Femanomics: 105 Women in Venture Capital and Angel Investment You Should Know
techcocktail.com | May 14, 2012
By Melissa Pierce
I know what you’re thinking. You are thinking there has been a lot of talk about women in venture capital, or rather, the lack of women in venture capital. You can read about it, here, here, here, and here. You can read the outrage about how there are only 5 women on Forbes’s Midas 100 List. You can even see tweets by men who are VCs talk about the dearth of women who are VCs.
What you haven’t been reading are articles about the women who ARE in the investing community. Sure, there are articles about a few of them, and there was a wonderful Twitter campaign started by Cindy Gallop entitled “Female VC’s Everyone Should Know,” which listed over 50 female venture capitalists; however, thanks to Twitter’s API cap and Cindy’s prolific tweeting, there is nothing to link to for your reference.
I’ve always been of the opinion that shining a light on what you want will help you find it, and will also help others find it, so instead of shining a light on the lack of women, I looked for women that were venture capitalists or angel investors. Building off of Cindy Gallop’s tweets and adding in knowledge and collective brain power of my small but amazing network, I was able to put together a list of, not 5, not 50, but 105 women in the investing world that you should know. I can’t imagine that this is close to all of them; however, I thought a list over 100 was substantial enough to share with the world.
*Note: If there is no venture fund listed, the women are private investors.
Rhnata Akhunova
Geraldine Alias – North Bridge Venture Partners
Cyan Banister
Amy Banse – Comcast Ventures
Rachel Botsmen – Collaborative Fund
Corinne Bright – Onset Ventures
Eileen Burbidge – White Bear Yard
Christina Cacioppo – Union Square Ventures
Marissa Campise – Venrock
Carmen Chang – NEA
CeCe Cheng – First Round Capital
Julie Chin
Meg Devine – North Bridge Venture Partners
Monica Dodi – Women’s VC Fund
Tracy Doree – MMC Ventures
Edith Dorsen – Women’s VC Fund
Lara Druyan – G&B Partners
Esther Dyson – EdVenture Holdings
Amy Errett – Maveron
Catarina Fake
Deborah Farrington – StarVest Partners
Shana Fisher – Highline Ventures
Diane Fraiman – Voyager Capital
Allison Goldberg – Time Warner Investments
Theresia Gouw Ranzetta – Accel Partners
Dayna Grayson – North Bridge Venture Partners
Kirsten Green – Forerunner Ventures
Jill Greenthal – The Blackstone Group
Karen Griffith Gryga – MAG Fund
Christine Herron – Intel Capital
Mellody Hobson – Ariel Investments
Sandra Horbach – The Carlyle Group
Shirley Hornstein
Ann Hummer – Hummer Winblad
Naheed Ismaili Misfeldt – Aberdare Ventures
Jessica Jackley – Kiva and Collaborative Fund
Jalak Jobanputra – RTP Ventures
Whitney Johnson – Rose Park Advisors
Lynn Jurich
Karin Klein – Bloomberg Ventures
Sharon Knight – Avik Ventures
Vani Kola – NEA Venture
Venetia Kontogouris – Trident Capital
Kay Koplovitz – Koplovitz & Co
Jill Krishnamurthy – Dolphin Capital
Rachel Lam – Time Warner Investments
Lisa Lambert – Intel Capital
Ann Lamont – Oak Investment Partners
Christina LaMontagne – Physic Ventures
Kathleen LaPorte – New Leaf Venture Partners
Jenny Lee – GGV Capital
Aileen Lee – Kleiner Perkins
Ellen Levy
Ruby Lu – DCM
Jennifer Lum – Apricot Capital
Rebecca Lynn – Morgenthaler Ventures
Helen MacKenzie – Women’s VC Fund
Holly Maloney – North Bridge Venture Partners
Joy Marcus – DFJ Gotham Ventures
Susan Mason – Aligned Partners
Mary Meeker – Kleiner Perkins
Nell Merlino – Make Mine A Million
Kate Mitchell – Scale Venture Partners
Ann Miura-Ko – Floodgate Fund
Hollie Moore Haynes – Silver Lake Partners
Patricia Nakache – Trinity Ventures
Anna Nikolayevsky- Axel Capital
Natalia Oberti Noguera – Pipeline Fellowship
Rebecca Norlander – Illuminate Ventures
Adele Oliva – Quaker Partners
Michel Orban – RRE Ventures
Cindy Padnos – Illuminate Ventures
Stephanie Palmeri – Soft Tech VC
Ellen Pao – Kleiner Perkins
Jill Preotle
Katie Rae – Techstars
Theresia Gouw Ranzetta – Accel Partners
Amanda Reed – Palomar Ventures
Julie Richardson – Providence Equity
Laura Sachar – StarVest Partners
Sarah Sclarsic – Canaan Partners
Dana Settle – Greycroft Partners
Rachel Sheinbein – CMEA Capital
Ruthi Simha – Plenus
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy
Reshma Sohoni – Seedcamp
Victoria Song – Flybridge Capital Partners
Marya Stark
Lucinda Stewart – OVP Venture Partners
Jeanne Sullivan – StarVest Partners
Sarah Tavel – Bessemer Venture
Maria C. Thomas
Dafina Toncheva – Tugboat Ventures
Sigrid Van Bladel – Aberdare Ventures
Trae Vassallo – Kleiner Perkins
Medha Vedaprakash – RHO Ventures
Bess Weatherman – Warburg Pincus
Ellen Weber – Robin Hood Ventures
Margit Wennmachers – Andreessen Horowitz
Ellie Wheeler – Greycroft Partners
Sharon Wienbar – Scale Venture Partners
Joanne Wilson
Ann Winblad – Hummer Winblad
Alison Wistner – Mercato Partners
Marianne Wu – Mohr Davidow
Gwill York – Lighthouse Capital
Do you know more women who are VCs or angel investors? Let us know in the comments, and we’ll add them to our list.
Melissa Pierce is an award winning filmmaker, organizer of CWDevs, founder of Pitch Conference and hundreds of other less well known ideas. She believes that if you want to attract more women to careers in tech you have to shine a light on the awesome women who are already there. You can follow her on twitter at @melissapierce
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