Find Great Female Founders to Fund - InvestHer Directory

There's no better time like NOW, to diversify your founder portfolio.
Are you still asking yourself "Where can we find diverse Women Entrepreneurs"?
​We've quality curated them, especially for you! 

Over 100 Black Female Founders - 30 Countries - 75 sectors

Ready for you to look at! We've done the hard work of curating the list for you!

Busting Bias & Creating more Racial Equality in Funding

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Specially curated by our friends at Reinventure Capital, Beyond the Billion

Why and How You Should Invest In Diverse Founders:

• Black Funding Matters, Time to Diversify, Different, 2020
• It’s About Time: A Call to Advance Racial Equity in the Investment Industry, Confluence Philanthropy (pdf), 2019
• Driving Change: Diversity & Inclusion in Investment Management, CFA Institute, 2018
• The Business Case for Racial Equity, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, 2018
• The Role of Limited Partners in Investment Inclusivity, Crunchbase, 2019

• American Express — State of Women-owned Businesses Report
• BCG — Why Women-Owned Startups Are a Better Bet
• Beyond the Billion — Beyond the Bigotry: Battling Racial Injustice
• Cornerstone Capital --Women Entrepreneurs: Foundational To Economic Recovery
• Fast Company — Why is #FinanceSoWhite?​

• HBR — The other diversity dividend, How and Where Diversity Drives Financial Performance
• McKinsey & Co. — Diversity Wins: How Inclusion Matters
• ​McKinsey & Co. — Why Diversity Matters
• Morgan Stanley — The Growing Market Investors Are Missing
• TBLI — Gender-Smart Impact Investing /w Christina Lee & Julianne Zimmermann
• Black Female Founder Resources, Marker, 2019
• Black American Startup Resource List (200+ accelerators, incubators and more), Founder's Institute, 2020
• Resources for Founders (strategic tips, events, and more), Case Foundation, 2020
• Events and Programming by Black Founders
• Practical Steps To Combat Discrimination in VC, Crunchbase, 2020
• ​Inspiring the Next Generation of Black Female Founders, Forbes, 2020
• ​Forbes — Investors think they are fair but minority-owned businesses are left out

Articles and Books to learn more  

• An Investor's Guide: Investing in Racial Equity, Kristin Hull, 2020
• Racism Won’t Die in 2020, But Now is the Time to Give It a Terminal Illness, Mike Asem, 2020 
• If You're Not Investing in Diverse Founders, You're a Bad Investor, BLCK VC, 2020
• Book Recommendation: “It’s About Damn Time”, Arlan Hamilton, 2020
• Practical Steps To Combat Discrimination in VC, Crunchbase, 2020
• What Investors Can Do To Increase Diversity among Funded Tech Founders, Crunchbase, 2020
• Inspiring the Next Generation of Black Female Founders, Forbes, 2020
• "I'm Exhausted and Want You To Know Why", Michael Lints, Golden Gate Ventures, 2020 
• The Financial Activist Playbook for Supporting Black Lives, Jasmine Rashid, 2020

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