Historically women have been underrepresented in the venture capital industry, particularly in the senior ranks.
But the VC community is working to address that gap, through initiatives like All Raise, Female Founders Fund, and many others.
Below are links and resources on this topic. Please leave a comment if you think we’ve missed any important resources, and we’ll try to add them in soon.
Reading and interviews with women in venture capital
- A site focused on interviews with women who are in the early stages of their career in VC
- 10 female founded venture firms
- The new directory for women in VC
- Abyah Wynn of Twenty65 on her path to VC and more
- Patricia Nakache of Trinity Ventures on being a mother in venture capital
- Laura Chau of Cannan Ventures on how to succeed in VC as a woman
- Elizabeth Galbut of SoGal Ventures on becoming a VC at 26 (sign up to attend her webinar here)
- Truewealth Ventures wrote about the need for more women in VC here and here.
- Some insights into where women like to invest
- Progress report on “breaking up the boys club”
- A look at female founders & venture capital
- Lily Lyman @ Underscore VC shares her 7 insights moving from an operating role to investing.
Podcasts with women in venture capital
- Rebecca Kaden of Union Square Ventures (formerly of Maveron) appears on The 20 Minute VC
- Anna Barber of TechStars appears on Positively Gotham Girl
- Anu Duggal & Sutian Dong of Female Founders Fund appears on Seed to Scale
- Leah Busque of Fuel Capital appears on The 20 Minute VC
- Jillian Manus of Structure Capital appears on The Pitch
- Jess Lee appears on A Seat at the Table: Women in VC & Tech
- Megan Quinn of Spark Capital appears on The Role Models Podcast
- Ann Winblad (Hummer Winblad), Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures), Theresia Gouw (Aspect Ventures), Lisa Lambert (formerly Intel Capital) appear on a16z Podcast
- Stephanie Palmeri of Uncork Capital appears on 33 Voices
- Annie Lamont of Oak HC/FT appears on No Limits