Are you ready to start your own start up? Do you ever think how many women have their own companies? Do they raise capital?

Here are some interesting stats:

# 1 – Historically, women-led companies have received only 2.4% of venture capital investments; some years, they received no funding at all. *

#2 – 10.6 million firms in the US are at least 50% owned by women. This is nearly half of all privately-held firms in the country. *

#3 – 21.5% of women entrepreneurs received angel investment in 2006. ***

#4 – Women-owned ventures accounted for 12.9% in 2006 (up from 8.7% in 2005). ***

#5 – In tech startups, only 4% of firms had women in senior technical positions, ony 10% of firms had a woman CEO, President, or Founder.

Here is the good news:

We have a lot of room to start our companies, raise money and be leaders.

Source:

* Clearing the Hurdles: Women Building High Growth Businesses by Brush, Carter, Gatewood, Greene and Hart. 2004.
** The Stanford Project on Emerging Companies (SPEC), led by James Baron and Michael Hannan
*** Jeff Sohl, Center for Venture Research, University of New Hampshire