Female Partners at Tier 1 VC Firms

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1. Sequoia Capital

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Female Partners at Sequoia Capital

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• Josephine Chen: Based in San Francisco. Invests across various industries in Seed stage startups. Investments include Magic Eden, Anrok, Catch, Amp Robotics, and Privy.

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• Jess Lee: Based in San Francisco. Invests across various industries in Seed stage startups. Investments include Wonolo, Maven, Ironclad, Otter, and Pendulum.

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• Luciana Lixandru: Based in the United Kingdom. Invests across various industries and stages. Investments include Pennylane, Ledgy, Veed, Xentral, and Robco.

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• Lauren Reeder: Based in San Francisco. Invests across various industries in Seed stage startups. Investments include Mutiny, Monad, Deno, Census, and Statsig.

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• Stephanie Zhan: Based in San Francisco. Invests across various industries in Seed stage startups. Investments include Linear, Sunday, Middesk, Evy, and Rec Room.

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• Romie Boyd: Based in San Francisco. Invests across various industries in Growth stage startups. Investments include Cribl.

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• Michelle (Bailhe) Fradin: Based in San Francisco. Invests across various industries in Growth stage startups. Investments include Airbnb, Pilot, Fireblocks, Getir, and Hex Technologies.

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• Dannie Herzberg: Based in San Francisco. Invests across various industries in Growth stage startups. Investments include Gong, Notion, Statsig, and Medallion.

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• Sonya Huang: Based in San Francisco. Invests across various industries in Growth stage startups. Investments include Glossier, Dashlane, Thumbtack, Gong, and Hugging Face.

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9/33 = 27.27% of Sequoia Capital’s investment team is female.

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2. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

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Female Partners at a16z

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• Angela Strange: Based in San Francisco. Invests in financial service companies, including fintech infrastructure, insurance, real estate, and increasing financial inclusivity. Investments include Addi, Casai, Jeeves, Moov, and Valon.

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• Anne Lee Skates: Based in San Francisco. Invests in consumer, prosumer, education, and commerce startups across Seed, Series A, and Series B. Investments include Whatnot, Kindred, Alloy, Buildspace, and AirGarage.

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• Arianna Simpson: Based in New York. Invests in crypto startups. Investments include Flowcarbon, Azra Games, Axie Infinity, Forta, and Yield Guild Games.

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• Becky Pferdehirt, Ph.D.: Based in Montara, California. Invests in early-stage startups building technology platforms for therapeutic discovery and development. 

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• Carra Wu: Based in New York. Invests in gaming, metaverse, media, and DAO investments across crypto. Investments include CCP Games and Friends with Benefits.

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• Connie Chan: Based in San Francisco. Invests in consumer technology startups. Investments include Whatnot, Run the World, Cider, Queenly, and KoBold.

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• Daisy Wolf: Based in New York. Invests in healthcare. Investments include Marker Learning, Ribbon Health, and Season Health.

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• Elizabeth Harkavy: Based in San Francisco. Invests in web 2.5 / picks and shovels and decentralized infrastructure across crypto. 

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• Jane Lippencott: Based in San Francisco. Invests in web3 media/NFT, decentralized social/communications, wallet, and DAO investments across crypto. Investments include TaxBit, Skale Labs, and BlockFi Lending.

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• Jennifer Li: Based in San Francisco. Invests in Enterprise and Infrastructure startups. Investments include Crossbeam, MotherDuck, Stacker, and Vantage.

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• Julie Yoo: Based in Menlo Park. Invests in healthcare technology startups. Investments include Turquoise Health, Season Health, Topography Health, Patina, and Sprinter Health.

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• Justine Moore: Based in Menlo Park. Invests in consumer and AI startups.

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• Katherine Boyle: Based in Miami. Invests in companies that promote American dynamism, including national security, aerospace and defense, public safety, housing, education, and industrials. Investments include Hadrian, Traba, Titan, Anduril Industries, and Hallow.

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• Katie Ameri: Based in Los Angeles. Invests in consumer technology startups. Investments include Clash App, FYPM.VIP, Together.Casa, and Maza.

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• Kimberly Tan: Based in San Francisco. Invests in Enterprise startups and companies that promote American dynamism. Investments include Alloy, Pave, Mem, Sprig, and Vesta.

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• Kristina Shen: Based in San Francisco. Invests in Enterprise and SaaS startups. Investments include Pave, Sprig, Rutter, Equals, and Macro.

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• Michelle Volz: Based in New York. Invests in defense, aerospace, energy, and hard tech. Investments include Radiant.

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• Olivia Moore: Based in San Francisco. Invests in consumer startups where she focuses on marketplaces. Investments include Nash and Kapwing.

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• Sarah Wang: Based in San Francisco. Invests in Growth stage Enterprise startups. Investments include Character.AI, Hex, Crossbeam, and Sourcegraph.

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• Seema Amble: Based in San Francisco. Invests in Fintech startups. Investments include MVMNT, Payall, Stoik, Inventa, and Moov.

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• Stephenie Zhang: Based in New York. Invests in Growth stage Enterprise startups.

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• Vineeta Agarwala, MD Ph.D.: Based in San Francisco. Invests in biotech and healthcare technology companies. Investments include Orbital Therapeutics, Function Oncology, Memora Health, Waymark, and Thyme Care.

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• Yoko Li: Based in San Francisco. Invests in Developer Tools, Creativity Tools, Infrastructure, DevOps, and the Javascript ecosystem from Pre-Seed to Series B.

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25/92 = 27.17% of a16z’s investment team is female.

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3. SV Angel

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Female Partners at SV Angel

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• Beth Turner: Based in San Francisco. Invests across various industries in Seed stage startups. Investments include Clover Health, Flatiron Health, Blue Apron, LuckySort, and Workrise.

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1/5 = 20% of SV Angel’s investment team is female.

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4. Benchmark

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Female Partners at Benchmark

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• Sarah Tavel: Based in San Francisco. Invests across various stages and industries. Investments include Hipcamp, Chainanlysis, Cambly, Supergreat, and Rekki.

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1/15 = 6.67% of Benchmark’s investment team is female.

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5. Founders Fund

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Female Partners at Founders Fund

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• None

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0/11 = 0% of Founders Fund’s investment team is female.

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6. GGV Capital

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Female Partners at GGV Capital

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• Jenny Lee: Based in Atherton, California. Invests across various industries and stages but focuses on smart technology. Investments include Sensoro, SinoSun, 21Vianet, Farmfriend, and YY.

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• Tiffany Luck: Based in New York. Invests Enterprise SaaS, the API economy, and SMBTech. Investments include Handshake, Electric, Pinwheel, BloomTech, and Belong.

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5/23 = 21.74% of GGV Capital’s investment team is female.

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7. Kleiner Perkins (KP)

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Female Partners at KP

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• Annie Case: Based in San Francisco. Invests in Consumer Technology and Digital Health startups. Investments include Modern Health, Subject, Future, Ambience, and Inkitt.

• Leigh Marie Braswell: Based in San Francisco. Invests in Infrastructure and ML application startups. Investments include Arena, Atomic Vaults, Paxos, Roster, Tactic, and Exafunction.

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2/10 = 20% of KP’s investment team is female.

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8. Khosla Ventures

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Female Partners at Khosla Ventures

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• Jessy Rivest: Based in Menlo Park. Invests in climate technology startups. 

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• Kanu Gulati: Based in San Francisco. Invests in enterprise applications, infrastructure, robotics, autonomous systems, and hardware acceleration startups. Investments include NoMagic, Lexion, Zendar, WaveOne, and PolyAI.

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• Sandhya Venkatachalam: Based in San Francisco. Invests in AI/ML startups. Investments include LiveDocs, Workflow86, Enso, Relay, and Bubbles.

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6/16 = 37.5% of Khosla Ventures’ investment team is female.

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9. Greylock Partners

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Female Partners at Greylock Partners

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• None

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2/14 = 14.29% of Greylock Partners’ investment team is female.

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10. General Catalyst

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Female Partners at General Catalyst

• Holly Maloney: Based in San Francisco. Invests across all stages in healthcare startups. Investments include Capital Rx, Maven, Ribbon Health, SonderMind, and Transcarent.

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• Juliet Bailin: Based in the United Kingdom. Invests in enterprise software and healthcare startups. Investments include CHARM Therapeutics, Evvy, Gitpod, Lottie, and Packfleet.

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• Alexa Liautaud: Based in New York. Invests in early-stage consumer startups.

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• Elena Viboch: Based in San Francisco. Invests in healthcare startups. Investments include Faro, Karius, Odyssey, and Vial.

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• Zeynep Yavuz: Based in London, England. Invests in Fintech and Crypto startups. Investments include Ramp Network, TrueLayer, Taxdoo, Tillit, and Yoco.

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16/53 = 30.19% of General Catalyst’s investment team is female.

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11. Accel

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Female Partners at Accel

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• Casey Aylward: Based in San Francisco. Invests in early-stage cloud-native infrastructure, open-source software, and security startups. Investments include Vercel and Astral.

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• Sonali De Rycker: Based in West End, England. Invests across all stages in Consumer Internet, Software, and Fintech startups. Investments include BeReal, Hopin, Spotify, Primer, and Monzo.

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• Sara Ittelson: Based in San Francisco. Invests in early-stage Consumer and Enterprise startups. Investments include Cinder, AssemblyAI, Minoan, and Venue.

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• Maya Noeth: Based in Palo Alto. Invests in Growth stage consumer technology startups. Investments include Bumble, goPuff, Facebook, Netflix, and Spotify.

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• Amy Saper: Based in San Francisco. Invests in early-stage Cloud/SaaS, Consumer, and Enterprise startups. Investments include Sprig, Gem, WellTheory, LogicLoop, and Gamma.

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5/38 = 13.16% of Accel’s investment team is female.

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12. Spark Capital

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Female Partners at Spark Capital

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• Yasmin Razavi: Based in San Francisco. Invests in growth-stage Developer Tools, Crypto, and Fintech startups. Investments include Slack, Discord, Twitter, Coinbase, and Niantic.

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• Natalie Sandman: Based in San Francisco. Invests in early-stage Enterprise Software startups. Investments include Noyo, Polygon, Shepherd, Medallion, and Zeal.

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3/16 = 18.75% of Spark Capital’s investment team is female.

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13. Index Ventures

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Female Partners at Index Ventures

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• Nina Achadjian: Based in San Francisco. Invests across various stages in SaaS, Vertical SaaS, and AI startups. Investments include Gong, DeepScribe, Productboard, ServiceTitan, and Check.

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• Molly Alter: Based in London, England. Invests across various stages in Enterprise SaaS startups. Investments include Quantive.

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• Julia Andre: Based in the United Kingdom. Invests across various stages in B2B SaaS and Fintech startups. Investments include Ankorstore, Topi, Strapi, Montonio, and Codat.

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• Sofia Dolfe: Based in London, England. Invests across various industries and stages. Investments include Atlar, Bigger Games, Cradle, Dream Games, and Rohlik.

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• Jimena Nowack: Based in the United Kingdom. Invests across various stages in B2B and B2C startups.

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• Shimin Ooi: Based in San Francisco. Invests across various stages in Fintech and Software startups.

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• Erin Price-Wright: Based in San Francisco. Invests in early-stage Enterprise Software and AI startups. Investments include ArthurAI, BRINC, Clickhouse, Xata, and Humanloop.

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• Hannah Seal: Based in London, England. Invests across various industries and stages. Investments include Remote, Multiverse, Beamery, Beauty Pie, and flatfair.

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• Georgia Stevenson: Based in the United Kingdom. Invests in Consumer and Retail startups across various stages. Investments include Linktree, Plain, Rooser, Sourceful, and Motorway.

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• Katharina Wilhelm: Based in Berlin, Germany. Invests across various industries and stages in companies based in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Investments include Pitch, Taxfix, and Taktile.

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• Catherine Wu: Based in San Francisco. Invests in early-stage Enterprise startups.  

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11/27 = 40.74% of Index Ventures’ investment team is female.

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14. Pear VC

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Female Partners at Pear VC

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• Mar Hershenson: Based in Los Altos, California. Invests in Pre-Seed and Seed stage startups across various industries. Investments include Branch, Aurora, DoorDash, Xillis, and Nobell.

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• Vivien Ho: Based in San Francisco. Invests in Pre-Seed and Seed stage health startups. Investments include Budgie Health, Osmind, Valar Labs, Streamline Climate, and Stellation. 

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2/9 = 22.22% of Pear VC’s investment team is female.

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15. First Round Capital

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Female Partners at First Round Capital

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• Hayley Barna: Based in New York. Invests in Seed rounds across all industries. Investments include Umi Kitchen, Keeps, MIRROR, The Lobby, and MakerSights.

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• Cristina Cordova: Based in San Francisco. Invests in Seed rounds across all industries. Investments include Gadget, Stytch, Notion, and Khatabook.

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5/12 = 41.67% of First Round Capital’s investment team is female.

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16. Union Square Ventures (USV)

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Female Partners at USV

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• Rebecca Kaden: Based in New York. Invests across various stages and industries. Investments include Dolls Kill, Earnest, Alife, Fiveable, and SmartHop.

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3/12 = 25% of USV’s investment team is female.

17. Felicis Ventures

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Female Partners at Felicis Ventures

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• Viviana Faga: Based in San Francisco. Invests in Cloud/SaaS and Enterprise startups across various stages. Investments include Runway, Supabase, Walnut, Living Carbon, and Meilisearch.

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• Victoria Treyger: Based in San Francisco. Invests in financial services, vertical and horizontal SaaS, health tech, and marketplaces. Investments include Dovetail, Maze, Nayya, Alloy, and Ethena.

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2/10 = 20% of Felicis Ventures’ investment team is female.

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18. Floodgate

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Female Partners at Floodgate

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• Ann Miura-Ko: Based in Palo Alto. Invests in early-stage startups across various stages but focuses on consumer, marketplaces, and software for SMBs and solopreneurs. Investments include TaskRabbit, Lyft, Wanelo, Mixmax, and Mem Labs.

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• Iris Choi: Based in Palo Alto. Invests in early-stage startups across various stages and industries. Iris serves on the board of TouchofModern, MangoHealth, Sharethrough, Maker Media, and Nirvana.

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5/10 = 50% of Floodgate’s investment team is female.

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19. Lightspeed Venture Partners

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Female Partners at Lightspeed Venture Partners

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• Anoushka Vaswani: Based in San Francisco. Invests across various stages in Enterprise Software and Infrastructure startups. Investments include 1Password, Enable, Fullview, Osmos, Semgrep.

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• Lisa Han: Based in San Francisco. Invests in early-stage Enterprise Software startups. Investments include Pave, Secureframe, AltoIRA, Modernloop, and Alongside.

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• Mercedes Bent: Based in San Francisco. Invests in LATAM startups and early-stage consumer fintech startups. Investments include Beek, Everyrealm, Fidu, Flink, and Outschool.

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• Nicole Quinn: Based in San Francisco. Invests across various stages and industries. Investments include Cameo, Calm, Autograph, Real, and Goop.

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• Sam Eisler: Based in New York. Invests across various stages in Fintech startups. Investments include Lemonade, FanDuel, Coinbase, Bird, and Latch.

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• Shan Shan: Based in San Francisco. Invests in growth-stage consumer and software companies. Investments include 1Password, Alloy, Alchemy, Magic Eden, and Webull.

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• Dr. Shelley Chu: Invests in biotech startups. Investments include Ancora Biotech, Abata Therapeutics, HilleVax, Medikine, and Kirilys Therapeutics.

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• Sydney Sykes: Based in San Francisco. Invests in early-stage Consumer startups.

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8/35 = 22.86% of Lightspeed Venture Partners’ investment team is female.

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20. Redpoint Ventures

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Female Partners at Redpoint Ventures

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• Medha Agarwal: Based in San Francisco. Invests in early-stage startups across various industries. Investments include Whatnot, Tend, LiveKit, hims, and Proper.

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• Erica Brescia: Based in San Francisco. Invests in early-stage startups across various industries. Investments include Xata, Dagger, Railway, Zed, and Fixie.

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• Annie Kadavy: Based in San Francisco. Invests in early-stage startups across various industries. Investments include Guild, Tend, Fable, Cascade, The Rounds.

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• Emily Man: Based in San Francisco. Invests in growth-stage startups across various industries. Investments include Ramp, FloQast, Orca Security, and Proper.

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7/19 = 36.84% of Redpoint Ventures’ investment team is female.

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21. Ribbit Capital

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Female Partners at Ribbit Capital

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• Denise Gilbert: Based in San Francisco. Invests in Fintech startups across various stages.

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• Cindy McAdam: Based in San Francisco. Invests in Fintech startups across various stages.

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• Sigal Mandelker: Based in New York. Invests in Fintech startups across various stages.

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• Eva Alonso: Based in San Francisco. Invests in Fintech startups across various stages.

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• Elizabeth Catalli: Based in Danville, California. Invests in Fintech startups across various stages.

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5/14 = 35.71% of Ribbit Capital’s investment team is female.

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22. Lux Capital

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Female Partners at Lux Capital

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• Deena Shakir: Based in San Francisco. Invests across various industries and stages. Investments include AllStripes, Ramp, Summer Health, H1, and Everly Health.

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• Grace Isford: Based in New York. Invests in Data, AI/ML, infrastructure, and computing startups across various stages. Investments include Tactic, Goldsky, Clarifai, and Runway.

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3/9 = 33.33% of Lux Capital’s investment team is female.

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23. New Enterprise Associates (NEA)

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Female Partners at NEA

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• Carmen Chang: Based in Palo Alto. Invests across various industries and stages and heads up NEA’s portfolio in China and emerging markets in Asia. Investments include Cloudflare, Coursera, Transfix, Cista, and Bytedance.

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• Ann Bordetsky: Based in San Francisco. Invests in early-stage SaaS and Consumer startups. Investments include Contra, Change.io, Fizz, Tract, and Glacier.

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• Hilarie Koplow-McAdams: Based in Menlo Park. Invests in Enterprise Software and Services. Investments include Tableau, DataRobot, HackerOne, Assembled, and Automation Anywhere.

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• Liza Landsman: Based in New York. Invests in Consumer, E-commerce, and Fintech startups. Investments include Burrow, Flow, Pair, Mejuri, and THE WELL.

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• Vanessa Larco: Based in San Francisco. Invests in Enterprise SaaS and Consumer startups. Investments include Robinhood, Cleo, Assembled, Evernow, and Lily AI.

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• Michele Park: Based in Menlo Park. Invests in the biopharma space.

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• Kavita Patel: Based in Washington D.C. Invests in healthcare startups. Investments include Arcellx, Radiology Partners, Strive Health, and Everside Health.

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6/32 = 18.75% of NEA’s investment team is female.

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24. Bessemer Ventures Partners

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Female Partners at Bessemer Venture Partners

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• Mary D'Onofrio: Based in San Francisco. Invests in growth-stage cloud software startups. Investments include Canva, LaunchDarkly, PagerDuty, HashiCorp, and Zapier.

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• Tess Hatch: Based in San Francisco. Invests in startups working on the commercialization of space, drones, autonomous vehicles, and climate technology. Investments include Atomo Coffee, Phantom Auto, Iris Automation, Boom Supersonic, and Black Sheep Foods.

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• Talia Goldberg: Based in San Francisco. Invests in across various stages in Consumer Internet and Software startups. Investments include ServiceTitan, Shopify, Newfront Insurance, Pinterest, and Pave.

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• Janelle Teng: Based in San Francisco. Invests in growth-stage software, infrastructure, and developer platforms. Investments include Canva, ServiceTitan, Databook, Virtru, and Coactive AI.

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19/54 = 35.19% of Bessemer Venture Partners’ investment team is female.

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