Women founders raise 44% less capital than men for similar exits but deliver 35% higher returns to investors over 30 years. They also experience less dilution and exit one to two years faster. These numbers led to the creation of the Masters Fund, designed to invest in women-led companies.
Women will raise an average of 44% of the capital that a guy will raise in the same industry to exit at the same number as investors. We just got told 56% less dilution. Every time a entrepreneur raises a buck, the investor gets diluted. Women will exit one to two years sooner than a guy will, depending on the industry. Again, in conventional venture equity, time is a risk factor and a cost factor. So we like it. But here's the killer one for more than 30 years of data, the women at the helm of both public and private companies have been returning an average of 35% higher ROI to their investors. Now, I know that average isn't mean and correlation isn't causation, but hey, after 30 years, I say we take a look. And that's how we got to Masters Fund.
