I know what you’re thinking. You are thinking there has been a lot of talk about women investors, or rather, the lack of women venture capitalists and angel investors. You can read about it, here, here, here, and here. You can read the outrage about how there are only 5 women on Forbes’s Midas 100 List. You can even see tweets by men who are VCs talk about the dearth of women who are VCs.
What you haven’t been reading are articles about the women who ARE in the investing community. Sure, there are articles about a few of them, and there was a wonderful Twitter campaign started by Cindy Gallop entitled “Female VC’s Everyone Should Know,” which listed over 50 female venture capitalists; however, thanks to Twitter’s API cap and Cindy’s prolific tweeting, there is nothing to link to for your reference.
I’ve always been of the opinion that shining a light on what you want will help you find it, and will also help others find it, so instead of shining a light on the lack of women, I looked for women that were venture capitalists or angel investors. Building off of Cindy Gallop’s tweets and adding in knowledge and collective brain power of my small but amazing network, I was able to put together a list of, not 5, not 50, but 105 women in the investing world that you should know. I can’t imagine that this is close to all of them; however, I thought a list over 100 was substantial enough to share with the world.
*Note: If there is no venture fund listed, the women are private investors.
- Renata Akhunova
- Geraldine Alias – North Bridge Venture Partners
- Cyan Banister
- Amy Banse – Comcast Ventures
- Rachel Botsmen – Collaborative Fund
- Corinne Bright – Onset Ventures
- Eileen Burbidge – White Bear Yard
- Christina Cacioppo – Union Square Ventures
- Marissa Campise – Venrock
- Carmen Chang – NEA
- CeCe Cheng – First Round Capital
- Julie Chin
- Meg Devine – North Bridge Venture Partners
- Monica Dodi – Women’s VC Fund
- Tracy Doree – MMC Ventures
- Edith Dorsen – Women’s VC Fund
- Lara Druyan – G&B Partners
- Esther Dyson – EdVenture Holdings
- Amy Errett – Maveron
- Catarina Fake
- Deborah Farrington – StarVest Partners
- Shana Fisher – Highline Ventures
- Diane Fraiman – Voyager Capital
- Allison Goldberg – Time Warner Investments
- Theresia Gouw Ranzetta – Accel Partners
- Dayna Grayson – North Bridge Venture Partners
- Kirsten Green – Forerunner Ventures
- Jill Greenthal – The Blackstone Group
- Karen Griffith Gryga – MAG Fund
- Christine Herron – Intel Capital
- Mellody Hobson – Ariel Investments
- Sandra Horbach – The Carlyle Group
- Shirley Hornstein
- Ann Hummer – Hummer Winblad
- Naheed Ismaili Misfeldt – Aberdare Ventures
- Jessica Jackley – Kiva and Collaborative Fund
- Jalak Jobanputra – RTP Ventures
- Whitney Johnson – Rose Park Advisors
- Lynn Jurich
- Karin Klein – Bloomberg Ventures
- Sharon Knight – Avik Ventures
- Vani Kola – NEA Venture
- Venetia Kontogouris
- Kay Koplovitz – Koplovitz & Co
- Jill Krishnamurthy – Dolphin Capital
- Rachel Lam – Time Warner Investments
- Lisa Lambert – Intel Capital
- Ann Lamont – Oak Investment Partners
- Christina LaMontagne – Physic Ventures
- Kathleen LaPorte – New Leaf Venture Partners
- Jenny Lee – GGV Capital
- Aileen Lee – Kleiner Perkins
- Ellen Levy
- Ruby Lu – DCM
- Jennifer Lum – Apricot Capital
- Rebecca Lynn – Morgenthaler Ventures
- Helen MacKenzie – Women’s VC Fund
- Holly Maloney – North Bridge Venture Partners
- Joy Marcus – DFJ Gotham Ventures
- Susan Mason – Aligned Partners
- Mary Meeker – Kleiner Perkins
- Nell Merlino – Make Mine A Million
- Kate Mitchell – Scale Venture Partners
- Ann Miura-Ko – Floodgate Fund
- Hollie Moore Haynes – Silver Lake Partners
- Patricia Nakache – Trinity Ventures
- Anna Nikolayevsky– Axel Capital
- Natalia Oberti Noguera – Pipeline Fellowship
- Rebecca Norlander – Illuminate Ventures
- Adele Oliva – Quaker Partners
- Michel Orban – RRE Ventures
- Cindy Padnos – Illuminate Ventures
- Stephanie Palmeri – Soft Tech VC
- Ellen Pao – Kleiner Perkins
- Jill Preotle
- Katie Rae – Techstars
- Theresia Gouw Ranzetta – Accel Partners
- Amanda Reed – Palomar Ventures
- Julie Richardson – Providence Equity
- Laura Sachar – StarVest Partners
- Sarah Sclarsic – Canaan Partners
- Dana Settle – Greycroft Partners
- Rachel Sheinbein – CMEA Capital
- Ruthi Simha – Plenus
- Sukhinder Singh Cassidy
- Reshma Sohoni – Seedcamp
- Victoria Song – Flybridge Capital Partners
- Marya Stark
- Lucinda Stewart – OVP Venture Partners
- Jeanne Sullivan – StarVest Partners
- Sarah Tavel – Bessemer Venture
- Maria C. Thomas – MariaThomas.org
- Dafina Toncheva – Tugboat Ventures
- Sigrid Van Bladel – Aberdare Ventures
- Trae Vassallo – Kleiner Perkins
- Medha Vedaprakash – RHO Ventures
- Bess Weatherman – Warburg Pincus
- Ellen Weber – Robin Hood Ventures
- Margit Wennmachers – Andreessen Horowitz
- Ellie Wheeler – Greycroft Partners
- Sharon Wienbar – Scale Venture Partners
- Joanne Wilson
- Ann Winblad – Hummer Winblad
- Alison Wistner – Mercato Partners
- Marianne Wu – Mohr Davidow
- Gwill York – Lighthouse Capital
Do you know more women who are VCs or angel investors? Let us know in the comments, and we’ll add them to our list.
Melissa Pierce is an award winning filmmaker, organizer of CWDevs, founder of Pitch Conference and hundreds of other less well known ideas. She believes that if you want to attract more women to careers in tech you have to shine a light on the awesome women who are already there. You can follow her on twitter at @melissapierce