Congrats to
@aileenlee
on being named to
@TIME
's list of the 100 most influential people of 2019
#TIME100
We wouldn't exist without your vision and leadership! Thanks for all you do ❤️
While 1/4 kids born in the U.S. are Latinx, Latinx companies still attract less than 1% of VC funding. That’s why
@SamaraMHernandz
of
@ChingonaVC
is using the $52M they landed to fund overlooked founders.
Read more:
🎤Women are 1 in 4 of all tech event speakers
🗞Women are underrepresented in news by a 3:1 ratio
🎓Only 22% of students can name a famous woman in tech
🔑Women of color are only 14% of tech keynote speakers
That changes today with
#VisionaryVoices
:
For the first time in history, today we're bringing together 400 women in tech venture capital for the inaugural
#WomenWhoVenture
Summit. Let's do this!
Today, All Raise is launching our
#womencrushwednesday
spotlight series where we highlight genius women who are funding or founding tech companies. April is our AI month and we're kicking off with a spotlight on
@jewelmelanie
of Partpic!
📣2019 was a historic year for
#womeninVC
. 50 women became VC partners for the first time, in U.S. firms w/ over $25M AUM. 🙌That’s the highest number we’ve seen, but we still have more work to do. Click thru to read an in-depth analysis of this milestone:
Tech & VC conversations shouldn't happen without women's voices. Let's put an end to
#manels
! Introducing the All Raise
#VisionaryVoices
speakers bureau. Female* founders, VCs, operators interested in more speaking & media opps, apply here by July 31st:
We must speak up and take action about systemic racism and violence.
#BlackLivesMatter
If you are a leader and you haven’t yet acknowledged what is happening or checked in with your team, here’s a post by
@MandelaSH
about the power of making space:
We talk a lot about
#vc
funding at All Raise, but there are many other ways to get started as a company. Check out this article by
@gefencodes
&
@mikster
for other sources of funding:
We are thrilled to announce
@PaigeHBuckner
has been named CEO of All Raise! 🎉 Paige has been our Interim CEO since January & has been part of the heart and soul of All Raise since she joined our organization.
The commitment to fund change & empower female/non-binary founders and funders in tech is growing. Thank you to
@melindagates
Pivotal Ventures, The
@ReidHoffman
Foundation,
@sequoia
,
@ggvcapital
& many more for your support in realizing our mission 🤝
Calling female founders 📣 We're launching our Post Seed to Series A Bootcamp! Get the playbooks to accelerate your startup and learn from All Raise founders + VCs. Apply and learn more at the link below. Applications close July 20.
👏 Madam 👏 Vice 👏 President-elect 👏.
@KamalaHarris
often quotes her mother telling her: "You may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last". 💥
"The warm intro — that is so often needed to get in front of VCs — perpetuates the existing power structure in Silicon Valley." Let's help the next generation of female founders hack the warm intro: by
@FeliciaCurcuru
In 2019, twelve women are on the Midas list including three newcomers. This is both an increase from the nine last year and a record for the list overall
This is huge:
The
@DormRoomFund
by
@FirstRound
has announced its first ever Female Investor Track, a 3 week master class created specifically to help women who are just starting their careers in venture.
Run, don't walk. Applications close 5/21
To celebrate
#BlackHistoryMonth
, we are highlighting 28 extraordinary Black women who are leading, shaping, and funding our future. Check everyday at 3pm ET for a new spotlight. Join the conversation and tag your favorite
#BlackForcesofNature
in tech!
Shoutout to two members of our founding team,
@aileenlee
and
@kirstenagreen
and
@melindagates
from our founding partner Pivotal Ventures for their inclusion on the
@Forbes
Most Powerful Women list: What do you think makes a woman powerful?
BIG news to wake up to! Congrats to
@CarolynWitte
, Felicity Yost, & the
@Ask_Tia
team for what is the biggest Series A. Female founders using women's data to improve women's health. We love to see it!
#ArchitectsofTomorrow
🥳
It's about damn time we featured
@ArlanWasHere
on our blog! Learn more about her new book, tips for self-care, and how she defines allyship in this Q&A by contributor
@dana_iverson1
YES! Massive congratulations to the phenomenal
@MariaSalamancaM
on your promotion to P A R T N E R! This is what we're here to see! 🥳 via
@crunchbasenews
.
@pamkostka
appreciation post! After her nearly three year tour of duty, she’s returning to her roots in the tech startup ecosystem. Please join us in celebrating and thanking Pam for her incredible impact on All Raise and the entire industry. 🙌
71% of venture firms STILL do not have even one female partner and adding one female partner should not mean "mission accomplished.” Only 7% of firms have equal gender representation in their partnership.
From all of us at All Raise, we hope you carry that
#InternationalWomensDay
energy into the weekend and beyond! Listen to women, hire/pay/promote women, and invest in women.
We just released our Annual Report.
Spoiler alert: 2020 was not a good year for women and non-binary individuals in tech + venture.
We’ll share some highlights in this
#AllRaiseReports
thread 👇
"We're moving as aggressively as we can to change the ecosystem" -
@pamkostka
in a
@NYTimes
conversation with
@eringriffith
on our latest fundraising efforts to scale our programs, expand across the US, and grow our network and community. 🎇
“Fundraising is hard for everyone but fundraising as a woman is like crawling through glass and fundraising as a woman of color is like crawling through glass with no clothes on and with red ants covering you.”
@MoniqueWoodard
Read more on our blog!🗣
#AllRaiseVCSummit
would not be possible without the amazing support of our partners. Thank you to each and every one - together we’re moving forward. We can't wait to see everyone tomorrow!
Male co-founder relationships turn sour ALL THE TIME. Positioning this as a "break-up" / catfight continues to set female founders back.
#AllRaise
community and allies: speak up!
🍾 All Raise is on a roll! Our full-time team at HQ has grown, we’re officially starting new chapters in
#Boston
and
#LA
this week, AND we have a brand new website: . Check out our blog to learn more:
Lolita Taub (
@lolitataub
), formerly of Backstage Capital, is looking for her next big adventure as an Enterprise investor.
@SharvariJohari
talked to Lolita about the intricacies of enterprise sales and how diversity results to differentiated deal flow.
🥳AWESOME NEWS! Today
@srcasm
+ I soft-launched The Community Fund, a $5M fund focused on early-stage community driven-companies. Yeah, I'm a GP now! Thx all. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
And, we’re looking for founding members for our investment team! Learn more + apply.
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Black women are one of the fastest growing demographics of entrepreneurs yet receive a negligible percentage of overall venture funding. Read more about our When Founder Met Funder program!
#WFMF
@JuliaCollins
@domoniquefines
@meghalexander
Ever wanted to know what it's like to be a woman in venture? Read our "Week in the Life" series.
@iBrittDavis
, Director of Deal Flow and Principal at
@Backstage_Cap
took
@meghalexander
through what her week can look like.
Here’s what you should know about checkwriters in 2020: 📊
⭕ The amount of women or non-binary investors in checkwriter roles grew 1%
⭕ 64% percent of firms still have NO female checkwriters
⭕ Only 10% of firms have more than 2 female checkwriters
Our first speaker series is 5/31 and will feature our CEO
@PamKostka
interviewing StitchFix Founder and CEO
@kmlake
on how she built her company. Buy a ticket for you and a friend!
We commit to the lift by encouraging women, particularly women of color, to pursue careers in technology, entrepreneurship and venture capital
#MomentofLift
"Invest in Black founders because they’re some of the best entrepreneurs...When you frame what you’re doing as a donation, it not only demeans what these entrepreneurs are doing...it also prevents you from understanding that you’re bad at your job." —
@BLCKVC
We surveyed early-stage founders about
#COVID19
:
⏳ Female founders of color have the least runway
💰 Founders of color have decided to hold on raising capital this year
👶 52% of female founders are doing 7+ hrs of caregiving vs. 26% of male founders
Today our adopted post on the All Raise blog is "The List of Black Women in VC" by
@sydneypaige10
, Senior Associate
@PrecursorVC
and member of our Editorial team.
The best things in life are still FREE! Here is your all-access pass to VC insider info. Enroll in All Raise Masterclasses to learn fundraising pro-tips from top female investors + founders who’ve been there and & done it! Let’s normalize free information.
The saying goes... you can't change what you don't measure. We’re excited to team up with
@crunchbase
on the All Raise x Crunchbase VC Checkwriter Dashboard, an ongoing resource that will provide data on checkwriter stats in the U.S. venture world. 👇
We've loved seeing the rise of
@genzvcs
founded by Force of Nature
@meaganloyst
.
The team, along with
@LererHippeau
, announced that they are hosting a Summit on September 17. Definitely an event you don't want to miss. 📆
Payments giant Stripe (no. 1 on last yr's
@CNBCDisruptors
list) is leading an investment in a smaller online checkout company, Fast.
$102M Series B announced Tuesday.. comes with the backdrop of booming online sales during the pandemic