-performing women receive negative feedback compared to only 2% of men.

Around 76% of high-performing women receive negative feedback compared to only 2% of men.

Why hasn’t someone built a PathAI for reproductive endocrinology?

Angel City FC is now the most valuable women's sports team in the world following an agreement by Willow Bay and Bob Iger to purchase a controlling stake in the National Women's Soccer League franchise at a $250 million valuation. 

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We recap our recent investments, celebrate the accomplishments of other women, track relevant policy and share our research.

Venture capital funding overall has surged in recent years, but the numbers haven’t leapt forward for female founders at the same pace.

Anu Duggal, the founding partner at Female Founders Fund, guest wrote a recent Term Sheet essay on how women's health has been ignored for most of history and why this is the year to double down.

The founder is upending industries — and erasing stigma — with her trademark sense of humor.

Across the globe, male sperm count is on the decline — a decades-long drop that has been alternately blamed on pesticides, heavy metals, obesity, and potentially microplastics.

Ritu Narayan, Zum CEO, joins ‘Power Lunch’ to discuss using electric school buses across America and the big win for the company in Oakland, Calif.

After sharing a public playbook on its leave policy, Bobbie launched a grant program that provided hundreds of parents with stipends, to draw attention to the lack of federal paid leave.

A 2023 report found that 1 in 3 working moms said they are somewhat, very, or extremely likely to leave their jobs for stay-at-home parenthood in the next two years.

Led by CEO and co-founder Dr. Dina Radenkovic, the biotech company showcased the intricate cellular engineering and manufacturing processes behind Fertilo. The novel solution contains engineered ovarian support cells (OSCs), aimed at maturing eggs outside the body.

The bottom line is women need access to paid leave, flexible work and affordable childcare.

The campaign was deemed indecent by a billboard company ahead of Mother’s Day.

The fastest-growing region in the state, Northwest Arkansas, has become the target for an out-of-state venture capital firm that recently held its second annual Midcontinent Venture Capital Summit in Bentonville.

When women leave the workforce, it costs the economy some $650+ billion each year, yet workplaces still don’t support them.

League One Volleyball (LOVB) — the largest brand in youth volleyball with its professional volleyball league launching in the U.S. later this year — announced that it has entered into a new media rights agreement with ESPN to present pro matches across its linear networks and digital platforms.

We are at a time now where the financial position of women is stronger than ever, however, the barriers that have historically impeded women persist. This discussion explored the tension between these headwinds and tailwinds and the opportunities to take action today.

Women make up more than half the US population, and yet, women’s health has been chronically underfunded and understudied. This discussion explored broad definitions of “ROI” and why now is the time to champion investment in women’s health.

Heartland Forward announced new research and a corresponding action plan to offer practical solutions for policymakers, providers, insurers, philanthropists and businesses working to improve outcomes for mother and child.

Walmart is adding a day care and preschool as the second major amenity to open on its new campus.

Meet the boundaries-pushing female founders that grew their collective 2023 revenue to more than $8.86 billion and raised $6.2 billion in funding to date.

The women who are working to change the VC world.

Important women’s health information is being blocked by social media giants including Instagram and Facebook, perpetuating the stigma that surrounds gynecological health.

One of the hardest things about being pregnant is learning what to eat for maximum digestive comfort and nutrition. Once the baby is born, the nutrition guessing game continues on which foods are ideal for postpartum and nursing.

“It's never been a better time to be a woman investor. We’re entering into a newfound phase of economic power that we’re calling ‘the Feminization of Wealth,’” Ellevest founder and CEO Sallie Krawcheck said.

The singer isn't shy about her support for reproductive rights.

Veterans who are unmarried or in same-sex marriages will be able to access broader reproductive care, at a time when it faces post-Roe legal challenges in several states.

Data reveals remarkable growth in cumulative deal activity for female founders over the past decade, as well as a growing share of the country’s total activity.

The governor signed an executive order to create a new steering committee, the Arkansas Strategic Committee for Maternal Health, that will seek to improve Arkansas’ ranking as the worst state in the nation for maternal mortality.

Women and men tend to deploy wealth in different ways. That could mean net social benefits as trillions trickle down to younger generations.

The women named to the inaugural CNBC Changemakers list are creating a pattern of what it takes to defy the odds, innovate and thrive in a volatile business landscape.

While it is well known that women live longer lives on average, it is much less known that they spend 25% more years in poor health.

A new book explores the history of discrimination in women’s health care and how it affects diagnosis and treatment today.

Meet 100 GPs who are building the venture funds of the future.

We recap our recent investments, celebrate the accomplishments of other women, track relevant policy and share our research.

Millie is redesigning the current standard of U.S. maternity care to create better outcomes at lower costs.

Product testing startup Highlight has appointed Priyanka Carr, formerly of SurveyMonkey, to its leadership team as chief operating officer and president.

Arkansans for Improving Maternal Health is gathering stories from families impacted by poor maternal health outcomes.

Arkansans for Improving Maternal Health has launched a digital platform for Arkansas parents to share their personal experiences before, during and after pregnancy.