Capital F closes $17M debut fund with goal to back the future of the ‘female economy’
Capital F, one of the few all-female-led VC firms, announced Wednesday the $17 million close of its debut fund. The firm backs companies building in the “female economy” — or the markets where women drive demand.
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- Fact 1: Capital F, one of the few all-female-led VC firms, announced Wednesday the $17 million close of its debut fund.
- Fact 2: Coblentz and Dobras spent the last 30 years running companies together.
- Fact 3: Coblentz said she and Dobras decided to come together and launch a firm after spending years at the executive top ranks and realizing that “there weren’t a lot of women there.” “If you had asked me maybe 15 years ago, ‘are you going to go into venture?’ I don’t know that I would have said yes,” Coblentz said.
- Fact 4: She and Dobras started angel investing after their corporate careers, and always knew that “who writes the check and who owns the company matters quite a bit.” They first worked together almost 17 years ago at Charlotte Russe and figured, well, second time was the charm.
Capital F, one of the few all-female-led VC firms, announced Wednesday the $17 million close of its debut fund. The firm backs companies building in the “female economy” — or the markets where women drive demand.
That mainly falls into three buckets for the firm, Margaret Coblentz, the firm’s co-founder, told TechCrunch — women’s health, digital commerce, and AI tools. The latter is increasingly important since “women are disproportionately the victims of trust and safety violations,” Dawn Dobras, the co-founder of Capital F, added. Coblentz and Dobras spent the last 30 years running companies together.
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Original source: TechCrunch
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