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- Gender gap. The venture capital market has started to slowly rebound over the past year. But that rebound hasn't been felt equally. Female founders feel less supported by VCs and less optimistic about raising funding, according to a new survey by January Ventures.
The pre-seed fund surveyed 311 early-stage founders between September and December of 2024; January Ventures shared those results exclusively with Fortune. Of the founders surveyed, 20% hadn't yet started to raise capital, 50% had raised pre-seed or angel funding, 25% were seed stage, and 3% were Series A. Half of all respondents were in the U.S., with 35% in Europe. Just under half of survey respondents were women and almost half were people of color.
