From 2% to Powerhouse: How Women Investors are Rewriting the Venture Playbook

Women in the US alone control $34 trillion in investable assets and are projected to hold ~38% of all investable assets by 2030.

Start-ups with at least one-woman founder generate $0.78 of revenue for every dollar invested, compared to just $0.31 for male-only founded companies. In other words, women-led companies are more than twice as capital-efficient.

Yet the venture system still treats women as the risk and men as the default bet — only 2% of venture capital funding goes to women-led startups.

That is not a funding gap; it is an economic failure.

In my recent article for Profiles in Leadership Journal, I dig into these data, highlight the women-centered investment and leadership networks already changing the venture landscape, and outline a practical roadmap to redirect capital toward women.

When we align capital with performance and potential, and build more balanced boardrooms, we unlock the outsized economic gains that follow when we invest in women.