About Us
Female Founders & Funders at Berkeley
Our mission is to empower women founders and funders at Berkeley by nurturing a supportive community and offering essential resources for connection, learning, and growth.
We are a registered NGO within UC Berkeley ecosystem and an official Berkeley Haas Club.
We Stand & Work for Equitable Funding
Funding is still inequitable in the VC ecosystem and only 1.8% of all VC funding went to all female-founded companies in 2023.
The persistent funding gap for female entrepreneurs drastically undermines the startup ecosystem's disruptiveness and poses a significant barrier to realizing the Sustainable Development Goals, threatening our collective future.
Our Goal is To Increase the Number of Fundable Female-Led Startups
Despite the plethora of female-focused startup/VC events out there, we realized that at Berkeley
(a) we hadn’t encountered any that were actively teaching female founders and funders actionable skills that they could use to overcome the biases and narrow the gender gap and
(b) there was no community that catered to both female founders and funders, even though both of these ecosystems are two sides of the same coin.
We decided to fill that gap and bring them together through the Female Founders and Funders of Berkeley Club.