Consider ALL Funding Options
- Friends / Family
- Crowdfunding (reward + equity)
- Accelerators / Incubators
- Debt
- Grants (non-dilutive)
- Blended Finance
- Angel Investors
- Family Offices
- Venture Capital / Private Equity
- Corporate or Strategic Investors
- Revenue-Based Financing
- Public Markets
Grants
- Connecticut Business Express
- Echoing Green Fellowship – social change, grant and accelerator
- Universities
- Tory Burch Foundation – fashion, grant and programs
- Kapor Foundation – social interest
- Eileen Fisher Foundation
Loans
- SBA
- Silicon Valley Bank – traditional
- Credibility Capital – female focused businesses targeted
- Bond Street
- Nomad Financial
- SoFi
- SheO
- Goldman Sachs Marcus Personal Loans
Venture Capital Funds
- The Fundery: The Essential Venture Capital Database For Women Entrepreneurs (By Inc. Magazine)
- Female Founders Fund – Seed
- Women’s VC fund
- Belle Capital
- Jump Fund
- Built By Girls
- Rethink Impact
- Social Capital
- The Venture – Chivas Regal (social impact)
- SoGal Ventures
- Halogen Ventures
- US Micro-VC Firms List
Crowdsourcing
- Kickstarter
- Indegogo
- Ifundwomen
Accelerators
- Springboard – female focus
- Mergelane – boulder, female focused
- Entrepreneurs Rountable Accelerator (ERA) – traditional
- Techstars – traditional
- Grand Central Tech – traditional
- BeeSpace – non profit
- Refinery – female focused
- SAP – female focused
Online Angel Investing Platforms
- Circleup – consumer companies
- Angelist
- Portofolia – female focus
Angel Groups
- Golden Seeds – must have female founder
- Plum Alley – must have female founder
- Pipeline Angels – women led social entrepreneurs
- 37 Angels – women investors, traditional strategy
- Vinetta Project – program and funding
- Empire Angels – millennial investors, traditional strategy
- NY Angels – traditional investors/strategy
- Astia – female founders program and funding
- Angel Investor List
