Women-led companies are getting a low share of overall deals.
Women-led companies are getting a low share of overall deals.
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Female founders in the U.S. VC ecosystem: the good and the bad | Pitchbook (updated)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
  • Updated
  • 5 min

Women founders and investors raised $38.8 billion in funding in the U.S. in 2024, up 27% from the year before, according to PitchBook.

The report was created by PitchBook Data’s Nizar Tarhuni, Paul Condra and Garrett Black. The number of transactions involving women founders is down 13.1%, as deal activity continued to concentrate among a smaller population of companies. (Updated 3/7/25 at 6:08 p.m. with corrected figures from Pitchbook).

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.