Resources for Female Founders

Useful information to help your business succeed!

I am passionate about working with women and minority-led businesses.

There are disheartening statistics about the percentage of women working in venture capital (~13%) and the percentage of all-female teams who receive VC funding (2%), however we know that when women succeed in business, families, communities and economies thrive.

Venture capital isn’t the only way to start and grow a successful business! There are so many useful resources out there to help female founders build and grow and I’m happy to share some curated findings. I consider this a living blog post and will continue to update this over time. Go get ‘em, girls.

A note: This list includes global resources for all women-led businesses, but also niches down into some health and technology-specific tools.

Funding Resources

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Funding Resources 〰️

Grants

• 31 Small-Business Grants for Women

• Amber Grants for Women

• Cartier Women’s Initiative

• Fearless Fund

• Galaxy Grants

• HerRise MicroGrants

• High Five Grants for Moms

• IFundWomen

• National Association for Self Employed Grants

• NC Idea Grants

• SBIR Grants

• Tori Burch Foundation Women of Color Grants

• You Glow Girl Grants

Investment Capital

• BBG Ventures

• Cadence Cash

• Chloe Capital

• Curate Capital

• Cross Border Impact Ventures

• Golden Seeds

• Health Systems with Investment Arms

• Hello Alice

• Intel Capital

• Intermountain Health Ventures

• Merge Lane

• Next Way Impact

• Portfolia

• Stella Angel Investors

• Tech Stars

• The Capital Network

• Village Capital

• Visible Ventures

• Women’s Capital Connection

• xElle Ventures

• X Factor Ventures

• Curated: Investors you should know

Incubators & Accelerators

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Incubators & Accelerators 〰️

• Alpha Lab Health

• EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women

• Female Founders Collective

• Google for Start-ups Accelerator: Women Founders

• Halo Incubator

• MedTech Innovator

• Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Lab

• Mass Challenge

• She Gets Shit Done Accelerator

• Springboard Enterprises

• StartX (Stanford)

• Women Startup Lab

• Y Combinator

• Ganas Ventures Founder + Investor Matching Tool

Community

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Community 〰️

• American Medical Association Physician Innovation Network

• FemHealth Insights

• FemStreet (love their weekly email)

• Global Invest Her

• Her Corner

• In Women’s Health

• Million Dollar Woman

• NixonGwilt Law Firm (for legal services and newsletter)

• Stella Community

Educational Content

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Educational Content 〰️

• Article: For Female Founders, Fundraising Only from Female VCs Comes at a Cost. Harvard Business Review.

• Article: How Investors Evaluate Digital Health Startups. Halle Tecco.

• Article: On the road to impact: Mile markers for early-stage digital health startups. Rock Health.

• Article: Your Guide to Starting a Women’s Health Company. Halle Tecco.

• Article: A Caution for Digital Health Entrepreneurs: Avoid “Death by Pilot. Halle Tecco.

• Article: Y Combinator’s Essential Startup Advice

• Jenna Kutcher Freebie: Your Step by Step Guide to Starting an Email List

• A working list of SaMD Cleared by the FDA (for all of your ‘does this already exist’ before I launch my company searches.)

• CPT Codes for Digital Health Reimbursement