Women in Private Funds

Renegade Partners overcame the sophomore slump thanks to its focus on deep-pocketed institutional investors for its debut fund.

LPs include 'prominent US and European institutional investors, 10 unicorn founders, 14 of our own portfolio founders, family offices, and a few heads of private equity firms and larger funds,' says Day One founder Masha Bucher.

Women-led venture funds are on track to raise a combined $2bn this year, down from $3.4bn in 2023, according to VCJ research.

Women-led VC firms are on track to raise just two-thirds of the totals they raised in 2023 and 2022 as the broader venture industry struggles with a fundraising downturn.

The newly named partner sees lots of opportunity to invest between the foundational model and app layer of the AI stack.

Monarch Collective co-founder Jasmine Robinson says that growing viewership trends, NIL and interest from institutional investors led to the firm’s close on $100m for its debut fund.

LPs include “senior executives at BlackRock, Cooley, Google, senior healthcare and finance executives and prominent family office groups in the California area,” the firm says.

With a single dry close enabled by proactive existing LPs, the new fund means to address some of the world’s most intractable problems, from access to financial products to retraining of workers displaced by technology.

The solo female GP is targeting $25 million for her debut fund after managing two funds at Portfolia.

Ruth Foxe Blader tells VCJ she hopes to start fundraising by the end of this year, targeting around $75 million for Foxe Capital's debut fund.