Meet Inc.’s 2025 Female Founders

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  Best-in-Class Business Advice From Famed Female Founders

  This year’s Female Founders board of advisers share their top hard-won tips, from failing up to following your north star.
  
  Inc. - 18h
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  Female founders in the U.S. VC ecosystem: the good and the bad | Pitchbook (updated)

  Women founders and investors raised $38.8 billion in funding in the U.S. in 2024, up 27% from the year before, according to PitchBook.
  
  VentureBeat - 6d
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  Reshma Saujani’s Advice for Female Founders? Build Your Own Door

  The founder of Girls Who Code and Moms First joins ‘From The Ground Up’ this week.
  
  Inc. - 1d
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  Top Five Mistakes Founders Are Still Making in 2025

  Founders who fail quickly are the ones who don’t raise enough seed money, hold themselves accountable to revenue targets, and interact with their fans.
  
  Inc. - 2d
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  How Lyft and Baked by Melissa Stay Customer-Obsessed—Even When It’s Difficult

  Brian Irving, chief marketing officer at Lyft, and Melissa Ben-Ishay, founder of Baked by Melissa, talk at Inc.’s SXSW Founders House.
  
  Inc. - 1d
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  Seth Rogen Says Treating His Stoner Lifestyle Brand, Houseplant, Like His Film and TV Projects Has Helped It Grow. Here’s Why

  Speaking at Inc.’s Founders House at SXSW, the movie star-turned-businessman discussed his experience wading into the legal complexities of the weed industry.
  
  Inc. - 1d
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  Female founders in game companies got 12.1% of game VC deals in 2024 | The DeanBeat (updated)

  In the male-dominated landscape of game startups, women were only 0.11 percent of the game VC deal value in 2024.
  
  VentureBeat - 4d
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  Wholly Women-Led Companies Attracted Just 1 Percent of VC Funding in 2024, Tanking an Already Abysmal Stat

  Thirteen female-founded companies became unicorns in 2024. But early-stage funding took a hit and anti-DEI efforts could make things worse for female founders.
  
  Inc. - 4d
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  2025 NFL free agency: Lions' Amon-Ra St. Brown laments Bears' 'unlimited money' amid spending spree: 'What the f*** is this?'

  "This s***'s crazy."
  
  Yahoo Sports - 5h

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