Female Founders Fund

VCMatch tracks Female Founders Fund as an investor focused on Digital Health, AI/ML, and Vertical SaaS companies, Pre-Seed and Seed rounds, New York City, Los Angeles, and Santa Monica markets, and $500k to $750k check sizes. Upload your deck to compare your startup against the full private matching profile.

Check Size

$500k to $750k

Stages

Pre-Seed, Seed

Focus Areas

Digital Health, AI/ML, Vertical SaaS

Geography

New York City, Los Angeles, and Santa Monica

Investment Thesis

Female Founders Fund invests early in exceptional female founders because they believe women are building the category-defining companies of tomorrow. Their thesis is data-anchored (citing studies that female-founded companies outperform male-only teams) and execution-focused: they invest primarily at seed (pre-launch and post-launch), prioritize people and mission, and accelerate growth through an active platform of resources, programming, and a high-touch operator network.

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Investment Focus

Who should take a closer look

Female Founders Fund is most relevant for founders raising Pre-Seed and Seed rounds in Digital Health, AI/ML, Vertical SaaS, and Consumer, especially across New York City, Los Angeles, and Santa Monica, with public check-size signals around $500k to $750k.

Focus statement

FFF focuses on seed-stage investments in companies with at least one female founder across sectors where female insight yields advantage — notably digital healthcare, AI-first vertical software, beauty & personal care, pet, deep tech, generative AI, and climate tech — with check sizes of $500K–$750K and a geographically agnostic but NYC-rooted approach.

Value Add

Female-first investment mandate: explicit focus on investing in “women building category defining businesses.”
Operator-led team and founder empathy: the team describes itself as “entrepreneurs, operators, and builders - we are on the ground, hustling alongside you.”
Proven, research-backed rationale: cites studies such as First Round’s finding that “companies with female founders perform 63% better,” and highlights the low share of VC to female founders (“Only 2.7% of venture capital dollars went towards female-founded companies in 2019”).
Best-in-class founder platform and programming: offers events, quarterly press dinners, monthly CEO breakfasts, Camp FFF, and a podcast (The Two Percent) as part of its value-add.
Unparalleled female operator network: they call out access to leaders like Mindy Grossman, Melinda Gates, Whitney Wolfe Herd, and Katrina Lake and state “Our biggest and most unique value-add is our unparalleled female operator network and ecosystem.”
Fast, founder-friendly process and clear size/speed expectations: seed checks $500K-$750K, ~4–6 week typical close timeline, and 6–8 new investments per year.