FemWealth | Founders
Curated resources for tech startups founders [Built in Public]
[Updated on 01.02.2022]
Hi there! FemWealth | Founders is a library of resources intended to level up the playing field for women-founded, led, and funded startups. I’m building it in public. Feel free to recommend resources, and especially founders and investors, to be included here. Please share with your network if you know someone who would benefit from this. I welcome your feedback! Thank you!
Mindset & Skillset
Communication & Public Speaking
🎥 The secret structure of great talks - Nancy Duarte [Duarte Inc]
Company Growth
Startup Speed As A Public Good (NFX)
Top ten metrics for digitally native brands
How To Build a Minimum Viable Company by Ann Miura-Ko, Founding Partner, Floodgate Ventures
Community
🎧 All Things Community-Led Growth with Corinne Riley of Greylock
Discipline & Execution
🕮 The Founder’s Guide to Discipline: Lessons from Front’s Mathilde Collin
Founders Growth & Team Dynamics
🕮 The Founder Dating Playbook – Here’s the Process I Used to Find My Co-Founder
🎧 Stanford's "Touchy Feely" Course (For Startup Founders), with Carole Robin & James Currier | NFX
🕮 Grow the Puzzle Around You by Jessica Livingston, Co-Founder, and Partner at Y Combinator
🕮 Your best employee will quit. Here’s how to make that a competitive advantage by Monica Lagercrantz, CEO and founder of BoardClic
🎥 Founder Coaching and Having Hard Conversations
🕮 Healing your co-founder relationship by Carole Robin
🎧 Trust Issues Podcast by Rachel Botsman
Fundraising & Venture Capital [also check the list of Angel Investors, Accelerators & VC firms below]
🎥 She Started the First Early-Stage Fund for Female-Founded Companies. Here's Her Best Advice for Landing Investors with Anu Duggal, Female Founders Fund
🕮 How To Prepare The Perfect Pitch For Venture Capitalists, Forerunner Ventures’ Kirsten Green Explains | Follow Kirsten Green
🕮 Plain English Term Sheet - Eileen Burbidge, Partner Passion Capital
🕮 How to Build a Great Series A Pitch and Deck (YC)
🕮 Writing a Business Plan (Sequoia)
🕮 6 Powerful Pitch Deck Tips to Get Seed Funding (Duarte Inc)
🕮 Creandum Series A Deck Template
🕮 From Angel to IPO in four years — The Story of PensionBee
🕮 Why Female Founders Aren’t Getting Candid Feedback?
🕮 Elvie’s Tania Boler: lessons in overcoming investors’ resistance
🎧 🕮 How I Raised VC From Top-Tier Funds by Iman Abuzeid, co-founder and CEO of Incredible Health
🕮 How to pitch in a patriarchy - Fundraising tips from a female founder who has been there and done it - by Aisling Byrne, founder and CEO of Nuw
🎧 How to Build an Investor List with Gale Wilkinson of Vitalize
🕮 Included VC: Hot Takeaways From an AMA Session with Deepali Nangia — UKBAA Angel Angel Investor of the Year
Leadership, Management & Executive Presence
🎥 Empower Women In Business: Tyra Banks, Aileen Lee & More Moderated By Gayle King | TIME 100 | TIME
🕮 What Sets Successful CEOs Apart
🕮 9 QUESTIONS ON HONING YOUR CEO CRAFT WITH APRIL KOH - a Slush interview feat. April Koh, Co-founder and CEO of Spring Health
🕮 Research: Adding Women to the C-Suite Changes How Companies Think
📚 The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhou
🕮 The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things
🕮 How to Lead in the Stakeholder Era
Marketing & Branding
🎥 Lessons in Branding from Spotify’s Former Head of Marketing, Sophia Bendz
Product Design, Development & Management
🕮 Case Study: How Headspace Designs for Mindfulness
🎧 The Stages of Startups – Georgie Smallwood on The Product Experience
Remote Work
🕮 5 principles for effective remote work: how I spend my time as a solo capitalist by Brianne Kimmel
🕮 How Does a Remote-First Company Succeed? This Business Has the Answers by The Muse
Success, Failure, Success
🎥 How Not to Fail by Jessica Livingston - Co-Founder, and Partner at Y Combinator
🎥 These Unicorn Co-Founders share Their Secrets to Success | Fortune with Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures) and NextDoor, CloudFlare, and Eventbrite cofounders
🕮 All The Stuff I Got Wrong In 2020 by Sharmadean Reid
🕮 My Startup Failed Six Years Ago. I’ve Been Hiding from My Shame Ever Since.
🕮 Ada Health built an AI-driven startup by moving slowly and not breaking things
🕮 5 Startup Lessons from the General Magic Movie
Startup Knowledge
🕮 January Ventures 2021 Early Stage Founder Sentiment Report
Storytelling
🌐 Duarte Inc. Resource Hub
🕮 The Power of Storytelling by Natasha Lytton
Vision Mission Principles
🕮 Sharmadean Reid’s Vision Mission Principles
Wellbeing & Mental Health
Women’s Conversations: Feminine Leadership, Self-Care, and Fundraising for BIPOC Founders [Reboot]
Funders & Ecosystem Players
Accelerators
Norrsken Foundation [Stockholm-based, Europe-wide scope]
Grow F by Female Founders [Vienna-based, global scope]
Angel Investors
Deepali Nangia [Co-founder Alma, VP Speedinvest, Atomico Angel 2021]
Georgie Smallwood [CPO @Tier Mobility, Seed Investor with Accel Starter Program]
Katja Toropainen [Founder at Inklusiiv, Atomico Angel Investor]
Maud Pasturaud [Growth Advisor | Investor]
Roxanne Varza [Director @Station F, Scout @Sequoia]
Sophia Bendz [Partner at Cherry Ventures, angel investor, advisor to Atomico and the Swedish Prime Minister, former marketing at Spotify]
VC Funds [with at least one female partner]
Accel - Sonali de Rycker [Europe]
Acrew Capital - Theresia Gouw, Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Kendra Ragatz, Lauren Kolodny [US]
Ada Ventures - Check Werner [Europe]
Atomico - Irina Havais, Sasha Astafyeva [Europe]
Amadeus Capital Partners - Anne Glover, Amelia Armour, Beatriz Amary [Europe | UK]
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) - Connie Chan, Katie Haun, Angela Strange [US]
Atelier Ventures - Li Jin [US]
Backstage Capital - Arlan Hamilton, Christie Pitts, Brittany Davis [US]
Balderton - Rana Yared [Europe]
BBG Ventures - Susan Lyne, Nisha Dua [US]
Blossom Capital - Ophelia Brown, Carmen Alfonso-Rico [Europe]
Bond - Mary Meeker, Juliet de Baubigny [US]
Canaan Ventures - Maha Ibrahim, Colleen Cuffaro, Laura Chau, Julie Grant, Nina Kjellson, Wende Hutton [US | East & West Coast]
Canvas Ventures - Rebecca Lynn [US]
Cherry Ventures - Sophia Bendz [Europe]
Connect Ventures - Sitar Teli [Europe | UK]
Cowboy VC - Aileen Lee [US]
Creandum - Sabina Wizander [Europe | Sweden]
Dawn Capital - Shamillah Bankiya, Julie Kainz, Evgenia Plotnikova [Europe]
Draper Esprit - Nicola McClafferty [Europe | UK]
Eka Ventures - Camilla Dolan [Europe | UK]
Episode1 - Carina Namih [Europe, UK]
EQT Growth - Carolina Brochado [Europe | UK]
ExperiorVC - Kinga Stanislawska [Europe]
Female Founders Fund - Anu Duggal [US]
Flashpoint VC - Donatella Callegaris [Europe]
Floodgate - Ann Miura-Ko, Iris Choi [US]
Forerunner Ventures - Kirsten Green, Nicole Johnson, Eurie Kim [US]
Future Positive Capital - Sofia Hmich [Europe]
GOODsoil VC - Charmaine Hayden [Europe | UK]
GV - Terri Burns, Frederique Dame, Laure Melahn, Jessica Verrilli [US & Europe]
Greylock Ventures - Sarah Guo [US]
Halogen Ventures - Jesse Draper, Alexa Binns [US]
Hustle Fund - Cjin Cheng, Elizabeth Yin [US]
Index Ventures - Nina Achadjian [Europe], Sarah Cannon [US]
January VC - Jennifer Keiser Neundorfer, Maren Thomas Bannon [US]
Kindred Capital - Leila Rastegar Zegna [Europe | UK], Maria Palma [US]
LaFamiglia - Judith Dada, Jeanette zu Fürstenberg [Europe | Germany]
LeFonds - Geraldine LeMeur [Europe & US - focused on French founders]
LocalGlobe - Emma Ruth Phillips, Suzanne Ashman, Julia Hawkins [Europe | UK]
Lux Capital - Deena Shakir [US]
Moonfire Ventures - Candice Lo [Europe]
NEA - Ann Bordetsky [US | West Coast], Carmen Chang [US & China], Liza Landsman [US | East Coast], Carol Gallagher, Pharm.D. [US | West Coast], Vanessa Larco [US | West Coast], Sheila Lirio Marcelo [US | East Coast]
Northzone - Jessica Schulz [Europe - Stockholm], Wendy Xiao Schadeck [US - New York]
Notion VC - Itxaso Del Palacio, Stephanie Opdam [Europe]
Octopus Ventures - Zoë Chambers, Marieke Christmann, Lucy Clarke, Akriti Dokania, Emma Davies, Saranyah Douse, Rebecca Hunt, Natasha Jones, Dr Pooja Sikka [Europe | UK]
Omers Ventures - Laura Lenz [Canada], Tara Reeves [Europe |UK]
RedBus - Gloria Monfrini [Europe | UK]
Samos VC - June Angelides MBE [Europe | UK]
Seedcamp - Reshma Sohoni [Europe]
Serena Ventures - Serena Williams, Alison Rapaport Stillman [US]
Sequoia - Luciana Lixandru [Europe - London), Jess Lee [US], Dannie Herzberg [US], Sonya Huang [US], Michelle Bailhe [US], Josephine Chen [US], Stephanie Zhan [US]
SoftBank Vision Fund - Kirthiga Reddy, Lydia Jett, Sakshi Chhabra [Europe | UK]
Speedinvest - Marie-Helene Ametsreiter [Europe | Germany]
Sweet Capital - Pippa Lamb [Europe | UK]
Tech Stars - Nicole Glaros [US]
Yes VC - Caterina Fake [US]
2050 - Mary Ekeland [Europe]
500 Startups - Christine Tsai [US | Europe | Asia], Rina Onur [Asia | Turkey]
Also, check the list of 100+ women VC partners in Europe compiled by Amy Lewin from Sifted.eu & this Twitter list started by Christoph Janz
🚀 Open VC launched a search engine with 4,400+ VC firms, of course, including Woman-led 🙋🏻♀️ firms. It's 100% free and collaborative: openvc.app
111+ WOMEN OWNERS OF VENTURE AND GROWTH CAPITAL FUNDS
Entrepreneurial Communities & Programs
Antler [Europe - Asia-Pacific - North America - Africa]
Entrepreneur First [London - Berlin - Paris - Singapore, Toronto - Bangalore]
Female Founders [Vienna, international reach]
female factor global [Vienna, international reach]
La FrenchTech [France]
Maria 01 [Nordics]
Station F - Startup Programs [Paris, France]
100 + Diversity in Tech communities in Europe - curated by Sifted.eu
Startup News & Content
Bloomberg Technology, hosted by Emily Chang.
Sifted.eu —> Sifted Startup Life newsletter is highly recommended
Startup & Women in Tech Events to attend
The Next Web Conference [30 SEPT & 1 OCT, 2021 • HYBRID]
Web Summit [NOV 1-4 • LISBON]
A selective list of women-founded and led startups and scale-ups to inspire you:
Akiko Naka, Founder, and CEO, Wantedly [Japan]
Anne Boden, Founder, and CEO, Startling Bank [UK]
Anya Roy, Co-founder, Syrona Health [UK]
Carol Reiley, Serial Entrepreneur [US]
Celine Lazorthes, Serial Entrepreneur [FR]
Chantelle Bell, Co-founder, Syrona Health [UK]
Claire Novorol, Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer, Ada Health [UK/GER]
Elina Berglund Scherwitzl, Co-founder and CEO, Natural Cycles
Emily Weiss, Founder, and CEO, Glossier Inc.
Jennifer Hyman, Co-founder, and CEO of RenttheRunway
Julia Hartz, Co-Founder, and CEO, Eventbrite [US]
Kathryn Minshew, Co-Founder, and CEO, The Muse [US]
Katrina Lake, Stitch Fix [US]
Mathilde Collin, Co-founder, and CEO, Front
Melanie Perkins, Co-founder, and CEO, Canva [Australia, US]
Poppy Gustafsson, CEO, Darktrace [UK]
Rana el Kaliouby, Co-founder and CEO, Affectiva AI
Sallie Krawcheck, Co-Founder, and CEO, Ellevest [US]
Sara Blakely, Founder, and CEO of Spanx [Pro tip: check Sara’s Monday Motivation LinkedIn posts & her MasterClass on self-made entrepreneurship] [US]
Shan-Lyn Ma, Founder, and CEO of Zola
Sharmadean Reid, Co-founder and CEO, Beautystack and the Stack World
Anamaria, I have a female founder I'm working with to add to your list! She's helping small businesses (especially those owned by women and minority groups) thrive with a first-of-its-kind financial tool. I'd love to send you more info-- could you share your email? If not over comments, feel free to DM on Twitter @MadsOstrander. Excited to connect!