Women-Owned Small Businesses
Did you know that 43.2% of small businesses are women-owned, representing 13.5M businesses? Find out more about the record-breaking venture funding raised by women founders in 2021 and the tiny fraction of overall capital raised in the first half of 2022.
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DYK 43.2% of small businesses are women-owned, representing 13.5M businesses? #WomensHistoryMonth #CapitalRaising
— U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (@SECGov) March 7, 2023
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In 2021, women founders and co-founders raised a record $64.6 billion in venture funding, and funding in the first half of 2022 remained historically high at $26.3 billion.
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Despite record amounts in 2021, women founders’ share of VC funding remains a tiny fraction of overall capital raised. In the first half of 2022, companies with women-only founders received just 2% of VC capital.
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Women VC partners were 3x more likely to invest in startups with women CEOs and often yielded superior results — but only 40% of VC firms have a woman checkwriter.
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Women held 28% of the Russell 3000 board seats (up from 18% in 2018), and the share of women on boards at VC-backed companies has increased from 7% in 2019 to 14% in 2021
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Executive teams with women are 21% more likely to be profitable than all-men teams and are correlated with increased innovation.
— U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (@SECGov) March 24, 2023
Find more information, including our #SECSmallBiz team’s recommendations to Congress and the Commission, in our 2022 annual report.