Female Venture

We invest in women-led companies, who forge new paths and make possible, the impossible. We’re inspired by entrepreneurs that reject the status quo, and who are driven by market traction. We value ingenuity, insight and intelligence. Going from startup to a successful exit takes dedication, engagement, and clear expectations. We accelerate success with resources, values and vision.

The Women's Enterprise Acceleration Vehicle (WEAV Capital) is a mission-driven investment and advisory firm providing seed and early stage funding, access to networks, and training to female founders. We back bold founders that are making the impossible possible. Our businesses have achieved traction and demonstrated product-market fit.

Women have less investment knowledge and are less confident about investing than men. We are team of committed women convinced that it’s the time to change this statement. Women have to be part of the technology revolution which takes place right under their nose. Tech with Purpose, where impact is at the core of the business model, is our Club’s investment thesis. The current growth-at-all-costs Unicorn model doesn’t fit the reality anymore. Instead, we are looking for the Camel model, as they show valuable lessons on how to survive through crisis, and to sustain and grow in adverse conditions. If your solution tackles essential problems that human beings face, we are a match.

The Bangladesh Women Investors’ Network (BWIN), started as a sister chapter of Bangladesh Angels Network (BAN), is the pioneering network of women business angels in the country. Why We ExistIn 2020, globally only 9% of all funds deployed to technology startups went to founding teams that included at least one woman. Solo woman founders and all-women teams raised just 2% of all VC dollars, according to Tech Crunch. Venture capital targeting women-owned businesses is virtually nonexistent in South Asia, including Bangladesh, according to a 2018 report by the Asian Development Bank and the Asia Foundation. There is a business case for supporting and investing in more women-led startups; research shows that investment in women-founded startups performs 63% better than exclusively male-founded startups. Bangladesh bottom-ranked among 58 economies in the MasterCard Index of Women Entrepreneurs (MIWE) 2020, meaning it is one of the toughest places for women entrepreneurs The Bottom Line There is a business case to having more women founders and women investors within an ecosystem and applying a gender-lens approach to investment decisions. When women become business angels they invest in sectors that have often been overlooked by male business angels, and they tend to invest in women-led ventures. The result? A more diverse equity investor pool that helps to ensure great ideas get the funding they deserve. Our Approach With an aim to fill the early-stage financing gap and provide advisory support to women-led and women-focused startups, the network engages in multiple activities towards this end. Our members include a blend of individual investors, family offices, corporate and global investors. The network looks to invest in deals between the range of $50,000 to $250,000 across all sectors. In addition to funding, the network will also provide high-quality mentoring and access to networks and strategic support to its portfolio and pipeline companies. Investors Invest in some of the most promising enterprises in Bangladesh and get in at the ground floor of their growth Access to highly curated deal-flow across sector Invest alongside industry leaders Post investment portfolio monitoring support Curated curriculum to master the black box of startup investing and other asset classes Entrepreneurs We help women-led and women-focused startups & rising enterprises accelerate their growth with our decades of experience Customized pre-investment support before you pitch to investors Connect to local & global investors Mentorship and market development

At GingerBread Capital, we invest in women founders leading high-growth-potential businesses, and in emerging funds led by women and underrepresented managers. We help them gain access to the knowledge, networks and capital they need to build and scale successful enterprises, and we encourage others to do the same. What We Look For Exceptional Founders + Funders: Visionary, dynamic founders and funders with excellent execution skills who possess high conviction, passion, grit, and drive Differentiated Business Model: A great concept and an irresistible business model that clearly demonstrate a true need, an identifiable market and a competitive advantage Technology Enabled: Technology-enabled, where automation, AI and data analytics propel the brand, revenues and customer satisfaction Scalability: A go-to-market approach that builds customers today and has the potential to be much, much larger in the future Why we invest in women. We invest in female founders and in emerging funds because it’s great for the economy, for business (theirs and ours), and for building a better future.

January Ventures is a VC fund focused on angel/pre-seed in the US & Europe. We are replacing the friends & family round and re-writing the networks in venture. We believe the founders of the next decade will look fundamentally different: more female, more diverse and more distributed. We back founders based on their tenacity and ambition, not their pedigrees or who they know. Our vision is an equal opportunity tech ecosystem. Our firm is built on the principles of transparency and access, and we back founders based on their tenacity and ambition, not their pedigrees or who they know.