The Seed 25: The best female early-stage investors
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There are thousands of seed investors but only a few who succeed repeatedly.
This list of the 25 best female seed venture capitalists is based on an analysis by Tribe Capital.
The venture-capital industry is still an overwhelmingly male one, but progress is being made.
Across the venture-capital industry, women hold just 16% of the investment-partner roles, according to the National Venture Capital Association's newly published "VC Human Capital Survey."
These statistics are gradually improving, up from 11% in 2016. But the low representation means that when panning among the tens of thousands of active seed investors to find the ones who have proven themselves over time, the results will return mostly men. This is not because of skill, but because women have been largely shut out of dealmaking opportunities.