Today, we take a look at the 11 largest startup funding rounds in New York City for 2018 where there was at least one female on the founding team. In addition to the dollar amount, we have included a brief description. industry, round type, funding round details, links to full interviews with the CEOs and Founders of these fast-growing companies. Lastly, in order to maintain a focus on conventional tech-enabled startups, pharmaceutical, financing, and biotech companies were removed from the data.
Quick Findings:
- 28.57% of the top NYC startup funding rounds for female-founded companies in 2018 are for companies with a solo founder.
- 71.4% of the top NYC startup funding rounds for female-founded companies are for companies that are all female-founded.
- 85.7% of the top NYC startup funding rounds for female-founded companies are for companies where the female founders are still running day-to-day operations.