Top Startups with Female Founders to Watch (and Work for) in 2023

• As of June 2023, Vanta reported ~$80 million in ARR and is adding ~600 customers per quarter.

• Vanta has 5,000+ customers, including Gusto, Modern Treasury, Gem, Autodesk, Shortcut, Quora, Chili Piper, Flo Health, and Affinity.

• In 2022, Vanta surpassed $10 million+ in ARR and reportedly excelled in burn rate, capital efficiency, and gross margins.

• Mutiny customers include Carta, Attentive, Sprig, Clearbit, Navattic, Snowflake, Notion, and Brex.

• TechCrunch reported Mutiny’s revenue was on track to 4x in fiscal quarter 2022.

• According to its CEO, as of April 2022, 50 million people across more than 3 million companies have seen a website personalized by Mutiny’s AI engine.

• Replit has 22.5 million users from 200+ countries.

• In March 2023, Replit partnered with Google to take on Microsoft’s GitHub.

• As of June 2023, Heard reported its software saves therapists 60 hrs per year in financial record-keeping, creates an opportunity for $9,000+ of extra income per year, and saves therapists $5,000+ in taxes.

• As of June 2023, Heard has ~100 customers, including Tri-Star Counseling, Black Women Healing Space, and Total Idea U.

• Between June 2022 and June 2023, Heard reported 5x customer and revenue growth.

• Kindred has received 20,000+ membership applications since launching in 2021.

• Kindred members have spent over 5,000 nights at one another’s homes.

• As of May 2023, Cocoon has 100+ customers, including Notion, Benchling, Carta, Superhuman, Modern Health, Impossible Foods, Curology, and Khan Academy.

• Deel supports 15,000 businesses, processed $5.5 billion payments, helped companies hire 150,000 workers, and is available in 150 countries. Customers include Nike, Dropbox, Shopify, Notion, Reebok, Forever 21, and Revolut.

• Over 80% of members reported improved or maintained well-being when using Modern Health.

• Modern Health serves 250+ enterprise customers, including Dropbox, Lyft, Palo Alto Networks, Mile Two, Alector, Carrot Fertility, Workiva, Aesop, Eventbrite, Marqeta, and Zendesk.

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• Expected revenue for 2022 was over $20 million, up from $2 million in 2021.

• 25,000 trucking companies and commercial drivers use AtoB. AtoB’s customers include Uber Freight, Thumbtack, Infinity Energy, Kyte, and uShip.

• On average, the AtoB fuel card saves customers 43 cents per gallon.

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• Loyal’s team has published 152 papers, worked on 56 clinical drug programs, and combined for 192 years of research.

• Loyal received protocol concurrence from the FDA for its companion dog longevity study.

• As of May 2022, Anrok reported a 7x increase in revenue in the last six months.

• Anrok customers include Notion, Pave, Vanta, Gem, Front, AgentSync.

• As of June 2021, Snackpass has 500,000+ users in 13 college towns and has seen 7x YoY growth.

• Snackpass customers include Johnny Rockets, Tiger Sugar, Moge Tee, Joe’s Pizza, Jamba Juice, and Pokeworks.

• Alloy has 100+ system integrators & developer agencies and 200+ technology partners for every part of the e-commerce stack. Popular integrations include WooCommerce, Shopify, Zendesk, Twilio, and Pixlee.

• Alloy customers include Postscript, Brooklinen, Studs, Dr. Squatch, Recharge, Burberry, Amazon, Wyze, Skis.com, Gorgias, and PrettyDamnQuick.

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• As of May 2023, Rupa Health’s platform now has lab tests from 30+ laboratories, up from 3,000+ specialty lab tests from 25+ laboratories in March 2022.

• Pocus customers include Webflow, Miro, Loom, Linear, Superhuman, OpenPhone, Clockwise, PostHog, and ngrok.

• As of June 2022, Pocus’ Slack community has 1,200 members.

• As of May 2023, Pocus claims customers save 13+ hours weekly, a 200% increase in open rates, a 10% higher conversion on product-qualified leads, a 32% increase in actual cash value, and a 50%+ pipeline surfaced to uncover hidden revenue.

• Chief has 12,000+ Vice President and C-Suite executives, representing 8,500+ companies in its community. The community is 20,000+ strong and has 60,000 women on its waitlist.

• Chief opened up flagship locations in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago for its members.

• Companies sponsoring memberships for its women leaders include Morgan Stanley, Zoom, L'Oréal, Google, PWC, IBM, HelloFresh, and Allstate.

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• As of May 2023, Studs has 19 ear-piercing studios.

• As of October 2022, Studs reported 30x e-commerce growth since 2019.

• In June 2022, Front surpassed 8,000 customers, including Dropbox, Mailchimp, GoDaddy, Hootsuite, Shopify, Lydia, Branch, Carvana, Culture Amp, ClickUp, and sennder.

• As of June 2022, Front’s net retention was 130%+, and daily active users were 75%+.

• As of November 2021, Iron Fish has attracted ~2,000 self-identified crypto miners to its community.

• As of May 2023, Iron Fish’s Discord community has 50,869 members.

• As of May 2023, Iron Fish has 6,000 active nodes (operators and miners), representation in every country, 50,000 blocks mined, 13,000+ assets mined, and 140,000+ graffitis.

• Canva has 100 million+ monthly active users.

• Users have created 15 billion+ designs on Canva.

• Canva is used in 190 countries and supports 100+ languages.

• 85% of the Fortune 500 uses Canva

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