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Almost 100 Female Entrepreneurs who Raised Investment (Yes, you are reading it right)

07 October 2011 by Simone Brummelhuis
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Do you know a female entrepreneur who raised money to start or grow her business? It's a question we get over and over again. So here is the list:

23andme 

 Series B Linda Avey and Anne Wojcicki 
a la Mobile Funding Series A, B Pauline Alker
Affectiva $8.3M funding Rana el Kaliouby & Rosalind Picard
Allvoices.com Series A Amra Tareen, Founder and CEO
Angie's List raised $147M  co-founded by Angie Hicks
Aristotle Circle   Suzanne Rheault
ASK Corporation   Sandra Kurtzwig
Aura Biosciences Series A funding Elisabet de los Pinos
BabbaCo  raised $1.2M  Jessica Kim
Baublebar  $1.1M Series A in November 2010 Daniella Yacobovsky and Amy Jain
BioFuelBox  Series A funding Patricia Bright
Birchbox  $10.5M Series A in August 2011 Hayley Barna and Katie Beauchamp
BlogHer   Lisa Stone
Boston Power  raised $191M Christina Lampe-Önnerud
Boxer Cross and High Yield Technologies Michele Klein
Call2Action Series A Charlotte Rademaekers, Founder and CEO
Chomp  Series A funding co-founded by Cathy Edwards
CloudFlare  $20M Series B in July 2011 Michelle Zatlyn, Matthew Prince and Lee Holloway
Code for America  funded via Grants & Angel Jen Pahlka, Founder
Commuter Advertising  $1M - $3M in funding  co-founded by Katie Hill
Crittercism  raised $1.2M co-founded by Jeeyun Kim
CyPhy Works $5.4M funding Helen Greiner
Daily Grommet $3.8M funding Joanne Domeniconi & Jules Pieri
Daily Worth raised $850K Amanda Steinberg
Design2Launch   Alison Malloy
EduLender  raised $1M  2011 Sue Khim
Encore Path  Seed Kris Appel
ethicalDeal  Seeking funding Annalea Krebs
Eventbrite  $50M Series E in May 2011 along with Series A, B, C & D in the past Julia Hartz, Kevin Hartz and Renaud Visage
Everloop  $3.1M Kim Bruce, Hilaray DeCesare & Paige McCullough
Flickr
Flickr raised $ in 2004 and was acquired by Yahoo in 2005.  co-founded by Caterina Fake
Foodspotting Series A funding co-founded by Alexa Andrzejewski
Get Satisfaction  $20.9 million Amy Muller, Co-Founder 
Getaround Seed funding Jessica Scorpio
Gilt.com  $240M in funding Alexis & Alexandra
GiveForward  raised $500k co-founder Desiree Vargas Wrigley
Go Try It On $3M Marissa Evans
HarQen raised$3.47M co-founder Kelly Fitzsimmons
Hearsay Social Venture funding co-founded by Clara Shih
Hunch  raised $19.2 million in series A & B funding co-founded by Caterina Fake, although Fake left last year
IfWeRantheWorld Series A Cindy Gallop
IndieGoGo  Angel funding founder Danae Ringelmann
InDinero $17k from Y Combinator $1.2m Seed funding from various investors Jessica Mah
Joyus  raised $7.9M Sukhinder Singh Cassidy
Kenandy  $10.5M Series A Sandra Kurtzig
Learnvest Series A + $19M Series B in July 2011 Alexa von Tobel
LimeLife   Kristen McConnell
LiveFuels $10M funding co-founder Lissa Morgenthaler-Jones
Lockerz  $66M Kathy Savitt
Lolapps  $4M Series A in September 2008 Annie Chang, Arjun Sethi and Brian Rue
Media6Degrees  $28M co-founder Kathy Leake
mediabistro.com  $1M funding from private equity fund Laurel Touby
Minted Series A & received funding, 2.5M in a seed Mariam Naficy and CTO, Niniane Wang
MoonFruit  Series A funding co-founded by Wendy Tan White
Mylikes $6.7M Bindu Reddy
MyReceipts Series A, B, C, D, and E Birame Sock
Newspepper undisclosed angel funds Hermione Way
Obopay Series A, B, C, D, and E Carol Realini
Octane  acquired by e.piphany Kira Makagon
One Kings Lane  $23M Series B in February 2011 Ali Pincus
Patricia Bright Series A BioFuelBox 
Personal Data Ecosystem Seed Kaliya Hamlin, Founder, 
Pets.com   Julie Wainwright
Polyvore  $5.6M Series B in August 2009 Jess Lee
Popvox Seed Rachna Choudhry and Marci Harries 
ProFounder  Seed funding. co-founded by Jessica Jackley
Real Girls Media raised $6M Kate Everett Thorp & Tamara Birdsall
Red Aril  Series A  Kira Makagon
Rent the Runway  $30M funding Jen Fleiss & Jen Hyman
Salsa Labs Grants April Pedersen, Co-Founder
Saygent  raised $2.5 Mariya Genzel Storenvy and Janette Crawford
ShuffleBrain Funding: Seeking funding Amy Jo Kim, Co-Founder
Shwowp Series A, B, C, D Tara Hunt, Co-Founder,
SimOPs Studios  Series A  Shanna Tellerman
Slideshare $3M Rashmi Sinha
Stella & Dot  $37M in January 2011 Jessica Herrin
Storenvy  $1.5M co-founder Janette Crawford
Story of My Life Angel funding co-founded by Kristen Kuhns
StyleSeat.com $700k in funding co-founded by Melody McCloskey
T/Maker   Heidi Roizen
TaskRabbit raised $7M total Leah Busque
The Naturally Curly Network raised $2M Michelle Breyer & Gretchen Heber
Third Screen Media  $8M co-founder Heidi Lehmann
Triggit  $5m in seed funding co-founder Susan Coelius Keplinger
Umber Systems $8M Asa Kalavade
Vayable  Angel funding co-founded by Jamie Wong
VMware    co-founded by Diane Greene and several others.
Wildfire Interactive  $4M Series A in April 2010 Victoria Ransom and Alain Chuard
Wordnik $8M co-founder Erin McKean
Zipcar    Robin Chase
  Source: The NextWomen, Quora, Women2.0, Astia and the www.

 

Correction

09 October 2011 by missrogue

Hi Simone!

Tara Hunt (from your list) here! A couple of corrections:

1. we haven't raised A,B,C or D - just Friends & Family and are closing our seed funding
2. The company changed it's name from Shwowp to Buyosphere in the spring

Thanks!

Tara

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