Venture funding in the U.S. reached $332.8 billion in 2021; however, only 2.4% of this funding went to female founders. And new data ranks North Carolina 11th for funding. Here’s a look.
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CHARLOTTE – The Queen City soared to No. 8 from No. 22 on the new “Best Places for Women Entrepreneurs” report from financial information site SmartAsset, led by a growing number of female-owned businesses and an improvement in the region’s startup survival rate. Raleigh came 12th in an index...
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Women entrepreneurs have a pretty good chance of achieving success in the Raleigh-Cary metro according to a new report from financial information site SmartAsset.
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The number of Black women who have raised over $1 million in funding has more than doubled since 2018, according to ProjectDiane, a biennial report released Wednesday. Here are the details.
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So far 2020 is proving to be a bad year for female founders when it comes to raising venture capital even though overall VC funding hasn’t suffered much if at all during the pandemic.
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The reasons: a large percentage of self-employed women business owners, relatively low housing costs, and job growth numbers (before the pandemic), “which portend a bright future for the city’s workforce,” the report noted.
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That’s slightly higher than the national average of 17 percent, according to the firm’s second annual Women in the Independent Workforce Report issued this month.
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Shannon Rentner, senior director of marketing/growth at Smashing Boxes, gives her take on Empowering Women Together monthly meetup panel discussion.
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It was standing-room only at the RTP Headquarters Thursday evening, where six women entrepreneurs pitched their startups to an audience of over 100 Triangle community members. Heres a recap.
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