The Silicon Valley Investors Who Actually Support Women In Tech — And Those Who Don't

There is a gender gap in tech. But which investors are doing their part to help change the ratio and fund more female founders?

Business Insider researched active portfolios for 26 early-to-mid-stage venture capital funds in Silicon Valley that have made at least a dozen investments. We then found the number of startups in the portfolios that had at least one female founder and calculated the percent of the total portfolio that included female-founded companies, based on publicly available information, such as Crunchbase and the firms' websites. We then reached out to the firms to confirm numbers. Angel investors, incubators, and accelerators were not included.

Here are the results. For more details on the percentage break downs, and to see which female founders are represented, read on >>

*Forerunner Ventures has since been added to this data. It has more women in its active portfolio than Felicis with 33.3%.

Female-founded startups in Founder's Fund's active portfolio: 4%

Firm partners: Peter Thiel, Ken Howery, Luke Nosek, Brian Singerman, Lauren Gross, Geoff Lewis, Scott Nolan

Total active startups in portfolio: ~ 100

Total investments in active, female-founded startups: 4

Female founders in portfolio: Kegan Schouwenburg (Sols), Ramona Pierson (Declara), Elli Kaplan (Neurotrack), Leah Busque (TaskRabbit)

Percent of female-founded startups in active portfolio: 4%

Female-founded startups in Redpoint Ventures' active portfolio: 6.4%

Firm partners: Allen Beasley, Jeff Brody, Satish Dharmaraj, Tom Dyal, Tim Haley, Brad Jones, Pueo Keffer, Chris Moore, Lars Pedersen, Scott Raney, Ryan Sarver, Tomasz Tunguz, John Walecka, Geoff Yang, David Yuan

Total active startups in portfolio: 78

Total investments in active, female-founded startups: 5

Female founders in portfolio: Adora Cheung (Homejoy), Linda Avey (Curious.com), Caterina Fake (Findery), Holly Liu (Kabam), Lisa Riolo (Impact Radius)

Percent of female-founded startups in active portfolio: 6.4%

Female-founded startups in New Enterprise Associates' active portfolio: 7.16%

Menlo Park team: Forest Baskett, Krishna ‘Kittu’ Kolluri, Scott Sandell, Peter Sonsini, Ravi Viswanathan, Rohini Chakravarthy, Carmen Chang, Patrick Chung, Robert Garland, Paul Hsiao, Mohamad Makhzoumi, Jake Nunn, Jon Sakoda, Paul Walker, Chetan Puttagunta, Frank Torti, Rick Yang, Josh Makower, Brooke Seawell, Aaron Jacobson, Christine Guo, Sheel Tyle

Total active startups in portfolio: 265

Total investments in active, female-founded startups: 19

Female founders in portfolio: Anne Wojcicki and Linda Avey (23andMe), Alison Di Spaltro (42Floors), Dr. Marcie Black (Bandgap Engineering), Michelle Zatlyn (CloudFlare), Daphne Koller (Coursera),Jessica Greenwalt (CrowdMed), Vicki Cheung (Duolingo), Crystal Hutter (Edmodo), Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (Gilt Groupe), Trae Vassallo (Good Technology), Clara Shih (Hearsay Social), Adi Tatarko (Houzz), Alexis Ringwald (Learnup), Lauren Santo Domingo (Moda Operandi), Elizabeth Stoner (Rhythm Pharmaceuticals), Halle Tecco (Rock Health), Heidi Zak (Thirdlove), Himani Amoli (Wedding Party), Leah Jones (Zumper)

Percent of female-founded startups in active portfolio: 7.16%