Female Founders Fund

Thesis

Female Founders Fund invests exclusively in companies with a woman founder, at seed, across consumer, healthcare, fintech and enterprise software. Anu Duggal built the firm on the thesis that gender-lens seed investing was structurally underpriced — a bet that predates most of the current LP interest in the category.

Notable portfolio companies

• Billie
• Zola
• Tala
• Rent the Runway

For LPs evaluating this fund

One of the few women-led funds with multiple nine-figure realized exits (Billie sold to Edgewell for $310M) rather than only paper markups — worth asking any gender-lens fund how their realized DPI compares.

Sources

• Female Founders Fund — thesis ↗

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