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The Seed 25: The best female early-stage investors Cowboy Ventures; Floodgate; Structure Capital; Uncork Capital; Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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 r
8 Miami-area investors assess America’s southernmost tech ecosystem There’s a lot of potential for this city, but Rome wasn’t built in a day
The exodus out of San Francisco and New York is making a big impact on Miami, a city that’s been steadily growing into a tech hub over the last 15 years. We’re seeing a “moment” in Miami, but many are hoping and working to turn it into a movement.
In late January, Softbank Group International announced a $100 fund directed at Miami’s exploding tech scene. As explained in this article, this is the latest validation that Miami is booming. Softbank Group Intl. told TechCrunch this ahead of his announcement. “Miami is quickly evolving to accommodate increasing demand as it becomes a growing startup destination. From emerging ‘elder tech’ to biotech, Miami is an attractive investment market that offers unique opportunities for immigrants and minorities to pursue entrepreneurship opportunities.”
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Heading into 2020, the startup scene never seemed more vibrant in places outside of the coastal investment hubs of Silicon Valley, New York City, and Boston. Colorado, for instance, attracted $2.5 billion in funding in 2019. Then the wheels came off the startup bus because of the pandemic, as businesses everywhere struggled to adjust.
For Rise of the Rest (ROTR), the middle-of-America seed stage investment fund created by AOL co-founder Steve Case, there was an actual bus involved. Since 2014, ROTR, part of Case s Revolution investment company, has conducted annual bus tours to cities such as Des Moines, Omaha, and Kansas City as it looks for companies to fund and spreads the message that the middle matters. In 2020, ROTR had to park the bus and go virtual like everyone else.