Business investment in newly established businesses are always delayed by the overall market and with companies in all areas that reduce diversity, equality and integration efforts, things look more intense than ever for women’s founders.
However, the figures report a different story of 2024 – at least according to this report by the European Platform Ventry Forement Foundry: Business capital investment in newly established companies founded by women in Europe were reduced by 12% in 2024 since the previous year, but was almost in accordance with the reduction in total business investment 11%.
Specifically, women who founded new technology businesses are increasing more than men in this area. The report, named Women’s Innovation Index 2025He found that the number of female founders in deep technology is increasing thanks to the fields of the field with the academic sector, where women tend to be represented equally. About 33% of all business funds derived from women’s entrepreneurs in Europe go to deep technology businesses 2% more than new gender businesses. The basic areas of innovation include synthetic biology, genetics and drug development.
For the exhibition, female founders watched more than 1,200 female founders, female investors and executives and over 35 private shares, business associations and ecosystem players in 20 European countries. It is worth noting here that female founders calculate the newly established businesses that had at least one co -founder, which significantly increases the size of the sample of the newly established businesses examined in this report, compared to other reports referring only to groups of founding of all women when they say “women who gave women”.
Several studies have generally agreed last year that women founders continued to be very numerous from men, while the founding groups of all women increase only 2.2% of business funds allocated to 2024.
“I started the index because I realized that the frequently recorded 2% about the number of women based in newly established businesses is not quite detailed”, ” AGATA Nowickaits founder Ravish And the author of the report, he told TechCrunch. “I wouldn’t have been included in this statue, because as a businessman, I had a co -founder man. We should take into account much more different measurements.
This deep technical measurement is encouraging, but Nowicka believes that women in academic environments should be more encouraged to undertake entrepreneurship. “There is still a small mark connected to entering a start from the academic community,” he said.
He noted that the Covid-19 pandemic helped to create a more level competition for women in technology because the wider industry had been forced to open.
“As a founder in 2016, most VCs didn’t even have a website or had only one destination page. Many events were made private,” he said. “The business capital industry was transformed during Covid due to the explosion of investment during 2021-2022. VC has generally became more accessible to women […] Because they needed a trading flow and it became more competitive. ”
Here are some interesting nuggets from the report:
- Women who gave women in Europe increased € 5.76 billion in 2024, declining 12% of € 6.56 billion, these companies that rose in 2023.
- Health, Fintech and Food Sectors see the most business investments that go to newly established businesses with female founders.
- The seed stage is where women founded the most successful and on average the round sizes raised by newly established businesses raised by women increased by 7% at all stages compared to 2023.
- More than 80% of the 50 largest funding rounds raised by women who raised women in 2024 went to those who have scientific backgrounds in areas such as synthetic biology (282.4 million euros), genetic AI (EUR 221.8 million) and the development of drugs (€ 169.9 million).
- The United Kingdom, France and Germany peak charts for investment in women who have given women, while Finland and Denmark have the highest percentage of business capital available to such newly established businesses.
