Women owned businesses make up 36% of all U.S. businesses and employ over 23 million people, contributing over $3 trillion to the economy. Companies with women on the executive team receive higher investments on average - $12 million compared to $8 million for those without women. States like California, New York, and Massachusetts see the most investments in companies with women executives. The percentage of venture capital funded companies and total invested capital for companies with women leaders has increased from 2011 to 2013. Venture capital firms with women partners are twice as likely to invest in companies with women executives.

1. The Economic
Impact of Female
Entrepreneurs

2. PRESENCE + IMPACT
36% of U.S. Businesses
Women are majority owners of
16% of Total U.S.
Employment
$3 trillion.
Companies with women on the
executive team have an economic
impact of
23 million jobs.
Translates into
the creation and
maintenance of

3. PRESENCE + IMPACT
The average dollar investment
in businesses with a woman on
the management team was
slightly higher for all three
years during 2011-2013.
(Businesses with women)
$12 Million
(Businesses without women)
$8 Million

4. PRESENCE + IMPACT
California, New York & Massachusetts
have the highest number of investments in firms
with women on the executive team.

5. BREAKDOWN
18%in 2013
9% in 2011
Percent of VC-funded
companies with a woman
on the executive team.

6. BREAKDOWN
Percentage of total invested capital
received by companies with women
on the executive team.
27% in 2013
9% in 2011
* $7.1 billion of $26.4 billion
* $816 million of $8.9 billion

7. BREAKDOWN
Venture capital firms with women
partners are twice as likely to
invest in companies with a woman
on the management team.

8. BREAKDOWN
Venture capital firms investing in
companies with women CEOs
have nearly 4 times more active
investments than those firms not
investing in women.

9. @OpenViewVenture
www.openviewpartners.com
Data in this infographic first appeared in
Babson College’s Diana Project’s Diana
Report Women Entrepreneurship 2014:
Bridging the Gender Gap in Venture Capital.
View the full report here:
http://openview.vc/1D9GckI
Illustrations by
@RachelWorthman